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Ejection seat

An ejection seat, also called an ejector seat, is a system that propels a pilot clear of a military aircraft in an emergency and deploys a parachute.

Ejector (refrigeration)

An ejector in refrigeration is a passive device with no moving parts that uses a high-pressure motive stream to compress refrigerant, replacing the expansion valve or serving as the compressor.

EKF-SLAM

EKF-SLAM, or Extended Kalman Filter SLAM, is the classical algorithm by which a mobile robot maps unknown landmarks while estimating its own pose with a single joint Gaussian belief.

Ekibastuz-1 power station

Ekibastuz-1 power station, Ekibastuzskaya GRES-1 (Экибастузская ГРЭС-1), is a coal-fired power station on Lake Zhengeldy near Ekibastuz, Kazakhstan. Built from 1979 to 1984, its 4,040 MW make it the country's largest electricity producer.

Ekibastuz-2 power station

Ekibastuz-2 power station (Экибастузская ГРЭС-2, Ekibastuz GRES-2) is a 1,000 MW coal-fired power station in Ekibastuz, Kazakhstan, known for the world's tallest chimney at 420 meters.

Ekkehard Ramm

Ekkehard Ramm, born 1940, is a German civil engineer and Professor Emeritus at the University of Stuttgart, known for pioneering nonlinear finite element methods for shells.

EKOenergy

EKOenergy is a nonprofit ecolabel for renewable electricity, gas, heat, and cooling, launched in 2013 by environmental NGOs, that certifies consumed energy and funds projects fighting energy poverty.

Ekofisk

Ekofisk is an oil and gas field in the southern Norwegian sector of the North Sea, discovered in 1969 and producing since 1971 as Norway's first production field.

Ekran

Ekran (Экран, "Screen") was a Soviet series of geostationary direct television broadcasting satellites, internationally designated Stationar-T, first launched in 1976 to bring Central Television to Siberia and the Far North.

Ekspress

Ekspress (Экспресс, also written Express) is a Russian family of geostationary communications satellites built by NPO PM and successor ISS Reshetnev for RSCC since the late 1990s.

Eku Energy

Eku Energy is a global battery energy storage developer and operator launched in November 2022 by Macquarie Asset Management, building utility-scale projects across the UK, Australia, Japan, and Italy.

El Al (אל על)

El Al (אל על, "to the skies") is Israel's national flag carrier airline. Established in 1948, it operates flights and serves as the authorized security provider for other Israeli carriers.

El Al Flight 1862

El Al Flight 1862, known as the Bijlmermeer disaster or Bijlmerramp, was an Israeli cargo flight that crashed into Amsterdam apartment blocks in 1992, killing 43 people.

El Alto International Airport

El Alto International Airport is the international airport serving La Paz, Bolivia, located in El Alto at 4,061 meters, one of the highest commercial airports in the world.

El Cabril

El Cabril is Spain's only disposal facility for very low, low, and intermediate level radioactive waste, located in Hornachuelos, Córdoba, and operated by Enresa since 1992.

El Cajón Dam (Mexico)

El Cajón Dam, also known as the Francisco Morazán hydroelectric plant, is a 750 MW dam on the Santiago River in Nayarit, Mexico, built by CFE in 2007.

El Camino Real (California)

El Camino Real, Spanish for "The Royal Road," is the roughly 600-mile historic route in Alta California linking 21 Franciscan missions, four presidios, and three pueblos from San Diego to Sonoma.

El Carito Oil Field

El Carito Oil Field is a giant oil field in northern Monagas State, northeastern Venezuela, discovered in 1987 as part of the Furrial Trend and operated by PDVSA.

El Carmen Nuevo Leon power station

El Carmen Nuevo Leon power station is an 866-MW natural gas combined cycle plant in El Carmen, Nuevo León, Mexico, opened by Iberdrola in 2019.

El Cerrito Oeste Oil and Gas Field

El Cerrito Oeste is a gas field in the Austral Basin of Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, producing gas from the tight Magallanes Inferior sandstone and oil from the Springhill formation.

El Chocón Dam

El Chocón Dam (Presa El Chocón) is an earthfill dam and 1,200 MW hydroelectric plant on the Limay River in northern Patagonia, Argentina, opened in 1972.

El Dabaa nuclear power plant

The El Dabaa nuclear power plant (محطة الضبعة النووية) is Egypt's first nuclear power plant, under construction on the Mediterranean coast by Rosatom with four VVER-1200 reactors of 4,800 MWe total.

El Descanso Coal Mine

El Descanso Coal Mine (Mina El Descanso) is an open-pit thermal coal mine in the department of Cesar, Colombia, owned and operated by Drummond Ltd. since 2009.

El Dorado International Airport

El Dorado International Airport, also known as Bogotá International Airport, is Colombia's main international airport serving Bogotá. It is Latin America's busiest, handling 45.8 million passengers in 2024.

El Dorado refinery

El Dorado refinery is the name of two American petroleum refineries: an HF Sinclair refinery in El Dorado, Kansas, and a Delek US refinery in El Dorado, Arkansas.

El Encino-La Laguna Gas Pipeline

The El Encino-La Laguna Gas Pipeline is a Mexican natural gas pipeline from Chihuahua to Durango, opened in 2018 to carry Texas gas to CFE power plants.

El Encino-Topolobampo Gas Pipeline

The El Encino-Topolobampo Gas Pipeline (Gasoducto El Encino-Topolobampo) is a 572 km natural gas pipeline in northern Mexico built by TC Energy, in service since June 2018.

El Escorial

El Escorial, also known as the Monasterio de El Escorial, is a royal monastery, palace, basilica, and pantheon northwest of Madrid, built for Philip II between 1563 and 1584.

El Feel Oil and Gas Field

El Feel Oil and Gas Field, also called the Elephant field, is an onshore oil field in Libya's Murzuq Basin, discovered in 1997 and operated by Mellitah Oil & Gas.

El Feel-El Sharara Oil Pipeline

The El Feel-El Sharara Oil Pipeline (خط أنابيب الفيل - الشرارة) is a 74.84-kilometer crude oil pipeline in southwest Libya connecting the El Feel and El Sharara oilfields.