Course Code: MGN-575 Course Title: Emerging Technologies for Managers
Course Instructor: Mr. Rajesh Dorbala Student’s Name: Kritika Singh
Academic Task No.: CA-3 Class/Section: MBA/Q1944
Date of Allotment: 01/04/2021 Date of submission: 01/24/2021
Student’s Roll no: B60 Student’s Reg. no: 11914815
Evaluation Parameters:
Learning Outcomes: For this assignment I researched about various emerging technologies but Virgin
Hyperloop interest me the most, so I dedicated this assignment on this topic. I learned a lot of new
things about technological world while working on this project.
Declaration:
I declare that this Assignment is my individual work. I have not copied it from any other student’s work
or from any other source except where due acknowledgement is made explicitly in the text, nor has any
part been written for me by any other person.
Student’s Signature: Kritika Singh
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VIRGIN HYPERLOOP ONE
❖ Industry overview:
The Hyperloop idea was first presented in 2013 with the arrival of Elon Musk's Alpha paper.
The paper illustrated Hyperloop, another transportation mode that used low-compel cylinders
to impel cases at high rates over critical distances. The white paper was intended to be a starting
point for development of the idea. To advance the Hyperloop idea, SpaceX, a private aviation
organization possessed by Elon Musk, started the Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2015, focused
on the turn of events and testing of a subscale model of Hyperloop. As quite possibly the best
groups in this opposition, the Hyperloop group from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) revealed the originally scaled Hyperloop model in May 2016 and later showed the first-
since forever Hyperloop run in a vacuum climate in January 20171. Since the arrival of the
Alpha paper several Hyperloop organizations in North America and Europe have been formed
and continue to build up their own Hyperloop advances, with the point of advancing it to a
level appropriate for business sending. As interest and backing for Hyperloop expanded,
various organizations started to think about potential courses and areas for utilization of the
innovation. An illustration of this happened in May 2016, when the Hyperloop One Global
Challenge was dispatched to discover possibly feasible areas for Hyperloop organizations. The
test saw various diverse plausibility considers submitted from areas around the globe,
surveying the reasonability of Hyperloop as a mode in different hallways. These examinations
based on Musk's unique reason that Hyperloop could be a practical choice to ground-based
rapid transportation. As examination of these courses was embraced, large numbers of the
investigations found that not exclusively would Hyperloop contend with high velocity rail, yet
that hypothetically, it was likewise situated to challenge short-pull and, at times, medium-pull
aircraft courses. Albeit these investigations depended exclusively on the hypothetical
capacities of Hyperloop, the discoveries and likely advantages of such a framework have
brought about additional premium and interest in this technology. With the continued interest
in and advancement of Hyperloop innovation, governments have started to survey and think
about the ramifications and openings for its sending, including thinking about how such
innovation could be administered and what structure enactment, guideline, and government
inclusion may take. There is a restricted measure of freely accessible material created by public
governments and their auxiliary agencies.
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❖ About Virgin Hyperloop One:
Virgin Hyperloop One XP-1 pod
Formerly known as hyperloop technologies is American company deals in fast speed
transportation and upgrade version of vacuum train known as hyperloop. Company was
founded in 2014. On July 28, 2016, Hyperloop One opened a 100,000 sqft (9,300 m2) tooling
and machine shop called Metal works in North Las Vegas, where it fabricates the parts for its
nearby test track, called Devloop. On November 10, 2016, Hyperloop One released its first
system designs. Hyperloop Company tested its first trial virgin hyperloop trail with its CTO
Josh Giegel and Sara Luchian (Passenger experience Director). The first testing was done in
virgin hyperloop site in Vegas. Testing speed was 172 kmph. Virgin hyperloop raised around
$400 million in 2019. In May 2020 Ohio planning commission released their Midwest route
study in which they stated that the route between three cities will save $300 billion and also
cut down carbon emission by 2.4 million tons. Virgin Hyperloop declared 10 winners of global
hyperloop one challenge. The winning countries are India, US, Canada, U.K and Mexico
❖ Importance of Hyperloop Technology:
More Efficient Electrical Infrastructure - Superconducting DC power transmission loses
around multiple times less force than AC parts, which means we would need to produce less
energy — particularly energy from consuming coal. In addition, elective fuel sources, for
example, sun based and wind are at first delivers as DC power, and must be changed over to
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AC for use. With the lossless superconducting DC wires, that transformation would be
superfluous.
Better Solar Panels- Sun oriented energy has been discredited as wasteful and financially
infeasible. Not with standing, with boards assembled utilizing the new achievements of
nanotechnology, sun oriented could turn into an appealing alternative in the field of supportable
energy. Nanotech-based sun powered boards are ending up being more proficient, just as more
slender, lighter and less expensive.
Momentary Material Identification- Organizations like medication recognition and ID
specialists Centice are creating quantum-based arrangements that make it conceivable to
recognize substances that would somehow be demolished by the way toward testing them. This
permits law requirement organizations to quickly recognize drugs while in the field, giving a
straightforward and reasonable alternative for law implementation to assemble proof. While
the advantage for law requirement today is self-evident, there are gigantic drug suggestions for
this innovation later on.
Stronger Roads – Atmosphere where freezing and defrosting of streets is normal, it tends to
be pricey and tedious to keep streets in great condition. Why squander that cash when we could
put it to more readily utilize financing something more significant, similar to instruction? That
could actually be conceivable soon. Nanomaterials are being grown today that could totally
keep streets from icing over. This would likewise wipe out the requirement for rock salt, which
frequently drains into close by streams, hurting biological systems and contaminating water
supplies.
Computerized Medical Diagnostics- As of late, there has been a multiplication of
advancement advances in the realm of clinical gadgets. If we somehow managed to join
innovations like heartbeat oximetry, mass-spectrometry of blood segments and breathed out
air, DNA sequencing, super exact MRI and ultrasonography and others, we could construct a
more available and complex clinical diagnostics framework.
Truly Global Internet -As of now, just around 33% of the total populace has web access.
Imprint Zuckerberg and a lot of industry accomplices as of late reported an arrangement to get
everybody on the planet on the web. These driving business people and policymakers accept
that it's totally essential to the monetary and social strength of our planet that everybody have
fundamental web access.
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❖ Application of Hyperloop Technology:
At the point when one considers the hyperloop, one may consider the comfort it would bring
into their lives. Regardless of whether it opens up the opportunities for cross-provincial student
to go home for the weekend, or makes that hour-long drive to work only minutes, the customer
advantages of the hyperloop will be unending.
International Commercial Logistics
The super quick capacities of the Hyperloop won't just be utilized for human vehicle. Indeed,
it is likely that the first few years of the Hyperloop will be strictly reserved for the distribution
of goods. Cross country conveyances will have the option to done in hours without the money
related and opportunity cost that accompanies flight-based transportation.
Cost Saving Marketing
Since time is running short and cost reserve funds, makers will have the option to expand their
capability to convey merchandise, generally boosting their potential creation rates by and large.
The usage of the super quick transportation framework will carry alongside it a super quick
economy that will change the manner in which we convey products on the ground.
Connecting Rural Communities
More in the domain of individual and customer use, one significant advocate of the Hyperloop
will be provincial networks that have restricted admittance to conveniences, for example,
clinical offices. When the hyperloop is tried and a structure plan is actualized, rustic networks,
for example, these will be better associated, which will carry many going with advantages to
the vocation of people and society generally.
Other Application
Built for rigorous Industrial IoT environments, RTI Connect DDS provides Hyperloop system
architects and developers with the standards-based platform they have to simply integrate
distributed software applications. It provides communication within and between system levels
through a layered data bus approach:
• Cloud (Customer applications, ticket booking, tracking, scheduling, customer services)
• Fog (Operation Centre control, car/pod tracking, safety and passenger monitoring and
car/pod/cargo tracking)
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❖ Competition Analysis:
There are as of now four set up Hyperloop innovation organizations (Hyperloop Transport
Technologies, Nowports, Virgin Hyperloop One, and Arrivo) engaged with the advancement
of cases and cylinder frameworks for the commercialization of Hyperloop. Not with standing
these, three further gatherings have as of late joined the Hyperloop market are as yet in the
previous phases of building up a Hyperloop plan. Currently most of company’s project is still
in developing phase even after hyperloop concept is in market since long. Following graph
showing hyperloop market (Mn USD) by region.
Many companies is in race to release first proper hyperloop pod which can give efficient and
desire result. There are 4 major companies in hyperloop market including Virgin hyperloop
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies: Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) is
an innovative transportation and technology company developing a low-pressure high speed
completely sustainable tube-based transportation system.
Arrivo: Arrivo builds technology based on the hyperloop architecture that delivers a 21st
century seamless experience for passengers and freight.
Nowports: Now ports is a digital freight forwarder that helps companies improve the import
process.
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Funding Raise Company Wise:
Total Funding
[Link] Company Name Amount (Mn Ventures
Dollar)
Eniac Ventures, 137 Ventures, SharesPost
Virgin
1 $485 m Investment Management, Khosla Ventures,
Hyperloop
Western Technology Investment,
Hyperloop
2 Transportation $30 m Edgewater Capital Partners
Technologies
3 Arrivo $3.5 m rLoop
Y Combinator, Tekton Ventures, Paul
4 Now ports $5.5 m Buchheit, Partech, monashees
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❖ Challenges in Implementation of Hyperloop:
Pressure: Before the Hyperloop becomes operational, the transportation tubes that will extend
many kilometers across the US should uphold the whole weight of the climate above it.
Basically, the weight will gather around 10,000 kg for each meter squared. That is, for each
square meter of cylinder, there will be more than 10,000 kg pulverizing down on it. Since the
proposed Hyperloop will expand 600 km with a width of around two meters, it will keep a
surface zone of around 4,000,000 meters squared. A little trade off in the construction of the
cylinder would bring about a calamitous collapse.
Spontaneous Decompression: On the off chance that the cylinder was penetrated in any way,
shape or form, outside air would viciously enter the cylinder as it endeavors to even out the
pressing factor slope. At run of the mill room temperatures, air particles travel around at around
2000 km/h. In a room loaded up with air, the particles ricochet around in arbitrary ways,
striking different atoms as they move. As people, the particles don't convey a lot of force. In
any case, inside the Hyperloop chamber, there are not many particles for the air to skip off of..
Deadly Collisions: Designing a case that could withstand the power during an unconstrained
decompression calamity would be tremendously troublesome given the idea of the plan. The
case should be sufficiently able to help the barometrical pressing factor inside the lodge, yet
should stay light enough as to not wreck or bargain the cylinder as it goes down the track. The
container will work at 1/1000th of an environment, making it somewhat doubtful for it to
support the effect of the approaching 1 air. Executing security includes that could withstand
the power of 30,000 kg of pressing factor going at the speed of sound would be troublesome.
Decompression is a critical issue: The impacts of the vacuum weapon investigation would be
like what might occur in the Hyperloop framework given an unconstrained decompression
occasion. Much the same as the ping pong ball, the train would rapidly quicken as the air
ceaselessly surges in. With no drag, the container would quicken to supersonic velocities.
Decompression is a critical issue that could and likely would be lethal in a vacuum train
framework. Up to this point, no breaking frameworks have been proposed to keep the cases
from coincidentally quickening because of unconstrained decompression - more on that
beneath.
Thermal Expansion: Steel is adequately sufficiently able to support a close to consummate
vacuum in ideal conditions. In any case, another issue emerges because of a property of prepare
itself. Consistently, the temperature changes a considerable sum across a large portion of the
world. The difference in warmth would cause the Hyperloop cylinder to truly change its size.
The warm extension of steel is fairly minute. Notwithstanding, it is sufficient to be considered
during the development of extensions that consistently grow and contract. Architects present
warm extension joints that permit a specific level of development, permitting the scaffold to
extend and shrivel without trading off the primary uprightness.
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