Abstract: A ceiling fan and light assembly control circuit including a microprocessor controlled by a single-throw switch and an infrared remote controller operated to regulate the fan speed and the intensity of light. A 60 Hz square wave signal of cycle 16.67 ms is obtained from the alternating current power supply and monitored by the microprocessor. When the square wave signal is interrupted by switching the single-throw switch on and off quickly, the micrprocessor triggers a change in the operation mode of the ceiling fan and light assembly. The infrared remote controller can also be operated to control the fan speed and the light intensity when the single-throw switch is switched on.

Abstract: A method and device using a single-throw switch for controlling the revolving speed of the ceiling fan and light assembly and the light intensity of its lamps. The method obtains a 60 Hz square wave of cycle 16.67 ms from a typical alternating current power supplied from an electric power company and provides a working direct current voltage to a microprocessor through a direct current power supply circuit. When power is turned off and on (a switching cycle) by the single-throw switch, the microprocessor calculates the interrupting time during each switching cycle and regulates the revolving speed of the ceiling fan or the light intensity of the lamps based on the calculated result.

Abstract: A ceiling fan and light assembly control method and circuit that uses a single-throw switch or clapping of hands to control the fan speed or light intensity of a ceiling fan and light assembly. The control circuit obtains a 60 Hz square wave with a cycle of 16.67 ms from alternating current city power supply so that when the single-throw switch is switched off and then switched on immediately, a triggering signal is produced to drive a microprocessor, causing it to regulate the fan speed or light intensity of the ceiling fan and light assembly. Alternatively, when two or three continuous claps are received by a microphone, the microprocessor will be triggered to regulate the fan speed or light intensity of the ceiling fan and light assembly.

Abstract: Natural gas is stored in a closed vessel under a pressure of about 1400 to 4500 kPa using a carbon molecular sieve adsorbent having at least 80% of its particle pore volume as micropores having diameters greater than 0.55 nm and less than 0.65 nm, particularly about 0.6 to 0.65 nm. The capacity of such micropores for methane is at least 110 mL methane per mL of carbon (at 300 psig or 2,169 kPa abs.). The deliverable volume of natural gas from a vessel packed with carbon molecular sieve particles is at least 70 times the volume of the vessel. The deliverable volume is optimized by heating a carbonized polymer in the presence of carbon dioxide to increase the pore volume.

Abstract: The ability of a packed bed of adsorbent to hold a gas is increased by employing at least two sizes of adsorbent particles having nominal diameters differing by at least 7/1. In a preferred embodiment, the capacity of a bed of carbon molecular sieve particles for adsorption of natural gas is significantly improved.

Abstract: Natural gas is stored in a closed vessel under a pressure of about 1400 to 4500 kPa using a carbon molecular sieve adsorbent. The deliverable volume of natural gas from a vessel packed with carbon molecular sieve particles is increased by impregnating a polymer precursor of the carbon molecular sieve with additional monomers and polymerizing the monomers before carbonizing the precursor.

Abstract: Mixed-metal oxide absorbents having superior CO.sub.2 and water removal capacity and superior regenerability are prepared from novel mixed-metal carbonate precursors or from mixed-metal oxides derived from those precursors. The precursors are prepared from a salt of silver and the salt of a second metal. The second metal may be selected from the group consisting of magnesium, iron, cobalt, nickel, zinc, and other metals for which the metal carbonate to metal oxide reaction occurs at a temperature of not greater than about 400.degree. C. The precursors have an unique x-ray diffraction pattern characteristic of the silver carbonate pattern rather than of the physical mixture of the silver carbonate and the carbonate of the second metal.

Abstract: Purification of a concentrated aqueous solution of hydroxylamine sulfate (HAS) is carried out by contacting with an organic solution of 1-phenyl-3-methyl-4-trifluoroacetylpyrazol-5-one (HPMTFP) and trioctylphosphine oxide (TOPO). Divalent iron (Fe.sup.II) is removed to below about 3 wt. ppm making it possible to use the purified solution directly in the production of oxime compounds without further purification heretofore required.

Abstract: Chlorofluorocarbons are purified by removing hydrofluoric and hydrochloric acids with a carbon molecular sieve having an average pore size of about 3.5 Angstroms with no more than about 5% of the pores having a size less than 3.2 Angstroms and no more than about 5% of the pores having a size greater than 4.2 Angstroms.

Abstract: Volatile organic compounds such as ketones and fluorocarbons are removed from vapor streams by contacting the vapor stream with a bed of an adsorbent comprising a binderless carbon molecular sieve. The carbon molecular sieves are characterized by their method of manufacture which includes forming a polymer from oxygen-free precursors and carbonizing directly to the finished sieve material in the absence of oxygen.

Abstract: A method is described for producing hydrophobic carbon molecular sieves. The method does not employ a binder to form or shape previously carbonized materials. Instead, a cross-linked oxygen-free polymer is first produced. Fine particles of this polymer are then pelletized or shaped as by simple extrusion. The extruded pellets are then carbonized in an oxygen-free atmosphere to yield binderless homogeneous particles of similar shape comprised of carbon sieves.

Abstract: Acid gases such as carbon dioxide are removed from air or other gases using a unique carbon-based material. The material is a carbon molecular sieve prepared from oxygen-free precursors carbonized in the absence of oxygen. The pores of the material are then enlarged as by high temperature steaming. Alcohol amines are then used to impart an amine functionality to the materials. A gas to be treated is contacted with this material at room temperature and atmospheric pressure, with the adsorbed gas being released by heating to a moderate temperature.

Abstract: A process for the liquid phase adsorptive separation of psicose from an aqueous feed mixture of monosaccharides containing psicose along with other aldoses and ketoses. The feed is contacted with a calcium-Y type zeolite in two stages. In the first, psicose and fructose are selectively adsorbed to the substantial exclusion of other aldoses and ketoses. In the second, psicose is adsorbed to the substantial exclusion of fructose, which is recovered in high purity in the raffinate. The process can be carried out on a commercial scale by means of a simulated moving bed flow scheme.

Abstract: A process for the liquid phase adsorptive separation of arabinose from an aqueous feed mixture of monosaccharides containing arabinose along with other aldopentoses and aldohexoses. The feed is contacted with a calcium-Y or clacium-X type zeolite. Arabinose is selectively adsorbed to the substantial exclusion of other aldoses and thereafter is recovered in high purity by desorption with water or ethanol. The process can be carried out on a commercial scale by means of a simulated moving bed flow scheme.

Abstract: A process for separating isoprene from isobutylene, isopentane, and pentene-1. The process uses an adsorbent comprising activated carbon or molecular sieve carbon to selectively adsorb isoprene from the other hydrocarbons. High purity isoprene is recovered by desorption using desorbent materials which include olefinic hydrocarbons. The process is particularly suited for a simulated moving bed apparatus.

Abstract: This is a separation process employing a column of adsorbent which is divided sequentially into at least three zones, adsorption, purification and desorption zones. A net fluid flow is maintained through the column with the adsorbent moving actually or in a simulated manner countercurrent with respect to the fluid. The feedstock contains the components to be separated with one component being more selectively adsorbed in the adsorption zone by the adsorbent than the other components. A desorbent fluid effects desorption of the more selectively adsorbed component in the desorption zone, however, if carried over into the adsorption zone with the moving adsorbent the desorbent impedes adsorption. The process employs a flush stream introduced at the upstream boundary of the desorption zone, with the desorbent introduced between the upstream and downstream boundaries of that zone, which flushes the desorbent from the adsorbent prior to its movement into the adsorption zone.