Abstract: The present invention provides an antenna apparatus which can realize favorable communication properties while achieving downsizing of a casing of an electronic device when incorporated in an electronic device. An antenna module (1a) which is incorporated in a mobile phone (130) and which is enabled to perform communication by receiving a magnetic field transmitted from a reader/writer (120) comprises an antenna coil (11a) which is wound in a clearance (132) between an end portion (133b) of a metallic plate (133a) opposing the reader/writer (120) within a casing (131) of the mobile phone (130) and an inner peripheral wall (131a) of the casing (131) so as not to surround an outer peripheral portion of the metallic plate (133a) and which is inductively coupled with the reader/writer (120).

Abstract: A wet type flue-gas desulfurization apparatus includes a desulfurization apparatus main body; a gas introducing unit that is disposed on a side wall of the desulfurization apparatus main body and that introduces a flue gas; an absorbent accumulating unit that accumulates an absorbent which has absorbed the sulfur oxide present in the flue gas; a circulation line that circulates the absorbent from the absorbent circulating unit; a spray pipe that is disposed in the vicinity of the middle portion of the desulfurization apparatus main body and that sprays the absorbent, which is circulated in the circulation line, as a spray liquid from a nozzle; an ORP meter that measures the oxidation reduction potential of the absorbent; and an oxidation resistant pipe group that, in the vicinity of the interface of the absorbent present in the absorbent accumulating unit, cushions a falling liquid falling from an absorber of the absorbent.

Abstract: Provided is a portable communication device including a receiver, a transmitter, an adjustment signal generator, an adjustment signal detector, and a control circuit unit. The transmitter transmits an adjustment signal to the receiver in order to adjust a received resonant frequency. The adjustment signal detector detects a parameter including information on a transmission state of the adjustment signal at a time of transmitting the adjustment signal. Then, the control circuit unit corrects a deviation of the received resonant frequency based on a detection result of the adjustment signal detector.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a low-pyrophoricity, transportable, storable dewatered solid fuel from a low rank coal, includes a mixing vessel 1 in which an oil containing a solvent oil is mixed with a coal to prepare a raw material slurry; evaporators 2 and 3 that evaporate moisture from the raw material slurry; a solid-liquid separator that performs solid-liquid separation on the slurry from which moisture has been evaporated; and an element that adds a heavy oil to the slurry after the completion of or in the course of evaporating moisture.

Abstract: An antenna device, capable of stable communications without increasing a space of the entire device by keeping a resonance frequency substantially constant even if the temperature changes, includes: an antenna circuit having an antenna coil with an electrically connected capacitor; the coil receiving a magnetic field transmitted from a reader/writer at a predetermined oscillation frequency; the circuit becoming communicable when inductively coupled to the reader/writer; and a magnetic sheet formed at a position superposed on the coil to change its inductance, wherein the coil has a temperature characteristic in which the inductance is changed with a temperature change, and the sheet has a temperature characteristic of changing the inductance to achieve a characteristic inverse to the inductance change with the temperature change in a predetermined use temperature range, and substantially matching a resonance frequency of the circuit with the oscillation frequency in the use temperature region.

Abstract: Provided are a detection method and a quantification method for a detection target, which can detect and quantify the detection target rapidly, inexpensively, simply, and with high accuracy in a variety of environments.

Abstract: A wet type flue-gas desulfurization apparatus includes a desulfurization apparatus main body; a gas introducing unit that is disposed on a side wall of the desulfurization apparatus main body and that introduces a flue gas; an absorbent accumulating unit that accumulates an absorbent which has absorbed the sulfur oxide present in the flue gas; a circulation line that circulates the absorbent from the absorbent circulating unit; a spray pipe that is disposed in the vicinity of the middle portion of the desulfurization apparatus main body and that sprays the absorbent, which is circulated in the circulation line, as a spray liquid from a nozzle; an ORP meter that measures the oxidation reduction potential of the absorbent; and an oxidation resistant pipe group that, in the vicinity of the interface of the absorbent present in the absorbent accumulating unit, cushions a falling liquid falling from an absorber of the absorbent.

Abstract: Modified solid fuel manufacturing method and modified solid fuels manufactured using the manufacturing method. When solid fuels are manufactured by crushing low grade coal, mixing the crushed low grade coal with solvent oil to prepare a slurry, heating the slurry to at least the boiling point of water to evaporate moisture included in the slurry, separating the solvent oil from the slurry to produce charcoal dust and compression compacting said charcoal dust, by heating the slurry to at least the boiling point of water, the non-volatile components included in the low grade coal are extracted with the solvent oil, the outer surface of the low grade coal and the internal surfaces of the pores are coated with the extracted non-volatile components, and the content of heavy oil added from the outside will be less than 0.5 mass %, relative to the solid fuel after drying.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a solid fuel which may be made by a method involving mixing porous coal with a mixed oil containing heavy oil and solvent oil to prepare a raw material slurry; heating the raw material slurry to promote dehydration of the porous coal while impregnating the mixed oil into pores of the porous coal to obtain a dehydrated slurry; separating the resulting upgraded porous coal and mixed oil from the dehydrated slurry; drying the separated upgraded porous coal with carrier gas, and subsequently condensing vaporized mixed oil in the carrier gas by cooling, while capturing the porous coal in the carrier gas by atomization of the condensed mixed oil, thereby recovering the mixed oil; and returning the mixed oil separated and recovered in the separating to the mixing, further involving supplying the mixed oil recovered in the final drying to the separating.

Abstract: There is provided an exhaust gas treatment system including a CO2 recovery unit with further enhanced energy efficiency. The exhaust gas treatment system (1) includes: a CO2 recovery unit (10) including a CO2 absorption column (11), an absorbing solution regeneration column (16), a condensate supply pipeline (15) for supplying condensate, which contains CO2 absorbing solution discharged from the CO2 absorption column (11) to a bottom portion of the absorbing solution regeneration column (16), and a CO2 separation section (22) for performing heat exchange, via a heat exchanger (23), between the CO2 discharged from the absorbing solution regeneration column (16) and the condensate; and an exhaust gas heat exchanger (5) provided on a gas upstream side of the CO2 recovery unit (10) for performing heat exchange between exhaust gas before flowing into the CO2 recovery unit (10) and the condensate.

Abstract: An antenna device that is built in an electronic device and that can perform communication by receiving a magnetic field transmitted from a transmitter includes an antenna coil formed on a printed circuit board and inductively coupled to the transmitter, and a magnetic sheet that attracts the magnetic field transmitted from the transmitter to the antenna coil. The antenna coil and the magnetic sheet are superposed on each other.

Abstract: An apparatus for separating and recovering CO2 from a CO2 absorbent, includes: a regeneration tower for regenerating the absorbent that has absorbed CO2 by heating it to separate and remove CO2 therefrom and to exhaust CO2 gas; a compressor for compressing the CO2 gas exhausted from the tower; and a heat exchanger for heating the absorbent in the tower by exchanging heat with a part of the compressed CO2 by the compressor which is introduced into the tower. The apparatus may include a plurality of the compressors and a plurality of the heat exchangers. The plurality of compressors is arranged in series to sequentially compress the CO2 gas exhausted from the tower. The plurality of heat exchangers is configured so that each part of the CO2 compressed by the plurality of compressors is introduced to the tower in parallel to exchange heat with the absorbent in the tower.

Abstract: An antenna apparatus is assembled into an electronic apparatus and made communicatable upon receipt of a magnetic field transmitted from a transmitter. The antenna apparatus includes an antenna substrate having an antenna coil inductively coupled to the transmitter formed thereon and a magnetic sheet for use in drawing the magnetic field transmitted from the transmitter to the antenna coil. The magnetic sheet is inserted into a center portion of the antenna coil such that two ends of the magnetic sheet are positioned closer to the center portion than two ends of the antenna coil in an inserting direction thereof.

Abstract: An antenna apparatus, which is assembled into an electronic apparatus and made communicatable upon receipt of a magnetic field transmitted from a transmitter, includes a laminated member made by mutually superimposing an antenna coil inductively coupled to the transmitter and formed on an antenna substrate with a magnetic sheet for drawing a magnetic field transmitted from the transmitter to the antenna coil, a film-shaped protective member that covers the laminated member at least up to an end portion of the magnetic sheet, and a communication processing unit that carries out communication to and from the transmitter and is driven by an electric current flowing through the antenna coil.

Abstract: The present invention provides a communication device that can reduce a housing of an electronic device in size and thickness when the communication device is built in the electronic device. The communication device includes: an antenna coil (11a) arranged on an outer peripheral portion (134) of a housing (131) surface facing a reader/writer (120) of a mobile phone (130); a magnetic sheet (13) that attracts a magnetic field transmitted from the reader/writer (120) to the antenna coil (11a); and a communication processing unit (12) that is driven by a current flowing in the antenna coil (11a) and performs communication with the reader/writer (120), wherein the magnetic sheet (13) is arranged on the reader/writer (120) side of the antenna coil (11a) at a center portion (132a), and the antenna coil (11a) is arranged on the reader/writer (120) side on an outer periphery (130d) side.

Abstract: Disclosed are a detection/quantification kit and a detection/quantification method for detecting/quantifying an analyte rapidly at a low cost and in a simple manner. Specifically, disclosed is a kit for detecting an analyte in a sample, comprising a first conjugate and a second conjugate, wherein the first conjugate comprises a first substance comprising a stimuli-responsive polymer and a first affinity substance having affinity for the analyte and bound to the first substance, and the second conjugate comprises a second substance carrying an electrical charge and a second affinity substance having affinity for the analyte and bound to the second substance. The first and second affinity substances can bind to different sites on the analyte simultaneously.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an antenna device may include a first step of forming an antenna circuit so that the resonance frequency of the antenna circuit will be lower than an oscillation frequency of the reader/writer. The antenna circuit includes an antenna coil that receives the magnetic field transmitted from the reader/writer and a capacitor electrically connected to the antenna coil. The manufacturing method also includes a second step of affixing a magnetic sheet to the antenna coil via an adhesive. The magnetic sheet is at a face-to-face position with respect to the antenna coil and is configured to change the inductance of the antenna coil. The adhesive is of a film thickness to change the inductance so that the resonance frequency of the resonance circuit will be coincident with the oscillation frequency depending on the spacing between the antenna coil and the magnetic sheet.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an antenna device is provided. The manufacturing method includes forming an antenna circuit so that the resonance frequency of the antenna circuit will be lower than an oscillation frequency of the reader/ writer and affixing a magnetic sheet to an antenna coil via an adhesive. The antenna circuit includes the antenna coil that receives the magnetic field transmitted from the reader/ writer and a capacitor electrically connected to the antenna coil. The magnetic sheet is at a face-to-face position with respect to the antenna coil and is configured to change the inductance of the antenna coil. The adhesive is of a film thickness to change the inductance so that the resonance frequency of the resonance circuit will be coincident with the oscillation frequency depending on the spacing between the antenna coil and the magnetic sheet.

Abstract: A method for treating exhaust gas is provided, which includes measuring SO3 concentration in the exhaust gas which contains at least SO2 and SO3 by using an SO3 gas analyzer; injecting fine particles into the exhaust gas after the step of measuring; cooling the exhaust gas after the step of injection, by recovering heat from the exhaust gas; collecting fly ash from the cooled exhaust gas; and removing at least SO2 from the exhaust gas after the step of collecting by absorbing the SO2 with an absorbing solution. In addition, an apparatus for treating exhaust gas is provided, which includes an SO3 gas analyzer; a fine particles injector; a heat exchanger; an electrostatic precipitator; an absorption tower; and a fine particle feed controller.

Abstract: The present invention provides an antenna apparatus which can realize favorable communication properties while achieving downsizing of a casing of an electronic device when incorporated in an electronic device. An antenna module (1a) which is incorporated in a mobile phone (130) and which is enabled to perform communication by receiving a magnetic field transmitted from a reader/writer (120) comprises an antenna coil (11a) which is wound in a clearance (132) between an end portion (133b) of a metallic plate (133a) opposing the reader/writer (120) within a casing (131) of the mobile phone (130) and an inner peripheral wall (131a) of the casing (131) so as not to surround an outer peripheral portion of the metallic plate (133a) and which is inductively coupled with the reader/writer (120).