Abstract: In a seal member, a turbine, and a gas turbine, a plurality of vanes includes a vane main body extending in a radial direction of an axis, an outer shroud, an inner shroud and forming a main flow path of a combustion gas between the outer shrouds and the inner shroud, and a retainer protruding from an inner surface in the radial direction of the inner shroud to the inside in the radial direction. The retainers in the vanes, which are adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction, are adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction via a third gap, and relative to one end of the seal member, the other end is positioned downstream in a direction along the axis in the combustion gas to close the third gap.

Abstract: A stator vane for a gas turbine engine includes an airfoil that extends radially from a first side of a platform. A pocket is provided in the platform on a second side opposite the airfoil. Forward and aft rails extend from the second side of the platform. One of the forward and aft rails includes a radial surface. An impingement plate is secured to the platform over the pocket. The impingement plate includes a radial flange that engages the radial surface.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a stripping apparatus including a cleaning device, a transition unit and a stripping device. The cleaning device includes a first cleaning unit, a second cleaning unit and a third cleaning unit. The stripping device is connected with the transition unit; the transition unit is further connected with the first cleaning unit; the first cleaning unit is further connected with the second cleaning unit; the second cleaning unit is further connected with the third cleaning unit. Temperatures of the first cleaning unit, the second cleaning unit and the third cleaning unit are gradually decreased. The temperature of the third cleaning unit is equal to the temperature of water injected into the third cleaning unit.

Abstract: A device including a heat-absorbing component, and one or more heat-generating components. At least one heat-generating component is located in proximity to an inner surface of the heat-absorbing component, and a gap exists between the at least one heat-generating component and the inner surface of the heat-absorbing component. The device further including an insulator, located in the gap, including an insulator structure enclosing atmospheric pressure gas, where the atmospheric pressure gas has a thermal conductivity lower than air.

Abstract: A motherboard includes a circuit board, a plurality of electronic components, a metal cover and a flexible heat-conducting component. The electronic components are disposed at the circuit board. The metal cover covers the circuit board. The flexible heat-conducting component is disposed between the circuit board and the metal cover and contacts the electronic components and the metal cover.

Abstract: A heat dissipation system that includes a structure having a surface with a cavity recessed on the surface. A wing or channel causes a vortex to occur in the cavity. Destabilizers, such as projections or recesses are disposed on the sidewall of the cavity to disrupt the local surface boundary layer that forms in the cavity. Alternatively, a plurality of freely moving bead elements are disposed in the cavity to disrupt the local surface boundary layer. A cover can be included that prevents the bead elements from exiting the cavity.

Abstract: A heat exchange apparatus includes an outer shell defining a cavity and a volume-occupying member received within the cavity. The outer shell and the volume-occupying member cooperate to define a fluid-receiving volume therebetween. An opening in the outer shell defines a passageway for receiving a liquid to be heated therethrough. The opening includes a fastener for removably attaching to an open top of a container containing a liquid to be heated, wherein the liquid to be heated will flow from the container into the fluid-receiving volume when the apparatus is inverted and the liquid will flow back into the container when the bottle is returned to the upright position.

Abstract: An interface is formed by pressing a first surface and a second surface together, with a particle-loaded thermal interface material (TIM) in between. By applying the thermal interface material to controlled locations on the first surface in controlled amounts, final layer thickness at a given squeezing pressure, and time required to squeeze, are minimized. The locations and amounts are controlled such that small islands of TIM merge only just before final layer thickness is achieved. Better TIM thermal performance and quicker manufacturing result.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a laundry machine and a control method thereof. The control method includes supplying steam, generated by a steam generator, into a drum, and supplying hot air into the drum to dry clothes wetted by the steam. According to the present invention, it is possible to effectively removing wrinkles on clothes.

Abstract: A condensation washer-dryer, in particular, the air-guiding process. The base module is used to receive function parts and components of the air guide and is closed on the rear side by means of a process air cover and forms a plastic, stable support structure for the washer-dryer. The connecting surfaces are large and extend, preferably, over the entire width of the washer-dryer. Due to said embodiment, air guiding channels are formed in a simple manner on the rear side of the base module and the housing of the process air ventilator is closed on the rear side. Sealing elements are no longer required due to said welding of said type of connection and an exceptionally high mechanical rigidity is obtained.

Abstract: An assembly which is a composite including an end shield and a front wall. The size and shape of the end shield are adapted to the inner face of the front wall. Both parts are dimensioned and formed in such a way that they can be interconnected in a fixed manner to form a stable composite resembling a sandwich assembly. The joint surfaces between the front wall and the end shield lie on perpendicular planes and extend for some distance. The construction and connection of the individual parts and of the composite give the front region of the tumble dryer a high degree of rigidity, which obviates the need for additional reinforcement measures. The assembly thus saves material and mounting costs and resources.

Abstract: A spacer includes a plane portion and at least one positioning portion. The plane portion is interposed between two pipe arrays stacked one another. Each of the two pipe arrays is formed by arranging at least one pipe along a plane which crosses a stacking direction of the two pipe arrays. The at least one positioning portion positions the at least one pipe in at least one of the two pipe arrays on the plane portion.

Abstract: Heat transfer fluids are used in the presence of metals and/or Lewis acids of mixtures. The heat transfer fluids comprise (A) hydrofluoroethers and/or hydrofluoropolyethers, liquid under the environmental conditions (25° C., 1 atm); and (B) a compound having a fluoropolyether structure having end groups selected from the pyridine, amine, and aryl classes. The heat transfer fluids have a number average molecular weight of between 400 and 10,000.

Abstract: An apparatus for the irradiation of a radiation sensitive material. The apparatus includes at least one thermally conductive tank for containing a heat transfer medium therein, said at least one thermally conductive tank having a first wall and a second wall in a parallel spaced relationship, said second wall having an outer surface for placing a radiation sensitive material thereon. Also disclosed is a system and method of irradiating a radiation sensitive material.

Abstract: A synthetic jet includes a first backer structure, one and only one actuator, a wall member coupled to and positioned between the first backer structure and the one and only one actuator to form a cavity, and wherein the wall member has an orifice formed therethrough, and wherein the orifice fluidically couples the cavity to an environment external to the cavity.

Abstract: A waterless blood heater/cooler device directly controlling temperature of blood flowing through an extracorporeal blood circuit. A thermoelectric module is coupled to a supply voltage to generate a temperature difference. A heat exchanger cassette comprising a core and first and second laminar flow guides is in thermal contact (directly or indirectly) with the thermoelectric module. The cassette has a plurality of tubes for carrying parallel channels of the blood. The first and second laminar flow guides provide an inlet and an outlet for coupling to the extracorporeal blood circuit and respective intermediate chambers for receiving respective ends of the tubes in order to guide the blood to and from respective tubes in a substantially laminar flow.

Abstract: A heat exchanger comprises an evacuated reaction chamber (2, 2?, 23, 33) containing at least one reaction medium and a storage chamber (25, 35) containing an activation medium which reacts with the reaction medium in such a way as to modify the temperature. The reaction chamber and the storage chamber can be brought into a communicating relationship, whereby the reaction medium and the activation medium are contacted with each other and the temperature-modifying reaction is triggered. The reaction chamber (2, 2?, 23, 33) is defined by walls made of a vacuum-tight material (3), which walls are kept at a distance from each other, at least in sections, by supporting bodies (4, 7, 10), with the supporting bodies (4, 7, 9, 10) keeping free transport paths (5, 8) for the reaction medium (11) inside the reaction chamber. The vacuum-tight material (3) forming the walls of the reaction chamber is designed as a flexible film, preferably a composite film.

Abstract: Subjects for the invention are to provide a zeolite reduced in performance deterioration in repetitions of use or during long-term use and a process for producing the same and to provide an adsorbent comprising the zeolite and a heat utilization system or the like employing the adsorbent. The invention relates to a zeolite which has a framework density of from 10 T/nm3 to 16 T/nm3 and a carbon content of from 1% by weight to 6% by weight and satisfies the following (1) or (2): (1) the zeolite is an aluminophosphate which has a nitrogen content of from 0.5% by weight to 12% by weight and in which the aluminum may be partly replaced by Me; (2) the zeolite is a silicoaluminophosphate in which the aluminum may be partly replaced by Me and which, when burned to a carbon content lower than 0.

Abstract: The invention relates to a connecting element (1), for example for a heat exchanger (3). The connecting element (1), which has an inlet line (13) and an outlet line (14), is rotatably arranged around an inlet element (35) projecting from a housing (34) of the heat exchanger. The connecting element (1) is also connected to a support (2) which is pivotally mounted at its end remote from the connecting element (1) on a bearing (21) carried by the heat exchanger.

Abstract: To provide a carbon fiber reinforcement having excellent thermal conductivity and mechanical properties which is manufactured by mixing together two different types of pitch-based carbon short fibers having a ratio of the degree of filament diameter distribution to average fiber diameter of 0.05 to 0.2 and a fiber length of 20 to 6,000 ?m which differ from each other in average fiber diameter or by mixing one of them with a pitch-based carbon fiber web to improve dispersibility into a matrix resin or increase the dispersion ratio of the pitch-based carbon short fibers.

Abstract: Claus sulfur recovery plants that include one or more single-stage or multi-stage compact tubular Claus catalytic reactor-heat exchanger units are disclosed. In some instances, these new or improved Claus plants additionally include one or more compact heat exchanger containing cooling tubes that are filled with a heat transfer enhancement medium. The new compact tubular Claus catalytic reactor-heat exchanger units and HTEM-containing heat exchangers are also disclosed. A process for recovering sulfur from a hydrogen sulfide-containing gas stream, employing the new tubular Claus catalytic reactor-heat exchanger unit, and in some instances a HTEM-containing heat exchanger, are also disclosed.

Abstract: The invention pertains to heat transfer compositions, particularly to automobile refrigerants comprising a hydrofluoroalkene, an iodocarbon, and at least one lubricant having hydrogen atoms and carbon atoms, wherein no more than 17% of the total number of hydrogen atoms which are attached to a carbon atom are tertiary hydrogen atoms.

Abstract: A method of modeling a heat exchanger is disclosed and comprises assigning input temperatures, assumed output temperatures, and a set of flow rates, inputting the parameters into a set of equations arranged to calculate a heat transfer coefficient, inputting parameters into a second set of equations arranged to calculate output temperatures, substituting actual output temperatures for the assumed output temperatures, and again calculating the heat transfer cooefficient. The new heat transfer coefficient is then used to obtain revised actual output temperatures, and the initial actual output temperatures and the revised actual output temperatures are compared to determine whether they differ by less than a desired variance. If not, a new iteration is performed until the output temperatures converge.

Abstract: A fluid treatment system incorporating an integrated heat exchanger and thermal treatment unit. A fan draws or pushes a contaminated fluid through the heat exchanger, which is preferably of the counter flow type. The integrated heat exchanger and thermal treatment unit is fabricated by stacking sheets of metal foil so that gaps are defined between adjacent sheets. These gaps define alternating untreated and treated fluid channels. The untreated fluid flows through the heat exchanger and into the thermal treatment unit, with is disposed within aligned orifices formed in the metal foil sheets. Heat transfer occurs between adjacent treated and untreated channels, which greatly improves the efficiency with which a temperature of the untreated fluid entering the heat exchanger is changed as a result of heat transfer with the treated fluid that is exiting the heat exchanger. A header system is in fluid communication with either all of the treated or all of the untreated fluid channels.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for making hydrogen peroxide in a microchannel reactor. The process comprises flowing a process feed stream and a staged addition feed stream in a process microchannel in contact with each other to form a reactant mixture comprising O2 and H2, and contacting a catalyst with the reactant mixture in the process microchannel to convert the reactant mixture to a product comprising hydrogen peroxide; transferring heat from the process microchannel to a heat exchanger; and removing the product from the process microchannel.

Abstract: The device concerns among other things a plate heat exchanger having at least one pile of plate elements, each of which plate elements has a central heat transferring part and an edge part (15) surrounding this part, the heat transferring parts of the plate elements delimiting flow spaces between one another for at least one heat exchanging fluid (F1) and every plate element being of a double wall construction and having two heat transferring plates (1, 5; 2, 6; 3, 7; 4, 8) with a space therebetween. At least one layer element (16) is present in the space between the heat transferring plates (1,5; 2,6; 3,7; 4, 8) in at least one of the plate elements, every layer element (16) having at least one electrical connected resistive layer making electrical heating of the layer element (16) possible.

Abstract: A catalytic reactor (10) comprises a plurality of sheets (12, 13) defining flow channels (14, 18) between them. Within each flow channel (14, 18) is a foil (16, 20) of corrugated material whose surfaces are coated with catalytic material. The flow channels (14, 18) extend in transverse directions, but the foils (20) are shaped to cause the gas in those channels (18) to flow at least partly in countercurrent to the gas flowing in the other channels (14). The reactor (20) incorporates header chambers (22, 24) to supply gas mixtures to the flow channels (14, 18), each header being in the form of a cap attached to the outside of the back and covering a face of the stack. Hence different gas mixtures are supplied to the different channels (14, 18) which may be at different pressures, and the corresponding chemical reactions are also different, and heat is transferred through the sheets (12, 13) separating the adjacent channels.

Abstract: A roller for thermally treating web-shaped media, comprising a roller body which is rotatable about its central longitudinal axis, and peripheral bores introduced in axial parallel in the roller body, for conveying a heating medium, wherein other axially parallel balancing bores are formed in the roller body in addition to the peripheral bores for the heating medium, said balancing bores running from an end face of the roller body towards the center of the roller body.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide an excellent total heat exchanging element paper and a total heat exchanging element which are excellent in heat transferability, water vapor permeability and gas barrier properties and cause no mixing of supplied air and discharged air. The present invention provides a total heat exchanging element paper using a paper made using mainly a natural pulp beaten to a Canadian modification freeness of not more than 150 ml, a substantially non-porous total heat exchanging element paper comprising a substantially non-porous cellulosic base which contains a moisture absorbing agent, a non-porous total heat exchanging element paper having a high gas barrier property which has a thickness of not more than 100 &mgr;m and a carbon dioxide permeation constant specified in JIS K7126 of not more than 5.

Abstract: Manifold for a heat exchanger intended to be joined by brazing or soldering to heat transfer tubes. A portion of a surface of the manifold that will be joined to the tubes is proved with at least one recess in which a brazing material is mechanically locked.

Abstract: Disclosed is a heat transfer medium having high heat transfer rate, being useful in even wider fields, simple in structure, easy to made, environmentally sound, and capable of rapidly conducting heat and preserving heat in a highly efficient manner. Further disclosed are a heat transfer surface and a heat transfer element utilizing the heat transfer medium. Further disclosed are applications of the heat transfer element.

Abstract: To make stress corrosion cracking caused by precipitation of a &bgr; layer (Mg2Al3) in a welding part (5) or in the periphery of the welding part (5) hard to occur. An apparatus body (1) and a header (3) formed of an aluminum alloy with precipitation of magnesium suppressed by standardized heat treatment are assembled and welded, and natural gas containing mercury is subjected to heat exchanging. There are provided with backing metal (4) disposed on the back of the inner wall surface of one header (3) prior to standardized heat treatment and placed in contact with the other apparatus body (1) at the time of assembling and welding, a welding part (5) formed by being assembled and welded using first welding metal containing magnesium at percent content not less than 2.

Abstract: An element having an electrically adjustable thermal emissivity for infrared radiation has the following layer structure: forward IR-transparent substrate; function layer whose reflectivity for IR radiation can be changed by the embedding of hydrogen; anhydrous IR-absorptive proton conductor layer;hydrogen storage layer; and electrode layer. The surface whose emissivity is to be controlled, is covered with one or more elements according to the invention, which are electrically connected with one another and can be wired in the form of strings or arrays.

Abstract: A rotary nozzle device has

Abstract: An apparatus to transfer heat from a heat source to a heat sink, the apparatus consisting of a solid thermal conveyer proximate to the heat source and the heat sink. Heat from the heat source is transferred to the thermal conveyer; this heat is conveyed by the thermal conveyer, and this heat is then transferred to the heat sink. An external means moves the solid thermal conveyer with respect to the heat source and the heat sink. Heat from the heat source can be transferred to the thermal conveyer by radiation, by conduction through mechanical contact, and by conduction or convection through an intermediate thermal transfer fluid. In one embodiment the area through which heat is transferred from the solid thermal conveyer to the heat sink is substantially greater than the area through which heat is transferred from the heat source to the solid thermal conveyer. In another embodiment the thermal conveyer transports heat a distance that is large compared to the dimensions of the heat source and of the heat sink.

Abstract: A high efficiency thermal interposer comprising a first hollow disk and second hollow disk, held together by thermally isolating fasteners. The fasteners keep the disks from touching one another. In an illustrative embodiment of the invention, the first disk is the low temperature disk portion and the second disk is the high temperature disk portion of the heat shield. Furthermore, according to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the space between the disks is filled with small thermally conductive particles (e.g., stainless steel spheres) which are in thermal contact with the high temperature disk; but which are not in contact with the low temperature disk. The thermal interposer/heat shield includes means for introducing cold jets of air into the cavity containing the particles, means for circulating the air therebetween, and means through which the air can exit from the cavity to carry away the heat picked up from the particles inside the cavity.

Abstract: A cardioplegia system for delivering cardioplegic solution to the heart during open heart surgery in cooperation with an extracorporeal blood circuit employing a heart/lung machine, includes a conduit diverting a portion of the blood flow from the heart/lung machine to a cardioplegia delivery line. A heat exchanger assembly including a heat exchanger for controlling fluid temperature is provided in the cardioplegia delivery line. In addition to a heat exchanger, the heat exchanger assembly includes an integral bubble trap, filtration means and means to enable the measurement of certain physical characteristics of the circulating cardioplegia fluid and/or certain events occurring within the heat exchanger assembly.

Abstract: A high efficiency thermal interposer comprising a first hollow disk and second hollow disk, held together by thermally isolating fasteners. The fasteners keep the disks from touching one another. In an illustrative embodiment of the invention, the first disk is the low temperature disk portion and the second disk is the high temperature disk portion of the heat shield. Furthermore, according to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the space between the disks is filled with small thermally conductive particles (e.g., stainless steel spheres) which are in thermal contact with the high temperature disk; but which are not in contact with the low temperature disk. The thermal interposer/heat shield includes means for introducing cold jets of air into the cavity containing the particles, means for circulating the air therebetween, and means through which the air can exit from the cavity to carry away the heat picked up from the particles inside the cavity.

Abstract: A cooling system for the high voltage electrode of a corona treater includes an elongated hose disposed within the dielectric tube and around which the high voltage wire is spirally wound. The elongated hose is connected to a first port through which cooling fluid is introduced. The cooling fluid flows through the hose and out an open end into the dielectric tube. The cooling fluid then flows out of the dielectric tube through a second port and back to a reservoir after passing through a high voltage isolator.

Abstract: This invention relates to anodic corrosion protection for heat exchangers and comprises cathodes put into the inlet channel and the outlet channel for the corrosive medium and an anode constituted by the metal being the partition walls in the heat exchanger. The anode and the cathodes are integral parts of a direct current circuit, the amperage of which is influenced by a control reference electrode placed in the flow way for the corrosive medium. The characterizing feature of the invention is that the control reference electrode (11) is arranged in the ordinary or a separate flow way for the corrosive medium at an essential distance from the cathodes (9, 10) so that the corrosion protection of all parts of the heat exchanger, which are to be protected, is secured.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for enhancing the heat transfer efficiency and lowering the temperature of tube walls used in a tubular gas to gas heat exchanger. The heat exchanger utilizes essentially flat sided tubes for the transfer of heat from hot gas flowing over the tubes to a cooler gas flowing therethrough. The apparatus of the invention includes a metallic heat shield inserted into the tubes between sides thereof to intercept radiation from the outer walls of said tubes and transfer it to the cooler gas flowing therethrough.

Abstract: A process for providing a thermal insulating cover of discrete particles for a container of fluids involves forming a plurality of hollow interior, discrete, ceramic particles, firing the particles at a temperature of at least 350.degree. C and then covering the heated liquid with at least a 1/8 inch thick layer of the fired particles. A potentially improved ceramic thermal insulating particle is also described and contains a hollow interior with a plurality of partitions.

Abstract: A thermal fusing device for softening toner images is provided in combination with a transport at the exit of the fuser which transport is characterized by a pair of nip-forming members one of which is provided with a plurality of recesses for receiving belt structures fabricated from a silicone rubber material. A second roll is provided also having recesses for receiving the belts and this roll is positioned remotely from the first mentioned roll so that the belts are entrained about the two rolls such that they protrude from the recesses to thereby provide a nip-forming roll wherein only the belts contact the toner material carried by the copy substrate. Additionally, a fan is provided for cooling the surface of the belt so that the toner will more readily solidify and the paper can be stripped therefrom due to the beam strength of the paper.