Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the catalytic removal of carbon dioxide and NOx from waste gases in a reactor charged with activated carbon catalyst. The method comprises the following steps: a. saturating the catalyst with water b. saturating or partially saturating the waste gases with water, c. introducing the waste gases into the reactor, d. catalytically converting NOx into NO2? and, in parallel with this, catalytically converting CO2 into carbon and O2 on the same catalyst, e. washing out the activated carbon catalyst with water and discharging the carbon as a solid and NO2? dissolved in water or in the base.

Abstract: An aircraft store ejector systems and subsystems thereof. Embodiments can include a two-reservoir re-pressurization system wherein a remote reservoir is used to maintain desired pressure in a local ejector reservoir. The system can include a release valve having a vent valve and valve piston. The release valve can control release of pressurized gas to a pitch control valve. The pitch control valve can be configured to distribute the pressurized gas between two or more ejector piston assemblies. One or more of the ejector piston assemblies can include multiple concentric piston stages and piston chambers, the piston chambers configured to contain a volume of gas. The ejector piston assemblies can be configured to compress the volume of gas within the piston chambers as the piston stages are extended out from the aircraft. Such compression can provide a return force to the piston stages.

Abstract: An expandable building assembly is provided, the building assembly having a retracted condition, in which the roof of the building has a first area, and an extended condition, in which the roof of the building has a second area, the second area being greater than the first, the assembly comprising a roof portion; and means for displacing and rotating the roof portion between the retracted condition and the expanded condition; whereby in the retracted condition, the roof portion is in a first position and at a first orientation, and in the extended condition, the roof portion is in a second position and at a second orientation, wherein the second position is displaced from the first position and the second orientation is rotated with respect to the first orientation. A building comprising one or more of the building assemblies is also provided.

Abstract: A mobile concrete pump includes a supporting structure that can be placed directly or indirectly via an assembly frame on the running gear of an HGV chassis, for receiving functional units that form a support device and a placing boom. The placing boom is rotatably mounted on a boom pedestal that is integrated into the supporting structure, while the support device includes two telescopic tubes which are integrated into the supporting structure, cross over one another at different heights and have diagonal passages that are open at the front. A respective open space in the supporting structure lies below the upper and above the lower telescopic tube, each open space being separated from the neighboring telescopic tube by an intermediate base. A pre-fabricated liquid tank is inserted into at least one of the open spaces, the outer contour of the tank being geometrically adapted to the supporting structure and the tank supplementing and reinforcing the supporting structure.

Abstract: A flow meter for measuring the flow of fluid through a pipe. The flow meter has an elongate member attached to an interior surface of the pipe. The elongate member has a leading end, a trailing end, a longitudinal axis, a first side, and a second side. The first side extends from the leading end to the trailing end and defines a cylindrical cross-sectional shape with a radius of curvature corresponding to the radius of curvature of the pipe and extending along an arc of less than 180 degrees. The second side extends from the leading end to the trailing end and is exposed to the interior of the pipe. The second side forms a constriction in a cross-sectional area of the pipe. Pressure sensors determine a pressure differential caused by the elongate member which is used to determine the volume of fluid flowing through the pipe.

Abstract: A programmable processor and method for improving the performance of processors by expanding at least two source operands, or a source and a result operand, to a width greater than the width of either the general purpose register or the data path width. The present invention provides operands which are substantially larger than the data path with of the processor by using the contents of a general purpose register to specify a memory address at which a plurality of data path widths of data can be read or written, as well as the size and shape of the operand. In addition, several instructions and apparatus for implementing these instructions are described which obtain performance advantages if the operands are not limited to the width and accessible number of general purpose registers.

Abstract: Provided is an arctic ship with a derrick, which can stably maintain an internal environment of an enclosed derrick. The arctic ship with a derrick includes: the derrick forming an enclosed space blocked from outside air; a moonpool coupled to a lower portion of the derrick to communicate with the derrick and blocked from the outside air; and an air supply/exhaust device installed to communicate an inner space of the derrick or the moonpool with the exterior, wherein air condition of the inner space is maintained or controlled at a predetermined range by the air supply/exhaust device.

Abstract: Provided is a system for monitoring temperature and pressure of an enclosed derrick structure communicating with a moonpool, which senses abnormal internal temperature and pressure of the enclosed derrick structure by monitoring the temperature and pressure of the enclosed derrick structure, thereby effectively coping with dangers. The system may include: one or more temperature sensors installed in the inside of the enclosed derrick to monitor an internal temperature of the enclosed derrick; one or more pressure sensors installed in the inside of the moonpool to monitor an internal pressure difference of the moonpool; and one or more damping units installed in a side of the enclosed derrick to supply air to the inside of the enclosed derrick or exhaust air to the outside of the enclosed derrick in order to cope with an abnormal internal temperature of the enclosed derrick and an abnormal internal pressure variation of the moonpool.

Abstract: A start-up method of a bubble column slurry bed reactor for producing hydrocarbons includes: a first step that fills into a reactor a slurry in which a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis reaction catalyst particles are suspended in a slurry preparation oil with a 5% distillation point of 120 to 270° C., a 95% distillation point of 330 to 650° C., and a sulfur component and an aromatic component of 1 mass ppm or less, and a second step that, in a state where synthesis gas that is primarily hydrogen and carbon monoxide is introduced into the slurry filled into the reactor, raises the temperature of the reactor and starts the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis reaction. As the slurry preparation oil, one containing predetermined components in preset amounts is used. In the first step, the slurry is filled into the reactor in an amount in which airborne droplets do not flow out.

Abstract: A plug element for an electrical contact of at least one electrical cable with plural electrical conductors includes a multi-part housing with a base element and at least one closure element and multiple contact pieces each including at least one plug contact for connecting an electrical conductor. A first group of at least one contact piece is allotted to a first service provided by the electrical conductors of a cable, and is assigned to a first formation of one or more chambers. At least one second group of at least one contact piece is allotted to at least one second service provided by a cable, and is assigned to at least one second formation of one or more chambers. A plug system includes a first plug element including male plug contacts and a second plug element including female plug contacts.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an oil-in-water emulsion containing no surfactant, which comprises a metabolizable oil phase, an aqueous phase and oil-water amphipathic solid particles dispersed in the aqueous phase and having biocompatibility, wherein the oil phase comprises squalene or/and tocol; the aqueous phase is any one selected from the group consisting of purified water, water for injection, glycerine aqueous solution, buffering salts aqueous solution or clinically usable transfusion, or the combination of at least two selected therefrom; the solid particles have an average particle size in a scale of from nanometer to micrometer. The emulsion of the present invention can be used as vaccine adjuvant, drug delivery carrier or sustained/controlled-release carrier, and have the controllable properties. The resultant emulsion is stable, avoids the use of surfactants and can reduce the human poisoning and environmental pollution.

Abstract: Methods are provided for characterizing an aviation gasoline for use in a spark-ignited engine based on analysis methods traditionally used for compression-ignition fuels. For example, an aviation gasoline can be characterized based on a combustion delay for the aviation gasoline, a heat release rate for the aviation gasoline, or a combination thereof. Analyzing an aviation gasoline based on characteristics traditionally used for compression-ignition fuels can allow for distinction between types of aviation gasolines that may appear to be similar under conventional octane tests but that have substantially different performance characteristics.

Abstract: A multi-flute ball end mill comprising a shank portion, a cutting edge portion having a ball-shaped tip portion, and 3 or more cutting edges formed in the cutting edge portion; each cutting edge being constituted by a peripheral cutting edge having a twist angle ? of 35-45°, and a ball-end cutting edge having a twist angle ? at the outermost peripheral point, the twist angle ? and the twist angle ? meeting the relation of ????7°, such that the ball-end cutting edge is smoothly connected to the peripheral cutting edge; the ball-end cutting edge having a radial rake angle of ?37° to ?11°; the peripheral cutting edge having a radial rake angle of 2-8°; and a center-lowered, inclined cutting edge integrally extending from a tip end of each ball-end cutting edge to a rotation center point, in a tip end portion of the ball portion near the rotation center point.

Abstract: Adsorbent materials comprising a core, for example CHA, and at least one coating, for example DDR, are provided herein. Adsorbent contactors and gas separation processes using the adsorbent materials are also provided herein.

Abstract: A method of predicting the tendency of a heavy oil feed to generate coke deposits in the FCC riser under a given set of operating parameters in the unit; thus, by utilizing operating parameters appropriate to the feed, the formation of coke deposits in the riser may be minimized. The margin between the theoretical dew point of the hydrocarbon feed established from unit operating parameters and the theoretical mix zone temperature in the feed injection zone of the unit is developed by applying a regression-derived linear model from multiple rigorous model runs. The mix zone of the unit is then operated at a temperature which reduces the level of riser coking predicted from this ascertainable margin or, at least, maintains it within levels which are predictable and acceptable.

Abstract: Structured adsorbent beds comprising a high cell density substrate, such as greater than about 1040 cpsi, and a coating comprising adsorbent particles, such as DDR and a binder, such as SiO2 are provided herein. Methods of preparing the structured adsorbent bed and gas separation processes using the structured adsorbent bed are also provided herein.

Abstract: A fastening structure of an onboard apparatus to be fastened to a vehicle body includes a support member that is fastened to the vehicle body to support the onboard apparatus and has a protruding section protruding rearward beyond a rear face of the onboard apparatus, and a bracket having a front fastening section to be fastened to a lower face of a rear section of the onboard apparatus, a rear fastening section to be fastened to the protruding section of the support member, and a fragile section provided between the front fastening section and the rear fastening section. By an external force from a front side of the onboard apparatus, the fragile section is deformed and the rear section of the onboard apparatus is moved upward using the rear fastening section as a fulcrum.

Abstract: In a process for the catalytic conversion of organic oxygenates to hydrocarbons, a feed comprising at least one organic oxygenate is contacted with a zeolite catalyst under conditions effective to produce a hydrocarbon product comprising aromatics, olefins and paraffins. At least a fraction of the hydrocarbon product containing C4+ hydrocarbons, including at least part of the olefins, is then contacted with hydrogen in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst under conditions effective to saturate at least part of the olefins in the C4+-containing fraction and produce a hydrogenated effluent containing less than 1 wt % olefins. The hydrogenated effluent is useful as a diluent for heavy crude oils.

Abstract: The Invention provides a spiral flow constant pressure pump, comprising a pump body, a pump casing and an impeller; the pressure drop between the end face of pump rear cover and the rear end face of impeller auxiliary blade is used for providing wash water to sealing device; a hole is opened in the high pressure area of the end face of pump rear cover; the position of the hole for entering the seal cavity is close to the sealing device, leading expectant high pressure water into the seal cavity; a hole is opened in the low pressure area of the end face of pump rear cover; the position of the hole for exiting the seal cavity is far away from the sealing device; the expectant high pressure water that enters the seal cavity will flow back to low pressure area through the drainage hole along flow direction after washing the sealing device; the pump recycles a part of energy, improves the hydraulic efficiency, decreases the turbulent loss and takes way the gas might exist in the seal cavity; the extended orifice s

Abstract: Provided is a pretreatment agent for dye printing applicable to printing using various types of dye-containing inks. The pretreatment agent for dye printing according to the disclosure contains a chain transfer agent and a photo-curable compound with water solubility.