Abstract: The invention relates to a device for supplying a purified gas to a plant which is purged with purified gas. The device includes a feed line connected, on the one hand, to a source of substantially pure gas and, on the other hand, to an inlet of the plant. The purified gas being passed therethrough is contaminated with impurities. The device further includes a line which is intended to recover the contaminated gas at the outlet of the plant and is connected to the feed line. The lines are arranged one after the other downstream of where the recovery line is connected to the feed line, a compressor and a device for separating the impurities from the contaminated gas by permeation in order to supply a purified gas to the plant.

Abstract: Apparatus for inerting a wave soldering installation having a solder bath and a conveying system for producing one or more solder waves, in particular for soldering electric printed circuit boards, having an immersion box which is closed on all sides, shaped like a frame, can be immersed in the solder bath and which has porous pipes to distribute nitrogen, the pipes being arranged inside the immersion box in cage-like housings with outlet openings, the cage-like housings being designed such that the porous pipes are arranged therein in such a way that the porous pipes essentially cannot be struck by solder splashes produced during the operation of the wave soldering installation.

Abstract: An installation for producing ozonized water, comprising a circuit for producing ozonized water comprising a circuit for producing ozonized water comprising a water inlet, an ozone-injection inlet for injecting ozone taken from an ozone source, a contactor for bringing the ozone into contact with the water, a section for utilizing the ozonized water arranged downstream of the contactor, and an undissolved ozone collector, downstream of the contactor, comprising an outlet connected to the circuit for producing ozonized water upstream of the contactor.

Abstract: Provided is a device for treating a food product in order to reduce or eliminate the detrimental effects of the presence of oxygen which is in contact with the external surface of the product.

Abstract: A method for operating a boiler using oxygen-enriched oxidants includes introducing oxygen-enriched air, or oxygen and air, in which the oxygen concentration ranges from about 21% to about 100% by volume. Fuel and oxygen-enriched air are introduced into the combustion space within the steam-generating boiler. The fuel and oxygen-enriched air is combusted to generate thermal energy. At least a portion of the flue gases are collected and at least a portion are recirculated through the boiler. In the steam-generating boiler, the oxygen-enriched oxidant is introduced at one or more locations within the radiation zone and the convection zone of the boiler. Additionally, flue gas is collected and recirculated into one or more locations within the radiation zone and/or the convection zone of the boiler.

Abstract: An electric arc furnace is provided for the production of steel by melting metal between electrodes. The electric arc furnace comprises gas injectors provided with respective cooling chambers placed in a wall of the furnace, wherein at least one single chamber is associated with at least two injectors in order to cool each injector. Each injector is angled in a manner appropriate with respect to a corresponding gas injected thereby and to a corresponding function thereof, wherein the orientation axes of the injectors are not parallel.

Abstract: A process for galvanizing a metal strip having a given area in a continuous galvanizing line through which the strip is run at a given speed comprising, in series, the steps of: (iii) pre-heating the metal strip; (iv) annealing the metal strip; (v) cooling the metal strip; (vi) dipping the metal strip into a bath comprising liquid zinc or a liquid zinc alloy, the steps (i)-(iv) being maintained in closed fluid contact with each other; (vii) circulating a reducing atmosphere comprising an inert gas and hydrogen to the steps (i)-(iv) in the galvanizing line and exposing the metal strip, before the step (iv) of dipping the metal strip into the bath, to the reducing atmosphere in order to remove oxides present on its surface, (viii) replenishing the reducing atmosphere in the galvanizing line by injecting the reducing atmosphere into the line and adjusting the hydrogen flow rate depending on the area of the metal strip to be treated per unit time.

Abstract: Device for exciting a gas comprising a hollow structure forming a waveguide, made of an electrically conductive material, connected to a microwave generator and including a passage for a hollow dielectric tube adapted for flow of the gas to be excited, the hollow structure further including a wave-concentrating region designed to concentrate microwave radiation produced by the generator onto the tube, during operation of the device, for the purpose of producing a surface wave plasma in the gas, at least one electromagnetic screening sleeve made of a conductive material, fastened to the hollow structure and extending along the extension of the passage so as to surround the hollow tube.

Abstract: The invention relates to a machine for wave soldering or tinning comprising a solder reservoir (9); means that can form at least one solder wave with a so-called laminar form (8b); a conveyor system (2) that can bring a piece (1) to be soldered or tinned into contact with said laminar wave; and means for injecting (12) a gas in the vicinity of the wave; characterized in that the said injection means includes an injector located in a position adjacent to and downstream from the wave and provided with a wall (17) facing the solder wave, wherein the wall of the injector has at least a first group (15) of openings positioned so as to provide a first gas jet directed toward the flat surface of the solder wave.

Abstract: A process for separation of a gas mixture by pressure swing adsorption, in which a pressure swing cycle comprising a sequence of steps which define adsorption, decompression/regeneration and pressure rise phases is employed for the or each adsorber. The cycle furthermore comprises at least temporarily at least one step of isolating the adsorber (II; IV) during which the pressure variation in the isolated adsorber is recorded.

Abstract: Provided is a process for the preparation of an ultrapure hydrogen peroxide solution. The process comprises at least one sequence which includes successively passing a solution to be purified through at least two beds of cation-exchange adsorbents (CEA) and two beds of anion-exchange adsorbents (AEA) according to the sequence: AEA→CEA→AEA→CEA Also provided is a plant for the implementation of the inventive process.

Abstract: Processes and systems to recover at least one perfluorocompound gas from a gas mixture are provided. In one embodiment the inventive process comprises the steps of a) providing a gas mixture comprising at least one perfluorocompound gas and at least one carrier gas, the gas mixture being at a predetermined pressure; b) providing at least one glassy polymer membrane having a feed side and a permeate side; c) contacting the feed side of the at least one membrane with the gas mixture; d) withdrawing from the feed side of the membrane as a non-permeate stream at a pressure which is substantially equal to the predetermined pressure a concentrated gas mixture comprising essentially the at least one perfluorocompound gas; and e) withdrawing from the permeate side of the membrane as a permeate stream a depleted gas mixture comprising essentially the at least one carrier gas.

Abstract: A gaseous sub-product from an industrial unit is compressed and then treated in a permeator to bring its hydrogen content to a value below or equal to 5% to provide a combustible gas for a gas turbine.

Abstract: A dry-ice container comprising: a casing and, in this casing; carbon dioxide, part of which is in a solid state and another part of which is in a gaseous state, wherein the casing comprises at least one passage for spontaneous escape of carbon dioxide in the gaseous state.

Abstract: A system for providing gas to a container includes a source of gas under pressure, a container, and a pressure regulating device. The pressure-regulating device includes an inlet intended to be connected to a source of the gas under pressure, an outlet, connected by a duct to the inlet and intended to be placed in communication with the container, a first valve for limiting the pressure at the outlet to a predetermined maximum value Ps, which valve is a delivery valve placed in a first passage which connects the duct to an orifice for discharging inert gas. The device also includes a second valve for keeping the pressure at the outlet above a predetermined minimum value Pi, which valve is an intake valve placed in a second passage which connects the duct to an orifice that lets fluid into this duct.

Abstract: A self-cooled oxidant-fuel burner consisting novel fuel and oxidant nozzles and three compartment refractory burner block design is proposed. The new oxidant-fuel burner can fire in high-temperature (2200° F. to 3000° F.) and high-particulate (or high process volatiles/condensates) furnaces without over-heating or causing chemical corrosion damage to it's metallic burner nozzle and refractory burner block interior. Using various embodiments of nozzle and block shape, the burner can offer a traditional cylindrical flame or flat flame depending on the heating load requirements. The new features of this burner include unique fuel nozzle design for the streamline mixing of fuel and oxidant streams, a controlled swirl input to the oxidant flow for desired flame characteristics, a controlled expansion of flame envelope in the radial and axial dimensions, and efficient sweeping of burner block interior surface using oxidant to provide convective cooling and prevent any build up of process particulates.

Abstract: A plant for separation of a gas mixture comprises at least two columns which are of the same length. The tops of two of the columns are at the same height.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for treating more or less concentrated aqueous effluents, such as processing waters, industrial or urban waste waters, and sludges, in particular sludges derived from these waste waters. The said process comprises at least one step of physical separation of a liquid phase and of a solid phase dispersed in the said liquid phase and at least one addition of chemical conditioning reagents and optionally of antifoaming agents. The process also comprises the injection of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the said treated aqueous effluents, in an amount which is sufficient to give them a pH of less than 7.8.

Abstract: A process for preparing a solid composite electrolyte comprising at least one compound of the BIMEVOX family is provided. The process comprises at least one step of preparing a mixture of one or more compounds of the BIMEVOX family with one or more chemically inert compounds, at least one step of compacting the mixture obtained, and at least one sintering step during which the temperature reached, over a nonzero time interval, has a value greater than the optimum sintering temperature for the compound of the BIMEVOX family.

Abstract: Air is separated by cryogenic distillation comprising the steps of feeding compressed, cooled and purified air to a high pressure column where it is separated into a first nitrogen enriched stream at the top and a first oxygen enriched stream at the bottom. At least a portion of the first oxygen enriched stream is fed to an intermediate pressure column to yield a second nitrogen enriched stream at the top and a second oxygen enriched stream at the bottom. At least a portion of the second nitrogen enriched stream is sent to a low pressure column or to a top condenser of an argon column, and at least a portion of the second oxygen enriched stream is sent to the low pressure column. A third oxygen enriched stream is separated at the bottom and a third nitrogen enriched stream is separated at the top of the low pressure column. A heating gas is sent to a bottom reboiler of the low pressure column, and at least a portion of the third oxygen enriched stream is removed at a removal point.