Abstract: The present invention relates to a supply station jointly storing a low-temperature-liquefied combustible gas, in particular natural gas, and liquid nitrogen and designed for supplying each component separately or jointly as needed to a vehicle, the supply station being present on the vehicle, the station comprising at least a first storage tank for storing said liquefied combustible gas; and at least a second storage tank for storing said liquid nitrogen and at least one heat-transmitting connection element between the at least one first storage tank and the at least one second storage tank, which connection element is designed so that the combustible gas can be cooled, or can be maintained at a temperature below its boiling point, directly or indirectly by the liquid nitrogen.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device for filling a tank with pressurized gas, comprising transfer of a predefined amount of a gas into the tank from at least one pressurized gas source via a filling duct, the gas being selectively cooled by a cooling component before it enters into the tank in order to prevent a defined temperature limit from being reached in the tank, characterized in that the method comprises a step of defining the maximum amount of energy that can be added to the tank without exceeding the temperature limit, this maximum amount of energy being expressed in the form of the maximum enthalpy that can be added to the tank, a step of defining the effective amount of energy that will be added to the tank during the transfer of gas into the tank without cooling, expressed in the form of an added enthalpy, cooling of the gas by the cooling component being controlled in order to remove selectively an amount of heat from the gas transferred into the tank corresponding at least to the fractio

Abstract: A process for producing dry synthetic natural gas (SNG, Synthetic Natural Gas) from solid or liquid, carbonaceous fuel, substantially consisting of the following process steps: a) gasification of a solid or liquid, carbonaceous fuel to a raw synthesis gas b) cooling of the gas, separation of solids and the gas condensate c) raw gas conversion d) washing of the gas with methanol for separating hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide and moisture, wherein the methanol is circulated via a regeneration plant, e) methanation, f) condensation of moisture by means of cooling and/or cold water, g) further drying of the gas by condensation at low temperature by adding methanol to avoid the formation of ice.

Abstract: A method, an installation and a nozzle (1) for suppressing the generation of iron-containing vapor during filling or emptying of a container (2) for an iron-containing metal melt with the aid of CO2 snow, a CO2 snow jet (22) being applied by means of the nozzle (1) dispersing in a substantially planar manner onto a surface of an iron-containing stream (23) which is poured into or out of the container (2). The invention consequently at least partially solves the technical problems outlined in connection with the prior art. In particular, a device is proposed which allows cost-effective and space-saving suppression of the generation of iron-containing vapor during the filling or emptying of a container 2 with the aid of a reduced CO2 snow quantity.

Abstract: The invention relates to a nozzle for laser cutting, comprising a nozzle body (1) comprising a first axial passage (5); an external cover (13) comprising an axial housing (7), the nozzle body (1) being arranged at least partially in said axial housing (7); a movable element (3) comprising a second axial passage (4) and a front portion (3a) forming a skirt, said movable element (3) being arranged between the external cover (13) and the nozzle body (1) and being translationally movable in the axial housing (7) of the external cover (13); and an elastic element (8) arranged in the axial housing (7), between the external cover (13) and the nozzle body (1).

Abstract: In a method for separating air in a column system, by cryogenic distillation, compressed, purified and cooled air is separated in the column system in order to form an oxygen-enriched flow and a nitrogen-enriched flow. At least one column of the column system contains a vaporizer-condenser for ensuring the vaporization of a liquid enriched in oxygen in relation to the air by means of heat exchange with a calorigenic fluid, the calorigenic fluid having been compressed upstream of the vaporizer-condenser in a compressor having a cryogenic inlet temperature, the calorigenic fluid being at least partially condensed in the vaporizer-condenser, and a cryogenic liquid is added to the calorigenic fluid upstream of the vaporizer-condenser.

Abstract: Installation for treating a fluid comprising, in a section of a horizontal shell ring (1) a first particulate material filling a volume (V2), a deflector comprising 2 volumes V3 delimited by the internal shell of the shell ring and on the other hand by lower surfaces S3a and S3b making with a horizontal plane an angle (?) greater than the angle of repose of the first particulate material, a volume (V4) formed of a membrane backing up against the two volumes (V3) of the deflector over the entire length of the section of the shell ring, and of a second particulate material with which the volume (V2) is filled; the second particulate material being contained in the space formed by the membrane and the internal shell of the shell ring, the volumes V3 and V4 being situated in the upper half of the cross section of the horizontal shell ring.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for heating a charge using a flame generated by a lance and/or a burner, characterized in that, in a first phase, the flame is directed towards the charge and in that, in a second phase, the flame is directed more or less parallel to the charge.

Abstract: A hydrogen purification process is provided. This process includes separating hydrogen from a hydrogen containing stream in at least two sequential palladium membrane purification zones, wherein each purification zone has a permeate side, wherein the permeate side pressure of purification zones are not the same.

Abstract: Methods and compositions for depositing a metal containing film on a substrate are disclosed. A reactor and at least one substrate disposed in the reactor are provided. A metal containing precursor is provided and introduced into the reactor, which is maintained at a temperature of at least 100° C. A metal is deposited on to the substrate through a deposition process to form a thin film on the substrate.

Abstract: A vaporizer includes a plurality of U-shaped tubes contained in a vessel and are arranged in at least one plane. The vessel is closed at one end by a plate having openings adapted to mate with the end of the U-shaped tubes, and there is a dome covering the plate on the opposite side of the tubes. The dome is bounded by a wall forming an inlet chamber and an outlet chamber, the inlet chamber being split into two parts by a partition perpendicular to the plane of the tubes and to the wall to form a chamber for admitting liquid between the plate and the partition and an auxiliary chamber on the other side of the partition. The auxiliary chamber is configured to receive liquid from the admission chamber such that liquid from the outside arriving in the admission chamber enters the tubes via the bottom openings only.

Abstract: A column with exchange packing for the exchange of heat and/or of material between a descending liquid and an ascending gas, of the type comprising at least one exchange section comprising several superposed portions of packing, either defined between two liquid distributors or defined between a fluid inlet or outlet and a liquid distributor or between a first fluid inlet or outlet and a second fluid inlet or outlet or comprising a minimum of 2 packing modules and a maximum of 20 packing modules that are superposed, preferably directly, on one another, this exchange section comprising a lower portion and, above that, another portion. It applies particularly to air distillation columns is presented.

Abstract: A process for separating carbon dioxide from a carbon dioxide containing fluid comprises the steps of: compressing the fluid in a compressor to form a compressed fluid, drying at least part of the compressed fluid to form a compressed and dried fluid, cooling at least part of the compressed and dried fluid to form a compressed, dried and cooled fluid, separating the compressed, dried and cooled fluid at a temperature lower than 0° C. into a carbon dioxide rich stream, a carbon dioxide lean stream and at least one intermediate purity liquid stream having a carbon dioxide purity lower than that of the carbon dioxide rich stream and higher than that of the carbon dioxide lean stream, expanding at least one intermediate purity liquid stream to produce at least one expanded stream using at least one expanded stream to cool the compressed and dried fluid and recycling at least part of the expanded stream.

Abstract: A process for the cryogenic separation of air using a multiple column distillation system comprising at least a higher pressure column (“HP column”) and a lower pressure column (“LP column”), comprising: feeding cooled feed air to the high pressure column for separation into high pressure nitrogen-enriched overhead vapor and crude liquid oxygen; feeding at least one low pressure column feed stream comprising nitrogen and oxygen to the low pressure column for separation into nitrogen-rich overhead vapor and liquid oxygen; refluxing the low pressure column with a liquid stream from or derived from the high pressure column; feeding expanded air to an auxiliary separation column for separation into auxiliary column nitrogen-rich overhead vapor and oxygen-rich liquid and removing the nitrogen rich overhead vapor as a product stream; feeding bottom liquid from the auxiliary column to an intermediate location of the low pressure column; and refluxing the auxiliary column with a nitrogen rich liquid stream from or de

Abstract: Methods and compositions for depositing La-containing layers are described herein. In general, the disclosed methods deposit the precursor compounds comprising rare earth-containing compounds using deposition methods such as chemical vapor deposition or atomic layer deposition. The disclosed precursor compounds include a cyclopentadienyl ligand having at least one aliphatic group as a substituent and an amidine ligand.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for fixing an item of equipment to the inner surface of a wall of a cryogenic fluid line or a tank and in particular a tank intended to contain liquid oxygen, the method being characterized in that a layer of porous material is interposed between the wall and the item of equipment.

Abstract: The invention relates to equipment for separating air by cryogenic distillation, including: a double air separation column; an exchange line (91); a hot air supercharger (CI) and a cold air supercharger (C2); a first turbine (TI) and a second turbine (T2), each of which is coupled to one of the superchargers; means for bringing all the air to a high pressure that is greater than the mean pressure; means for purifying the air at said high pressure; means for dividing the purified air into two fractions and sending one fraction thereof to the hot air supercharger and one fraction to the cold air supercharger after cooling in the exchange line; means for feeding the second air fraction from the cold air supercharger back into the exchange line; means for sending at least one pressurized liquid from one of the columns into the exchange line; a valve (4, 5); means for sending the non-supercharged air, purified at a high pressure, to the exchange line, so as to be cooled therein, and then to the valve; and means fo

Abstract: The subject matter of the invention is a method for purifying a foreign-substance-laden gas flow of the foreign substance, with the gas flow being conducted through a heat exchanger and being placed in thermal contact with a cooling medium in order to freeze and/or condense the foreign substance out, wherein the purification takes place in only one tube heat exchanger, through the interior space of which the gas flow is conducted from a first end region to a second end region, and here, is cooled by means of contact with a first group of tubes which are traversed by the coolant, and in that the gas flow, in the second end region, is directly deflected again and is conducted back through the interior space of the heat exchanger to the first end region through a second group of tubes while undergoing an exchange of heat with the gas flow flowing into the interior space.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the vaporization of a liquid by exchanging heat with a second fluid by means of a heat exchanger of the vertical plate type. It applies in particular to air distillation installations.