Abstract: A subsea single phase coupler for a subsea connector includes a housing having an inboard end and an outboard end. The inboard end of the housing includes a rigid mount to receive a first wet mate connector part. The outboard end of the housing includes a cradle to receive a second wet mate connector part. The housing further includes a first locating element in the cradle to receive a second locating element on the second wet mate connector part to locate the second connector part in the housing after connection of the first and second wet mate connector parts. The coupler housing includes a section of standard profile beam.

Abstract: An arrangement includes a solar cell and a covering, wherein the covering covers the solar cell, at least on the side that is intended to be exposed to electromagnetic radiation of the sun. The covering has an electrochromic layer. The arrangement also has a control unit for controlling the electrochromic layer. The control unit is designed to control the transmittance of the electrochromic layer for electromagnetic radiation in a defined wavelength range by applying an electrical voltage to the electrochromic layer.

Abstract: An auxetic (NPR) structure includes a plurality of vertical intersecting dimpled sheets, each dimpled sheet exhibiting a negative Poisson's ratio, each dimpled sheet intersects two adjacent dimpled sheets creating a rectangular tubular structure, and having a portion of each dimpled sheet projecting outward from its intersection with an adjacent dimpled sheet, the amplitude of each dimple on the plurality of dimpled sheets is such that no overhanging surface of the dimpled sheet exceeds an angle threshold for printability without support structures.

Abstract: A power transformer unit includes at least one single-phase transformer for connection to a high-voltage network. Each single-phase transformer includes a tank filled with insulating fluid receiving a core having high and low-voltage windings, at least one bushing socket connected to the high or low-voltage winding by a winding connection cable inside the tank, at least one high-voltage bushing to be inserted into the bushing socket, cooling equipment for the fluid and an expansion vessel compensating for temperature-induced volume fluctuations of the fluid. To transport the power transformer unit as quickly as possible and to put the power transformer unit into operation in situ, the expansion vessel and the cooling equipment are mechanically firmly connected to the tank and together with the tank and each bushing socket form a transport unit having an external contour lying inside a predetermined transport profile.

Abstract: A secure method for self-(re)calibration or self-calibration of devices, more particularly measuring devices, by the operator, wherein a digitized process flow in a data chain (DLT), more particularly blockchain established and secured using distributed ledge technology, is used. The method includes a digitized process sequence set up in a data chain (DLT), a device is registered with its implemented measuring device properties, an inspection authority gains access to the measurement information from the device, the inspection authority establishes an operative connection between the device and a working standard, the determined measurement data for the working standard are read out in encrypted form and are transmitted to the inspection authority in encrypted form, in the event of successful calibration or gaging of the device, the inspection authority stores this result in the data chain.

Abstract: An electrolyzer with a plurality of cell elements, and with a feed pipe and a discharge pipe for feeding and discharging electrolyte to and from the cell elements, wherein the feed pipe and/or the discharge pipe have, at least in some sections, at least two electrically isolated part-lines, wherein the part-lines extend in the feed pipe over a predetermined length in the opposite direction to the direction of electrolyte flow and/or extend in the discharge pipe over a predetermined length in the same direction as the direction of electrolyte flow.

Abstract: A system and method for providing a digital simulation of a technical installation, and a corresponding computer program product, wherein the digital simulation is dynamically generated such that the digital simulation is adapted to a specified training scenario. This is accomplished using a provided basic class, which implements, independently of devices, functions of elementary hardware components, and using a library of virtual devices, which deterministically simulate the topology and the functional behavior of corresponding real devices. The virtual devices have a hierarchically nested structure, such that a hierarchically higher device comprises at least one hierarchically lower device and/or at least one of the elementary hardware components.

Abstract: A nickel-base alloy for high-temperature applications, preferably for gas turbines, and a process. A selective choice of alloy elements permits the provision of an alloy which can be used to produce components devoid of cracking.

Abstract: A device for the electrolysis of CO2 and/or CO, with which an effective extraction of a cathode product can be ensured. The device includes a first gas feed, a first ion exchange membrane, an anode space including an anode, an extraction space, an extraction medium incorporated in the extraction space, a first feed for the extraction medium, and a first drain for the extraction medium. A method for carrying out an electrolysis of CO2 and/or CO, with which a corresponding extraction can be achieved with the device.

Abstract: An installation includes a steam generator and a steam load, wherein the steam load requires a first steam quantity in a normal mode and a second larger steam quantity in the event of a fault, and steam is instantaneously generated by an instantaneous steam generator in order to provide the second steam quantity.

Abstract: A method controls a power converter in which a target value of a control parameter is limited by at least one limiting value. The method is characterized in that the at least one limiting value is determined dynamically over time as a function of a power converter temperature. A power converter system having a control device is provided and configured to carry out the method.

Abstract: A combustion section of a gas turbine includes an annular combustion chamber, a burner arrangement upstream of the combustion chamber, an annular compressor diffusor, and an annular combustion casing. The combustion casing has an outer section wall, an upstream section wall, and an inner section wall. The inner section wall extends along the rotor axis and is arranged between the burner arrangement and the compressor diffusor. A shielding is attached to the inner section wall at the side facing the rotor axis with a free space in-between at least. An outer diffusor wall of the compressor diffusor extends in axial direction up to the upstream half of the shielding.

Abstract: A method to produce a segmented thermal barrier coating by spraying a partially stabilized Zirconia powder with grain sizes such as ?125 ?m+45 ?m. 5. A coating system includes a substrate, especially a nickel or cobalt based substrate, a bond coat on the substrate, especially a metallic bond coat, and a segmented thermal barrier coating produced by the method.

Abstract: An electrolysis system for electrochemically breaking down water to form hydrogen and oxygen, having at least one electrolyser for electrochemically breaking down water to form hydrogen and oxygen. The electrolysis system also has a housing device for receiving the electrolyser, wherein the electrolyser is at least partially arranged in the housing device and the housing device is sealed relative to a first fluid surrounding the housing device. In the electrolyser, water is broken down to form hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen and the oxygen are directed out of the housing device.

Abstract: A method of applying a plurality of energy beams in the additive manufacture of a component includes a) providing a first and a second energy beam, each set up for the irradiation of a layer of a powder bed, wherein the first beam scans over a first irradiation area and the second beam scans over a second irradiation area, wherein the first and second irradiation areas are substantially arranged adjacent to each other and form part of a manufacturing plane, and b) assigning a scan vector to be scanned in the first irradiation area by the second energy beam, when a melt pool generated by the second energy beam during the scan of the vector is expected to cause less overlap with a powder bed outside of the component's geometry than a melt pool generated by the first energy beam would cause during the scan of the vector.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method of providing structured data of an additive manufacturing process includes providing a first type of data (i) with coded information about a machine set up and/or about a prepared build job, providing a second type of data (ii) with coded information about a build area, providing a third type of data (iii) with coded information about a quality monitoring during the manufacturing process, the information from each type of data being different from one another, and mapping the first, the second and the third type of data to a voxel field (Vn). Each voxel of the field, representing a three-dimensional portion of a 3D-model of the component to be manufactured, is correlated to the first, second and third type of data in a coded way. A related data structure product, apparatus, communication apparatus, and additive manufacturing device are provided.

Abstract: A method for the layer-by-layer additive manufacturing of a composite material having the selective irradiation of a base material to produce a first, dense material phase and to produce a second, porous material phase, wherein the production of the first material phase and the production of the second material phase take place alternately. A correspondingly produced composite material and to a component has the composite material.

Abstract: A method for selectively removing a ceramic coating from adjacent cooling pockets of a turbine blade, wherein a high-speed water jet is used to at least partially remove ceramic material from at least one pocket in the region of a trailing edge of the turbine blade and/or from ribs between the pockets, and a metal adhesive layer being applied to the turbine blade.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for probabilistic quantification of probability of failure of a component, especially a gas turbine component, which during operation is subjected to cyclic stress, wherein the component is divided virtually in one or more domains. The method includes: providing or determining for at least one domain, a domain probability density function for crack initiation and providing or determining for the considered domains a domain probability density function for subsequent crack propagation induced failure. Determining for each considered domain a combined domain cumulative distribution function for failure or its probability density function is done by convoluting either both the considered domain probability density functions for crack initiation induced failure and the respective domain probability density function for subsequent crack propagation induced failure, or their integral function.

Abstract: A heat exchanger, in particular a tubular heat exchanger, a tube bundle heat exchanger, a finned tube heat exchanger and a plate heat exchanger, having at least one elongate flow duct through which a fluid is conducted during operation in a main flow direction corresponding to the longitudinal extent of the flow duct. The at least one flow duct has internal components and/or design features which give the fluid flowing in the main flow direction a swirl in a circumferential direction of the flow duct. A heat pump includes at least one such heat exchanger.