Abstract: Apparatuses of an energy efficient water heater and methods for controlling the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, a water heater may include a water inlet configured to receive input water, an input water temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature of the input water, a user interface unit configured to receive an output water temperature setting selected by a user, a controller configured to determine a flow rate of an output water based on the input water temperature and the output water temperature setting, a heating unit configured to heat the input water to produce the output water, the controller is further configured to control the heating unit and a proportional flow restrictor to produce the flow rate of the output water, and a water outlet configured to transfer the output water at the flow rate of the output water.

Abstract: A gas flow controller for use with a gas powered water heater includes a first gas flow valve, and a first gas flow valve actuator assembly connected to the first gas flow valve and configured to hold the first gas flow valve in an open position. The first gas flow valve actuator assembly includes a first electromagnetic actuator, a corrosion resistant material encapsulating the first electromagnetic actuator, a first wire lead connected to the first electromagnetic actuator at a first solder joint, a corrosion resistant material encapsulating the first solder joint, a second wire lead connected to the first electromagnetic actuator at a second solder joint, and a corrosion resistant material encapsulating the second solder joint.

Abstract: A handheld hair dryer includes a body extending about an axis and including a first end, a second end, an inner wall, and an outer wall. The outer wall and the inner wall extend from the first end of the body to the second end of the body and define a cavity therebetween. A central passage is defined by the inner wall. The hair dryer also includes an inlet defined by the inner wall and an outlet for the airflow to exit the cavity. The inlet is defined by the inner wall intermediate the first end and the second end. The hair dryer is configured to direct the airflow through the cavity and towards the outlet. The hair dryer further includes a handle connected to the body, a fan, and a motor positioned at least partly within the handle and coupled to the fan.

Abstract: The present invention includes: a heat plate for heating a lower side of a substrate sliding on an upper surface; and a heat block for heating the heat plate. The heat block includes an air heating flow path for heating air which flows in from a bottom surface side and causing the air to flow out to the heat plate side, the heat plate includes air holes for discharging the air heated by the air heating flow path from the upper surface, the heated air discharged from the air holes forms a heated air atmosphere above the heat plate, and the substrate is transported through the heat air atmosphere. Thereby, curved deformation of the substrate is suppressed.

Abstract: There is provided a control system for a furnace. The control system comprises a thermal imaging camera and a control unit. The thermal imaging camera is configured to receive thermal radiation from a plurality of positions in a furnace and to generate an image which includes temperature information for the plurality of positions in the furnace. The control unit is configured to receive the image from the thermal imaging camera and to generate control signals for the furnace using the image.

Abstract: A waste-heat recovery system includes a compressor main body; a gas piping, a waste-heat-recovery heat exchanger, a circulation circuit, and a tank with a water inlet piping and a water outlet piping that stores water that exchanges heat with the heat medium by connecting to the circulation circuit. The waste-heat recovery system also includes an inlet valve, a circulation pump, and a gas temperature sensor that detects the temperature of the compressed gas by arranging in the gas piping. The waste-heat recovery system also includes a water temperature sensor that detects the temperature of the water in the tank, and a control device that controls the inlet valve and the outlet valve according to detection temperature of the gas temperature sensor and the water temperature sensor.

Abstract: A support assembly (40) for supporting the furnace (22) of a boiler (10) to a support frame (12) of the boiler. The support assembly comprises a first and second assembly parts (56, 8). The first assembly part (56) attaches a pipe (18), f.ex. a downcomer, to a supporting beam (32, 88). The second assembly part (58) attaches the same pipe (18) to another supporting beam (30, 86). The support assembly (40) may be obliquely positioned. Alternatively, the support frame further comprises an oblique, connecting supporting beam (84) that connects the first and second assembly parts. In this case, the first and second assembly parts attach the pipe to the connecting supporting beam (84). The first and second assembly parts define first and second points of support (52, 4) that transmit loads. The first or second assembly part may be a hanger rod. A boiler plant comprises the above-mentioned boiler, support frame for the boiler and support assembly.

Abstract: A clothes treatment apparatus, including a drum rotatably provided within a cabinet to accommodate washing and drying objects; and a heat pump including an evaporator, a compressor, a condenser, and an expansion valve, through which refrigerant is circulated, to provide heat to air discharged from the drum and circulated to the drum, wherein the heat pump further includes an internal heat exchanger configured to exchange heat between refrigerant discharged from the condenser and refrigerant passing through the evaporator.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a water heating system including a water heater having a tank, and a first temperature sensor disposed toward a top end of the tank to measure a first temperature and a second temperature sensor disposed toward a bottom end of the tank to measure a second temperature. The water heating system can further include a controller communicably coupled to the first temperature sensor and the second temperature sensor, where the controller determines an amount of heated water in the tank based on one or more algorithms and measurements made by the first and second temperature sensors.

Abstract: A substrate treating apparatus includes first and second transport mechanisms, an intermediate transport mechanism, first and second intermediate parts, and a controller. The intermediate transport mechanism is disposed between the first and second transport mechanisms. The first intermediate part is disposed within a first overlapped area where the first transport mechanism and the intermediate transport mechanism are capable of transporting a substrate. The substrate is placed in the first intermediate part. The second intermediate part is disposed within a second overlapped area where the intermediate transport mechanism and the second transport mechanism are capable of transporting the substrate. The substrate is placed in the second intermediate part. The intermediate transport mechanism repeats cycle operation based on the controller's control.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a water storage tank and a gas water heater. The water storage tank includes: a tank body provided with an interface at one end; an adapter provided with a water inlet connector, a water outlet connector, and a waste discharge connector; and a connection pipe installed in the tank body, one end of the connection pipe communicating with the water outlet connector, another end of the connection pipe being spaced apart from an end of the tank body away from the interface.

Abstract: There is provided a technique that includes (a) performing a heating process on a substrate in a process chamber, (b) transferring the substrate between the process chamber and a load lock chamber connected to a vacuum transfer chamber by a transfer robot installed in the vacuum transfer chamber connected to the process chamber, and (c) reading transfer information corresponding to process information applied to the substrate from a memory device in which plural pieces of the process information on a process content of the substrate and plural pieces of the transfer information of the transfer robot corresponding to the plural pieces of the process information are recorded, and controlling the transfer robot to transfer the substrate based on the read transfer information.

Abstract: A tank-type water heater includes a storage tank and a heating circuit outside of the tank. The heating circuit includes at least one heat engine and at least one pump for circulating water from the bottom of the tank through the heat engine and back to the top of the tank. A stratifier introduces the heated water from the heating circuit into the top of the tank in a diffuse manner to promote stratification of hot water in the tank.

Abstract: A multi-part support element for spacing carrier elements, includes an upper part and a lower part, wherein the upper part can be detachably axially connected to the lower part by a rotary connection in order to fix a carrier element between the upper part and the lower part, the rotary connection is formed by a stud provided on the lower part and an opening provided on the upper part, into which the stud can be screwed, and the rotary connection is implemented such that the rotary connection is released again after defined screwing of the stud into the opening, such that the stud is locked in the opening with axial play, and wherein the lower part has a disk-shaped attachment, whose layer thickness decreases toward the edge.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include a system, method, and apparatus comprising a large scale direct steam generator operating on an oxidant of air or enriched air configured to generate steam and combustion exhaust constituents. An exhaust constituent separation system and an energy recovery system to reclaim energy and improve the efficiency of the thermodynamic cycle. An optional CO2 separation system and Non Condensable Gas injection system may be included.

Abstract: Novel tools and techniques for heat and pressure treatment are provided. A system for heat and pressure treatment includes a vacuum pump, an enclosure, and an oven. The enclosure may include a body defining an inner volume, wherein the enclosure is configured to enclose at least part of a component within the inner volume, and sustain a vacuum pressure that is less than an ambient atmospheric pressure within the inner volume. The oven may be configured to receive and heat the enclosure. The vacuum pump may evacuate gases from within the inner volume and create the vacuum pressure. Under the vacuum pressure, the body may be configured to make surface contact with a surface of the at least part of the component, and to apply a mechanical pressure against the surface of the at least part of the component.

Abstract: An oil boiler includes an outer container having openings at opposite ends, a combustion chamber that covers an opening at an upper end of the outer container and in which a combustion reaction occurs, a lower cover that covers an opening at a lower end of the outer container, a plurality of flue tubes to heat heating water flowing in the outer container by guiding combustion gas, a burner including a fuel nozzle that sprays fuel, an air nozzle that injects air, and a spark plug that ignites a mixture of the fuel and the air, and a flame tube part that defines a tube space by surrounding a partial space in which the mixture is ignited, the flame tube part including a flame tube having an open lower end and a recirculation hole formed through the flame tube such that the combustion gas is introduced into the flame tube.

Abstract: One illustrative energy recovery system disclosed herein includes a semiconductor fabrication facility (“fab”) and a closed chilled water loop including a chilled water stream delivered to the fab and a returning water stream that is received from the fab. In this example, the system also includes a primary heat exchanger having a first fluid side and a second fluid side, the first fluid side is adapted to receive supply water and the second fluid side is adapted to receive at least a portion of the returning return water stream, wherein the primary heat exchanger is adapted to effectuate heat transfer between the supply water flowing in the first fluid side and the returning water stream flowing in the second fluid side.

Abstract: The disclosed technology includes a fluid heating device including a frustoconical combustion chamber and a heat exchanger that can include heating tubes. The combustion chamber can have a first end and a second end that is in fluid communication with the heating tubes. The surface area of the second end of the combustion chamber can be larger than the surface area of the first end of the combustion chamber.

Abstract: An exhaust duct includes an upper duct being open at opposite ends thereof and a lower duct being open at a tip end thereof. One end of the upper duct is connected, inside an enclosure of a water-heating device, to an exhaust adaptor disposed on the enclosure, and an opposite end of the upper duct communicates with the tip end of the lower duct. The upper duct is connected to the lower duct so as to be slidable along a reference direction in which the lower duct extends from the tip end of the lower duct, and the upper duct is configured to be separated from the exhaust adaptor by sliding along the reference direction.