Abstract: A first aqueous liquid phase sample is drawn from a first one of a plurality of separation vessels in response to determining that a first separation operation in the first separation vessel has completed. First aqueous liquid phase sample data is obtained by analyzing the first aqueous liquid phase sample with at least one sensor. A sample of a second aqueous liquid phase is drawn from a second one of the plurality of separation vessels in response to determining that a second separation operation in the second separation vessel has completed. Second aqueous liquid phase sample data is obtained by analyzing the second aqueous liquid phase sample with the at least one sensor. The second aqueous liquid phase sample data is transmitted to the external multiphase flow meter. The first separation operation in the first separation vessel and the second separation operation in the second separation vessel are concurrent.

Abstract: A vehicle includes: a vehicle body; front and rear wheels configured to move the vehicle body; and a road surface condition detector configured to detect road surface conditions in front of each of the front wheels, wherein the road surface condition detector is positioned in front of each of the front wheels, and a direction of radiating laser beams by the road surface condition detector for detecting a detection point on a road surface is inclined in a direction of a tangent to an arc, about a pitch center of the vehicle body and running through the detection point, at the detection point, when the vehicle body is viewed laterally.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for developing a model to predict humidity (relative, absolute) values inside a closed housing with an absorbent filter. In an example, a methane sensor that includes an internal atmospheric sensor and an external atmospheric sensor can be placed at a site. A computing device can use measurements from the atmospheric sensors to calculate predicted relative and absolute humidity values inside the methane sensor. The computing device can train a gaussian process regression model to calibrate sensor data based on the external temperature and humidity. When the model predicts the ambient methane within a predetermined degree of allowance, the model can be applied to live readings from methane sensors in the field.

Abstract: A method for estimating a rate of penetration while drilling a subterranean wellbore includes estimating a first rate of penetration while drilling using a first measurement method, estimating a second rate of penetration while drilling using a second measurement method, and combining the first and second rates of penetration to obtain a combined rate of penetration of drilling.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a magnetically inductive flow meter for insertion into a pipeline and for determining a flow-rate-dependent measurement variable induced in the medium, comprising: a housing, a front body being arranged on an end face of the housing, which front body seals the end face of the housing; a measurement electrode arrangement for forming galvanic contact with the medium and for tapping an induced voltage in the flowing medium; a field system for generating a magnetic field that passes through the end face of the housing, the field system being arranged in the housing, the field system comprising a coil arrangement, the coil arrangement comprising a coil arrangement carrier for winding a coil wire, and the coil arrangement carrier and the front body being monolithic.

Abstract: A concentrator includes a casing, a separation membrane that sections an inner space of the casing to form a flow path in the casing, a first supplier that supplies a first liquid from a first position of the casing to the flow path such that the first liquid flows along the separation membrane in a first direction, a second supplier that supplies a second liquid from a second position of the casing to the flow path such that the second liquid flows along the separation membrane in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a third supplier that supplies a third liquid including a target component having a size that does not allow permeation of the target component through the separation membrane from a third position of the casing to the flow path.

Abstract: Various implementations include a device for analyzing total organic carbon (TOC) within a fluid. The device includes a primary container, an input conduit, and an output conduit. The primary container is hollow and has a primary side wall and a primary end wall. The primary side wall has an inner surface defining a primary cavity and an outer surface opposite and spaced apart from the inner surface. The primary end wall includes a septum that is resiliently penetrable by an analyzer needle of a grab analysis port of a TOC analyzer. The input conduit has an input lumen. The input conduit extends through the primary container such that the input lumen is in fluid communication with the primary cavity. The output conduit has an output lumen.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and to a method for measuring Brix of a liquid such as sap, syrup or taffy. The system for measuring Brix of a liquid comprises: a tank for receiving a volume of the liquid; a temperature reading apparatus for measuring a temperature of the liquid; a weighing apparatus for measuring a weight of the volume of liquid received in the tank; a volume measurement system for measuring the volume of the liquid received in the tank; and a computer operatively connected to the apparatuses and using the data received from the same to determine the Brix of the liquid. The method comprising providing the Brix measuring system; measuring the temperature, weight, volume of the liquid received in the tank, and determining the Brix measurement based on the data received and using the computer.

Abstract: A collision detecting apparatus for a vehicle includes a bumper acceleration sensor, a floor acceleration sensor, a pressure sensor, and a processor including a vehicle collision determining unit and a threshold variably controlling unit. The vehicle collision determining unit is configured to determine a state of collision of the vehicle by comparing a detection value of the pressure sensor with a first threshold, and comparing a detection value of the bumper acceleration sensor with a second threshold when the detection value of the pressure sensor is greater than the first threshold. The threshold variably controlling unit is configured to change a threshold of the floor acceleration sensor from a third threshold to a fourth threshold in a case where: the detection value of the pressure sensor is greater than the first threshold; and the detection value of the bumper acceleration sensor is equal to or less than the second threshold.

Abstract: An airflow measurement system includes a plurality of communication modules and an information processing apparatus. The communication module includes an airflow sensor, and a body portion including a communication unit configured to acquire data output from the airflow sensor and transmit the data to outside by wireless communication. The information processing apparatus includes a data collection unit configured to collect the data output from the airflow sensor of the plurality of communication modules, and an output unit configured to output the collected data.

Abstract: The invention relates to a pressure measuring cell with a base body including an internal space, which base body comprises a first opening. A pressure sensor is arranged in the internal space of the base body and the internal space is filled with a pressure transfer medium. The pressure measuring cell further comprises an uneven membrane made from plastic. The membrane fully covers the first opening of the base body and is metallically coated at least on one of its two sides.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes a computer implemented method, a system, and a computer program product of controlling the purification of a macromolecule solution via real-time multi-angle light scattering.

Abstract: Systems and methods for remote Proof-of-Work (PoW) generation.

Abstract: A pressure detection device 1 includes: an enclosure assembly configured to be mounted in a communication hole in an internal combustion engine; a diaphragm head 32 provided at one end of the enclosure assembly and configured to receive pressure of combustion gas from the internal combustion engine; and a buffer member 80 located at the diaphragm head 32 and configured to supply the combustion gas to the diaphragm head 32 while reducing the temperature of the combustion gas. Female threads formed on a first buffer member 81 of the buffer member 80 and male threads formed on a second buffer member 82 of the buffer member 80 are configured to threadably engage each other.

Abstract: The invention is concerned with improvements in the technical field of laboratory devices. To this end, what is proposed, inter alia, is a laboratory device (1) that has, on its housing (2), at least one coupling interface (3) and at least one mating coupling interface (4) compatible with the coupling interface (3). The coupling interface (3) and the mating coupling interface (4) are configured to transfer power and/or to transfer information.

Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring a cheesemaking process, and for identifying certain stages of the process, are disclosed. The system includes a sonic sensor, along with a processor that will receive, from the sonic sensor, a signal that is indicative of a speed of sound in a material that is being processed in the cheesemaking process. The processor will use the speed of sound to identify a cut point in the cheesemaking process. The processor will generate a signal when the cut point is reached. Optionally, before this happens the processor also may use the speed of sound to identify a flocculation point in the cheesemaking process.

Abstract: A method is presented for checking the integrity of a hollow-fibre fluid filter, in particular a hollow-fibre dialyzer (1), which is constructed from a plurality of hollow fibres (15) enclosed by a membrane, with the steps of: perfusing the inside or outside of the hollow fibres (15) with a fluid, supplying the outside or inside of the hollow fibres (15) with a gas, wherein the gas has a higher pressure than the fluid, and determining a quantity of the gas which penetrates into the fluid through holes in the membrane. The method is characterized in that, after flowing through the hollow-fibre fluid filter (1), the fluid is channelled through a bubble trap (30), and in that a volume of gas (41) collecting in the bubble trap (30) during a predefined or predefinable reference period is determined. Furthermore, equipment for checking the integrity of a hollow-fibre fluid filter (1) is presented.

Abstract: An optical sensor includes: a sensor portion, having a transmitter and at least one receiver, configured to couple to a wettable component having a fluid flow channel, wherein the transmitter is disposed to emit a light that travels from the sensor portion to the wettable component where a majority of the light is directed towards the fluid flow channel at an angle between a first critical angle and a second critical angle; wherein with liquid filling the fluid flow channel, the majority of the light refracts at a liquid interface and travels through the entirety of the fluid flow channel; wherein with gas in the fluid flow channel, the majority of the light reflects at a gas interface and does not travel through the entirety of the fluid flow channel; wherein the amount of the light refracted and/or reflected and received by the at least one receiver, is used to determine if there is liquid or gas in the fluid flow channel.

Abstract: Disclosed is method for evaluating influence of humidity on adhesion of asphalt-aggregate adhesion, the method includes the following steps: S1 putting multiple pull-out specimens into constant temperature and humidity phases with different relative humidity for curing, after the humidity reaches equilibrium, carrying out macroscopic mechanical pull-out test out and obtaining images of two aggregate surfaces of each broken pull-out specimen; S2 cropping the images, and then importing the cropped images into the Images Pro Plus software; S3 obtaining asphalt peeling rate according to the pixel value and calculation formula of asphalt peeling rate; S4 according to the asphalt peeling rate, asphalt cohesive energy and asphalt-aggregate binding energy, combined with calculation formula of asphalt-aggregate interface energy, obtaining asphalt-aggregate interface energy, and evaluating asphalt-aggregate adhesion according to the interface energy.

Abstract: A method for operating a measuring system includes: carrying out impedance measurements with at least three property measurement electrodes on a medium in a first region of a measuring tube interior over an impedance measurement period and, at the same time, signaling the impedance measurement period by a measuring signal to a flow measurement controller; determining a property of the medium from the impedance measurements using impedance tomography; generating a magnetic field in the medium in a second region of the measuring tube interior by the flow measurement controller using a magnetic field generator; carrying out voltage measurements at a sampling rate using at least two flow measurement electrodes on the medium in the second region; taking an impedance measurement duration from the measuring signal; and discarding the voltage measurements carried out during the impedance measurements; and determining a flow rate of the medium from the remaining voltage measurements.