Abstract: A filter for the filtration of a fluid, such as a liquid, includes or is constituted by a support element made from a porous ceramic material, at least a portion of the surface of the support element being covered with a porous membrane separating layer, the membrane separating layer being constituted essentially of silicon carbide (SiC), its porosity being between 10% and 70% by volume, the median diameter of its pores being between 50 nanometers and 500 nanometers, its mean thickness being between 1 micrometer and 30 micrometers, and its tortuosity being less than 1.7.

Abstract: Device for supporting and guiding an aerial carrying-hauling cable of a cable lift installation, said device including a beam supporting a plurality of rotary sheaves designed to press on the cable to guide it when it is running, each rotary sheave being associated with a damping connection articulated around a pivot to form an individual module fixed individually to the beam, the different individual modules being staggered at regular intervals along the beam.

Abstract: A filtration structure with a membrane for filtering liquids, includes a monolith including a support formed from a porous inorganic material of permeability Ks, the support having a tubular general shape with a main axis, an upstream face, a downstream face, a peripheral surface and an internal part; a plurality of channels parallel to the main axis of the support, formed in the internal part of the support, the channels being separated from each other by inner walls formed from the porous inorganic material; the channels being blocked at one or other of their upstream or downstream ends in the direction of circulation of the liquid, to define, respectively, inlet channels and outlet channels for the liquid, so as to force the liquid to pass through the porous walls separating the inlet and outlet channels, and a membrane covering the inner surface of at least the inlet channels.

Abstract: A tangential filter for filtration of a fluid includes a support element, wherein, along a transverse plane perpendicular to the central axis of the support element a) the support element includes in its central portion only inner channels that do not share a common wall with its outer surface, the inner channels having a substantially equivalent hydraulic diameter, b) the support element includes peripheral channels, including at least first and second adjacent peripheral channels, each of the two channels sharing a common wall with the outer surface, c) the ratio of the hydraulic diameter of the first channel to the hydraulic diameter of the second channel is greater than or equal to 1.1, d) the number of peripheral first channels is greater than or equal to the number of peripheral second channels, e) the second channel has a hydraulic diameter substantially identical to the hydraulic diameter of the inner channels.

Abstract: A membrane filter includes a plurality of honeycomb ceramic filtering elements, each element including a plurality of parallel ducts separated by walls and open on a face for introduction of the liquid to be filtered, an interstitial volume between the filtering elements, a filtration membrane positioned on the inner surface of the walls of the ducts, wherein the filtering elements are joined together by a curable material that forms after curing a sleeve in the form of a single part joining together, by sealing, all of the filtering elements separated the interstitial volume, the sleeve having a thickness e between 1% and 10% of the length of the filter, and the curable material being present in the open porosity and through the entire thickness of each porous wall forming the elements, over a minimum non-zero height h.

Abstract: Device for supporting and guiding an aerial carrying-hauling cable of a cable lift installation, said device including a beam supporting a plurality of rotary sheaves designed to press on the cable to guide it when it is running, each rotary sheave being associated with a damping connection articulated around a pivot to form an individual module fixed individually to the beam, the different individual modules being staggered at regular intervals along the beam.

Abstract: A filter for the filtration of a fluid includes or is composed of a support element made of a porous ceramic material, the element exhibiting a tubular or parallelepipedal shape including, in its internal portion, a set of adjacent channels separated from one another by walls of the porous inorganic material, in which at least a portion of the channels and/or the external surface are covered with a porous separating membrane layer for contacting the fluid to be filtered circulating in the channels and making possible the tangential or frontal filtration of the fluid. The layer is made of a material including a mixture of silicon carbide and of at least one compound chosen from silicon nitride or silicon oxynitride, the content by weight of elemental nitrogen, with respect to the content by weight of SiC in the material constituting the porous separating membrane layer, is between 0.02 and 0.15.

Abstract: A tangential filter for filtration of a fluid includes a support element, wherein, along a transverse plane perpendicular to the central axis of the support element a) the support element includes in its central portion only inner channels that do not share a common wall with its outer surface, the inner channels having a substantially equivalent hydraulic diameter, b) the support element includes peripheral channels, including at least first and second adjacent peripheral channels, each of the two channels sharing a common wall with the outer surface, c) the ratio of the hydraulic diameter of the first channel to the hydraulic diameter of the second channel is greater than or equal to 1.1, d) the number of peripheral first channels is greater than or equal to the number of peripheral second channels, e) the second channel has a hydraulic diameter substantially identical to the hydraulic diameter of the inner channels.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a regenerator comprising a bed of energy storage media placed in a chamber, the chamber comprising a shell and an insulating layer placed between said shell and said energy storage media, the insulating layer comprising a structure defining a plurality of cavities, each cavity having a volume greater than 5 cm3, at least a portion of said cavities being filled, at least partly, with an insulating material, the minimum thickness of the structural material separating the cavities and the internal volume of the chamber wherein the energy storage media are placed being higher than 2 mm.

Abstract: The invention relates to a filter structure, for filtering particulate-laden gases, comprising a plurality of honeycomb filtering elements, said structure being obtained by assembling said elements, which are joined together by means of a joint cement, said joint cement being an essentially inorganic, preferably mineral, composite comprising at least: between 30 and 95% by weight of a filler formed by an assembly of grains, the melting point of which is above 1000° C., said grains having a diameter of greater than 30 microns; and between 5 and 70% by weight of a binder matrix incorporating a geopolymer phase, said binder matrix comprising, in percentages by weight of the corresponding oxides: SiO2: between 20 and 80%, Al2O3: between 3 and 50% and R2?O: between 3 and 30%, R2?O representing the sum of the alkali metal oxides present in the binder matrix.

Abstract: An assembled ceramic body having blocks attached to one another by means of a seal, the lateral surface of the ceramic body possibly being coated with a peripheral coating, the seal and/or the peripheral coating including a set cement having less than 10% of inorganic fibers, as a percentage by weight based on the dry mineral matter, in a section plane perpendicular to at least one of the facing faces of the blocks assembled by said seal, having macropores with an equivalent diameter in the range 200 ?m to 40 mm in a quantity such that the total surface area in said section plane occupied by said macropores represents more than 15% and less than 80% of the total surface area observed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a gas filter structure for filtering particulate-laden gases, of the honeycomb type and comprising an assembly of longitudinal adjacent channels of mutually parallel axes separated by porous filtering walls, said channels being alternately blocked off at one or the other of the ends of the structure so as to define inlet channels and outlet channels for the gas to be filtered and so as to force said gas to pass through the porous walls separating the inlet and outlet channels, said structure being characterized in that the inlet and outlet channels share between them at least one wall of constant average thickness d over the entire length of the filter structure, in that the inlet or outlet channels share between them at least one wall of constant average thickness e over the entire length of the filter structure and in that the e/d ratio is strictly greater than 1.

Abstract: The subject of the invention is a gas filter structure for filtering particulate-laden gases, of the honeycomb type and comprising an assembly of longitudinal adjacent channels (21, 22) of mutually parallel axes separated by porous filtering walls (23), said channels (21, 22) being alternately blocked off at one or the other of the ends of the structure so as to define inlet channels (21) and outlet channels (22) for the gas to be filtered and so as to force said gas to pass through the porous walls (23) separating the inlet (21) and outlet (22) channels, said structure being such that, in cross section: the ratio R of the sum of the areas of the inlet channels to the sum of the areas of the outlet channels is greater than 1; at least some of the porous walls (23) are wavy so as to be concave relative to the center of the inlet channels (21) and convex in their middle relative to the center of the outlet channels (22); and the outlet channels (22) possess at least one rounded corner (25).

Abstract: The invention relates to a gas filter structure for filtering particulate-laden gases, of the honeycomb type and comprising an assembly of longitudinal adjacent channels of mutually parallel axes separated by porous filtering walls, in which: each outlet channel has a wall common to six inlet walls, each common wall constituting a side of said outlet channel; each outlet channel consists of six sides of approximately identical width a, so as to form a channel of approximately hexagonal and regular cross section; at least two adjacent sides of each inlet channel have a different width; at least two inlet channels sharing a wall with one and the same outlet channel share between them a common wall of width b; and in which the ratio of the widths b/a is equal to 1.

Abstract: The invention relates to a gas filter structure for filtering particulate-laden gases, of the honeycomb type and comprising an assembly of longitudinal adjacent channels of mutually parallel axes separated by porous filtering walls, in which: each outlet channel has a wall common to six inlet walls, each common wall constituting a side of said outlet channel; each outlet channel consists of six sides of approximately identical width a, so as to form a channel of approximately hexagonal and regular cross section; at least two adjacent sides of each inlet channel have a different width; at least two inlet channels sharing a wall with one and the same outlet channel share between them a common wall of width b; and in which the ratio of the widths b/a is greater than 1 but less than 13.

Abstract: The invention relates to a gas filter structure for filtering particulate-laden gases, of the honeycomb type and comprising an assembly of longitudinal adjacent channels of mutually parallel axes separated by porous filtering walls, in which: each outlet channel has a wall common to six inlet walls, each common wall constituting a side of said outlet channel; each outlet channel consists of six sides of approximately identical width a, so as to form a channel of approximately hexagonal and regular cross section; at least two adjacent sides of each inlet channel have a different width; at least two inlet channels sharing a wall with one and the same outlet channel share between them a common wall of width b; and in which the ratio of the widths b/a is greater than 0 but less than 1.