Abstract: A microplastic filter (also referred herein as fluid filter) for a washing machine has a filter housing, a first filter screen, a second filter screen, an inlet opening 16, and an outlet opening. The inlet and outlet openings communicate with each other through the first filter screen to define a direction of fluid flow. The first filter chamber has a retentate outlet, is particularly easy to handle if the second filter screen is arranged in a cavity of the filter housing, the inlet and outlet openings communicate with each other through the second filter screen, and the retentate outlet is arranged on a side of the second filter screen that faces the fluid flow.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a catalyst material includes the steps of: providing a body having an open-porous foam structure and comprising at least a first metal or alloy; providing particles, each of which particles comprising at least a second metal or alloy; distributing the particles on the body; forming a structural connection between each of at least a subset of the particles and the body; and forming an oxide film on at least the subset of the particles and the body, wherein the oxide film has a catalytically active surface.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a catalyst material includes the steps of: providing a body having an open-porous foam structure and comprising at least a first metal or alloy; providing particles, each of which particles comprising at least a second metal or alloy; distributing the particles on the body; forming a structural connection between each of at least a subset of the particles and the body; and forming an oxide film on at least the subset of the particles and the body, wherein the oxide film has a catalytically active surface.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a pellet, in particular for a catalytic convertor and/or static mixer. The method comprises a trimming and/or deforming of at least one layer of metal foam material into a pellet shape.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a catalyst material includes the steps of: providing a body having an open-porous foam structure and comprising at least a first metal or alloy; providing particles, each of which particles comprising at least a second metal or alloy; distributing the particles on the body; forming a structural connection between each of at least a subset of the particles and the body; and forming an oxide film on at least the subset of the particles and the body, wherein the oxide film has a catalytically active surface.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a pellet, in particular for a catalytic convertor and/or static mixer. The method comprises a trimming and/or deforming of at least one layer of metal foam material into a pellet shape.

Abstract: In order to achieve temperature distribution, in particular a homogeneous temperature distribution in, for example, a substrate during a thermal treatment process of said substrate, a method is disclosed for the thermal treatment of substrates, in particular semi-conductor wafers, in a process chamber comprising at least one temperature distribution influencing element located in the process chamber. During thermal treatment, the spatial arrangement of the element is altered relative to the substrate and/or to the process chamber. A device for the thermal treatment of substrates in a process chamber is also disclosed, comprising at least one temperature distribution influencing element located in a process chamber wherein a device is provided in order to alter the spatial arrangement of the element relative to the substrate and/or to the process chamber during the thermal treatment process.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an apparatus and process for locally heating and/or cooling of semiconductor wafers in thermal processing chambers. In particular, the apparatus of the present invention includes a device for heating or cooling localized regions of a wafer to control the temperature of such regions during one or more stages of a heat cycle. In one embodiment, gas nozzles eject gas towards the bottom of the wafer to provide localized temperature control. In another embodiment, a transparent gas pipe containing a variety of gas outlets distributes gas onto the top surface of the wafer to provide localized temperature control.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for optical pyrometry in a Rapid Thermal Processing (RTP) System, whereby the radiation used to heat the object to be processed in the RTP system is in part specularly reflected from specularly reflecting surfaces and is incident on the object with a particular angular distribution, and the thermal radiation from the object is measured at an angles different from the angle where the incident radiation specularly reflected from the surface of the object is a maximum.

Abstract: A reaction chamber for a Rapid Thermal Processing (RTP) system contains an aperture to allow introduction and removal of the object to be processed. The cross sectional area of the aperture is significantly less than the cross sectional area of the reaction chamber. A method of flushing the reaction chamber, using a short time laminar flow of the flush gas, is used in combination with the aperture to increase the throughput of the RTP system.