Abstract: The invention relates to a method for monitoring the condition of rotor blades for wind turbines. It is therefore the object of the invention to increase the accuracy of the monitoring of the condition of rotor blades of wind turbines and to allow a localization of faults or defects and their exact description. In the method in accordance with the invention, eigenvibrations of a rotor blade occurring globally at the rotor blade and locally guided elastic waves are permanently detected with time and spatial resolution using a sensor network and actuator network attached to the rotor blade or using a network arrangement of ultrasound transducers. In addition, elastic waves which are guided periodically at predefinable time intervals and which are respectively emitted by an actuator or ultrasound transducer and detected by sensors or ultrasound transducers are in so doing inspected for variations of the emitted waves.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for monitoring the condition of rotor blades for wind turbines. It is therefore the object of the invention to increase the accuracy of the monitoring of the condition of rotor blades of wind turbines and to allow a localization of faults or defects and their exact description. In the method in accordance with the invention, eigenvibrations of a rotor blade occurring globally at the rotor blade and locally guided elastic waves are permanently detected with time and spatial resolution using a sensor network and actuator network attached to the rotor blade or using a network arrangement of ultrasound transducers. In addition, elastic waves which are guided periodically at predefinable time intervals and which are respectively emitted by an actuator or ultrasound transducer and detected by sensors or ultrasound transducers are in so doing inspected for variations of the emitted waves.

Abstract: A process for separating metal chlorides from a suspension of metal chlorides in chlorosilanes, in which the suspension is filtered under pressure in the absence of air and moisture forming a filter cake, which is granulated and passed to a dissolution zone where the metal chlorides are dissolved to form an aqueous metal chloride solution. The invention also relates to a filtration and dissolution apparatus for this process, and to an apparatus for introducing the crude reaction gas into a circulated suspension of metal chlorides in chlorosilanes, thus producing a feedstock for the process.

Abstract: A process for separating metal chlorides from a suspension of metal chlorides in chlorosilanes, in which the suspension is filtered under pressure in the absence of air and moisture forming a filter cake, which is granulated and passed to a dissolution zone where the metal chlorides are dissolved to form an aqueous metal chloride solution. The invention also relates to a filtration and dissolution apparatus for this process, and to an apparatus for introducing the crude reaction gas into a circulated suspension of metal chlorides in chlorosilanes, thus producing a feedstock for the process.

Abstract: A process for separating metal chlorides from the hot, gaseous reaction mixture (crude gas) formed in the reaction of technical-grade silicon with hydrogen chloride, in which the crude gas is introduced into a circulated suspension of metal chlorides in chlorosilanes, the temperature of the crude gas is reduced from its introduction temperature to the temperature of the three-phase gas/liquid/solid mixture formed on introduction of the crude gas into the suspension partly by direct cooling resulting from vaporization of chlorosilanes and partly by indirect cooling, part of the resulting suspension of metal chlorides in liquid chlorosilanes is recirculated to the introduction point of the crude gas and the metal chlorides are separated from the other part of the suspension.

Abstract: A transparency to be reproduced is positioned in register with copy material having respective sensitivity maxima in the blue, green and red wavelength ranges of the spectrum. An illuminating unit for exposing the copy material includes an array of cells such as an LCD. The density of each cell can be varied individually to thereby change the illumination intensity, and the densities are adjustable in such a manner that, in the spectral ranges corresponding to the neighborhoods of the sensitivity maxima, the density of each cell changes by approximately the same factor.

Abstract: Light is passed through a negative located in a primary optical path and towards a band of copy material disposed in the path. A reflector is movable into the primary path so as to deflect the light into a secondary optical path. A mat, transparent plate is situated in the secondary path. The plate is situated in a plane which is a conjugate of the plane of the copy material with reference to the reflector when the latter is in the primary path. A sharp image of the negative is formed on the plate. Light passing through the plate is deflected into a tertiary optical path by a second reflector. The light entering the tertiary path is sensed by a video camera which then causes the image on the plate to be reproduced on a monitor for evaluation prior to copying.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the determination of small substance quantities of medicines, of endogenous or other chemical compounds in biological material, characterized by either binding the compound to be determined and its deuterated analog to an antibody present in excess, which antibody is coupled to a stationary phase of a polymeric material, and separating the two compounds from the antibody and measuring by mass spectrometry the proportion of deuterated compound/not deuterated compound or, respectively, cross-reacting compound; or, in case a suitable deuterated or cross-reacting compound is not available, utilizing as the internal standard also a chemically similar compound which, however, is added after the antibody-mediated extraction, and inserting a separating process before mass spectrometry.

Abstract: Novel, multiple-tritiated steroid-20,17-spirolactones of general Formula I ##STR1## wherein --A--B-- is --CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --, --CH.dbd.CH-- or ##STR2## and --C--D-- is ##STR3## R is hydrogen or tritium and n is 0 or 1,are usable as tracer materials for the detection of mineralocorticoid receptors.

Abstract: Compounds of general Formula I labeled with .sup.121 I, .sup.122 I, .sup.123 I, .sup.124 I, .sup.125 I, .sup.131 I and .sup.132 I isotopes ##STR1## wherein R.sup.6 is a C.sub.1-6 aliphatic hydrocarbon residue andC.sub.2 -C.sub.3 C.sub.9 -C.sub.10 is a single or a double bond, as well as their acid addition salts,are useful as diagnostic media, e.g., in imaging dopamine and other receptors.

Abstract: An aqueous crystalline suspension of a 17-tertiary steroid glycoester contains a compound of Formula I ##STR1## wherein X is two hydrogen atoms or an oxygen atom,Y is two hydrogen atoms or a methylene group,R.sup.1 is hydrogen or methyl,Z is hydroxy or --O--CO--R.sup.2R.sup.2 is methyl or phenyl, and ##STR2## in the following fractions: 0-30% by weight of a particle size of 3-15 .mu.m,40-90% by weight of a particle size of 15-60 .mu.m, and20-60% by weight of a particle size of 30-100 .mu.m.Upon a one-time intramuscular injection of 30-75 mg of steroid glycoester as an aqueous crystalline suspension, a steroid level is achieved in the plasma which, over a period of 4 weeks, is adequately high and shows a uniform course.

Abstract: Glycoesters of estradiol (E.sub.2) and of estriol (E.sub.3) of Formula I(E.sub.2,3)--O--CO--CH.sub.2 --Z (I)whereinZ is hydroxy or the group --O--CO--R whereinR is methyl or phenyl,provide a uniform and enduring estrogen level especially when used in the form of an aqueous crystalline suspension.

Abstract: A composite ice confection product comprises an open-ended wafer with an internal fat-based coating and filled with the ice confection, a continuous fat-based capping covers the open-end(s) of the wafer. In a preferred process for preparing the product the capping is formed, for example by applying it below its slip-melting point and in fluid condition, in such a way that it forms with the internal coating a substantially expermeable envelope around the ice confection. A suitable apparatus is described in which the fat-based confection for the capping can be maintained fluid by shear and optionally also by overpressure.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is hydroxy-C.sub.2-8 -alkyl containing 1-5 OH-groups;R.sup.2 is hydrogen, C.sub.1-4 -alkyl or R.sup.1 ;R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 can be identical or different, and each independently is hydrogen or C.sub.1-4 -alkyl; andX is straight chain or branched C.sub.2-12 alkylene interrupted by sulfur or selenium atoms, and, optionally, additionally interrupted by oxygen atoms, by a di(C.sub.1-4 -alkyl)silyl group or a tetra(C.sub.1-4 -alkyl)disiloxane group;are very useful as X-ray contrast media opaque agents, which can be employed even in lymphography.

Abstract: A process for preparing an 11-keto steroid consists essentially of heating the corresponding 9.alpha.-halo-11.beta.-hydroxy steroid, to 180.degree.-350.degree. C. in an inert, aprotic, high-boiling solvent.

Abstract: A process for preparing a .DELTA..sup.9(11) - and/or .DELTA..sup.16 -unsaturated steroid comprises heating the corresponding steroid of the pregnane series substituted by 9.alpha.-chloro- and/or 16.alpha.-chloro- or 17.alpha.-acyloxy, in an inert, aprotic high-boiling solvent at 180.degree.-350.degree. C.

Abstract: Organic radiohalogen compounds are prepared by heating in a non-aqueous liquid phase a mixture of a radioinactive organic halogen compound and an alkali metal halogenide or alkaline earth halogenide wherein the halogenide is F-18, Cl-38, Br-82 or I-123, -125, -131 or -132.