Abstract: A gas analyzer includes a self-contained pressure module that at least partly encloses a tube for a gas, wherein a pressure module is equipped with a sensor and a valve, the sensor and the valve are operable through a master control circuit that is accommodated in a self-contained control enclosure outside of the pressure module, separate from the valve and the sensor.

Abstract: A gas analyzer includes a self-contained pressure module that at least partly encloses a tube for a gas, wherein a pressure module is equipped with a sensor and a valve, the sensor and the valve are operable through a master control circuit that is accommodated in a self-contained control enclosure outside of the pressure module, separate from the valve and the sensor.

Abstract: A method for fitting or retrofitting a sinter cooler, which sinter cooler has a cooler grate chain with an endless chain of cooler cars, the method including, installing a lamella grate for holding sinter material and allowing air flow through the grate so that a support structure is connected to the cooler car and a plurality of lamellae are supported by and individually movable with respect to the support structure, and are disposed to allow air flow between neighbouring lamellae, where the support structure has at least one support element disposed underneath the plurality of lamellae to support the plurality of lamellae, and at least one downholder that is adapted to limit an upward motion of at least one lamella installed such that at least a portion of the downholder is disposed above the at least one lamella.

Abstract: A fluid analyzer having an electrical heater includes an intrinsic safety barrier that provides voltage and current from a power source to an electrical load and includes a voltage limiter and an infallible current limiting resistor for limiting the voltage and current provided to respective intrinsically safe levels, where the voltage limiter is arranged in a flameproof/explosion proof or pressurized/purged enclosure, and the current limiting resistor, e.g., an electrical heater, is connected via a connecting line to the voltage limiter and arranged outside the flameproof/explosion proof or pressurized/purged enclosure in an enclosure configured to provide protection against contact and ingress without being flameproof/explosion proof or pressurized/purged.

Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods including: a cable; a housing having a tapered exit hole connected to an internal volume; a tapered seal having a tapered outer surface and an inner aperture, where the inner aperture of the tapered seal receives the cable; an encapsulant disposed in the internal volume and about one or more wires of the cable; and a compression cap placed over the tapered seal and about a flange of the housing to compress the tapered seal into the tapered exit hole; where compression from the compression cap forces the encapsulant up inside the cable and around the one or more wires of the cable, and where curing of the encapsulant seals the cable from moisture incursion.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can receive a notification of a user request to securely process a first set of data. A time estimate is calculated, wherein the time estimate is indicative of an expected amount of time for a secure data processing application to process the first set of data. An actual utilization time required for a first instance of the secure data processing application to process the first set of data is measured. A determination is made as to whether the secure data processing application may be compromised based on a comparison of the time estimate and the actual utilization time. In various embodiments, a re-cryptor process is used to change the cryptographic keys accessed by the secure data processing application. In various embodiments, a re-credentialer is used to change the database access credentials the secure data processing application used to access the encrypted data.

Abstract: A Gas Chromatograph (GC) detector comprises a first circuit, a second circuit, a digital subtractor and a digital logic shared between one to many detector channels to provide a GC measurement in a digital form. The first circuit includes a first counter circuitry to provide a first counter output. The second circuit includes a second counter circuitry to provide a second counter output. The GC detector includes a digital subtractor to subtract the first counter output from the second counter output and provide a digital subtractor output. The GC detector further includes a digital logic shared between one to many detector channels to implement at least a portion of the first counter circuitry and the second counter circuitry. The digital logic to receive the digital subtractor output and provides the GC measurement in the digital form.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for fitting or retrofitting a sinter cooler (1), which sinter cooler (1) comprises a cooler grate chain with an endless chain of cooler cars (2). In order to provide means for increasing the effectiveness of the sinter cooler, the invention provides that the method for fitting comprises, for at least one cooler car (2), installing a lamella grate (10) for holding sinter material and allowing air flow through the grate so that a support structure (13) is connected to the cooler car (2) and a plurality of lamellae (12) are supported by and individually movable with respect to the support structure (13), and are disposed to allow air flow between neighbouring lamellae (12).

Abstract: A fluid pressure control apparatus includes a proportional solenoid valve operatively connected between a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet and a pressure sensor fluidically coupled to the fluid outlet, wherein an electronic controller generates and outputs a control signal to the solenoid valve in dependence on a first signal from the pressure sensor and a second signal corresponding to a pressure set point, where the solenoid valve has a rest position between opened and closed, and the electronic controller is further adapted to generate the control signal with either of opposite polarities to move the valve in either of opposite directions from its rest position in order to reduce power consumption and heat generation, in particular for use in gas analysis equipment located in hazardous areas.

Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods including: a cable; a housing having a tapered exit hole connected to an internal volume; a tapered seal having a tapered outer surface and an inner aperture, where the inner aperture of the tapered seal receives the cable; an encapsulant disposed in the internal volume and about one or more wires of the cable; and a compression cap placed over the tapered seal and about a flange of the housing to compress the tapered seal into the tapered exit hole; where compression from the compression cap forces the encapsulant up inside the cable and around the one or more wires of the cable, and where curing of the encapsulant seals the cable from moisture incursion.

Abstract: A device for measuring the temperature in a rotary kiln through which solid material passes being heated to elevated temperatures. The device features a drive as well as an elongated hollow body with means to fix a thermocouple, whereby the drive and the elongated hollow body are mounted such that they rotate jointly with the rotary kiln. The drive can move the elongated hollow body together with thermocouple through an opening in and out of the rotary kiln interior for measuring the temperature inside the rotary kiln during operation.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can receive a notification of a user request to securely process a first set of data. A time estimate is calculated, wherein the time estimate is indicative of an expected amount of time for a secure data processing application to process the first set of data. An actual utilization time required for a first instance of the secure data processing application to process the first set of data is measured. A determination is made as to whether the secure data processing application may be compromised based on a comparison of the time estimate and the actual utilization time. In various embodiments, a re-cryptor process is used to change the cryptographic keys accessed by the secure data processing application. In various embodiments, a re-credentialer is used to change the database access credentials the secure data processing application used to access the encrypted data.

Abstract: A device for measuring the temperature in a rotary kiln through which solid material passes being heated to elevated temperatures. The device features a drive as well as an elongated hollow body with means to fix a thermocouple, whereby the drive and the elongated hollow body are mounted such that they rotate jointly with the rotary kiln. The drive can move the elongated hollow body together with thermocouple through an opening in and out of the rotary kiln interior for measuring the temperature inside the rotary kiln during operation.

Abstract: A fluid analyzer having an electrical heater includes an intrinsic safety barrier that provides voltage and current from a power source to an electrical load and includes a voltage limiter and an infallible current limiting resistor for limiting the voltage and current provided to respective intrinsically safe levels, where the voltage limiter is arranged in a flameproof/explosion proof or pressurized/purged enclosure, and the current limiting resistor, e.g., an electrical heater, is connected via a connecting line to the voltage limiter and arranged outside the flameproof/explosion proof or pressurized/purged enclosure in an enclosure configured to provide protection against contact and ingress without being flameproof/explosion proof or pressurized/purged.

Abstract: A fluid pressure control apparatus includes a proportional solenoid valve operatively connected between a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet and a pressure sensor fluidically coupled to the fluid outlet, wherein an electronic controller generates and outputs a control signal to the solenoid valve in dependence on a first signal from the pressure sensor and a second signal corresponding to a pressure set point, where the solenoid valve has a rest position between opened and closed, and the electronic controller is further adapted to generate the control signal with either of opposite polarities to move the valve in either of opposite directions from its rest position in order to reduce power consumption and heat generation, in particular for use in gas analysis equipment located in hazardous areas.

Abstract: A Gas Chromatograph (GC) detector comprises a first circuit, a second circuit, a digital subtractor and a digital logic shared between one to many detector channels to provide a GC measurement in a digital form. The first circuit includes a first counter circuitry to provide a first counter output. The second circuit includes a second counter circuitry to provide a second counter output. The GC detector includes a digital subtractor to subtract the first counter output from the second counter output and provide a digital subtractor output. The GC detector further includes a digital logic shared between one to many detector channels to implement at least a portion of the first counter circuitry and the second counter circuitry. The digital logic to receive the digital subtractor output and provides the GC measurement in the digital form.

Abstract: A thermal conductivity detector includes a heatable resistive detector configured to be physically arranged in an analytes flow eluting from a chromatography column and electrically arranged with resistors in separate arms of a measuring bridge, an amplifier which detects differential voltage between two opposite nodes of the bridge and applies an output voltage to other opposite nodes of the measuring bridge to maintain the detector at a constant operating temperature, and an additional resistor with a controllable switch in parallel connected in series with the detector or resistor arranged in one arm of the bridge, where the switch is periodically turned on and off at a predetermined duty cycle and/or controlled by information on characteristic times-of-arrival of analytes at the detector to compensate for operating temperature uncertainties due to manufacturing variations of the resistors and/or to allow for processing small and large peaks of a chromatogram with highest available resolution.

Abstract: A thermal conductivity detector for a gas chromatograph includes a heatable resistive detector element configured to be physically arranged in a flow of analytes eluting from a chromatography column and electrically arranged together with resistors in separate arms of a measuring bridge, wherein to provide a new configuration of the thermal conductivity detector to allow high detector sensitivity and to meet intrinsic safety requirements, the detector element includes at least two equal detector sub-elements that are configured to be physically arranged in series in the flow of analytes and electrically arranged in parallel with each other, where the detector element in one arm and a reference resistor in the other arm of the same half of the measuring bridge are configured such that the total resistance of the parallel detector sub-elements at operating temperature is at least approximately equal to the resistance of the reference resistor.

Abstract: A thermal conductivity detector includes a switch controllable to short-circuit the input of an amplifier to improve the thermal conductivity detector for use in gas chromatography without the need of an additional reference cell, wherein a digital signal processor calculates a transfer function of an analog signal processor from a digitized difference signal received in response to short-circuiting the input of the amplifier at a given time when solely a reference carrier fluid passes through a measuring cell, and the digital signal processor recovers a detector signal by deconvoluting the digitized difference signal with a transfer function.

Abstract: A thermal conductivity detector for a gas chromatograph includes a heatable resistive detector element configured to be physically arranged in a flow of analytes eluting from a chromatography column and electrically arranged together with resistors in separate arms of a measuring bridge, wherein to provide a new configuration of the thermal conductivity detector to allow high detector sensitivity and to meet intrinsic safety requirements, the detector element includes at least two equal detector sub-elements that are configured to be physically arranged in series in the flow of analytes and electrically arranged in parallel with each other, where the detector element in one arm and a reference resistor in the other arm of the same half of the measuring bridge are configured such that the total resistance of the parallel detector sub-elements at operating temperature is at least approximately equal to the resistance of the reference resistor.