Abstract: A pipeline having a series of interconnected pipe sections forming Field Joints, each pipe section having a coating with a thermal insulation layer which extends over a substantial portion of a length of the pipe section, and an anti-corrosion layer situated underneath the thermal insulation layer. The pipeline has a Field Joint Coating (FJC) at connection regions where ends of the adjacent pipe sections are interconnected. Each FJC has an anti-corrosion coating layer, an intermediate coating layer of a thermoplastic material which covers the anti-corrosion coating layer, and a FJC thermal insulation layer which covers the intermediate coating layer.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a Field Joint Coating (FJC) for a pipeline, the method comprising: providing a pipe section to be joined to a similar pipe section or free end of a pipeline, wherein each pipe section is provided with a coating comprising a thermal insulation layer over a length of the pipe section having a protruding section, wherein the end zones of each pipe section are free of thermal insulation, thereby allowing access to the ends of the pipe section and the pipeline to connect the pipe section with the free end of the pipeline, applying an anti-corrosion coating layer on a connection region of the joined ends of the pipe section and the pipeline, heating the protruding section and applying an intermediate coating layer of a thermoplastic material on the anti-corrosion coating layer and the protruding section, applying a thermal insulation layer on the intermediate coating layer.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a Field Joint Coating (FJC) for a pipeline, the method comprising: providing a pipe section to be joined to a similar pipe section or free end of a pipeline, wherein each pipe section is provided with a coating comprising a thermal insulation layer over a length of the pipe section having a protruding section, wherein the end zones of each pipe section are free of thermal insulation, thereby allowing access to the ends of the pipe section and the pipeline to connect the pipe section with the free end of the pipeline, applying an anti-corrosion coating layer on a connection region of the joined ends of the pipe section and the pipeline, heating the protruding section and applying an intermediate coating layer of a thermoplastic material on the anti-corrosion coating layer and the protruding section, applying a thermal insulation layer on the intermediate coating layer.

Abstract: The ends of two pipeline units are joined together at a pipe joint. Each pipeline unit has a pipe member and a pipe coating surrounding the pipe member. The pipe coating extends along a length of the pipe member. A joint coating surrounds the pipe joint and is made from a material comprising a silicone.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system (100) for manufacturing a Field Joint Coating (11), the system comprising: a heating device (102) for heating a quantity of a polymer, an upstream pump (104) for pumping the quantity of heated polymer into a storage compartment (106) of an ejection device (108), the ejection device (108) which is constructed for each time ejecting the heated polymer from its storage compartment, the ejection device comprising: o a barrel (1 10) which defines the storage compartment, the barrel being reinforced and configured for repeated use, o a plunger (1 1), o an actuator (1 14) for driving the plunger through the barrel for emptying the storage compartment, a downstream pump, the downstream pump being constructed for increasing the operating pressure of the ejected polymer, —a mould (200) configured to be positioned at a field joint (13) around a pipeline.

Abstract: A photovoltaic cell may be provided that includes flat semiconductor substrates, each having a front face and a rear face, where at least one front face contact is arranged on the front face and at least one rear face contact is arranged on the rear face. Each semiconductor substrate may form a subarea of the photovoltaic cell and the semiconductor substrates may be electrically connected to one another in parallel, where the semiconductor substrates are arranged at a distance from one another, and at least two semiconductor substrates have a different shape and/or size. A photovoltaic module equipped with the photovoltaic cell may be provided, and to a method for producing the photovoltaic cell may be provided.

Abstract: A pipeline unit (1) comprising a pipe member (2) and a pipe coating (3) surrounding the pipe member (2), which pipe member comprises a pipe end (4), and which pipe coating (3) extends along a length of the pipe member and ends at a coating end face located at a distance from the pipe end, wherein a bonding member (8) is provided on the coating end face, which bonding member (8) is attached to the coating end face and made from a material which is different from the material of which the pipe coating (3) is made.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a Field Joint Coating (FJC) for a pipeline, the method comprising: providing a pipe section to be joined to a similar pipe section or free end of a pipeline, wherein each pipe section is provided with a coating comprising a thermal insulation layer over a length of the pipe section having a protruding section, wherein the end zones of each pipe section are free of thermal insulation, thereby allowing access to the ends of the pipe section and the pipeline to connect the pipe section with the free end of the pipeline, applying an anti-corrosion coating layer on a connection region of the joined ends of the pipe section and the pipeline, heating the protruding section and applying an intermediate coating layer of a thermoplastic material on the anti-corrosion coating layer and the protruding section, applying a thermal insulation layer on the intermediate coating layer.

Abstract: An assembly of two pipeline units (1), wherein each pipeline unit (1) comprises a pipe member (2) and a pipe coating (3) surrounding the pipe member (2), which pipe member (2) comprises a pipe end (4), and which pipe coating extends along a length of the pipe member and ends at a coating end face located at a distance from the pipe end, the pipe ends (4) of the pipeline units are joined together at a pipe joint (15), such that the coating end faces (6) of the pipeline units are located at opposite sides of the pipe joint, a joint coating (16) is provided at the pipe joint (15), the joint coating (16) surrounds the pipe joint, is attached to the two opposite coating end faces of the pipeline units and is made from a material comprising a silicone.

Abstract: A pipeline unit (1) comprising a pipe member (2) and a pipe coating (3) surrounding the pipe member (2), which pipe member comprises a pipe end (4), and which pipe coating (3) extends along a length of the pipe member and ends at a coating end face located at a distance from the pipe end, wherein a bonding member (8) is provided on the coating end face, which bonding member (8) is attached to the coating end face and made from a material which is different from the material of which the pipe coating (3) is made.

Abstract: Methods for treating treatment-naive as well as treatment-experienced patients having melanoma to increase the progression-free survival time involving administering a therapeutically effective amount of pegylated interferon-alpha, e.g., preferably pegylated interferon alpha-2b, as adjuvant therapy to definitive surgery are disclosed.

Abstract: A method for measurement of high temperatures of a process stream by means of a thermocouple arranged in a thermowell. The thermowell is at least partly covered by a layer of a catalytic material which is active in at least one endothermic reaction. The thermowell is installed in a reactor by inserting the thermowell through a hole penetrating the reactor wall so that the tip of the thermowell is in contact with the process stream. The invention is typically used where the reaction is a reforming reaction and the reactor is an autothermal reformer fed with a hydrocarbon stream and an oxygen containing stream.

Abstract: Methods for treating treatment-naive as well as treatment-experienced patients having melanoma to increase the progression-free survival time involving administering a therapeutically effective amount of pegylated interferon-alpha, e.g., preferably pegylated interferon alpha-2b, as adjuvant therapy to definitive surgery are disclosed.

Abstract: Methods for treating treatment-naive as well as treatment-experienced patients having RCC to achieve at least a partial tumor response involving administering a therapeutically effective amount of pegylated interferon-alpha, e.g., pegylated interferon alpha-2b as monotherapy or in association with a therapeutically effective amount of IL-2 are disclosed.

Abstract: Methods for treating treatment-naive as well as treatment-experienced patients having CML to achieve at least a partial cytogenetic response involving administering a therapeutically effective amount of pegylated interferon-alpha, e.g., pegylated interferon alpha-2b as monotherapy or in association with a therapeutically effective amount of Ara-C are disclosed.

Abstract: Methods for treating treatment-naive as well as treatment-experienced patients having RCC to achieve at least a partial tumor response involving administering a therapeutically effective amount of pegylated interferon-alpha, e.g., pegylated interferon alpha-2b as monotherapy or in association with a therapeutically effective amount of IL-2 are disclosed.

Abstract: Methods for treating treatment-naive as well as treatment-experienced patients having melanoma to increase the progression-free survival time involving administering a therapeutically effective amount of pegylated interferon-alpha, e.g., preferably pegylated interferon alpha-2b, as adjuvant therapy to definitive surgery are disclosed.

Abstract: A buckle chute for folding a sheet of paper. The buckle chute includes: a first plate having a vertically extending slot; a second plate opposing the first plate and defining a paper path therewith; a paper stopping tab extending through the vertically extending slot; a paper inverting tab extending through the vertically extending slot and situated above the paper stopping tab, the inverting tab being pivotable between an operative position in the paper path and an inoperative position out of the paper path; and a lever operatively connected to the paper inverting tab and extending beyond the side edge of the first plate for pivoting the tab between the operative and inoperative positions.