Abstract: A method of removing a closure from a container includes engaging three or more pry fingers against a lid and a container of the package in three or more locations spaced circumferentially around the package, and moving the pry fingers against the container and the lid, to pry the lid away from the container. A closure remover includes a frame, an actuator movable with respect to the frame, and a plurality of kinematic links movably carried between the frame and the actuator and including a plurality of articulatable pry fingers.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing device includes one or more processors configured to execute instructions that cause the one or more processors to acquire pressure data measured by at least one pressure sensor disposed proximate to a filter house in an intake of a gas turbine engine system, derive an airflow or an air mass flow through a duct of the intake using a thermodynamic model of the gas turbine engine system based at least on the pressure data, derive an intake pressure drop in the duct using at least the pressure data, derive a loss parameter of the filter house by combining the air mass or air mass flow, and the intake pressure drop, derive a pressure loss model based on the loss parameter over a period of time, and determine a condition of the filter house based on the pressure loss model.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing device includes one or more processors configured to execute instructions that cause the one or more processors to acquire pressure data measured by at least one pressure sensor disposed proximate to a filter house in an intake of a gas turbine engine system, derive an airflow or an air mass flow through a duct of the intake using a thermodynamic model of the gas turbine engine system based at least on the pressure data, derive an intake pressure drop in the duct using at least the pressure data, derive a loss parameter of the filter house by combining the air mass or air mass flow, and the intake pressure drop, derive a pressure loss model based on the loss parameter over a period of time, and determine a condition of the filter house based on the pressure loss model.

Abstract: A method of removing a closure from a container includes engaging three or more pry fingers against a lid and a container of the package in three or more locations spaced circumferentially around the package, and moving the pry fingers against the container and the lid, to pry the lid away from the container. A closure remover includes a frame, an actuator movable with respect to the frame, and a plurality of kinematic links movably carried between the frame and the actuator and including a plurality of articulatable pry fingers.

Abstract: A detergent paste composition comprising: from 50% to 94% by weight of an anionic surfactant; from 1% to 30% by weight of an alkyl ethoxy sulfate and from 5% to 35% by weight of water. The paste has a viscosity greater than 10 Pa.s at a temperature of 70.degree. C. and measured at a shear rate of 25 s.sup.-1. The paste has rheological properties making it well-suited to the further processing into high active detergent agglomerate suitable for use in free flowing granular detergent compositions.

Abstract: A high active detergent paste composition which is suitable for making detergent granules which have an excellent white appearance making them suitable for use in consumer products. The paste compositions comprise a dye or optical brightener.

Abstract: A process for making a free-flowing granular detergent contemplates mixing an aqueous surfactant paste that has a detergency activity of at least 40% with a dry detergency powder to form a mix, rapidly forming a uniform mixture at a temperature of from about 20.degree. C. to about 80.degree. C., and then granulating the mixture into discrete detergent granules by a high-speed mixing. Surfactant pastes used in the present invention contain at least one anionic surfactant and the mixing and granulating steps of the process occur either simultaneously or immediately sequentially.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for making a free flowing granular detergent comprising: conditioning of an aqueous surfactant paste having a detergency activity of at least 40%; rapidly forming a uniform stiff paste from said mix at a paste temperature of from 20.degree. to 90.degree. C.; granulating said paste upon mixing with a dry detergent powder.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for manufacturing improved color surfactant agglomerates, particularly comprising methyl ester sulfonates, for use in detergent compositions, said process comprising sulfonation of methyl ester, digestion of the sulfonation product, esterification of said sulfonated product to produce an acid product and agglomeration of said acid product, characterized in that said acid product is exposed to a solid bleaching agent immediately prior to or during agglomeration of said acid product.

Abstract: The invention concerns the use of a concentrated granular detergent composition having a density of about 800 g/L or more comprising enzyme granulates characterized in that said enzyme granulates are present at a level of less than 20 g/L detergent composition, wherein said enzyme granulates have no negative impact on the whiteness of the detergent composition. Furthermore the invention relates to a concentrated granular detergent enzyme granulates characterized in that the concentration of high alkaline protease in the enzyme granulate is at least 2%.