Abstract: A thermal interface material includes, in one exemplary embodiment, a polymer, a phase change material, a first thermally conductive filler having a first particle size, and a second thermally conductive filler having a second particle size. The first particle size is larger than the second particle size. A formulation for forming a thermal interface material and an electronic component including a thermal interface material are also provided.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a two component releasable thermal gel that is useful in transferring heat from heat generating electronic devices, such as computer chips, to heat dissipating structures, such as heat spreaders and heat sinks. The two component releasable thermal gel is mixed before the point of application and facilitates catalytic cross-linking. The thermal gel includes a first component including a primary silicone oil, an inhibitor, a catalyst, and at least one thermally conductive filler, and a second component including a primary silicone oil, a cross linking silicone oil, and at least one thermally conductive filler, wherein the ratio of total content of Si—H groups to total content of vinyl groups in the thermal gel is between 0.03 to 10. The thermal gel is releasable from a substrate upon which the thermal gel is applied.

Abstract: A system and a method are described for applying a noise model for predicting the occurrence and a level of noise that is present in cfDNA read information. The significance model is trained for a plurality of stratifications of called variants using training data in the stratification. Stratifications may include a partition and a mutation type. The significance model predicts the likelihood of observing a read frequency for a called variant in view of two distributions of the significance model. The first distribution predicts a likelihood of noise occurrence in the sample. The second distribution predicts a likelihood of observing a magnitude of the read frequency for the called variant. The two distributions may further depend on a baseline noise level of blank samples. With these two distributions, the significance model, for a particular stratification, more accurately predicts the likelihood of a false positive for a called variant.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides thermal interface materials that are useful in transferring heat from heat generating electronic devices, such as computer chips, to heat dissipating structures, such as heat spreaders and heat sinks. The thermal interface material also includes a coloring agent selected from the group consisting of: an iron based inorganic pigment; and an organic pigment.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method of optimizing demand-response (DR) of a heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system of a building, includes determining (30, 31, 32) a value of an objective function Fij of a HVAC system for each of a plurality of DR strategies j for each of a plurality of weather patterns i that is a weighted sum of an energy cost of the HVAC system and a thermal comfort loss of the HVAC system, assigning (33, 34, 35, 36) a likelihood score Li,j to each of a selected subset of near-optimal DR strategies j for each weather pattern i, and selecting (37, 38) those near-optimal DR strategies with large overall likelihood scores Lj to create an optimal strategy pool of DR strategies. An optimal strategy pool can be searched (39) in real-time for an optimal DR strategy for a given weather pattern.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process and a device for treating a catalyst discharged from bubbling bed hydrogenation of residual oil. Provided is a process for treating a catalyst discharged from bubbling bed hydrogenation of residual oil, comprising the following steps: (1) adjustment and control to reduce viscosity; (2) desorption and separation by rotational flow; and (3) separation and resource utilization of an oil-water-catalyst three phase. Also provided is a device for treating a catalyst discharged from bubbling bed hydrogenation of residual oil.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a device for enclosed recycling of oil-water-sludge in an oil shale dry distillation system, comprising: scrubbing and condensing oil shale dry distillation gas at a gathering pipe section, a gas tower section, an air tower section, and a cooling tower section respectively to recycle shale oil section by section; using a separator at an outlet of each section to purify and collect the shale oil, while purifying and recycling scrubbing/cooling water; using multistage dedusters to remove oil sludge entrained in an oil-water product; using an oil sludge collecting tank and a filter after the deduster to concentrate and recycle an oil sludge; and using cyclones before and after the gas tower section to remove aerosol particles and water drops entrained in circulatory gas.

Abstract: A thermal interface material includes at least one polysiloxane; at least one thermally conductive filler; and at least one adhesion promoter including both amine and alkyl functional groups.

Abstract: A thermal interface material that is useful in transferring heat from heat generating electronic devices, such as computer chips, to heat dissipating structures, such as heat spreaders and heat sinks. The thermal interface material includes at least one silicone oil, and at least one thermally conductive filler.

Abstract: According to an example, in a method for multicasting a data message by an apparatus in a multi-site network (MSN), a multicast data message that is to be communicated to another apparatus over the MSN network may be received, in which the apparatus includes a MSN-link port through which data messages are to be communicated to the another apparatus. In addition, a determination may be made that the received multicast data message is to be communicated to the another apparatus through the MSN-link port. The received multicast data message may be replicated and the replicated multicast data message may be encapsulated into a MSN message. Moreover; the MSN message encapsulating the replicated multicast data message may be tunneled to the another apparatus over the MSN-link port.

Abstract: A thermal interface material includes, in one exemplary embodiment, a polymer, a phase change material, a first thermally conductive filler having a first particle size, and a second thermally conductive filler having a second particle size. The first particle size is larger than the second particle size. A formulation for forming a thermal interface material and an electronic component including a thermal interface material are also provided.

Abstract: A functional visualization of high-level system variables is based on information from a simulation environment. A functional model is imported from the simulation environment, including function nodes and connections. Each function node includes a function name, an associated component from the simulated system, and an associated physical variable. Each connection includes source and destination functions and a connection type. Values for the physical variables are obtained via a subscription with the simulation environment. The functional visualization is created and displayed based on the functional model and the values.

Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for micro-hydrocyclone purification for a flue gas carbon dioxide capture system. The method comprises: performing gas-liquid micro-hydrocylone separation with ultralow pressure drop on scrubbed flue gas, to remove aerosol particulates entrained in the flue gas; performing gas-liquid micro hydrocyclone separation with ultralow pressure drop on off-gas vented from the top of an absorption column, to remove entrained aerosol particulates; performing gas-liquid micro hydrocyclone separation with ultralow pressure drop on cooled regeneration gas, to remove entrained aerosol particulates; and performing liquid-solid and liquid-liquid two-stage micro-hydrocyclone separation on a mixed amine solution lean for carbon dioxide discharged from regeneration column, to remove entrained solid particulates and machine oil.

Abstract: In order to reduce computation time and cost involved with determining one or more optimal parameters for a pre-cooling strategy, for a modeled system, a two-step genetic algorithms is used to optimize energy consumption of the modeled system with respect to cost of the energy consumption. A first step of the two-step genetic algorithms determines a population of potential solutions that are used to initialize a second step of the two-step genetic algorithm. The second step of the two-step genetic algorithm determines the one or more optimal parameters for the pre-cooling strategy from the population output by the first genetic algorithm.

Abstract: According to an example, in a method for multicasting a data message by an apparatus in a multi-site network (MSN), a multicast data message that is to be communicated to another apparatus over the MSN network may be received, in which the apparatus includes a MSN-link port through which data messages are to be communicated to the another apparatus. In addition, a determination may be made that the received multicast data message is to be communicated to the another apparatus through the MSN-link port. The received multicast data message may be replicated and the replicated multicast data message may be encapsulated into a MSN message. Moreover; the MSN message encapsulating the replicated multicast data message may be tunneled to the another apparatus over the MSN-link port.

Abstract: A functional visualization of high-level system variables is based on information from a simulation environment. A functional model is imported from the simulation environment, including function nodes and connections. Each function node includes a function name, an associated component from the simulated system, and an associated physical variable. Each connection includes source and destination functions and a connection type. Values for the physical variables are obtained via a subscription with the simulation environment. The functional visualization is created and displayed based on the functional model and the values.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method of optimizing demand-response (DR) of a heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system of a building, includes determining (30, 31, 32) a value of an objective function Fij of a HVAC system for each of a plurality of DR strategies j for each of a plurality of weather patterns i that is a weighted sum of an energy cost of the HVAC system and a thermal comfort loss of the HVAC system, assigning (33, 34, 35, 36) a likelihood score Li,j to each of a selected subset of near-optimal DR strategies j for each weather pattern i, and selecting (37, 38) those near-optimal DR strategies with large overall likelihood scores Lj to create an optimal strategy pool of DR strategies. An optimal strategy pool can be searched (39) in real-time for an optimal DR strategy for a given weather pattern.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process and a device for treating a catalyst discharged from bubbling bed hydrogenation of residual oil. Provided is a process for treating a catalyst discharged from bubbling bed hydrogenation of residual oil, comprising the following steps: (1) adjustment and control to reduce viscosity; (2) desorption and separation by rotational flow; and (3) separation and resource utilization of an oil-water-catalyst three phase. Also provided is a device for treating a catalyst discharged from bubbling bed hydrogenation of residual oil.

Abstract: In this study, we used a wound-inducible promoter of the broccoli (Brassica oleracea var. italica) GLUCOSE INHIBITION of ROOT ELONGATION1 (GIR1) gene fused to ?-glucuronidase (GUS, pBoGIR1::GUS) as a selectable marker. Transgenic broccoli plants expressing pBoGIR1::GUS appear blue in planta at wounded regions after GUS staining for 30 min. Similarly, the blue color is visible in transgenic Arabidopsis and rice plants expressing pBoGIR1::GUS at wounded areas after GUS staining for 2 h, indicating that this promoter is wound-inducible in both dicots and monocots. GUS staining is very rapid and the partial wounding in this study is a nondestructive method that does not affect further plant growth and development. Thus, pBoGIR1::GUS could serve as an effective substitute for antibiotic- and herbicide-resistance genes in the generation of genetically modified crops.