Abstract: A method for filtering a non aqueous liquid such as a biodiesel to reduce the levels of sterol glucosides and/or saturated monoglycerides.

Abstract: An animal grooming device includes a body, a plurality of grooming elements secured to the body, an upper peripheral rim extending around a periphery of the body, the upper peripheral rim and top side of the body forming a reservoir to hold therapeutic material therein. An applicator pad is placed within said reservoir to selectively control dispensing of the material through an exposed surface of the applicator pad. Another embodiment includes a plurality of passageways formed through the body in which the material is dispensed from the reservoir or applicator pad through the passageways to a bottom side of the body adjacent to the grooming elements. A method of delivering the therapeutic material by the grooming device is achieved by filling the reservoir and then applying the pressure to the applicator pad causing dispensing of the material onto the animal through the passageways.

Abstract: An animal grooming device includes a body, a plurality of grooming elements, an upper peripheral rim extending around a periphery of the body. The upper peripheral rim and top side of the body form a reservoir to hold therapeutic material therein. An aborbent applicator pad is placed within said reservoir to selectively control dispensing of the material through an exposed surface of the applicator pad. Another embodiment includes a plurality of passageways formed through the body in which the material is dispensed from the reservoir or applicator pad through the passageways to a bottom side of the body adjacent to the grooming elements. A method of delivering the therapeutic material is achieved by filling the reservoir and then applying the pressure to the applicator pad causing dispensing of the material onto the animal through the passageways. Another method includes preventing or mitigating stress experienced by an animal by selective delivery of the therapeutic material onto the animal.

Abstract: An insert for an impingement plate and an impingement plate including the insert are disclosed. The impingement plate includes a plurality of cooling holes therein. The insert includes a body including an opening extending longitudinally therethrough. The body also includes a discharge end configured for positioning in an impingement air plenum between the impingement plate and an upstream surface of a combustor cap plate; a flexible insertion end configured for insertion into a respective cooling hole of the plurality of cooling holes; and a fixation element between the discharge end and the flexible insertion end. The fixation element has an outer dimension configured to fixedly couple the body in the respective cooling hole.

Abstract: A combustor cap assembly, combustor and related method are disclosed. The combustor cap assembly includes: an impingement plate defining a plurality of impingement cooling holes with a first side of the impingement plate in fluid communication with a cooling air plenum. The assembly also includes a combustor cap plate coupled to the impingement plate, such that an impingement air plenum is defined between a second side of the impingement plate and the combustor cap plate. Tubes extend from at least a portion of the plurality of impingement cooling holes at the second side of the impingement plate and extend partially towards the combustor cap plate through the impingement air plenum. The plurality of impingement cooling holes provides for fluid communication between the cooling air plenum and the impingement air plenum through the tubes.

Abstract: The premixed pilot nozzle includes axially elongated tubes defined within a plenum between an outer shroud and a first shroud disposed radially inward of the outer shroud. The tubes extend between tube inlets defined through a forward face and tube outlets defined through an aft face. A second shroud is disposed radially inward of the first shroud, thereby defining a fuel plenum between the first shroud and the second shroud, and the fuel plenum is in communication with a gaseous fuel supply. A fuel injection port, which is positioned between the tube inlet and the tube outlet of each tube, is in fluid communication with the fuel plenum. An air supply configured to fluidly communicate with the tube inlet of each tube. The second shroud defines a second plenum therein, the second plenum being coupled to a source of a non-combustible fluid.

Abstract: A combustor cap assembly, combustor and related method are disclosed. The combustor cap assembly includes: an impingement plate defining a plurality of impingement cooling holes with a first side of the impingement plate in fluid communication with a cooling air plenum. The assembly also includes a combustor cap plate coupled to the impingement plate, such that an impingement air plenum is defined between a second side of the impingement plate and the combustor cap plate. Tubes extend from at least a portion of the plurality of impingement cooling holes at the second side of the impingement plate and extend partially towards the combustor cap plate through the impingement air plenum. The plurality of impingement cooling holes provides for fluid communication between the cooling air plenum and the impingement air plenum through the tubes.

Abstract: An insert for an impingement plate and an impingement plate including the insert are disclosed. The impingement plate includes a plurality of cooling holes therein. The insert includes a body including an opening extending longitudinally therethrough. The body also includes a discharge end configured for positioning in an impingement air plenum between the impingement plate and an upstream surface of a combustor cap plate; a flexible insertion end configured for insertion into a respective cooling hole of the plurality of cooling holes; and a fixation element between the discharge end and the flexible insertion end. The fixation element has an outer dimension configured to fixedly couple the body in the respective cooling hole.

Abstract: A combination for purifying a liquid, such as used cooking oil, unrefined edible oil, biodiesel fuel, rendered fat, or dielectric fluids comprising a container comprising a holding portion having at least one wall portion and at least one portion that is designed to fail structurally upon heating of the liquid, such as at least one cap portion, which is connected detachably to the holding portion. The combination also comprises at least one purifying material, such as an adsorbent powder, contained in the holding portion of the container. Upon contact of the container with the liquid and heating of the liquid, at least one of the at least one portion(s) that is designed to fail structurally provides at least one opening in the container, whereby the liquid is contacted by the at least one purifying material, and the liquid is purified.

Abstract: Provided herein are methods of producing a recombinant protein that include: providing a bacterium including a nucleic acid encoding a recombinant protein; and culturing the bacterium in a liquid culture medium including about 0.3 mM to about 300 mM Mg2+ under conditions sufficient for the production and release of the recombinant protein into the culture medium.

Abstract: A premix pilot nozzle is disclosed herein. The premix pilot nozzle includes a nozzle body. The nozzle body includes a forward wall, an aft wall, an outer band that extends between the forward wall and the aft wall and a tip portion that extends axially downstream from the aft wall. The nozzle body further defines a fuel inlet plenum that extends coaxially within the nozzle body, a fuel distribution plenum that is defined within the nozzle body radially outwardly from and in fluid communication with the fuel inlet plenum, a plurality of premix passages that extend helically around the fuel inlet plenum within the fuel distribution plenum and a plurality of air passages annularly arranged around the plurality of premix passages. One or more premix passages of the plurality of premix passages are in fluid communication with the fuel distribution plenum.

Abstract: The premixed pilot nozzle includes axially elongated tubes defined within a plenum between an outer shroud and a first shroud disposed radially inward of the outer shroud. The tubes extend between tube inlets defined through a forward face and tube outlets defined through an aft face. A second shroud is disposed radially inward of the first shroud, thereby defining a fuel plenum between the first shroud and the second shroud, and the fuel plenum is in communication with a gaseous fuel supply. A fuel injection port, which is positioned between the tube inlet and the tube outlet of each tube, is in fluid communication with the fuel plenum. An air supply configured to fluidly communicate with the tube inlet of each tube. The second shroud defines a second plenum therein, the second plenum being coupled to a source of a non-combustible fluid.

Abstract: A premix pilot nozzle is disclosed herein. The premix pilot nozzle includes a nozzle body. The nozzle body includes a forward wall, an aft wall, an outer band that extends between the forward wall and the aft wall and a tip portion that extends axially downstream from the aft wall. The nozzle body further defines a fuel inlet plenum that extends coaxially within the nozzle body, a fuel distribution plenum that is defined within the nozzle body radially outwardly from and in fluid communication with the fuel inlet plenum, a plurality of premix passages that extend helically around the fuel inlet plenum within the fuel distribution plenum and a plurality of air passages annularly arranged around the plurality of premix passages. One or more premix passages of the plurality of premix passages are in fluid communication with the fuel distribution plenum.

Abstract: A premix pilot nozzle and fuel nozzle assembly are disclosed herein. The premix pilot nozzle includes a nozzle body having a forward wall axially spaced from an aft wall and an outer band that extends axially between the forward wall and the aft wall. An air tube extends coaxially within the nozzle body and defines a cooling air plenum within the nozzle body. A fuel tube extends coaxially within the nozzle body and circumferentially surrounds the air tube so as to define a fuel inlet plenum therebetween. A fuel distribution plenum is defined within the nozzle body and is in fluid communication with the fuel inlet plenum. The nozzle body further includes a plurality of premix tubes. Each premix tube extends helically around the fuel tube within the fuel distribution plenum. One or more of the premix tubes is in fluid communication with the fuel distribution plenum.

Abstract: A handheld pool skimmer is an apparatus that allows a user to get into a swimming pool and manually collect all of the debris within the swimming pool. The apparatus includes an edging frame, a mesh, a plurality of handgrips, and a plurality of brushes. The mesh is used to sift through the pool water and collect the debris within the pool water. The mesh is held taught on the apparatus with the edging frame, which also provides a structural base for the other components. The handgrips are distributed about the edging frame so that the user can grasp the necessary section of the present invention. The brushes allow the user to scrub or sweep up debris from the surface of the swimming pool.

Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of formula (?) as further defined herein and to the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and salts, and to the uses thereof. The compounds and salts of the present invention inhibit anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) and/or EML4-ALK and are useful for treating or ameliorating abnormal cell proliferative disorders, such as cancer.

Abstract: A handheld pool skimmer is an apparatus that allows a user to get into a swimming pool and manually collect all of the debris within the swimming pool. The apparatus includes an edging frame, a mesh, a plurality of hand grips, and a plurality of brushes. The mesh is used to sift through the pool water and collect the debris within the pool water. The mesh is held taught on the apparatus with the edging frame, which also provides a structural base for the other components. The hand grips are distributed about the edging frame so that the user can grasp the necessary section of the present invention. The brushes allow the user to scrub or sweep up debris from the surface of the swimming pool.

Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of formula (?) as further defined herein and to the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and salts, and to the uses thereof. The compounds and salts of the present invention inhibit anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) and/or EML4-ALK and are useful for treating or ameliorating abnormal cell proliferative disorders, such as cancer.

Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of formula (?) as further defined herein and to the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and salts, and to the uses thereof. The compounds and salts of the present invention inhibit anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) and/or EML4-ALK and are useful for treating or ameliorating abnormal cell proliferative disorders, such as cancer.

Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of formula (?) as further defined herein and to the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and salts, and to the uses thereof. The compounds and salts of the present invention inhibit anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) and/or EML4-ALK and are useful for treating or ameliorating abnormal cell proliferative disorders, such as cancer.