Abstract: A bipolar plate for a fuel cell, is provided having an anode plate with an anode side and a coolant side, wherein there is formed on the anode side a first structuring in order to form an anode flow field, and a cathode plate with a cathode side and a coolant side, wherein there is formed on the cathode side a second structuring to form a cathode flow field, there being arranged between the anode plate and the cathode plate structural elements to form a coolant flow field, being contacted from the coolant sides of the anode plate and the cathode plate, and having an optimized pressure distribution in a fuel cell stack and an increased stability as compared to the prior art. The structural elements consist of an elastic material. A fuel cell stack and a vehicle including such features are also provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to development of high performing oil soluble and water dispersible corrosion inhibitor composition for mitigating internal corrosion of crude oil pipelines during storage and transportation of crude oils. The developed composition consists of acid-amine complex as corrosion inhibiting agent, mixture of organic acids as dispersing agent and ester derivative of alkylated phenol for better film formation. The present invention further relates to a process of preparation of the oil soluble and water dispersible corrosion inhibitor composition and subsequently a process for protecting the corrosion of internal metal surface of crude oil transportation pipelines using the corrosion inhibitor composition.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for a production of light olefins and aromatics from cracked light naphtha by selective cracking. The present invention thus provides a process for up grading cracked olefinic naphtha to high value petrochemical feed stocks. This process is based on catalytic cracking in which the catalyst activity is optimized by depositing coke for production of light olefins and aromatics. The proposed process has high flexibility and can be operated either in maximizing olefins as reflected from the PIE ratio or in maximizing aromatics (BTX) at different modes of operation depending upon the product requirement.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for traffic congestion forecasting are disclosed herein. The computer-implemented method executed by a traffic congestion forecasting system is used for congestion bottleneck identification and root cause analysis thereof. The computer-implemented method comprises receiving one or more of real-time geographical & temporal parameters, real-time visual indicators and historical dataset associated with each of a plurality of zones, forecasts traffic congestion level at one or more of the plurality of zones, visually overlaying the forecasted traffic congestion level at the one or more zones on a map and displaying the map on one or more user devices with overlaid traffic congestion level.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for communication efficient distributed mean estimation. In particular, aspects of the present disclosure can be implemented by a system in which a number of vectors reside on a number of different clients, and a centralized server device seeks to estimate the mean of such vectors. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a client computing device can rotate a vector by a random rotation matrix and then subsequently perform probabilistic quantization on the rotated vector. According to another aspect of the present disclosure, subsequent to quantization but prior to transmission, the client computing can encode the quantized vector according to a variable length coding scheme (e.g., by computing variable length codes).

Abstract: The present invention relates to catalyst product, a method of making a catalyst and its use in fluid catalytic conversion process. In particular, this invention relates to a process for the preparation of CO-combustion promoter microspheres, comprising a large crystallite low surface area alumina; a composite binder comprising nano-crystallite alumina and dispersant; and platinum or palladium or both. The large crystallite low surface area alumina is bound together by the composite binder in the said particulate composition.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a Zinc free High Performance bearing oil composition for Lubrication of Bearings, Gears & Allied Equipments in Wire Rod Mill (WRM) for Steel Plants.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for communication efficient distributed mean estimation. In particular, aspects of the present disclosure can be implemented by a system in which a number of vectors reside on a number of different clients, and a centralized server device seeks to estimate the mean of such vectors. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a client computing device can rotate a vector by a random rotation matrix and then subsequently perform probabilistic quantization on the rotated vector. According to another aspect of the present disclosure, subsequent to quantization but prior to transmission, the client computing can encode the quantized vector according to a variable length coding scheme (e.g., by computing variable length codes).

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for bio-assisted treatment of spent caustic obtained from hydrocarbon and gas processing installations. The present invention also relates to method for recovery of caustic and recovery of sulfur from spent caustic. According to present invention, the sulfide removal is about 96% and the sulphur formation and deposition on the electrode lies in range of 72±8%.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel process with lower recycle ratio while eliminating the need for quench column for production of superior quality coke conforming to specifications of anode grade coke. The process of the present invention enables production of lower amounts of coke and fuel oil yields.

Abstract: A caliper pig for detecting geometrical deformation of a pipeline is disclosed. The caliper pig includes a body and a first sensor arm assembly. The first sensor arm assembly includes a primary caliper sensor ring adapted to be mounted on the body. Further, the first sensor arm assembly includes a plurality of sensor arms adapted circumferentially distributed on the primary caliper sensor ring. Each of the plurality of sensor arms includes a sensing arm adapted to be in contact with an internal surface of the pipeline and a pair of magnets adapted to rotate along the sensing arm. Each of the plurality of sensor arms includes a sensing unit configured to detect a change in magnetic field based on the movement of the sensing arm. The sensing unit is configured to generate an output indicative of an angle of deflection of the sensing arm while traversing on the internal surface of the pipeline.

Abstract: Generally, the present disclosure is directed to systems and methods that perform spreadout regularization to enable learning of a multi-class classification model in the federated setting, where each user has access to the positive data associated with only a limited number of classes (e.g., a single class). Examples of such settings include decentralized training of face recognition models or speaker identification models, where in addition to the user specific facial images and voice samples, the class embeddings for the users also constitute sensitive information that cannot be shared with other users.

Abstract: A delayed coking furnace (100) for heating coker feedstock (101) is disclosed. The furnace (100) includes a first heating zone (102) adapted to provide heat to the coker feedstock (101) through a convective heat transfer and then a second heating zone (104) positioned below the first heating zone (102) and adapted to heat the coker feedstock (101) through radiative heat transfer, wherein the second heating zone (104) include a lower portion and an upper portion. Further, said furnace (100) includes a plurality of burners (106) located at the lower portion of the second heating zone (104) and at least one baffle (111) disposed in the upper portion of the second heating zone (104). Further, the present disclosure provides that the at least one baffle (111) is adapted to increase a convective heat transfer coefficient associated with a flue gas flowing from the second heating zone (104) to the first heating zone (102).

Abstract: The present invention discloses a single package additive for improving lubricity and conductivity properties of ultra-low sulfur diesel fuels. The single package additive is a reaction product of a fatty acid composition, a glycerol tricarboxylates, a polysulfone, a polyamine, an alkylated benzene sulfonic acid and a phenol derivative. More specifically, the present invention discloses a reaction product of: a fatty acid composition in the range of 60-95% wt/wt; a glycerol tricarboxylate in the range of 0.1-10.0% wt/wt; a polysulfone in the range of 0.1-5.0% wt/wt; a polyamine in the range of 0.1-5.0% wt/wt; an alkylated benzene sulfonic acid in the range of 0.1-5.0% wt/wt; and a phenol derivative in the range of 0.1-10.0% wt/wt. The present invention also discloses a single-pot process for the preparation of said reaction product.

Abstract: Generally, the present disclosure provides systems and methods for performing machine learning in hyperbolic space. Specifically, techniques are provided which enable the learning of a classifier (e.g., large-margin classifier) for data defined within a hyperbolic space (e.g., which may be particularly beneficial for data that possesses a hierarchical structure).

Abstract: Generally, the present disclosure is directed to systems and methods that perform adaptive optimization with improved convergence properties. The adaptive optimization techniques described herein are useful in various optimization scenarios, including, for example, training a machine-learned model such as, for example, a neural network. In particular, according to one aspect of the present disclosure, a system implementing the adaptive optimization technique can, over a plurality of iterations, employ an adaptive per coordinate clipping threshold to clip a current first moment of the coordinate to obtain a current update value that enables faster convergence for the machine-learned model when the noise in the stochastic gradients is heavy tailed.

Abstract: This invention relates to production of low sulfur MARPOL compliant bunker fuel oil and distillates using high sulfur residue, low sulfur residue and/or blend of high and low sulfur residue feed stock. The invention also describes a method for production of a cutterstock stream having a lower paraffin and higher aromatic content than a feed stream using a paraffin separation section and its blending to produce bunker fuel.

Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for generating customer solutions using real-time information for new customer sales and/or current customer support. In one implementation, technical infrastructure information for an installed network design providing one or more telecommunication products at one or more customer sites is retrieved. Customer service analytics are generated based on the technical infrastructure information and output for display on a graphical user interface.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a co-solubilization process for preparation of a polymer modified bitumen/asphalt and emulsified polymer modified bitumen/asphalt from bitumen, polymer, emulsifier etc. The present invention further relates to a polymer modified bitumen comprising bitumen and styrene-butadiene-styrene (SBS) linear co-polymer having high softening point. The present invention also relates to the use of the polymer modified bitumen and its emulsion in in micro-surfacing for maintenance of pavements.

Abstract: Computer-based method and system for urban planning of a facility are described herein. The method and system facilitate a user, without any hard knowledge of geographic information system (GIS) to perform quick geo-spatial analysis with a fully automated, single step, and single input process including automatically determining one or more criteria corresponding to the facility based on the facility type defined by the user, automatically performing data analysis on a plurality of data-sets, automatically determining and presenting at least one suitable site within the geographic area for the facility based on the data analysis.