Abstract: A controller directs the operation of an air pollution control (APC) system having one or more controllable operating parameters and a defined operating limit representing a regulatory limit on an allowed amount of pollutant to be emitted by the APC system. An interface receives data representing a value of a regulatory credit available for emitting less of the pollutant than the regulatory limit on the allowed amount of pollutant. A control processor (i) determines a target set point for each of at least one of the one or more controllable operating parameters, which will maximize the regulatory credits earned, based on the received data and (ii) to directs control of each of the at least one controllable operating parameter based on the determined target set point for that parameter.

Abstract: The device (6) includes a sealed casing (10) provided, in its lower part, with a bowl (22) for collection of a residual liquid, and an assembly (30) for purging the residual liquid which comprises means for evacuation of the liquid collected in the bowl and means for connecting the casing to the open air. The means for evacuation of the liquid include an orifice (36) formed in the wall of the casing substantially at the level of the bottom of the bowl (22). The means for connection to the open air include an orifice (34) formed in the wall of the casing (10) substantially opposite the orifice (36) for evacuation of the liquid.

Abstract: Cyclone design comprising an inlet device having an inlet height (Hi) and an inlet width (Wi), a gas outlet pipe having a pipe diameter (Di) and a pipe penetration (P), a barrel having an upper barrel diameter (Db) and a barrel length (Lb), said barrel comprising a cylindrical volume on top of a conical volume, a solids outlet pipe (O), an inlet gas velocity (Ug, i) and an inlet gas flow (Q), characterised in that the ratio of the inlet gas flow to the square of the upper barrel diameter (Q/Db2) is higher than 0.5, preferably higher than 0.7, and lower than 1.5, preferably lower than 1.2 (m/s) and in that the barrel length to diameter ratio (Lb/Db) is higher than 3, preferably higher than 3.5, and lower than 6, preferably lower than 4.5.

Abstract: It is to provide an improved method for preparation of microsphere from an emulsion wherein an organic phase containing an organic solvent having a boiling point lower than that of water and a hardly-water-soluble polymer is emulsified in an aqueous phase by an in-water drying method, which comprises: (1) using an apparatus equipped with a gas separation membrane; (2) supplying the emulsion to be subjected to in-water drying to one side of said gas separation membrane; (3) evaporating off the organic solvent contained in said emulsion to the other side of said gas separation membrane, which can remove the organic solvent with high efficiency and can be carried out in a closed system and hence is favorable from the environmental viewpoint.

Abstract: A membrane module for the separation of hydrogen is configured for parallel flows and contains a plurality of planar membrane cells which respectively comprise two hydrogen-selective planar membranes respectively surrounded by a flat membrane frame. An air-permeable distancing layer is arranged between the membranes for removal of the permeate gas and a supply frame surrounding a supply area for the reformate gas. All membrane frames and supply frames have the same outer dimensions and form a stack with planar side surfaces. Two membrane frames of each membrane cell have protruding edges directed towards each other, enabling them to enter into contact with each other, except for at least one first opening towards a side surface of the stack. The supply frame is disposed, except for second and third openings towards the side surfaces of the stack, in a closely adjacent manner to the edges of the membrane frame of two neighboring membrane cells.

Abstract: A gas storage canister for use in an automotive vehicle, includes a case having first and second end sections which are opposite to each other in a direction of flow of gas. The first end section has a gas inflow port and a gas outflow port. The second end section has an atmosphere-opened port. A gas adsorbing material is disposed inside the case. Additionally, a heat accumulative agent is provided including a phase changing material which causes absorption and release of latent heat to occur in accordance with a temperature variation. The heat accumulative material is mixed with the gas adsorbing material and disposed inside the case. Here, a mix proportion of the heat accumulative agent changes in the gas flow direction between the first and second end sections.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for abating toxic and/or hazardous gas species in a diluent gas stream line deriving from a by-pass line of a semiconductor process tool, comprising contacting the diluent gas stream with a dry resin sorbent material having an affinity for the toxic and/or hazardous gas species to effect the removal of at least a portion of the toxic and/or hazardous gas species by a chemisorbent or physisorbent reaction between the sorbent bed and the toxic gas component effectively reduces the concentration of the toxic gas component in the process diluent stream to below TLV.

Abstract: A container for storing hydrogen comprises an outer shell having an inlet for inputting hydrogen gas and an outlet for outputting hydrogen gas. A thermally conductive liner lines an interior of the outer shell. An inner hydride core is in communication with the inlet and the outlet for storing the hydrogen gas. Coolant lines are in thermal communication with the storage container. A thermal management controller determines whether the container is in a dispensing mode or a refueling mode. If the container is in the dispensing mode, the coolant lines may be routed to a first heat exchanger that is in thermal communication with a propulsion unit of a vehicle. However, if the container is in the refueling mode, the coolant lines may be routed to a second heat exchanger associated with a temperature that is less than or equal to the ambient temperature outside of the vehicle.

Abstract: The invention provides co-solvents for preparing clear solutions of a biocidal agent known as 10, 10?-oxybisphenoxarsine (OBPA). The clear solutions are stable over a relatively broad range of temperatures and have very low Volatile Organic Carbon (VOC) content. They can be included in master batches for the manufacture of plastic materials, such as flexible PVC. The co-solvents of this invention have very low VOC values, do not have troublesome odors, do not cause significant irritation during the high temperature plastic manufacturing process, and are miscible in a range of useful concentrations with plasticizers presently employed by plastics manufacturers. The use of castor oil and/or modified castor oils such as glyceryl ricinoleate, dehydrated castor oil, and certain alkoxylated castor oils as a co-solvent to increase the dissolvable concentration of OBPA, alone or in solution with a plasticizer, was not known or expected.

Abstract: Objects of the present invention are to provide a magenta ink composition having good light-fastness and gas resistance, and excellent moisture resistance and clogging resistance, and to provide a magenta ink composition having excellent colorability in addition to these characteristics. The present invention provides a magenta ink composition containing, as colorants, at least one selected from compounds represented by undermentioned formula (1) and salts thereof, and at least one selected from compounds represented by undermentioned formula (2) and salts thereof. Moreover, the present invention also provides a magenta ink composition containing, as colorants, the above and in addition at least one selected from compounds represented by undermentioned formula (3). (Definitions of the symbols in the formulae are as in the claims.

Abstract: Phthalocyanine pigments having 0-4 chlorine atoms have a narrow particle-size range with 90% of particles between about 0.01-0.10 ?m, the average particle size of no more than about 0.5 ?m, a D99 of no more than about 0.3 ?m, and a polydispersity of about 2.0 or less. Pigment compositions contain the phthalocyanine pigment and water-based dispersing resin. The pigments and the compositions are compatible with waterborne coating systems, exhibit an excellent metallic down travel, and are especially useful for the automotive painting applications.

Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a granular silicon crystal by allowing silicon melt in a crucible to be granularly discharged and fallen from a nozzle part composed of silicon carbide or silicon nitride, and cooling and solidifying the granular silicon melt during falling, a carbon source is added when the nozzle part is composed of silicon carbide, and a nitrogen source is added when the nozzle part is composed of silicon nitride, to the silicon melt in the crucible. Thereby, melt droplets of uniform size can be generated, so that granular silicon crystals having narrow variations in particle size can be manufactured at high productivity and superior reproducibility.

Abstract: A method for producing a single crystal in which when the single crystal is grown by Czochralski method, V/G is controlled by controlling a fluctuation of a temperature gradient G of the crystal which is being pulled without lowering a pulling rate V, thereby the single crystal including a desired defect region over a whole plane in a radial direction of the crystal entirely in a direction of the crystal growth axis can be produced effectively for a short time at a high yield.

Abstract: An improved method for controlling nucleation sites during superabrasive particle synthesis can provide high quality industrial superabrasive particles with high yield and a narrow size distribution. The synthesis method can include forming a raw material layer, forming a particulate catalyst layer adjacent the raw material layer, and placing crystalline seeds in a predetermined pattern at least partially in the catalyst layer or raw material layer to form a growth precursor. Alternatively, the raw material and catalyst material can be mixed to form a particulate crystal growth layer and then placing the crystalline seeds in a predetermined pattern in the growth layer. Preferably, seeds can be substantially surrounded by catalyst material. The growth precursor can be maintained at a temperature and pressure at which the superabrasive crystal is thermodynamically stable for a time sufficient for a desired degree of growth.

Abstract: A method of producing a lithium-tantalate crystal, wherein at least a first material containing lithium tantalate, lithium niobate or hydrogen storage alloy storing hydrogen that is subjected to a heat treatment at a temperature of T1? that is Curie temperature or higher in a reducing atmosphere is superposed on a single-polarized lithium-tantalate crystal, and then the crystal is subjected to a heat treatment at a temperature of T2? that is lower than Curie temperature in a reducing atmosphere, thereby an electric conductivity of the single-polarized lithium-tantalate crystal is increased. There can be provided a method of producing a lithium-tantalate crystal wherein the surface charge generated by applying a temperature change to the lithium-tantalate crystal can be decayed quickly without accumulating by increasing the electric conductivity, and an effective piezoelectric property is exhibited by maintaining the single polarized structure.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for producing a high quality bulk single crystal of silicon carbide in a seeded growth system. The method includes positioning a seed crystal on the seed holder with a low porosity backing material that provides a vapor barrier to silicon carbide sublimation from the seed and that minimizes the difference in thermal conductivity between the seed and the backing material to minimize or eliminate temperature differences across the seed and likewise minimize or eliminate vapor transport from the rear of the seed that would otherwise initiate and propagate defects in the growing crystal.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for growing bulk single crystals of silicon carbide is provided. The apparatus includes a sublimation chamber with a silicon vapor species phase outlet that allows the selective passage of atomic silicon vapor species while minimizing the concurrent passage of other vapor phase species. The apparatus can provide control of vapor phase stoichiometry within the sublimation chamber, which in turn can allow the production of bulk silicon carbide single crystals with reduced intrinsic point defects concentration.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a pulling-down apparatus that can breed a crystal having good characteristics of scintillation. The apparatus retains in a container that can control an atmosphere a melting pot having a narrow hole at the bottom side thereof, an induction heating device, and a seed-holding device that holds a seed and is pulled down so that a crystal formed successively to the seed is pulled down. Concurrently, imaging devices are arranged that can pick up images of a solid-liquid interface between the crystal and a melt material, from different directions, and the seed-holding device can be travel along directions perpendicular to respective image pickup directions in a horizontal plane.

Abstract: Apparatus for coating a support such as a monolithic catalyst support (5) comprises a dispenser (1) for dispensing a predetermined quantity of coating liquid, a containment (2) for the liquid and a source of vacuum (8, 9) which can be actuated to draw the entire quantity of coating liquid into the support (5). The apparatus and method are particularly useful for coating car catalysts without wastage and with increased design options.

Abstract: There is provided an extrusion head that is capable of largely increasing a production speed rather than a conventional head that extrudes supplies a high viscous melt-coating composition.

Abstract: A coating apparatus is provided in which entrained air flow of an applicator roll and a web is removed and occurrences of misting and coating irregularity are suppressed to thereby realize a uniform coating liquid film and a uniform coating state. A coating apparatus includes an applicator roll arranged to abut on another roll so as to form a nip portion therebetween and to transfer a coating liquid to be coated on a surface of a web passing through the nip portion. The coating apparatus further includes a coater head provided on an upstream side of the nip portion in a rotational direction of the applicator roll so as to supply the coating liquid onto a surface of the applicator roll and a boundary air remover provided between the nip portion and the coater head on the upstream side of the nip portion so as to prevent air from entering the nip portion.

Abstract: The invention relates to the field of applicators for applying moisture-absorbent powder on cable elements. This is an applicator for applying moisture-absorbent powder on cable elements which comprises a hopper intended to contain the powder, a mesh closing the small opening of the hopper and a mechanical powder stirrer located inside the hopper, the stirrer being placed in the hopper in such a way as to be able to make the powder flow through the mesh under gravity, the applicator having no means for conveying the powder that has passed through the mesh, which powder continues to flow under gravity as far as the cable elements. The type of cable in question is in particular a fiber-optic cable.

Abstract: An electroless deposition system is provided. The system includes a processing mainframe, at least one substrate cleaning station positioned on the mainframe, and an electroless deposition station positioned on the mainframe. The electroless deposition station includes an environmentally controlled processing enclosure, a first processing station configured to clean and activate a surface of a substrate, a second processing station configured to electrolessly deposit a layer onto the surface of the substrate, and a substrate transfer shuttle positioned to transfer substrates between the first and second processing stations. The system also includes a substrate transfer robot positioned on the mainframe and configured to access an interior of the processing enclosure.

Abstract: The invention relates to a plant for the treatment, in particular the cataphoretic dip coating of objects, in particular of vehicle chassis (4), whereby the objects (4) are run by means of a transport car (5) through several treatment stations and on so doing are dipped in at last one treatment container (91) and retrieved therefrom again. The transport car (5) comprises a chassis (7, 8, 9 to 12), which travels along the trajectory of the objects (4), at least one pivot arm (50, 51), connected to the chassis (7, 8, 9 to 12), a mounting (61) joined to the pivot arm (50, 51), for at least one object (4) and independently operated drives (32, 33, 56, 57, 80, 81) for the translational displacement and the pivoting displacement of the at least one pivot arm (50, 51) and the mounting (61). The transport car (5) can be used not only for transport of the objects (4) for treatment but can also have a service basket (90) fixed thereto, suitable for the accommodation of at least one operative.

Abstract: A forward direction-only path (first substrate transport path) is formed for transporting substrates in a forward direction to pass the substrates on to an exposing apparatus. A separate, substrate transport path (second substrate transport path) is formed exclusively for post-exposure bake (PEB). Substrate transport along each path is carried out independently of substrate transport along the other. A fourth main transport mechanism is interposed as a predetermined substrate transport mechanism between transfer points consisting of a buffer acting as a temporary storage module for temporarily storing the substrates and a post-exposure bake (PEB) unit corresponding to a predetermined treating unit. This arrangement forms the path for transporting the substrates between the buffer and the PEB unit, to allow PEB treatment of the substrates to be performed smoothly. Similarly, the substrates are transported smoothly to the buffer.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device and method for controlling the operation of a thermal spray torch (12). The inventive device and method are characterised in that an on-board camera (54) and pyrometer (70) are used to measure the properties of the jet (16) and the temperature of the deposit (24) on the part (22) and in that the correction to be made to the supply parameters of the torch (12) is deduced. Furthermore, the invention is characterised in that the corrected parameters are sent to the cabinet (30) that controls the torch (12).

Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for control of the operation of a thermal projection torch (12), characterized in that the characteristics of the jet (16) and the temperature of the deposit (24) on the piece (22) are measured by means of a camera (54) and a combined pyrometer (70). The correction to be made to the supply parameters of the torch (12) are deduced therefrom and the corrected parameters are transmitted to the unit (30) controlling the torch (12).

Abstract: According to the present invention, in changing the concentration of a treatment solution supplied to a substrate, a volume of an existing treatment solution in a tank connected to a treatment solution supply section for supplying the treatment solution to the substrate is first measured. Based on this measured value, a minimum drain volume of the existing treatment solution to be drained out from the tank and a supply volume of either a treatment solution with a predetermined concentration or a diluting fluid to be supplied into the tank is calculated respectively in order to change the treatment solution in the tank to be in an intended volume and to have an intended concentration. Then, the calculated drain volume of the existing treatment solution is drained out from the tank. Meanwhile, the calculated supply volume of either the treatment solution with the predetermined concentration or the diluting fluid is supplied into the tank.

Abstract: The invention includes a method of cleaning a processing chamber by introducing supercritical fluid into the processing chamber. A residue over an internal chamber surface is contacted with the supercritical fluid to remove the residue from the surface. The invention also includes a method of removing deposited material from internal surfaces of a processing system. A cleaning agent comprising at least one of C3H8, C2H6 and CH4 is provided in supercritical phase into at least a portion of the processing system. A material deposited on an internal surface of the processing system is contacted with the cleaning agent to remove at least a portion of the deposited material.

Abstract: There are disclosed methods of controlling the presence of surface and airborne microorganisms in an air handler. The method may comprise: energizing a germicidal lamp to emit distributed UVC radiation; positioning the germicidal lamp in proximity to the heat transfer coil, wherein the intensity of the UVC radiation striking a heat transfer coil of the air handler is to a degree independent of the distance of the germicidal lamp to the heat transfer coil; directing the UVC radiation across the coil face to the coil's tube and fins; reflecting and directing the ultraviolet by the coil's tube and the fins-throughout the coil, thereby increasing the flux density of the ultraviolet radiation and the dosage of the radiation applied to airborne microorganisms and microorganisms carried on the surface; continuing to irradiate the surface with the UVC radiation from the germicidal lamp at least intermittently until the surface is organically clean.

Abstract: A device and method for cleaning paint accessories and particularly roller covers and/or other paint accessories simultaneously or individually. A spray head has a fluid inlet engageable to a source of fluid and a fluid collection chamber in communication with the fluid inlet. A plurality of spray apertures are radially spaced within the spray head to be adjacent the nap of a roller cover during use. A sealing surface positioned within the radius of the spray apertures seals off an end of the roller cover. A housing having an inner cavity for receiving a roller cover has a diameter sized to create cleansing fluid flow through the nap of a roller cover. A plurality of outlet apertures in communication with the inner cavity are radially spaced to be adjacent a nap portion of a roller cover during use. A plurality of decreased diameter nestable sleeves adapted to fit in the housing are also provided to accommodate variously circumferentially dimensioned paint rollers.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a magneto-resistance effect type head that includes an element portion of magneto-resistance effect type and reproduces a read signal of data from a recording medium by the element portion, is proposed. The method includes applying a predetermined DC current to the element portion; and performing heat treatment on a part of the element portion that has been thermally deformed due to application of the DC current.

Abstract: Disclosed is a high damage tolerant Al—Cu alloy of the AA2000 series having a high toughness and an improved fatigue crack growth resistance, including the following composition (in weight percent) Cu 3.8-4.7, Mg 1.0-1.6, Zr 0.06-0.18, Cr<0.15, Mn>0-0.50 , Fe?0.15, Si?0.15, and Mn-containing dispersoids, the balance essentially aluminum and incidental elements and impurities, wherein the Mn-containing dispersoids are at least partially replaced by Zr-containing dispersoids. There is also disclosed a method for producing a rolled high damage tolerant Al—Cu alloy product having a high toughness and an improved fatigue crack growth resistance, and applications of that product as a structural member of an aircraft.

Abstract: To cast a part, an injectable form of an aluminum-copper (206) alloy is generated and the aluminum-copper (206) alloy is injected into a mold. This mold corresponds to the part. In addition, the aluminum-copper (206) alloy is solidified to generate the part and the part is ejected from the mold.

Abstract: A process of producing a maraging steel includes melting a steel of a defined composition, casting the molten steel to obtain a steel ingot, hot forging the steel ingot at a forging ratio of at least 4, then soaking the forged piece one or more times to keep the forged piece in a temperature range of 1100-1280° C. for 10-100 hours, and then plastic working the forged piece. A process of producing a maraging steel of another defined composition includes casting the molten steel to obtain a steel ingot with a defined taper, a defined height to diameter ratio and a defined flatness ratio and plastic working the steel ingot so that the size of a nonmetallic inclusion is 30 ?m or less expressed as the diameter of a circle of circumference equal to the perimeter (“circumference”) of the inclusion.

Abstract: The invention encompasses a method of forming a metallic coating. A metallic glass coating is formed over a metallic substrate. After formation of the coating, at least a portion of the metallic glass can be converted into a crystalline material having a nanocrystalline grain size. The invention also encompasses metallic coatings comprising metallic glass. Additionally, the invention encompasses metallic coatings comprising crystalline metallic material, with at least some of the crystalline metallic material having a nanocrystalline grain size.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for bonding and aperturing one or more fibrous webs including bonding at least one fibrous web in a bonding nip created by a rotatable bonding roll and a rotatable anvil roll and aperturing the at least one fibrous web in an aperturing nip created by a rotatable aperture roll and an anvil roll. The bonding roll has a plurality of protuberances extending from the peripheral bonding surface that define a bonding pattern and result in highly bonded regions within the fibrous web. The aperture roll has a plurality of projections extending from the peripheral aperture surface that define an aperturing pattern. The aperturing pattern substantially aligns with the bonding pattern thereby creating apertures within the highly bonded regions.

Abstract: A piezoelectric ceramic composition including three components, Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3, PbTiO3, and PbZrO3, and having a basic composition formula of Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)xZryTizO3, where 0.90<x+y+z<1.0, exhibits excellent piezoelectric characteristics and heat resistance and has a low sintering temperature of about 900° C., a coupling coefficient Kp not less than 0.50, and a Curie temperature not lower than 300° C. A piezoelectric device using this composition may employ inexpensive silver and silver-palladium alloys containing a high percentage of silver as material of an internal electrode, thus being inexpensive and having excellent characteristics.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a laminated net, and more specifically to a laminate comprising a nonwoven fabric and knitted net to be utilized as rounded bale wrap, wherein the wrap maintains the integrity of the bale during, pick-up, transport, and storage. The net of the present invention is laminate to nonwoven fabric. The nonwoven fabric provides additional coverage to the rounded bale so as to maintain the compact shape of the bale during pick-up, transport, and storage.

Abstract: A device for shaping and contouring a fabric or the like in sewing and handicraft projects. In one configuration, the device includes a strip of solid and ductile metal that is configured to be directly adhered to a fabric surface. At lease one layer of acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive is formed on a bonding of the metal. The shaping device can be bent into various contours and is strong enough to cause material such as tapestry or balsa wood to assume the contours of the shaping device.

Abstract: A building material having a durable exterior finish comprising a fiber cement substrate laminated with a fluorohydrocarbon protective film. The protective film provides the fiber cement substrate with resistance to weathering and maintains the surface texture of the underlying fiber cement substrate while providing an aesthetically pleasing and uniform pre-finish on the exterior surface. The protective film is bonded to the fiber cement substrate using an adhesive composition comprised of a one-component moisture cure polyurethane or polyurea adhesive composition having a reactive isocyanate compound or a two component polyurethane or polyurea composition.

Abstract: According to the invention, the section (2) comprises a double-sided adhesive strip (8) which is covered with a protective film (11). The aforementioned protective film (11) is removed by way of a pull tab (12) before gluing, the tab consisting of two tab parts (15) which are positioned on either side of a slit (16) in the film. The automated method comprises, in the extrusion line, a step whereby the pull tab (12) is joined to the adhesive-covering protective film in the middle of the adhesive area transversely to the section. The tab and the protective film are subsequently cut in order to produce two tab parts which are each connected to the end of one length of protective film (18) which is intended to be torn off. The invention is particularly suitable for use in the car industry and in building and for producers and users of extruded sections which are glued using double-sided adhesive.

Abstract: A method is provided for bonding substrates using a prepolymer composition that is cured with electron beam radiation. The prepolymer composition provided for bonding the substrates contains at least one polyester resin and at least one polymerizable compound.

Abstract: A core material for a vacuum insulation material is produced by forming under heat a mat of inorganic fibers with an uncured, thermosetting organic binder adhered thereon into the core material while pressing the mat for at least 30 seconds such that a density of the mat increases to 150 to 400 kg/m3.

Abstract: The present is directed to an apparatus for etching the top edge and bottom of a wafer. The apparatus includes a substrate support part for supporting a wafer and a movable protect part for preventing fluid for an etch from flowing into a non-etch portion of the wafer. The top edge and bottom of the wafer is etched by a wet etch, and a boundary of the non-etch portion and the edge of the wafer is etched by a dry etch.

Abstract: This application discloses a High-Frequency plasma processing apparatus comprising a process chamber in which a substrate to be processed is placed, a process-gas introduction line for introducing a process gas into the process chamber, a first HF electrode provided in the process chamber, a first HF power source for applying voltage to the first HF electrode, thereby generating plasma of the process gas. The apparatus further comprises a second HF electrode facing the first HF electrode in the process chamber, interposing discharge space, and a series resonator connecting the second electrode and the ground. The frequency of the first HF power source is not lower than 30 MHz. The series resonator is resonant as the distributed constant circuit at the frequency of the first HF power source.

Abstract: A method for forming plate-like ceramic articles, comprising at least one step for deposition by pouring of at least one layer of a ceramic mixture that comprises an aqueous vehicle on a substantially absorbent transfer surface adapted to draw the aqueous vehicle, at least one step for drying so as to obtain a continuous material strand, and a cutting step for cutting the strand into a plurality of ceramic articles. An apparatus for performing the method comprising a framework for supporting an absorbent transfer surface, at least one unit for depositing at least one mixture layer onto the surface, at least one drying unit for at least partial drying of the mixture layer to obtain a continuous strand of plastic ceramic material, and a cutting unit.

Abstract: Resinous coatings can be applied to glass, exhibiting improved adhesion thereto, by including in the coating composition a sulfonic acid derived compound such as 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropanesulfonic acid or a salt thereof. Alternatively, the glass can be first coated with the sulfonic acid derived compound and thereafter the film-forming resin applied.

Abstract: Use for the paper sizing of aqueous polyurethane dispersions from (per)fluoropolyethers obtainable by reaction among the following compounds: a) (per)fluoropolyether diols having a number average molecular weight from 400 to 5,000; b) diisocyanates having formula: OCN—R—NCO??(VIa) ?wherein R is an aliphatic, cycloaliphatic bifunctional radical; or an aromatic bifunctional radical; c) diols containing one carboxylic function and optionally one or both the following components: d) hydrazine and/or aliphatic diamines; e) monofunctional hydroxylic (per)fluoropolyethers having a number average molecular weight in the range 300-1,000.

Abstract: A method for determining the basis weight of a first ply of a fibrous web, which covers a second ply of the fibrous web including the steps of positioning an electromagnetic transmitter and an electromagnetic receiver, radiating the fibrous web, receiving a measuring signal and a reference signal, and determining the basis weight. The positioning an electromagnetic transmitter and an electromagnetic receiver step includes positioning them proximate to a side of the first ply. The radiating the fibrous web step is accomplished by the electromagnetic transmitter radiating the fibrous web with at least one measuring wavelength and at least one reference wavelength, the second ply having different optical characteristics at the measuring wavelength than at the reference wavelength. The receiver receives a measuring signal, which is returned at the measuring wavelength and the receiver receives a reference signal that is returned at the reference wavelength.