Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for hydraulic fluid supply between a hydraulic pump and a hydraulic drive unit, switching hydraulic fluid flow direction to the hydraulic drive unit or stopping hydraulic fluid flow to the hydraulic drive unit when measured hydraulic fluid pressure crosses a predetermined pressure threshold value. The method further comprises calculating an amount of mechanical work done by the hydraulic drive unit and warning an operator or limiting hydraulic fluid flow rate to the hydraulic drive unit when the calculated mechanical work for the drive cycle is less than an expected amount of mechanical work. The apparatus for practicing the method further includes a pressure sensor associated with a hydraulic fluid supply conduit between the pump and the drive unit, and an electronic controller programmed to operate the drive system according to the method.

Abstract: An electropneumatic torque generating system using a pneumatic engine and having a first tank connected to a first of a pair of manifolds with a first discharge connection arrangement so as to be capable of discharging portions of any of the operating gas in the first tank through the first discharge connection arrangement into the first manifold. The system further includes a first gas compressor to thereby discharge operating gases at greater pressures with the first gas compressor inlet being connected to a second of the pair of manifolds through a first input collection connection arrangement so as to be capable of receiving operating gases from that manifold through the first input collection connection arrangement that have flowed from the first manifold.

Abstract: The invention relates to a hydraulic control arrangement for a mobile machine tool, particularly for a forklift, comprising at least two hydraulic loads (10, 12), one of them having a lifting function. According to the invention, the two loads are each controlled via a LUDV valve with inflow measuring diaphragm (36, 44) and LUDV pressure regulator (46) connected downstream.

Abstract: A hydrostatic assembly includes a pump having a yoke and an associated rotating group. The pump yoke has a bucket portion and an arm portion. At least one fluid passage extends through the pump yoke. The hydrostatic assembly also includes a motor having a yoke and an associated rotating group. The motor yoke also has a bucket portion and an arm portion. At least one fluid passage extends through the motor yoke. The arm portion of the pump yoke and the arm portion of the motor yoke have associated coupling portions for fluidly coupling the pump yoke to the motor yoke so that the at least one fluid passage in the pump yoke is in direct fluid communication with the at least one fluid passage in the motor yoke.

Abstract: A system for generating electricity includes a buoyancy pump operable to convert wave motion from a body of water into mechanical energy. The buoyancy pump includes a buoyancy block that reciprocally moves in response to wave motion to pump an operating fluid that is delivered to a turbine to produce electricity. The buoyancy block is preferably sized such that a diameter of the buoyancy block is no less than about one-sixth a wavelength and no greater than about one wavelength of an average wave for a region in which the buoyancy pump is operated.

Abstract: The present disclosure details a thermoacoustic driven compressor having a pressurized housing, which contains within a thermoacoustic engine and a working gas, coupled to a positive displacement reciprocating compressor. The thermoacoustic driven compressor generates scalable compressed air from a given heat source.

Abstract: This invention relates to a stacked, bending actuator 2 comprising at least two leaves 8 having bending or morphing capabilities, material adapted to contract when activated 6 attached to said leaves S; and electronic control IO wherein said leaves 8 and said material adapted contract when activated 6 are stacked in a desired arrangement. This arrangement allows an actuator to have bending capabilities for amplifying linear or rotational movement.

Abstract: A projection (21b4) provided at a tip portion of an inner lip portion (21b) of a first cup seal (21) comes in contact with a second side wall (20c) of a recessed portion (20) and a large axial force is exerted in the axial direction on a first tapered inner peripheral surface (21b1) of the first cup seal (21) from a rear side tapered surface (4b2) of a primary piston (4). This makes it possible to reliably hold the first cup seal (21) in the axial direction by utilizing the axial force. Therefore, the first cup seal (21) can be suppressed from moving in the axial direction. In particular, the projection (21b4) of the first cup seal (21) comes in contact with a tapered surface (20c?) of the second side wall (20c) to obtain a further increased axial force, and the first cup seal (21) can be held more reliably.

Abstract: A brake system for a vehicle including a master cylinder in which a front pressure chamber and a rear pressure chamber are defined by movably supporting an input piston and a pressure piston in a cylinder. A high-pressure supply pipe of an accumulator is coupled to wheel cylinders via hydraulic supply pipes, and coupled to the rear pressure chamber via a hydraulic supply pipe and a second hydraulic pipe. Pressure booster valves and pressure reducing valves are attached to the hydraulic pressure supply pipes, respectively. The wheel cylinder is coupled to the front pressure chamber via the first hydraulic pipe, and a coupling pipe for coupling a first hydraulic pipe and the hydraulic supply pipe is provided with the switching valve.

Abstract: A catalyst warm-up control is carried out in a state with a first exhaust valve closed and a second exhaust valve opened. After completion of the catalyst warm-up, if there is an acceleration request, exhaust gas temperature is acquired. If the exhaust gas temperature is equal to or lower than a predetermined value, the second exhaust valve is opened to an intermediate lift to thereby prevent an abrupt drop in exhaust gas temperature. If the exhaust gas temperature is higher than the predetermined value, the second exhaust valve is fully closed to thereby introduce the whole amount of exhaust gas to a turbine. A vehicle control device that achieves both prevention of catalyst deactivation and acceleration performance enhancement can be thus provided.

Abstract: A power generation system that includes a heat source loop that supplies heat to a turbine loop. The heat can be waste heat from a steam turbine, industrial process or refrigeration or air-conditioning system, solar heat collectors or geothermal sources. The heat source loop may also include a heat storage medium to allow continuous operation even when the source of heat is intermittent. In the turbine loop a working fluid is boiled, injected into the turbine, recovered condensed and recycled. The power generation system further includes a heat reclaiming loop having a fluid that extracts heat from the turbine loop. The fluid of the heat claiming loop is then raised to a higher temperature and then placed in heat exchange relationship with the working fluid of the turbine loop. The turbine includes one or more blades mounted on a rotating member.

Abstract: A motor oil heating system for a vehicle comprising one or more solar panels comprised of one or more photovoltaic cells; one or more heaters thermally coupled to the motor oil, wherein the solar panels are electrically coupled to the heaters and power the heaters based on a voltage generated by the solar panel such that the heaters warm the engine oil.

Abstract: A solar thermal power plant is provided comprising a solar collection system and a steam-electric power plant. The solar collection system comprises one or more tube radiation absorbers containing a thermal fluid therewithin, the system being configured to heat the thermal fluid by passing the thermal fluid through the one or more tube radiation absorbers while the absorbers are irradiated with solar radiation. The steam-electric power plant comprises an intermediate-pressure steam turbine, a low-pressure steam turbine, at least one additional steam turbine having an inlet pressure higher than that of the intermediate-pressure steam turbine, and piping containing a working fluid. Each turbine is associated with a heat exchange system adapted to transfer heat from the thermal fluid to the working fluid.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are described for generating power. A first liquid comprising brine from a seawater reverse osmosis desalination process is provided on one side of a semipermeable membrane. This liquid has an osmotic pressure greater than seawater. A second liquid having an osmotic pressure less than seawater is provided on a second side of the membrane. A hydraulic pressure is provided to the first liquid that is less than the osmotic pressure difference between the first liquid and the second liquid so that some of the second liquid flows through the membrane and combines with the first liquid at a lesser rate than would occur without the hydraulic pressure thereby increasing the potential energy in the combined first and second liquids. The combined first and second liquids are delivered to a turbine thereby converting the increased potential energy into useful mechanical energy.

Abstract: The invention refers to a method for operating a steam turbine power plant, and also a device for generating steam for the purpose of power generation. The method for operating a steam turbine power plant comprises at least one steam generator which is fired with a solid, granular fuel, for example with brown coal, wherein the fuel is first subject to an indirect drying in a fluidized bed drier and the fluidized bed drier is at least partially heated with steam from the water-steam cycle of the steam generator. The method is characterized in that temperature controlling in the drier is carried out in two stages in dependence upon the moisture content of the fuel, wherein first of all the temperature of the fluidized bed drier is controlled via the steam pressure of the heating steam and downstream of this controlling, a controlling of the superheating temperature of the heating steam is carried out in dependence upon the steam pressure.

Abstract: A power-generating tower comprises: at least one of the lower heat-exchange assemblies, at least one of the upper heat-exchange assemblies, a tower structure arranged to support each upper heat-exchange assembly, at least one ascending circulating-fluid column within the tower structure, at least one descending circulating-fluid column within the tower structure, and at least one turbine. Each ascending column is arranged and connected to receive the circulating fluid from at least one of the lower heat-exchange assemblies and to convey the circulating fluid thus received upward and into at least one of the upper heat-exchange assemblies. Each descending column is arranged and connected to receive the circulating fluid from at least one of the upper heat-exchange assemblies and to convey the circulating fluid thus received downward and into at least one of the lower heat-exchange assemblies. The turbine is arranged to be driven by flow of circulating fluid.

Abstract: An air/fuel premixer comprising a peripheral wall defining a mixing chamber, a nozzle disposed at least partially within the peripheral wall comprising an outer annular wall spaced from the peripheral wall so as to define an outer air passage between the peripheral wall and the outer annular wall, an inner annular wall disposed at least partially within and spaced from the outer annular wall, so as to define an inner air passage, and at least one fuel gas annulus between the outer annular wall and the inner annular wall, the at least one fuel gas annulus defining at least one fuel gas passage, at least one air inlet for introducing air through the inner air passage and the outer air passage to the mixing chamber, and at least one fuel inlet for injecting fuel through the fuel gas passage to the mixing chamber to form an air/fuel mixture.

Abstract: An improved gas turbine combustor (20) including a basket (26) and a multiplicity of micro openings (29) arrayed across an inlet wall (27) for passage of a fuel/air mixture for ignition within the combustor. The openings preferably have a diameter on the order of the quenching diameter; i.e. the port diameter for which the flame is self-extinguishing, which is a function of the fuel mixture, temperature and pressure. The basket may have a curved rectangular shape that approximates the shape of the curved rectangular shape of the intake manifolds of the turbine.

Abstract: A combustor for a gas turbine engine includes an inner liner and an outer liner circumscribing the inner liner and forming a combustion chamber with the inner liner. The outer liner is a dual walled liner with a first wall and a second wall. The combustor includes a fuel igniter comprising a tip portion configured to ignite an air and fuel mixture in the combustion chamber and an igniter tube positioning the fuel igniter relative to the combustion chamber. The igniter tube includes a plurality of holes configured to direct cooling air toward the tip portion of the fuel igniter.

Abstract: Fuel and air are injected in a first poloidal flow in a first poloidal direction within a first annular zone of an annular combustor. A first combustion gas from the at least partial combustion of the fuel and air is discharged into an annular transition zone of the annular combustor and transformed to a second combustion gas therein within an at least partial second poloidal flow followed by an at least partial third poloidal flow in the annular transition zone, wherein the direction of the second poloidal flow is opposite to that of the first and third poloidal flows. The second combustion gas is discharged into a second annular zone of the annular combustor, and then transformed to a third combustion gas therein before being discharged therefrom, responsive to which a back pressure is generated in the annular combustor.

Abstract: A powerplant (8) is provided with a drive shaft (4) and at least one engine (1) having an outlet shaft (2) that is necessarily set into rotation during starting of the engine (1), the drive shaft (4) being suitable for setting a mechanical system (7) into motion. The powerplant (8) includes a link member (3) having a clutch (15) and a declutchable freewheel (25) for mechanically linking the outlet shaft (2) to the drive shaft (4).

Abstract: A magnetic assembly having a magnetic field mechanism is proposed. The magnetic assembly includes a central limb and a top and bottom yoke. At least a first coil is disposed on a first side of one of the top and bottom yoke and at least a second coil is disposed on a second side. The magnetic assembly further includes a first magnetocaloric unit disposed on the first side between the top and bottom yoke and a second magnetocaloric unit disposed on the second side wherein the first magnetocaloric unit and the second magnetocaloric unit are alternately magnetized and demagnetized to generate thermal units.

Abstract: A thermoelectric converter made of a thermoelectric conversion material is provided in which metal or alloy particles having an average particle size of 1 to 100 nm are dispersed, wherein at least a part of the metal or alloy particles are dispersed at a distance not more than the mean free path of the phonon of the thermoelectric conversion material.

Abstract: A flowline system for transferring cryogenic liquids between a cryogenic liquid storage tank and a cryogenic liquid receiving/loading facility, and a method of maintaining the system at or marginally above cryogenic temperature during periods between transfer of cryogenic liquids between the cryogenic liquid storage tank and the cryogenic liquid receiving/loading facility are provided. The flowline system has a main transfer conduit and a vapour return line in fluid communication with the cryogenic liquid storage tank and the cryogenic liquid receiving/loading facility. A cooling medium line is provided that is in fluid communication with the main transfer conduit, the vapour return line, and a source of cooled boil-off gas, wherein the cooled boil-off gas is at or marginally above cryogenic temperature.

Abstract: A portable liquid oxygen medical delivery system including a portable liquid oxygen delivery apparatus and a portable liquid oxygen recharger. The portable liquid oxygen delivery apparatus contains an initial quantity of liquid oxygen. The liquid oxygen delivery apparatus is sufficiently lightweight for portability by an ambulatory patient and has a fill port for receiving liquid oxygen. The liquid oxygen recharger stores a supplemental quantity of liquid oxygen and is also sufficiently lightweight for portability by an ambulatory individual. The liquid oxygen recharger has an interface for interfacing the liquid oxygen recharger with the portable liquid oxygen delivery apparatus for delivering the supplemental quantity of liquid oxygen to the portable liquid oxygen delivery apparatus.

Abstract: A device and method suitable for the cryopreservation of all types of biological cells is described. In this method, an ultra-fast cooling/warming device system is used to achieve vitrification of individual cells or cell suspensions without cryoprotectant agents (CPA) or with a low concentration of CPAs (<1M), to attenuate the formation of intracellular ice crystal formation during cooling, and to minimize devitrification during subsequent warming. The device system applies oscillating heat pipe (OHP) and nanofluid techniques, and is built through microfabrication. Several devices may be networked to increase the total volume of cell samples that the cryopreservation system can process simultaneously.

Abstract: A method for controlling an air conditioning system in a vehicle to reduce the humidity entering into the interior of the vehicle is disclosed. One aspect of the disclosure is that a measure for the amount of water collected at the fresh air intake port is determined as a function of a sensor signal. Thereafter, the determined measure for the amount of water collected at the fresh air intake port may be used to control the air conditioning system in such a manner that the amount of air that is drawn in through the fresh air intake port is reduced.

Abstract: A water dispenser is provided, which includes a cold water container configured to store water therein, having a hollow portion; a water purification device fluidly connected to the cold water container and configured to purifying the water supplied from the cold water container, the water purification device being installed inside the hollow portion of the cold water container; and a cooling device installed outside the cold water container and configured to cool the water stored in the cold water container.

Abstract: A dehumidifier includes an air flow path with first, second and third segments in series from upstream to downstream and passing ambient air respectively to an evaporator coil then to a condenser coil and then discharging same. The air flow path has a fourth segment passing ambient air to the condenser coil in parallel with the noted second air flow path segment. A bypass door is configured to selectively block air flow along the fourth segment and allow air flow along the fourth segment.

Abstract: An atmospheric dehumidifier air handling unit producing condensation water from moisture in the atmospheric suitable for water generator and drinking purposes. A method and apparatus to produce pure condensation water from moisture in the atmosphere using energy saving and environmentally friendly atmospheric dehumidifier of a condensing unit. In warm climates, filtered and sterilized fresh atmospheric air is passed through several evaporator cooling coils to condense the moisture in the atmospheric air. The condensed water is then collected on a drip pan and into a discharge line cooler. In cool climates, filtered and sterilized cold fresh atmospheric air is passed to a condenser of the condensing unit of the air handling unit. The fresh heated air is then passed to several evaporator cooling coils to condense the moisture in the atmospheric air. The condensed water is then collected on a drip pan.

Abstract: The present invention provides a control system for controlling the ice volume fraction of a circulating ice-containing medium. The control system comprises a freezer apparatus for generating an ice-containing medium, a pump for circulating the ice-containing medium through a flow circuit comprising an outward line, a main line and a return line, and a bypass line connecting the outward line and return line to form a bypass circuit. In use, the time taken for circulating ice-containing medium to pass through the bypass circuit is less than the time taken for circulating ice-containing medium to pass through the flow circuit. The present invention also provides a method for controlling the ice volume fraction of a circulating ice-containing medium using such a control system.

Abstract: A fuel-powered engine is provided to drive a mobile air conditioning or refrigeration unit such as a portable chiller, a container refrigeration unit, a portable packaged system, a transport tractor-trailer or truck refrigeration unit, etc. A control rapidly changes the engine speed between the predefined set of discreet engine speeds to precisely adjust the capacity of the refrigerant system. If the engine operates only at a single speed, then the control cycles the engine between this operating speed and a zero speed (the engine is shut off). If the engine can operate at multiple discreet speeds, then the control can cycle the engine between any of these speeds (including a zero speed). When a lower capacity is desirable, the engine operates for a longer time interval at a lower speed, and when a higher capacity is desirable, the engine operates for a longer period of time at a higher speed. The cycle rate is selected to control the comfort (e.g.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for limiting the adverse effects of temperature on the electrical energy storage system (ESS) of an electric vehicle after the vehicle has been turned off are provided. In general, whether or not coolant is circulated through a coolant loop coupled to the ESS depends on the difference between the ambient temperature and a preset temperature, the preset temperature typically corresponding to the temperature of the ESS.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for actively cooling the battery pack of an electric vehicle after the vehicle has been turned off, thereby limiting the adverse effects of temperature on battery life, are provided. Different battery pack cooling techniques are provided, thus allowing the cooling technique used in a particular instance to be selected not only based on the thermal needs of the battery pack, but also on the thermal capacity and energy requirements of the selected approach.

Abstract: A gear mechanism may include a first gear for operating a first drive object a second gear for operating a second drive object in cooperation with the first drive object and a third gear connected with a drive source. The second gear may include a small gear part engaged with the first gear, and a large gear part engaged with the third gear. An end face of the second gear on the large gear part side may be formed with a flange part and the flange part is formed with a cutout part for allowing the large gear part to engage with the third gear. The gear mechanism may be preferably applied to an ice making device. An assembling method for the gear mechanism may utilize a previously formed mark part on the first gear for determining a position in a circumferential direction of the first gear with respect to the case body and a previously formed positioning recessed part in the small gear part of the second gear so that a positioning pin is capable of being engaged with the positioning recessed part.

Abstract: Systems and methods that receive a digital signal outputted from a single line of a device are disclosed. Embodiments of the systems and methods calculate the temperature of the device based on the digital signal. Embodiments of the systems and methods generate a signal to a cooling system to cool the device when the calculated temperature of the device is higher than a predetermined temperature.

Abstract: An air conditioner includes a compressor, a first heat exchanger, and a first pipe configured to allow refrigerant to flow from the first heat exchanger. A bypass pipe is branched off from the first pipe and is configured to expand refrigerant flowing through the bypass pipe. A second heat exchanger is configured to allow the expanded refrigerant of the bypass pipe to heat-exchange with the refrigerant flowing along the first pipe. A second pipe couples the second heat exchanger to the compressor so that the refrigerant expanded by the bypass pipe and heat-exchanged at the second heat exchanger can be introduced into the compressor.

Abstract: A refrigerated case with reduced frost operation includes a housing having an open front and defining a product storage space therein. A contact cooling device or gravity cooling device is disposed within the space to receive chilled liquid coolant from a coolant system supply header and to return warmed liquid coolant to a coolant system return header. An air flow device in an air flow path directs a flow of air over a dehumidification coil that operates frost-free at a temperature of greater than 32° F. for discharge as a dehumidified air curtain over the open front. A precooling coil is provided in the air flow path upstream of the dehumidification coil, the precooling coil receives warmed liquid coolant from the coolant system return header to precool the flow of air, so that the dehumidified air curtain operates as a humidity tempering boundary to minimize the humidity within the storage space.

Abstract: The present invention is a lighted portable device for storing foods and other items at a cool temperature, such as a cooler device, and a means for providing a raised surface that may be lighted. The light source of the cooler device may be operable to provide either or both external illumination and internal illumination. The light source of the cooler device may be powered by several sources, including a solar means, whereby the light source will function even in remote areas devoid of a reliable source of electricity. The cooler device may be waterproof and weather durable. It may have one or more table portions or tabletop surfaces which may be locked into place to create a table that incorporates the cooler device. Adjustable legs may extend from the base of the cooler device to raise the cooler device off the ground.

Abstract: A dehumidifying cooling device for district heating is developed that comprising; a case with partitions divided into interior, which are a wet channel consisting of an outside air suction, exhaust and a dry channel for circulated air suction from conditioning area and air supply; a rotating sensible heat exchanger to heat exchange outside air of wet channel with the circulated air in the dry channel; a heating coil between the sensible heat exchanger and the exhaust for raising the temperature of outside air; a dehumidifying wheel for adsorbing and removing moisture contained in the circulated air; the dehumidifying wheel being regenerated by evaporating the adsorbed moisture thereby supplying the evaporated moisture into the high-temperature outside air in the wet channel, and a regenerative-evaporative cooler installed between the circulated air supply and the sensible heat exchanger for cooling the circulated air in the dry channel, the cooled circulated air delivered to the air supply.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides an air conditioning (AC) system that evaporates its own condensate. This AC system includes a condenser coil and an evaporator coil that produces condensate. The AC system also includes a wicking-evaporative device that is configured to wick and evaporate the condensate in the vicinity of the condenser coil.

Abstract: Provided is an air conditioner for a vehicle, which has an improved condensate discharging structure so as to prevent condensate from being leaked through a divided surface of a left and right divided type air conditioning case. To this end, a condensate discharging port is formed at a lower side of an evaporator of the first and second cases, and a partition wall is formed from a lower side of a drain passage to an upper side thereof so that the condensate is flowed through the condensate discharging passage without a leakage of the condensate.

Abstract: The earth consists mainly of water and water exists on the earth's surface, in aquifers in the soil as groundwater, and in the atmosphere as water vapour. However, of all the water on earth, only less than 3 percent is fresh water. Due to factors such as climate changes, environmental pollution, as well as population growth, the available amount of fresh water sources is dwindling rapidly. In addition, there are many problems associated with provision of potable water using existing techniques. One way to overcome the aforementioned problems is to extract water from the atmosphere. However, hardware costs of current commercial systems are relatively high and they are not efficient in terms of performance. An embodiment of the invention provides a system and a method for obtaining potable water by extracting atmospheric water.

Abstract: Refrigeration device comprising a water filter, which is housed in a central cavity of a coil condenser.

Abstract: A medium- and low-temperature integrated refrigerating/freezing system (40) comprises an integrated unit (41), a medium-temperature refrigerating cabinet (43), a low-temperature freezing cabinet (42) and corresponding connecting pipes (44). The integrated unit (41) further comprises a common condenser (54) for condensing the high-temperature and high-pressure gaseous refrigerant in the medium-temperature refrigerating system and the low-temperature freezing system, a common reservoir (55) for the storage of the high-temperature and high-pressure liquid refrigerant in the medium-temperature refrigerating system and the low-temperature freezing system, a subcooling adjusting mechanism (56, 57) for adjusting the subcooling degree in the low-temperature freezing system and a suction temperature adjusting mechanism (431, 432, 58) for adjusting the suction temperature of the low-temperature freezing system.

Abstract: A liquid dispensing cooler for beverages in the form of an insulated ice chest having an insulated base, insulated side walls, insulated end walls and an insulated cover; a spigot mounted in one of the chest walls above the base and having a controllable dispensing valve adjacent an exterior surface of the chest wall; at least one inverted bottle having a valve body mounted thereon, said valve body having locking grooves and splines formed thereon on upper portions and having an air venting means integrally formed by crenellations on lowermost portions thereon; a reservoir with a reservoir top wall having a circular opening with locking grooves and splines formed thereon adapted to engage and to support an inverted bottle through said grooves and splines on the valve body; and a delivery tube communicating between the reservoir and the spigot to permit gravity flow of liquid from the reservoir to the spigot.

Abstract: A scroll compressor and a refrigerating apparatus having the same are provided. In the scroll compressor, an angle formed between an injection passage that guides refrigerant from a condenser back into an intermediate compression chamber and a back pressure passage that guides refrigerant from the intermediate compression chamber into a back pressure chamber may be designed so as to prevent leakage of refrigerant from the intermediate compression chamber into the back pressure chamber. This allows an appropriate pressure to be maintained the back pressure chamber, and increases an amount of refrigerant supplied into the compression chambers, thereby improving performance of the scroll compressor and a refrigerating apparatus in which such a scroll compressor is installed.

Abstract: A refrigerant distribution system has a plurality of chambers formed inside a refrigerant distribution plate, each of the plurality of chambers extending from one end of the refrigerant distribution plate into the refrigerant distribution plate; and a plurality of holes formed in each of the plurality of chambers, the plurality of holes fluidly communicating each of the plurality of chambers with an outside of the refrigerant distribution place. The evaporator may be oriented such that the refrigerant flows horizontally with respect to gravity. The present invention may improve the thermal performance of the evaporator while the evaporator is oriented sub-optimally. Often, with horizontal flow through an evaporator, the refrigerant phases, liquid and vapor, may separate in the manifold, resulting in poor distribution of refrigerant in the evaporator core. The refrigerant distribution plate of the present invention evenly distributes the refrigerant in the core.

Abstract: A process and also an arrangement for disposing of one of more carbon dioxide-containing fractions which occur at one or more sites of a fractionation and/or liquefaction process such as, for example, a natural gas liquefaction process. The carbon dioxide-containing fraction(s) is or are subjected to a purification (B) and/or liquefaction (C) and subsequently sequestered (D). Preferably, use is made of at least one substream (6) of the liquefied carbon dioxide-containing fraction(s) as refrigerant (D) within the fractionation and/or liquefaction process.

Abstract: A complementary pair of broken heart shaped urn pendants, each having an access port, magnet, jagged inner surface, curved outer surface, clasp, front vertical wall, and rear vertical wall, and means for removably securing the pair together.