Abstract: A gear arrangement is disclosed herein. The gear arrangement includes a housing. The gear arrangement also includes a plurality of gears at least partially disposed in the housing and engaged with respect to one another. The gear arrangement also includes a support post mounted to the housing. The support post supports at least one of the gears. The support post has a first portion extending away from the housing and encircled by one of the gears. The support post also has a pin projecting away from the first portion. The first portion and the pin are eccentric to one another such that the first portion is centered on a first axis and the pin is centered on a second axis. The first and second axes are parallel to and spaced from one another. The gear arrangement also includes a plurality of pin apertures defined by the housing.

Abstract: There is provided a variable capacity turbine that is capable of suppressing separation from an outer peripheral face of an involute dividing wall at an inlet portion of an outer scroll, enhancing performance, and increasing a flow rate. The variable capacity turbine includes: a turbine housing having an involuted scroll formed therein; a turbine wheel rotatably provided on an inner periphery side of the scroll; the involute dividing wall mounted on the turbine housing to divide the scroll into an inner scroll and the outer scroll; and a flow regulating valve for opening and closing an introducing port formed at an inlet end of the outer scroll. The inlet portion of the outer scroll is formed to have a continuous and gentle throttle flow path from an upstream side to a downstream side.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided and includes a first member with a flow diverting member extending from a surface thereof and a second member disposed proximate to the first member with a clearance gap area defined between a surface of the second member and a distal end of the flow diverting member such that a fluid path, along which fluid flows from an upstream section and through the clearance gap area, is formed between the surfaces of the first and second members. The second member is formed to define dual vortex chambers at the upstream section in which the fluid is directed to flow in vortex patterns prior to being permitted to flow through the clearance gap area.

Abstract: A turbomachine includes a housing having an inner surface, a compressor, a turbine and a rotary member including a plurality of blade members configured as part of one of the compressor and the turbine. Each of the plurality of blade members includes a base portion and a tip portion. The turbomachine also includes a honeycomb seal member mounted to the inner surface of the housing adjacent the rotary member. The honeycomb seal member includes a contoured surface having formed therein a deformation zone. The deformation zone includes an inlet zone and an outlet zone. The inlet zone is spaced a first distance from the tip portion of each of the plurality of blade members and the outlet zone is spaced a second distance from the tip portion of each of the plurality of blade members. The second distance being substantially equal to or less than the first distance.

Abstract: A gas turbine with a stator blade is disclosed. The stator blade is fastened on a blade carrier and includes a blade airfoil which extends inwards in the radial direction from an outer platform into a hot gas passage. A cooling medium can flow through an interior of the blade airfoil, such as cooling air, which flows through an access in the blade carrier into a first plenum which is arranged above the outer platform, and from there, via an inlet which is provided in the outer platform, flows into the interior of the blade airfoil.

Abstract: A gas turbine engine has an oil tube for delivering oil through a high temperature zone of the engine to an engine component for cooling and lubrication. An insulation tube surrounds the oil tube and extends in a substantial length of the oil tube. The opposed ends of the insulation tube are integrally and sealingly connected to respective end portions of the oil tube to form a dead air annulus between the oil tube and the insulation tube.

Abstract: A casing for a turbomachine rotor wheel includes a plurality of circumferential grooves, each of substantially constant section, with the section areas of the circumferential grooves decreasing from upstream to downstream on going from the first groove to the last groove. By treating the casing in this way, the efficiency of the rotor wheel is optimized and its surge margin is improved.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a casing (5) for a rotor of a turbomachine, more particularly for a fan (1) of a turbojet engine (2), comprising a peripheral shroud (6) designed to form a clamping collar around the casing, characterized in that the shroud has at least one fitting (12, 13) or flange for the attachment of equipment.

Abstract: Geometries of foil shapes that act particularly well to increase the power output of adjacent vertical axis turbines are presented.

Abstract: A turbine shroud assembly is disclosed, the shroud assembly including an outer shroud, at least one inner shroud attached to the outer shroud, and at least one discourager enclosed within the inner shroud. The discourager prevents the hot gas or steam in the turbine from having a direct line of access to the outer shroud. In one embodiment, one inner shroud is provided for the shroud assembly, with one discourager enclosed within the inner shroud, the discourager positioned offset from the inner shroud so as to extend past the inner shroud and into an inner shroud of a neighboring shroud assembly. In another embodiment, a plurality of inner shrouds are provided, each inner shroud enclosing a discourager, the discouragers being adjacent to each other within the inner shrouds and positioned offset from the inner shrouds so as to cover a gap between the inner shrouds.

Abstract: The invention at hand relates to a housing for a compressor of a gas turbine, in particular of an aircraft gas turbine, with an external housing with at least one air supply opening and an interior housing formed by at least two housing segments, with the housing segments having at least one injection nozzle to inject air suctioned in via the air supply openings into a flow channel in the area of blade tips of blades of a rotor of the compressor. In this case, the housing segment has at least one air flow channel, with the air flow channel being designed in such a way that a direct air supply to the at least one injection nozzle occurs via at least one air supply element arranged in the air supply opening of the exterior housing. The invention relates moreover to a compressor of a gas turbine as well as to a method for the manufacture of a housing segment of a compressor housing.

Abstract: A shrouded wind turbine comprises an impeller and a turbine shroud surrounding the impeller. The shroud includes alternating inward and outward curving elements that form mixing elements on a trailing edge of the turbine shroud. The inward and outward curving elements have exposed lateral surfaces, or in other words do not have sidewalls joining the inward and outward curving elements. This allows for both transverse mixing and radial mixing of air flow through the turbine shroud with air flow passing along the exterior of the turbine shroud.

Abstract: Various embodiments of ported-shroud centrifugal compressors are described. In some embodiments a wall of a compressor housing defines a pair of bulb-shaped hollow spaces or “bulbs”, one located proximate the compressor wheel and the other spaced upstream from the wheel, and having a connection therebetween. The downstream bulb is connected to the main flow path of the compressor by a port slot through the wall. The upstream bulb is connected to the inlet area of the main flow path by a passage through the wall. The bulbs can provide acoustic wave cancellation through multiple internal reflections in various directions. In one embodiment, the upstream bulb has a second passage connected to it, facing axially upstream, for receiving a portion of the total flow in a choked-flow operating regime, and conducting that portion through the upstream bulb, through the connection to the downstream bulb, and through the port slot into the main flow path.

Abstract: The present invention relates to wind supply devices, particularly to an omnidirectional electric fan, comprising a support frame, characterized in that a support ring is movably connected to the support frame, and a fan body is movably connected in the support ring so as to turn to left and right in the support ring. The electric fan not only enables the fan body to swing up and down in a perpendicular direction but also swing to left and right in a horizontal direction, thereby turning at a large angle, providing a broader wind supply scope and facilitating use.

Abstract: A turbomachine housing having a parting line is provided. The turbomachine housing has a first housing part with a first parting line bead, which is implemented on the parting line, a second housing part with a second parting line bead which is implemented on the parting line, and a plurality of parting line clamps. The first parting line bead is enclosed together with the second parting line bead by the parting line clamps, so that the first housing part and the second housing part are held together by the parting line clamps using a positive connection on the parting line beads.

Abstract: A rotor of a turbomachine includes a rotor drum located at a central axis and a plurality of buckets secured to the rotor drum. A rotor shell extends between axially adjacent buckets of the plurality of buckets and is secured to and supported by the plurality of buckets defining a cooling passage between the rotor drum and the rotor shell. A low pressure sink is located at an upstream end of the rotor receptive of a coolant flow through the cooling passage. A method of cooling a rotor of a steam turbine includes locating a rotor shell radially outboard of a rotor drum defining a cooling passage therebetween. A flow of steam is urged from a downstream portion of the steam turbine through the cooling passage toward a low pressure sink located at an upstream end of the steam turbine thereby cooling the rotor.

Abstract: A fan retention shaft is provided for retaining a fan within a gas turbine engine in the event of fan shaft failure. The fan retention shaft has a first shaft which in use extends from the engine and a second shaft to which in use the fan is attached, the second shaft being coaxial with the first shaft and the first and second shafts defining an annular passage between them. An energy absorbing medium is disposed within the annular passage. The fan retention shaft has a retaining formation for preventing the first shaft and the second shaft from moving axially with respect to one another. The retaining formation is configured to release the first shaft and the second shaft from their relative axial positions when a threshold axial load is applied to the fan retention shaft. The energy absorbing medium is arranged to absorb kinetic energy from the second shaft as the second shaft moves axially with respect to the first shaft.

Abstract: A helical auger turbine and hydrokinetic device for use with electrical generators for producing electricity. A helical turbine blade may be mounted on a central shaft, and a flange extending perpendicularly to an edge of the turbine blade. The helical auger may be a multi-section auger having radial sections covering a radial arc of between 45 degrees and 180 degrees, and that are rotational molded with identical center sections. The auger may have tapered end sections. The radial and end sections may be interlockingly mounted onto the central shaft to enable the complete transfer of torque captured by the helical auger by a moving fluid media, such as a tidal water flow, to the central shaft. The adjacent surfaces of the radial and end sections may be flush with one another to reduce disruptions of the moving fluid flowing over the completed helical auger and rotating the assembled helical auger.

Abstract: A fan blade assembly having both an electrical connection and a mechanical connection to a rotating hub. The assembly is configured so that a single installation motion creates the mechanical connection and the electrical connection. The electrical connection preferably includes multiple independent conductor paths.

Abstract: A vertical axis wind turbine apparatus includes a stationary support platform having a platform pipe fixed to the platform. The platform pipe has an axis. The apparatus also includes a power ring dimensioned and configured for rotational movement about the platform pipe and having an axis of rotation coincident with the axis of the platform pipe. The power ring includes a sleeve concentric with the platform pipe that has a plurality openings therein. A plurality of rollers is carried on the power ring and each of the rollers extends through one of the openings and abuts the platform pipe thereby facilitating rotation of the power ring about the platform pipe. A plurality of elongated blades is carried on the power ring about the periphery thereof.

Abstract: Rotor-type super windmill based on logarithmic spiral-shaped load-bearing elements represents a single block of two vertical rotors having inverted curvature of load-bearing elements producing in the rotary mode in the inter rotor space circulation of velocity of both rotors in one direction and ensuring summation thereof with the velocity of the air flow.

Abstract: A fixing device for fixating a segment of a wind turbine blade to a mold in which the blade segment is manufactured, wherein the blade segment has a fixating portion. The fixing device comprises: a first portion for removably fixating the blade segment at its fixating portion to the mold; and a second portion for fixating the fixing device to the mold.

Abstract: A propeller (1) for a wind motor (12), wherein: the propeller (1) is rotatable about a rotation axis (2) which is inclined by an angle of essentially 45 degrees with respect to the horizontal plane, the propeller (1) has at least two propeller blades (3), each of which having a blade axis (4) extending perpendicularly from the rotation axis (2), and each one of said propeller blades (3) has a front side (5) and a rear side (6), the front side (5) being intended to face towards the wind during at least a part of a revolution about the rotation axis (2), wherein each one of said propeller blades (3) is inclined by an angle of essentially 45 degrees with respect to the rotation axis (2).

Abstract: A method of inducing compressive residual stress of blading members integrally formed with a rotor. The method includes using a caliper-type burnishing tool such that the caliper arms of the tool are contoured and oriented for placing the burnishing elements on opposite sides of the blading member to be treated. The blading member is burnished to introduce a pre-determined pattern of residual compressive stresses in a selected area of the blade.

Abstract: An annulus filler element (40) for a rotor of a turbomachine, the annulus filler element (40) comprising: a lid portion (42) having a radially outwardly facing surface for forming an inner wall of a flow annulus of the rotor between adjacent blades (102) and a radially inwardly facing surface; and a nose cone attachment portion (52) integrally formed with the lid portion (42) for connection with a nose cone (122) of the turbomachine.

Abstract: A blade for a gas turbine includes a leading edge running in a longitudinal direction substantially radially to an axis of the turbine; a trailing edge running in the longitudinal direction; a blade body disposed between the leading edge and the trailing edge so as to define a pressure side and a suction side; an exit slot disposed in the blade body in an area of the trailing edge and running in the longitudinal direction and configured to discharge a cooling medium from an interior of the blade body; and a row of first and second control elements disposed in the exit slot in a distributed manner in the longitudinal direction and configured to control a mass flow of the cooling medium exiting through the exit slot, the first control elements having a first configuration and the second control elements having a second configuration different from the first configuration.

Abstract: An automatically controlled methanol injection system for oil and gas production streams including an electric methanol injection pump and a temperature sensor and switch, the sensor and switch adapted to automatically adjust the injection of methanol as a function of sensed temperature.

Abstract: A condensate pump for an HVAC system includes a reservoir for collecting condensate water, a pump motor connected to an impeller pump for pumping the condensate water out of the reservoir, and a floatless pump controller. The floatless pump controller detects the water level in the reservoir and, based on the water level in the reservoir, controls the operation of the pump motor, and if necessary, sounds an alarm and shuts down the HVAC system. The floatless pump controller may employ an ultrasonic transducer or capacitance sensors to detect the level of condensate water in the reservoir.

Abstract: A water-lifting pump apparatus which is free of a discharge valve and a check valve, is low in cost, and is capable of reducing vibration and noise due to a waterfall after the end of water pumping operation. The water-lifting pump apparatus has a suction tank (10), a discharge tank (20), a pump (30) for pumping water in the suction tank (10) into the discharge tank (20), and a discharge piping (50) connected to a discharge side of the pump, an actuator (60) for actuating the pump (50), a reverse flow preventing mechanism (80) for preventing a reverse flow of water pumped into the discharge tank (20) toward the discharge piping (50), and a back flow rate control (90) for controlling the flow rate of a waterfall falling from the discharge piping (50) into the suction tank (10) when pumping operation is finished.

Abstract: An alarm system is provided for generating an alert when a water-powered sump pump is activated and water is being used by the water-powered sump pump. The alarm system includes a water sensor for detecting if water within a sump reaches the sensor and a housing for containing sensor electronics, wherein the water sensor is supported by the housing. In addition, a clamp is attached to the housing for releasably attaching the housing to a pipe such that the alarm system may be positioned to alert a user when water-powered sump pump is activated.

Abstract: A method of simulating attenuation of an impulse signal of a reciprocating compressor includes providing a reciprocating compressor that includes a crank connected to a motor, a compression chamber, a reciprocating piston positioned in the compression chamber, and a connecting rod attached to the piston. The method also includes connecting the connecting rod to the crank with a first crank pin, mounting at least one transducer on the reciprocating compressor, running the compressor, measuring a first impulse signal with the at least one transducer, replacing the first crank pin with a second crank pin, the second crank pin having a diameter different than the diameter of the first crank pin, running the compressor, measuring a second impulse signal with the at least one transducer, and comparing the first impulse signal to the second impulse to determine an amount of attenuation between the first and second impulse signals.

Abstract: In a hydraulic pressure circuit including an introduction section through which oil is introduced, a main passage section installed at a downstream side of the introduction section to be communicated with a supply section through which oil is supplied to each of slide sections of an internal combustion engine, a branch passage branched from the main passage section to supply oil to a hydraulic pressure actuator, and a control valve having a valve body which is moved in accordance with a pressure of an upstream side thereof, and a variable capacitance pump configured to drain oil to the introduction section, the variable capacitance pump is configured to vary a drained flow quantity in accordance with the drained pressure of oil and a pressure under which the oil drained flow quantity is started to be varied is higher than a pressure under which the valve body is started to move.

Abstract: The invention relates to a converter for converting mechanical energy into hydraulic energy and to a robot implementing said converter. The invention can particularly be used in the production of humanoid robots in which autonomy is to be improved. The converter includes a shaft rotated by mechanical energy about a first axis relative to a casing, a hub comprising a bore formed about a second axis, the shaft rotating in the bore, the two axes being parallel and a distance between the axes forming an excentricity, at least two pistons capable of movement in a radial housing of the shaft, the piston bearing against the bore.

Abstract: A method is provided for regulating fluid pump pressures by detecting an elevation differential between a fluid flow control device and the distal end of a fluid line in communication with the fluid flow control device. A fluid flow control device, for instance a peritoneal dialysis device, is at a first height, a distal end of a fluid line is at a second height, and a valved outlet, when open, affords communication between the fluid flow control device and the distal end of the fluid line. The elevation differential is correlatable with a pressure measurable during a calibration procedure provided as a part of the methodology.

Abstract: The vibration of a pump assembly, comprising a prime mover, a multiplex fluid pump connected to a drive line, and a transmission connected to transfer torque from the prime mover to the drive line to reciprocate a plurality of plungers, and a source of harmonic excitation, is inhibited by coupling a counteracting resonant system to the pump assembly, wherein the counteracting resonant system has an oscillatory frequency matching the harmonic excitation source. Also disclosed are a pump assembly comprising the prime mover, the multiplex fluid pump, the drive line, the transmission, and the counteracting resonant system; and a pumping method comprising connecting the transmission to transfer torque from the prime mover to rotate the drive line, connecting the drive line to the multiplex fluid pump, and coupling and tuning the counteracting resonant system to the induced harmonic excitation.

Abstract: A lubricant metering system for a compressor may include a cap, a cap cage, and a shaft. The cap may include an outer surface, a first recess, and a first radial bore extending between the first recess and the outer surface. The cap cage may include a second recess receiving the cap and a lubricant inlet in communication with the first recess via the first radial bore. The shaft may be received within the first recess and may include an axially extending bore and a second radial bore extending between an outer diameter of the shaft and the axially extending bore. The shaft may be mounted for rotation relative to the cap to allow lubricant to flow into the axially extending bore via the first and second radial bores when the second radial bore is aligned with the first radial bore.

Abstract: Disclosed are a motor for a compressor and a hermetic compressor having the same. An aluminum coil cheaper than a copper coil is used in the motor for the compressor, to thusly reduce a fabricating cost. Also, a ratio of a height of end coil of a coil to an inner diameter of a stator is appropriately designed or a ratio of an entire area of slot portions to the inner diameter of the stator is appropriately designed, and simultaneously a ratio of the inner diameter of the stator to a width of the tooth portion is appropriately designed, so as to previously prevent a deterioration of damping effect, increase in noise, lowering of efficiency, reduction of driven torque, all caused due to the use of the aluminum coil.

Abstract: A fan module includes a blade, a motor, a circuit board and a housing having an accommodating space for receiving the blade and the motor. The circuit board has a set of electrical terminals exposed outside the housing. The set of exposed electrical terminals is used for electrically connecting to an electric connecting portion of a carrier without using a cable to receive a power source and/or control signals.

Abstract: A hydraulic motor 10 receives pressurized fluid from a source 98 controlled by a human operator to convert the energy in the hydraulic fluid to a rotational output to propel a drive wheel 91 of a machine 90. The hydraulic motor 10 includes an end cover 11, a manifold 12, a drive assembly 13, a wear plate 14, a housing 15, and an output assembly 16. The drive assembly 13 includes a rotor 37 with external teeth and a stator 36 with internal teeth formed by rollers 43 having end faces 49 and 50. The pressurized fluid from the source 98 flows through the manifold 12 to the drive assembly 13 and causes rotational and orbital movement of the rotor 37 relative to the stator 36. The rotational movement of the rotor 37 is transmitted to the drive wheel 91 by the output assembly 16.

Abstract: A method for preparing an implant having a porous metal component. A loose powder mixture including a biocompatible metal powder and a spacing agent is prepared and compressed onto a metal base. After being compressed, the spacing agent is removed, thereby forming a compact including a porous metal structure pressed on the metal base. The compact is sintered, forming a subassembly, which is aligned with a metal substrate portion of an implant. A metallurgical bonding process, such as diffusion bonding, is performed at the interface of the subassembly and the metal substrate to form an implant having a porous metal component.

Abstract: A cold work tool steel with average or above wear resistance, a hardness in excess of (60) HRc and a very good toughness but with considerably lower carbon contents leading to highly improved weldability is obtained by combining the presence of primary carbides (or alternatively nitrides and/or borides) with other strengthening mechanisms like precipitation hardening or even solid solution. Vanadium rich MC type carbides, modified with refractory metal additions, present the best compromise of hardness and fracture toughness for several applications, while for other applications harder carbides, such as Ti carbides or Ti mixed carbides (primarily with V, Mo and/or W) will be the preferred ones, alternatively using Zr and Hf mixed carbides.

Abstract: A magnetic alloy having a composition represented by the general formula of Fe100-x-yCuxBy (atomic %), wherein x and y are numbers meeting the conditions of 0.1?x?3, and 10?y?20, or the general formula of Fe100-x-y-zCuxByXz (atomic %), wherein X is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Si, S, C, P, Al, Ge, Ga and Be, and x, y and z are numbers meeting the conditions of 0.1?x?3, 10?y?20, 0<z?10, and 10<y+z?24), the magnetic alloy having a structure containing crystal grains having an average diameter of 60 nm or less in an amorphous matrix, and a saturation magnetic flux density of 1.7 T or more.

Abstract: A method and apparatus produces high strength aluminum alloy parts from a powder containing L12 intermetallic dispersoids. The powder is degassed, sealed under vacuum in a container, heated, consolidated into billet form by vacuum hot pressing. The billet is then shaped into a ring preform by extrusion, forging or rolling. The preform is then ring rolled to form a useful part.

Abstract: A system and method for purifying air via low-energy, in-situ regenerated silica-titania composites is described. The silica-titania composites can be synthesized with various pore sizes, photocatalyst loadings, and surface area, and can be applied in pellet/granular form or powdered and coated onto a surface. The system may operate with continuous UV irradiation for continuous oxidation of pollutants and inactivation of pathogens. Alternatively, the system may operate with intermittent UV irradiation, whereby pollutants are adsorbed in the absence of light, followed by oxidation of sorbed pollutants and regeneration of silica-titania composites upon irradiation with UV light. The oxidation/regeneration step may or may not incorporate sweep air. This system and method may be used for removing pollutants, such as Volatile Organic Compounds, from aircraft cabins, space exploration vehicles and architectures, mass transit vehicles, and residential and commercial buildings.

Abstract: An apparatus for sterilizing and/or deodorizing objects is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, such an apparatus includes an ozone source to provide ozone, and a hydrogen peroxide source to provide hydrogen peroxide. A mixing element intermixes the ozone and hydrogen peroxide to produce a mixture comprising oxidizing radicals. An applicator applies the mixture to an object before the oxidizing radicals decompose. The oxidizing radicals in the mixture work to oxidize organic substances, thereby interrupting the life cycle of living organisms and/or destroying or neutralizing odors. In selected embodiments, the applicator disperses the mixture into a closed environment, such as a substantially sealed room or enclosure, to sterilize and/or deodorize objects contained therein. A corresponding method is also disclosed herein.

Abstract: A method of treating excreta is provided in which excreta is received into a simplified toilet pack and treated in a treatment container usable for a thermal treatment, and the treated excreta can be hygienically discarded. It is a method of treating excreta characterized in receiving excreta with a container-shaped toilet pack made of a heat-resistant and water-repellent film material containing a heat insulating member at least in the excreta receiving area; sprinkling excreta treatment agent over the excreta received by said toilet pack; throwing them without mixing into a treatment bag made of a heat-resistant film material together with said toilet pack to have the excreta thermally treated inside said treatment bag; and discarding the contents together with the treatment bag.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for preventing patient bloodstream infection by microorganisms during administration of various medications or fluids through IV lines. In particular, the invention reduces contamination of IV lines, connecters, stopcock valves, manifolds, ports, etc. by means of irradiation by violet and/or blue light. Each embodiment comprises a source of violet and/or blue light and an optical element optically coupled to that light source for shaping the radiation pattern of the light emitted by the light source. Preferably, a light-emitting diode or a laser diode that emits light in the desired wavelength can be used. The optical element, optically coupled to the light source, is embedded or installed in or attached to a component of an IV set, the emitted light being directed to a “point of entry” or any other stagnation point of an IV set.

Abstract: This invention provides a process of sterilizing a medical device, and preferably the contents of a sealed container which comprises said medical device, comprising the step of exposing said medical device to monochromatic ultraviolet radiation whereby the Dvalue of Bacillus stearothermophilus (ATCC 7953) is at least 23.7 mJ/cm2 monochromatic ultraviolet radiation at 257 nm to the spore. Further, this invention provides a process of sterilizing a medical device comprising the step of subjecting said medical device to monochromatic ultraviolet radiation wherein the minimum total energy density of said monochromatic ultraviolet radiation at 257 nm which reaches the microorganisms present on said medical device is at least 284 mJ/cm2. This invention further provides an apparatus for delivering UV radiation to a medical device for sterilization comprising a laser and a scanner for the laser such that at least 284 mJ/cm2 at 257 nm is applied to a treatment area for said medical device.

Abstract: A system for gas sterilization includes a sterilization chamber, a source of sterilant gas, and a sterilant gas remediation mechanism. Embodiments relate to systems and methods for delivering humidified air to a sterilization chamber, systems and methods for removing gaseous NO2 from an exhaust gas stream of a sterilization chamber, systems and methods for removing and replacing a source of sterilant gas, an exhaust gas scrubber and/or supplies for a humidification system. Some embodiments relate to hardware and software for user interface in a sterilizing device and hardware and software for control of a sterilization cycle. Some embodiments relate to chamber, chassis and door configurations of a sterilizer.

Abstract: Engineered proteins are used in the assembly of two-dimensional and three-dimensional nanostructure assemblies, based on systematic design and production of protein node structures that can be interconnected, for example, with streptavidin or streptavidin-incorporating struts to produce structures with defined dimensions and geometry. Nanostructure assemblies having utility as functional devices or as resists for the patterning of substrates have architectures including polygons, polyhedra, two-dimensional lattices, and three-dimensional lattices.