Abstract: A system for reducing the power required to cool a combustion gas for cleaning and a method for performing the same are disclosed. The system includes an expander for producing power. Energy in the form of heat is transferred from the combustion gas to a working fluid. The working fluid drives the expander to generate at least a portion of the power required for performing to drive a compressor in a refrigeration system. After the combustion gas transfers energy the combustion gas is cooled with the refrigeration system. In some embodiments the expander and the compressor are arranged along a common shaft.

Abstract: A fuel conveying member for a gas turbine engine, the fuel conveying member including a fuel manifold having a plurality of fuel nozzles extending therefrom. The fuel manifold is mounted within the engine by a support system, including integral attachment lugs on the fuel manifold for mounting the fuel manifold within the gas turbine engine. The attachment lugs re adapted to receive pins therein and provide a mounting mechanism which allows for thermal expansion of the fuel manifold relative to a surrounding support structure to which the fuel manifold is mounted via the attachment lugs.

Abstract: A nozzle for gas turbine includes a tubular nozzle body; and a plurality of hollow fuel injection pegs extending radially from the tubular nozzle body at a location between forward and aft ends of the tubular nozzle body; wherein each of the plurality of hollow fuel injection pegs has an external tear-drop cross-sectional shape, and a fuel passage in each of the hollow injection pegs has a substantially matching internal tear-drop cross-sectional shape.

Abstract: An air bypass band assembly includes a transition piece of a gas turbine, the transition piece having at least one opening therein to allow a flow of air to pass through the at least one opening. The air bypass band assembly also includes a band that is movable between at least two positions, a first one of the at least two positions being a closed position where the at least one opening is closed to prevent the flow of air from flowing through the at least one opening, a second one of the at least two positions being an open where the at least one opening is opened to allow the flow of air to flow through the at least one opening. The air bypass band assembly further includes a mechanism that moves the band between the at least two positions.

Abstract: The jet (40) has an air-fuel combustion chamber (42) and a plurality of rocket engines (11) arranged upstream from the combustion chamber (42), each rocket engine having its own combustion chamber with the wall thereof being cooled by lateral injection of fuel through said wall.

Abstract: An adaptive vane separator system is provided for use with an inlet filter house of a gas turbine engine system. The vane separator system is coupled to the inlet filter house. The vane separator system includes a slide rail and a plurality of vanes rotatably coupled to the slide rail. The inlet filter house is configured to channel air to an air inlet of a turbine engine. A drive motor is coupled to the vane separator system. The drive motor is operable to selectively move at least one of the vanes to facilitate reducing an amount of moisture channeled through the air inlet.

Abstract: An exhaust duct for directing a stream of combustion gases in a gas turbine engine is provided. The exhaust duct comprises an inlet for receiving the stream of combustion gases from a turbine section of the gas turbine engine; an outlet in fluid communication with the inlet; and a transition portion defining a passage between the inlet and the outlet. The passage comprises a discontinuous annular region having a first side portion and a second side portion that are separated by a flow splitter. At least one bypass channel interconnects the first side portion and the second side portion of the discontinuous annular region.

Abstract: A gas turbine engine control system includes a module operable to fail-fix the gas turbine engine to one of a multiple of pre-determined modes in response to failure of an automatic control.

Abstract: A combined cycle power plant including a gas turbine engine having a first compressor providing compressed air for combustion to form a hot working gas, and a turbine section for expanding the hot working gas. A first heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) is provided for receiving an exhaust gas flow from the turbine section to form a reduced temperature exhaust gas and to produce a high pressure steam flow which is provided to a high pressure steam turbine. A second compressor is provided for receiving and compressing the reduced temperature exhaust gas to add energy and form a reheated exhaust gas. A second heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) is provided for receiving and removing heat from the reheated exhaust gas to produce a low pressure steam flow, and a low pressure steam turbine is provided for receiving and expanding the low pressure steam flow.

Abstract: An intermediate casing for a gas-turbine engine has an outer ring (3), an inner ring (1) and an intermediate ring (2) mutually supported by mutually aligned outer and inner supporting struts (4, 5). A radial drive shaft (6), positioned through inner and outer supporting struts (4.1, 5.1) aligned at a 6-o? clock position, connects to an auxiliary gear drive (7). Four additional outer supporting struts (5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5) are spaced apart 72° . A mounting bracket connects to the outer ring at a side facing an aircraft fuselage in areas of two of the additional outer supporting struts. The arrangement of supporting struts and type of mounting bracket attachment, saves weight, improves flow in the bypass duct and increase maintenance and installation access at the bottom side of the engine to nearly 144° .

Abstract: A multiple-fluid, multiple-substance, multiple-phase, multiple-pressure, multiple-temperature, multiple-stage turbine engine. In preferred embodiments, one or more fluids are supplied by passageways in the turbine shaft or supplied by non-shaft passageways, or both, through rotor passageways to multiple-phase, multiple-fluid, multiple-substance nozzles affixed to one or more perimeters, radial surfaces, axial surfaces, and/or curved or slanted surfaces of the turbine rotor assemblies. The multiple perimeters, radial surfaces, axial surfaces, and/or curved or slanted surfaces of the turbine rotor assemblies are preferably configured and located for multiple inlet and exit velocities of the nozzles, multiple inlet and exit pressures of the nozzles, or combinations thereof. The one or more fluids entering the turbine may each be a substance of single phase, or a substance of multiple phases, or a mix of the single-phase and/or multiple-phase conditions for two or more entrance fluids.

Abstract: Apparatus for preserving fresh cut or uncut agricultural produce including a chamber operative to remove moisture from the fresh cut or uncut agricultural produce in an amount equal to between 5%-20% of the weight of the fresh cut or uncut agricultural produce and at least one freezing device operative to freeze the fresh cut or uncut agricultural produce.

Abstract: A magnetocaloric element (1) made by an alignment of at least two adjacent sets (MC1-10) of magnetocaloric materials having different Curie temperatures. The magnetocaloric materials within a same set (MC1-10) have the same Curie temperature. The sets (MC1-10) are arranged according to an increasing Curie temperature, and the magnetocaloric element (1) comprises elements (MA1-2) for initiating a temperature gradient between a hot end (6) and an opposed cold end (7) of the magnetocaloric element (1).

Abstract: A cooling system for providing a desired environment for a semiconductor manufacturing and/or testing processes includes a vortex unit and a semiconductor processing device suitable for performing a semiconductor processing function. The vortex unit includes an air inlet for receiving compressed air, a first air exhaust for outputting an air stream having a temperature greater than the received compressed air, and a second air exhaust for outputting an air stream having a temperature lower than the received compressed air, and a dry air tube enclosing the second air exhaust and connecting to the air compressor unit and the vortex unit. Since the dry air continuously flows surrounding the cold air tube, no water will be condensed around the cold air tube. Accordingly, no pollution and damages by the condensed water will happen to the manufactured or tested products.

Abstract: A pulse tube refrigerator, includes a pulse tube; and a regenerator having a low temperature end, the low temperature end being in communication with a low temperature end of the pulse tube via a communicating path, wherein a heat exchanger is provided at the low temperature end side of the pulse tube in the communicating path; the heat exchanger includes a laminated body, the laminated body including at least first and second metal gauzes; the first and second metal gauzes include copper or a copper alloy; interfaces of the metal gauzes are diffusion-bonded to each other; and a side surface of the laminated body is diffusion-bonded to an internal wall forming the communicating path.

Abstract: A method for providing cooling to the superconducting coils of a magnet with cryogenic helium gas at a helium production facility is disclosed. The cryogenic helium gas is fed to the magnet where the helium provides cooling. Cryogenic liquid helium provides additional cooling and fills the helium reservoir. Methods are also provided for recovering vaporized helium from the filling of a magnet and when the magnet is undergoing energization at the helium production facility.

Abstract: Heat transfer compositions are usable in their own right or are suitable as a replacement for existing refrigeration usages. The compositions possess a reduced Greenhouse Warming Potential, yet have a capacity and energy efficiency (which may be conveniently expressed as the “Coefficient of Performance”) ideally within 20% of the values of those attained using R-134a, and preferably within 10% or less (e.g. about 5%) of these values.

Abstract: The invention relates to the creation of hybrid refrigeration systems. In one embodiment a low pressure booster circuit is linked to an absorption plant to provide cooling at lower temperatures that can be achieved by the absorption plant alone. The combined systems are efficient compared to vapour compression systems, especially when “waste” heat from other processes is used to drive the absorption part of the circuit. The absorption plant can be provided with heat either by direct firing of a fuel, by waste heat from a combined heat and power (CHP) prime mover (such as a gas engine or gas turbine for example), or by any suitable source of waste heat from another process.

Abstract: An air supply system and a method for controlling operation of an air supply system for supplying a conditioned air flow at a setpoint air temperature to a climate controlled space are disclosed.

Abstract: A method for operating an HVAC system includes the steps of adjusting a heating temperature of a heat exchanger disposed in a first flow passage, directing a first partial air mass flow through the first flow passage, directing a second partial air mass flow through a second flow passage, and directing the first partial air mass flow and the second partial air mass flow downstream of the first flow passage and the second flow passage, wherein the heating temperature of the heat exchanger required to at least one of achieve and maintain a desired climate in the passenger compartment of the vehicle is set as a maximum heating temperature for the heat exchanger, and wherein only an amount of energy required to at least one of achieve and maintain a desired climate in the passenger compartment of the vehicle is added to the HVAC system.

Abstract: A method of providing cooled air to electronic equipment includes capturing heated air from a volume containing electronic equipment, cooling the heated air by more than fifteen degrees Celsius in an air-to-water heat exchanger, and supplying cooling water to the air-to-water heat exchanger at a temperature above a dew point temperature of the heated air.

Abstract: A refrigerant system includes an outdoor unit and a plurality of indoor units. The outdoor unit has a compressor and a plurality of heat exchangers and each indoor unit has a heat exchanger. A detector detects pressures at an inflow side and a discharge side of the compressor, and a controller controls a direction of refrigerant flow for the heat exchangers of the outdoor unit. This may involve changing the refrigerant flow direction for at least one of the heat exchanger of the outdoor unit based on the detected pressures.

Abstract: A method of enhancing evaporative cooling towers of various types. Such cooling towers have a flow of water, an air intake stream of ambient air and an air exhaust such that the flow of water is cooled by ambient air from the air intake and evaporating a portion of that water flow into the ambient air, and the air discharge stream for the ambient air and a portion of evaporated water from the water flow. The method provides a closed cycle coolant channel having a heated heat discharge portion and a cooled heal sink, placing the cooled portion at the air intake, placing the heated portion in the flow of the air at the air exhaust. The ambient air flow at the intake is cooled by the closed cycle coolant channel, reducing its wet bulb temperature and increasing the capability of the cooling tower to cool the flow of water.

Abstract: A device for cooling a heat source of a motor vehicle is provided that includes a cooling body which has a plurality of feed flow channels and a plurality of return flow channels. At least a multiplicity of the feed flow channels and return flow channels are arranged adjacent to one another in an alternating fashion in the cooling body.

Abstract: A refrigerating apparatus having a plurality of compressors includes an injection circuit (40) which includes a first injection pipe (37) branched from a first refrigerant pipe (32) of a refrigerant circuit (10) and branch injection pipes (37a, 37b, 37c) branched from the first injection pipe (37), a subcooling pressure-reducing valve (29) provided to the first injection pipe (37), and flow rate adjusting valves (30a, 30b, 30c) provided to the branch injection pipes (37a, 37b, 37c), respectively, thereby providing an appropriate refrigerant injection to each of the compressors.

Abstract: The invention relates to an air conditioning system for a transportation means, having multiple zones to be air-conditioned, which may be variably air-conditioned by means of processed supply air in combination with individual trim air conduits, wherein the air conditioning system further has at least one heat exchanger for heating supply air by means of the exhaust heat of a fuel cell, and for discharging the supply air into a trim air distributor supplying the trim air conduits.

Abstract: Provided, in aspect, is a suspension bracket for use with an HVAC component. The suspension bracket, in one embodiment, may include a base portion, a first tab portion coupled to the base portion, wherein the first tab portion is positioned substantially perpendicular to the base portion, and a second tab portion coupled to the base portion. The second tab portion, in this embodiment, may include a first region and a second region, wherein the first region is positioned substantially perpendicular to the base portion, and further wherein the second region is positioned substantially perpendicular to the base portion and the first region.

Abstract: There are provided a refrigerator and a dispenser for the refrigerator. A light emitting unit is provided to emit light toward manipulation member of the dispenser so that the dispenser can be conveniently used and have a better aesthetic appearance.

Abstract: A compressor and a refrigerating machine which enable an easy disposal of a lubricant, are friendly to the natural environment, and have simple configurations, are provided. The compressor which is used in a refrigerating machine including an evaporator and a condenser and adapted for compressing refrigerant gas evaporated in the evaporator to convey the compressed refrigerant gas to the condenser, includes: a motor; a housing having a compression chamber inside; a rotary member which has a rotating shaft and is rotated by a driving force of the motor so as to compress water vapor serving as the refrigerant gas in the compression chamber; a bearing for supporting the rotating shaft of the rotary member in the housing; and a lubricant supplier for supplying water serving as a lubricant to the bearing.

Abstract: A new type of progressive cavity compressor is intended primarily for 3 to 10 ton vapor-cycle air conditioning systems. Major working section elements include a rotor, a stator, inlet ports, an outlet endplate, and outlet check valves. The helical rotor is driven in an eccentric orbital path inside the helical stator. In the preferred embodiment, the rotor and stator helices have varying (non-uniform) pitch in the working section. Rotor-stator running clearances are tight, to minimize leakage. Two outlet check valves regulate refrigerant discharge flow and pressure. Efficient compression is provided over a wide range of compression ratios, corresponding to a wide range of ambient temperatures in an air conditioning application. The invention can improve the energy efficiency of air conditioning systems, especially at off-design conditions.

Abstract: A ventilating device and an outdoor unit including the same are disclosed. More particularly, the present invention relates to a ventilating device including a counter-rotating fan having improved wind ventilation efficiency as well as minimized noise generated during the fan operation.

Abstract: An embodiment relates to a refrigerator. According to a refrigerator of an embodiment of the present invention, there is not difference in a plurality of shelves arranged continuously in parallel with each other.

Abstract: A vertical discharge condenser includes a generally cylindrical heat exchanger having a vertical interruption between a first and a second end of the heat exchanger, a panel enclosing the vertical interruption in the heat exchanger to form an uninterrupted generally cylindrical enclosure, a generally circular fan grille enclosing a top of the cylindrical enclosure, and a generally circular base pan enclosing a bottom of the cylindrical enclosure.

Abstract: A refrigerant vapor compression system includes a flash tank disposed in the refrigerant circuit intermediate a refrigerant heat rejection heat exchanger and a refrigerant heat absorption heat exchanger. The flash tank has a shell defining an interior volume having an upper chamber, a lower chamber and a middle chamber. A first fluid passage establishes fluid communication between the middle chamber and the upper chamber and a second fluid passage establishing fluid communication between the middle chamber and the lower chamber. An inlet port opens to the middle chamber. A first outlet port opens to the upper chamber and a second outlet port opens to the lower chamber.

Abstract: An evaporator unit includes an ejector, an evaporator and a refrigerant pipe to connect a refrigerant outlet of the evaporator and a suction port of the ejector. The suction port draws refrigerant using high-speed refrigerant flow injected from a nozzle of the ejector. The ejector, the evaporator and the refrigerant pipe are integrated with each other into an integrated unit. The refrigerant outlet of the evaporator is located upper than the suction port of the ejector. The refrigerant pipe has a shape in a manner that refrigerant flows downward from the refrigerant outlet of the evaporator to the suction port of the ejector.

Abstract: A process for treating offshore natural gas includes processing the natural gas on an off-shore processing facility by, (i) liquefying and fractionating the natural gas to generate a liquefied natural gas stream and a higher hydrocarbon stream, (ii) vapourising at least a portion of the higher hydrocarbon stream, (iii) passing the vapourised higher hydrocarbon stream and steam over a steam reforming catalyst to generate a reformed gas mixture comprising methane, steam, carbon oxides and hydrogen, (iv) passing the reformed gas mixture over a methanation catalyst to generate a methane rich gas, and (v) combining the methane-rich gas with the natural gas prior to the liquefaction step.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing a helium-enriched vapor stream, a methane-enriched vapor stream, and a liquid stream enriched in hydrocarbons heavier than methane from a pressurized, multicomponent, multiphase stream comprising methane (C1), helium (He) and hydrocarbons heavier than methane (C2+). The process includes cooling the multiphase stream to produce at least one vapor stream enriched in helium and at least one liquid stream, withdrawing at least a portion of the at least one vapor stream as a helium-enriched product stream, passing at least a portion of the at least one liquid stream to a demethanizer, withdrawing from the demethanizer a vapor enriched in methane (C1), and withdrawing from the demethanizer a liquid enriched in hydrocarbons heavier than methane (C2+).

Abstract: A manufacturing process of silicone glass concentrator lens, wherein, a mold is provided with a material inlet hole and an air outlet hole that are respectively used for pouring in liquid silicone and exiting air respectively. Wherein, firstly, the mold is connected to a glass carrier plate in a vertical arrangement, then pouring the liquid silicone into the mold through the material inlet hole, thus exiting the excessive air through the air outlet hole of the mold automatically. Through the application of this manufacturing process, a bubble-free silicone glass concentrator lens can be made in a fast manner without the occurrences of liquid silicone overflow, hereby reducing the production cost.

Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus for an optical waveguide structure including a clad structure having grooves in a curved surface thereof and a clad film attached to the curved surface includes a clad film shape retaining portion that has a curved surface along which the clad film is held. a position checking portion that checks the position of the clad film on the clad film shape retaining portion, and a first position adjusting portion that adjusts the position of the clad film shape retaining portion so that the clad film on the clad film shape retaining portion is disposed at a reference position while checking the position of the clad film with the position checking portion.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an optical fiber which comprises heating and melting one end of an optical fiber preform made of a glass, drawing a glass optical fiber from the one end, measuring a total volume of the drawn glass optical fiber, and carrying out a control of changing a drawing speed of the glass optical fiber on the basis of the measured total volume.

Abstract: A washing machine including a housing and a detergent supply device to supply detergents. The detergent supply device includes a rotary case installed to be rotatable about the lower end thereof and rotated to be protruded from the housing, and detergent containers detachably installed in the rotary case. The rotary case is rotated so that the upper portions of the detergent containers are protruded forwardly, and thus the detergents are easily injected into the respective detergent containers.

Abstract: A laundry treating apparatus (100) includes a cabinet (10) comprising accommodating space (12) receiving laundry (1), a hot air supply device (22) supplying hot air to the accommodating space (12), a steam generating device (30) supplying steam to the accommodating space (12), a water supply part (60) rotatably provided in a predetermined portion of the cabinet (10), the water supply part (60) receiving water supplied to the steam generating device (30), and a water supply unit (80) allowing water to be supplied to the steam generating device (30) from the water supply part (60) as the water supply part is rotated.

Abstract: A lockable nut comprising a first threaded bore configured for use with a wire rope clamp. The lockable nut comprises a threaded bore for engagement with a u-bolt, for example, and a transverse bore configured to receive a locking shaft, such as a shackle of a lock. As a safety and/or security feature, a pair of lockable nuts may be coupled to a wire rope clamp connected to a wire rope, and when the locking shaft is in place, the wire rope clamp can not be removed from the wire rope.

Abstract: A cable lock includes a belt, a lock body, a first clamp unit, a second clamp unit, and a switch unit. The belt has a buckle unit at one end thereof. The lock body has a hole for the belt to pass therethrough and a slot for receiving the buckle unit, wherein the belt and the lock body are together capable of forming a closed loop. The first clamp unit for fixing the belt in the hole is movably disposed in the lock body while the second clamp unit for retaining the buckle unit in the slot is movably disposed in the lock body. The switch unit is rotatably disposed on the lock body and capable of enabling the cable lock to operate in a locked mode, a clinched mode, or an unlocked mode. When the cable lock operates in the locked mode, the first clamp unit fixes the belt in the hole and the second clamp unit retains the buckle unit in the slot so that the closed loop has a fixed length.

Abstract: A self-balancing locking mechanism for actuating a locking pin-bar assembly of a door. The mechanism includes a drive shaft having an axis of rotation mounted to the door, and a cam mounted to the drive shaft. The mechanism also includes one or more actuator plates, each having a proximal end with a radial slot formed therein and installed about the drive shaft, and a distal end coupled to a locking pin-bar assembly that is slidably supported adjacent a perimeter of the door. The mechanism further includes one or more linkage bars, each having a proximal end pivotably coupled to the cam at a radial distance from the axis of rotation, and a distal end pivotably coupled to a mid-span of the actuator plate.

Abstract: A door handle has an elongated member pivotally connected with a plate member. The elongated member has a toe portion which interacts with the plate member. In this way, the elongated member is at least partially retained by the plate member at each end. The door handle provides an anti-ligature design that thwarts suicide attempts by persons attempting to affix or hang ligatures on the door handle. The door handle is also easily operable by those with disabilities.

Abstract: A pair of left and right slide pins 10 and 20 are disposed at the rear side of the lid 1 movably in the lateral direction. The base member 30 is installed in the installation part formed on the lid 1 from the surface side of the lid 1. The operation handle 50 that drives a pair of slide pins 10 and 20 is mounted on the surface side of the base member 30. Also, the rotor 40 causing a pair of slide pins 10 and 20 to interlock in accordance with drive operation of the operation handle 50 is rotatably installed at the base member 30. The rotor 40 has a pair of drive force transmission engagement parts 43 and 43. A pair of slide pins 10 and 20 have the engaged parts 101 and 201, which are separately engaged with one and the other of the pair of drive force transmission engagement parts 43 and 43, respectively. The rotor 40 is mounted in the base member 30 in a state where the respective drive force transmission parts 43 and 43 are exposed to the rear side of the lid 1.

Abstract: A device for the assisted locking and unlocking of an adjustable steering column has a fixed cam element secured to a column body, a moving cam element extended by an operating lever, and an articulation system coupled to a central spindle mounted between the elements and passing through the body. The articulation system includes an elastic return member intended to collaborate with two sets of complementary bosses borne respectively by each cam element and delimiting with one another, two end-of-travel stops so that by pivoting the lever, the moving cam element can be made to move between a locked position and an unlocked position via an intermediate position of unstable equilibrium.

Abstract: An electromechanical lock includes a user interface configured to receive input from a user, the user interface activating operating power for the lock; a memory configured to store access tables, the access tables including information on the keys allowed to open the lock; and an electronic circuitry configured to modify the access tables on the basis of the insertions of an associate master key and an end function key into the lock, the insertion of the associated master key initializing a programming mode and the insertion of an end function key causing the lock to exit the programming mode.

Abstract: A cylinder lock (100) having a first actuator assembly (102) and a second actuator assembly (106) positioned either side of a cam (132), in which the first and second actuator assemblies (102, 106) can selectively actuate the cam (132) by means of a clutch (142, 150) movable between two conditions and in which removal of the first actuator assembly (102) causes the clutch to move into a third, locked condition in which it is constrained. A cylinder lock (100) having a predetermined weakened area on the first actuator side of a cam.