Abstract: A method of forming a filter element is disclosed comprising introducing a mixture into a feeder, the mixture comprising a plurality of susceptor particles and a plurality of polymeric binder particles. The mixture is advanced through the feeder and into a die comprising an excitation portion where eddy currents are induced in the susceptor particles by subjecting the mixture to a high-frequency electromagnetic field, the eddy currents being sufficient to elevate the temperature of the susceptor particles to cause adjacent polymeric binder particles to be heated to at least a softening point. The susceptor particles bind with the heated polymeric binder particles in the die to form a coherent mass. The coherent mass is advanced out of the die and cooled to form the filter element.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for separating suspended matter from liquid includes a concentrator filter that draws the liquid out of the suspension while the filter kept unblocked by a sparging filter that allows scrubbing of the concentrator filter by gas bubbles. This invention can be used to replace cross-flow filtration and centrifugation in the bioprocess industry and to reduce the volume of suspensions to concentrate the yield of the end product in the chemical industry.

Abstract: An apparatus for separating solids from solids laden drilling fluid, the apparatus comprising a skid and a basket resiliently suspended thereto and a vibratory mechanism to vibrate the basket, the basket having at least one screen deck for receiving at least one screen, the basket having a feed end at which solids laden drilling fluid is introduced and a discharge end at which solids are discharged through a solids discharge opening, the apparatus further comprising a hood encompassing at least a discharge end of the basket and at least one extraction outlet arranged at the discharge end to remove fume laden air from the basket.

Abstract: The invention relates to a filtering device for highly viscous fluids, having at least two parallel screen plungers which are arranged in a displaceable fashion in screen plunger bores of a housing and which have in each case at least one screen cavity in which at least one filter element is arranged, wherein the housing has an inflow opening from which, on the untreated side, at least one flow duct leads to each screen plunger bore, and the housing has at least one flow duct which, on the clean side, leads from each screen plunger bore to an outflow opening. On the untreated side and/or on the clean side, in each case one common flow duct leads rectilinearly along both screen plunger bores and, in a production position, tangentially intersects the screen cavities.

Abstract: The method and equipment relates to the measurement of deflections of filter sectors in a disc filter. The filter discs in the disc filter are constituted by a number of filter sectors, and the distance between a position fixed relative to the filter, most commonly the scraper itself, and the filter surface is conventionally measured by manual measurement methods. The equipment is instead used that has a measuring head with a quick-release coupling for its mounting fixed in the filter, and a position sensor in the measuring head that measures the distance between the measurement arrangement and the surface of the filter disc in order to form momentary measurement results. The momentary measurement results are transferred by a data transfer link from the measurement arrangement to a data collection unit PC that has a memory.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for separating gas and liquid. The apparatus for separating gas and liquid includes a housing, a rotating shaft provided inside the housing, a drive unit configured to rotate the rotating shaft, a rotating cone mounted at the rotating shaft to rotate about the rotating shaft and having a diameter decreasing from an upper end to a lower end thereof, and a fixed cone formed by coupling at least two first unit members in a circumferential direction of the rotating shaft, disposed in the housing to be spaced apart from the rotating cone and having a diameter decreasing an upper end to a lower end thereof.

Abstract: A method and apparatus or system is provided for cleaning a flue gas and/or cooling a flue gas with a dispersed finely divided absorption liquid. As such, the absorption liquid is dispersed in a wet scrubber through which flue gas flows for absorption liquid and flue gas intermingling and contact to produce a cleaned flue gas. The absorption liquid supplied to the wet scrubber is dispersed from upwardly spraying anti-clogging nozzles and downwardly spraying nozzles arranged to maximize absorption liquid and flue gas contact with minimal spray interference between nozzles.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the selective separation of carbon dioxide (CO2) from multi-component gas feedstreams containing CO2 utilizing a GME framework type zeolite substantially free of non-GME framework type material.

Abstract: A banked purification system having, in flow series, an inlet for entry of a fluid, a bank of two or more purification columns in which the fluid is purified by a purifying component, and an outlet for discharging the purified fluid, the columns being arranged in parallel such that the fluid from the inlet splits at first ends of the columns into respective streams which flow through the columns and recombine at second ends of the columns for onward travel to the outlet; wherein the columns have first ports in the side walls of the columns at the first ends, the first ports being connected to each other such that the first ends are placed in fluid communication to create a manifold from the first ends of the columns which splits the fluid from the inlet into said streams.

Abstract: An emission gas treatment apparatus recovers a recycle feed containing boron from emission gas discharged by a glass melting furnace. The apparatus includes a collection device for collecting a component containing boron from the emission gas by a wet process to obtain a collected liquid, a first filter for separating the collected liquid into a solid and a liquid, and an ion-exchange resin for forming a boron solution by removing an impurity from an extracted liquid obtained in the first filter. The apparatus also includes a mixing tank for mixing an extracted solid obtained in the first filter in the boron solution to form an extracted solid-containing solution, a second filter for separating the extracted solid-containing solution into a solid and a liquid, and a vacuum dryer for recovering the recycle feed from an extracted solid obtained in the second filter.

Abstract: A dehumidifying tower having a washing section, a flash-distilling section, and a condensing section. In the washing section, exhaust gas is washed with a cooling liquid to remove at least a portion of solid dust entrained in the exhaust gas, cool the exhaust gas, and condense at least a portion of moisture in the exhaust gas into liquid. The flash-distilling section flash-distills the cooling liquid used in the washing section to produce a cooled cooling liquid and a cooling liquid vapor. Cooling liquid produced by flash-distillation enters the washing section. The flash-distilling section is in gas-phase isolation from the washing section. The condensing section condenses the cooling liquid vapor produced by flash-distillation. The condensing section is configured to be in gas-phase communication with and liquid-phase isolation from the flash-distilling section, and be in both gas-phase and liquid-phase isolation from the washing section.

Abstract: A vacuum pump has a discharge port coupled to an abatement chamber for treating an exhaust gas discharged from a chamber of a manufacturing apparatus to make the exhaust gas harmless. The vacuum pump is coupled to a heat exchanger configured to heat an inert gas by using heat generated when the exhaust gas is treated to be made harmless in the abatement part. The inert gas heated by the heat exchanger is introduced into the vacuum pump.

Abstract: A device for removing ammonia from a gas stream has a plurality of conduits that divide the gas steam into a plurality of separate gas streams. Spray nozzles located in each of said conduits spray a dilute acid solution into the streams. The acid solution is aqueous sulfuric acid and ammonium sulfate is produced. The conduits are substantially unobstructed enabling the device to create less than 10 Pa back pressure to the gas stream.

Abstract: A method of removing ammonia from a gas stream may involve the steps of: Providing a primary slurry composition of a molybdic acid at a first pH; providing a secondary slurry composition of a molybdic acid at a second pH, the second pH being numerically lower than the first pH; atomizing the primary slurry composition in the presence of the gas stream to produce a partially processed gas stream, quantities of ammonia in the gas stream combining with the molybdic acid in the primary slurry composition to form a further concentrated primary ammoniated slurry composition; and atomizing the secondary slurry composition in the presence of the partially processed gas stream to produce a processed gas stream, additional quantities of ammonia in the partially processed gas stream combining with the molybdic acid in the secondary slurry composition to form a further concentrated secondary ammoniated slurry composition.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for recovering hydrogen from hydrogen sulfide using a supported silver catalyst, and a method for purifying a gas stream containing hydrogen sulfide using such a catalyst.

Abstract: An exhaust treatment component including a mixing assembly located within a housing. The mixing assembly includes a decomposition tube having a first end and a second end, the first end being configured to receive the exhaust from the inlet and being configured to receive a reagent exhaust treatment fluid; a flow reversing device disposed proximate the second end, the flow reversing device configured to direct a mixture of the exhaust and reagent exhaust treatment fluid as the mixture exits the second end of the decomposition tube in a direction back toward the first end, the flow reversing device including a plurality of deflecting members for swirling and intermixing the exhaust and reagent exhaust treatment fluid; and a swirl arrester device configured to eliminate the swirling of the exhaust and reagent exhaust treatment fluid after exiting the flow reversing device.

Abstract: Carbon monoxide and oxygen gas can be produced from carbon dioxide by introducing a supply of CO2-containing gas to a CO2 permeable porous media. The CO2 permeates through the media to separate the CO2 from other species in the CO2-containing gas supply. An oxygen-deficient ferrite material, disposed on a surface of the CO2 permeable porous media, contacts with the separated CO2 at decomposition reaction conditions to produce CO and O2. Corresponding devices for treating exhaust gases from a CO2 exhaust gas-producing apparatus are also provided.

Abstract: A catalyst having superior heat resistance and being capable of efficiently removing a nitrogen oxide, a removing method using the same, an apparatus including the catalyst described above, and the like are provided. A complex metal oxide containing tungsten, zirconium, and cerium has superior heat resistance and is capable of efficiently removing a nitrogen oxide in the presence of ammonia, the content of cerium oxide and the content of tungsten oxide being 10 to 30 percent by weight and 5 to 14 percent by weight, respectively. Hence, a catalyst which includes a complex metal oxide containing tungsten oxide, zirconium oxide, and cerium oxide, in which the content of the cerium oxide and the content of the tungsten oxide are 10 to 30 percent by weight and 5 to 14 percent by weight, respectively, is effectively used to remove a nitrogen oxide.

Abstract: An exhaust gas-purifying catalyst includes a substrate, and a catalytic layer facing the substrate and including a precious metal, alumina, an oxygen storage material, and a sulfate of an alkaline-earth metal having an average particle diameter falling within a range of 0.01 to 0.70 ?m, the average particle diameter being obtained by observation using a scanning electron microscope. Another exhaust gas-purifying catalyst includes a substrate, and a catalytic layer formed on the substrate using slurry containing a precious metal, alumina, an oxygen storage material, and a sulfate of an alkaline-earth metal having an average particle diameter falling within a range of 0.01 to 0.70 ?m, the average particle diameter being obtained by observation using a scanning electron microscope.

Abstract: A method to recover caustic from a caustic waste stream comprises reducing the temperature of a caustic waste stream comprising dissolved Na2CO3 to a temperature less than or equal to the temperature at which the Na2CO3 precipitates from the caustic waste stream to form a caustic waste stream comprising precipitated Na2CO3 and separating the precipitated Na2CO3.

Abstract: A device for separating and concentrating particles present in a fluid, including: a first microchannel, having at least one first aperture; and at least one second microchannel, having at least one second aperture, and an end is disclosed. The first microchannel surrounds part or all of the second microchannel at the end. The first microchannel and the second microchannel are connected, at the end, by at least one nanochannel, the nanochannel(s) forming a restriction between the first microchannel and the second microchannel. A cap bounds the first microchannel, the second microchannel and the nanochannel at the end. The first microchannel and the second microchannel are made in a first substrate. The first aperture and the second aperture open into a same face of this substrate. The device may be used for separating and concentrating particles of biological samples, such as viruses, DNA or synthesic molecules.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a hydrophobic or oleophobic microporous polymer membrane having a structurally induced drip-off effect, to methods for producing the membrane according to the invention, to the use of the membrane in the sterile filtration of gaseous fluids, and to the use of the membrane as a liquid barrier in liquid-containing systems to be vented.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the production of high flux hollow fiber ultrafiltration membrane prepared from poly(acrylonitrile-co-methacrylic acid), (polysulfone and poly(acrylonitrile-co-methacrylic acid)) and (polysulfone and ion exchange resin (sulfonated polystyrene-divinyl benzene copolymer)) blend and the point-of-use filtration unit there from for water purification and disinfection. The produced membrane has an active layer with pore size which effectively rejects pathogens and other bacteria from contaminated water while allowing the passage of water to produce biologically pure water for drinking. Therefore, the present invention relates to development of hollow fiber ultrafiltration membrane that delivers biologically pure water at a desirable rate, that is at a rate 25-200 liters/m2.h. The membrane performance in terms of flux and rejection efficiency is dependent on polymer material type and surface properties.

Abstract: An antimicrobial supply system employs a process water supply and incorporates a metallic ion supply connected to the process water supply to provide a high ion concentrate to an output. A dilution reservoir is connected to the metallic ion supply output and has an input from the process water supply. A pump is connected to an output of the reservoir. A manifold connected to the pump provides a dilute concentrate to at least one washing system and a recirculation loop to the dilution reservoir for enhanced mixing of the dilute concentrate. An electronics control module is connected to a first flow controller between the process water supply and the metallic ion supply and a second flow controller between the metallic ion supply and the reservoir for dilution control establishing a desired metallic ion concentration.

Abstract: According to the present invention, a gas-air mixing device used in a gas boiler includes: a gas supply tube branched into a first gas flow path and a second gas flow path; an air supply tube branched into a first air flow path and a second air flow path by means of an air-flow-path branching apparatus; a pressure valve which is connected to the inlet side of the gas supply tube in order to adjust the supply rate of gas being supplied to the gas supply tube; and a drive unit in which two valve bodies are connected to a rod that moves vertically up and down due to the magnetic force of an electromagnet; and the air-flow-path branching apparatus is formed to have a slot that connects to either the first air flow path or the second air flow path, and has a joining part which the rod can pass through in a position corresponding to the slot.

Abstract: There is provided an aerosol generating device including a storage portion configured to store an aerosol-forming substrate. The device includes a vaporizer configured to heat the aerosol-forming substrate, a capillary material configured to convey the liquid aerosol-forming substrate from the storage portion towards the vaporizer by capillary action, and a porous material between the capillary material and the vaporizer.

Abstract: An apparatus for batched mixing of an additive component from individual components for mixture products containing the additive component and for temporarily storing the additive component, which is part of a mixer for forming the mixture products by mixing an additive component with a base component includes a single batch tank connected by at least a control valve and/or a proportioning valve to connections supplying the individual components for proportioned introduction of the individual components. The single batch tank is connected to a mixing and buffer tank arranged on a level below the single batch tank for temporary storage of the mixed additive component.

Abstract: The subject of the present invention is an apparatus for the intermixing of a fluid stream with a fluid stream, which comprises a pipe through which the fluid stream is routed, at least two distributors for delivering the fluid stream being arranged inside the pipe, this arrangement of the distributors being made possible by bores in the casing of the pipe, and these distributors having a free flow cross section which is constant or decreases continuously, as seen in the main direction of flow of the fluid, and the distributors having one or more rows of holes for delivering the fluid into the fluid.

Abstract: The invention generally relates to methods for forming mixed droplets. In certain embodiments, methods of the invention involve forming a droplet, and contacting the droplet with a fluid stream, wherein a portion of the fluid stream integrates with the droplet to form a mixed droplet.

Abstract: According to various embodiments, a microfluidic agitator device may be provided. The microfluidic agitator device may include: an air inlet; an air outlet; an elastic diaphragm provided between the air inlet and the air outlet and configured to oscillate if an airflow from the air inlet to the air outlet is provided; and a chamber coupled to the elastic diaphragm.

Abstract: A gas sparger produces an intermittent flow of bubbles even if provided with a continuous gas flow. The sparger has a housing to collect a pocket of gas and a conduit to release some of the gas from the pocket when the pocket reaches a sufficient size. The housing is integrated with the potting head of a module. The conduit passes through the potting head.

Abstract: A bottle mixer including a housing that contains a motor, a battery, a controller, controls, and a thermometer all operatively connected to a controller. Threads are provided on a top side of the housing that are adapted to connect to a standard baby bottle. The motor inside the housing is connected to a blade outside the housing that protrudes into attached baby bottle. Selecting a first control spins the blade inside the bottle for a predetermined time. Selecting the second control spins the blade until a predetermined temperature of the bottle contents is reached.

Abstract: The invention relates to a component (4) of a biosensor, comprising at least one first device (6) for receiving a sample liquid, wherein the device (6) is connected via a distributor channel (7) to further receiving devices (8 to 11), into each of which a feed channel (71, 72, 73, 74) branching off from the distributor channel (7) opens, and the feed channels (71, 72, 73, 74) are arranged in succession in flow direction (S) of the sample liquid passed on through the distributor channel (7). In accordance with the invention, it is envisaged that, in the distributor channel (7), in each case between two immediately successive feed channels (71, 72; 72, 73; 73, 74) in flow direction (S), at least one region (K) for at least temporary slowing or stoppage of the capillary flow of the sample liquid has been inserted.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for a reduction reaction of carbon dioxide using solar energy and a reducing method of carbon dioxide for reacting carbon dioxide gas and hydrogen gas with each other by using solar energy.

Abstract: Fuel conditioning modules that condition a combustible fuel prior to combustion are provided so that fuel to be conditioned is brought into contact with a fuel conditioning insert which includes a zeolite catalyst material comprised of a mixture of zeolite particulates and rare earth metal or metal oxide particulates in a solid resin binder disposed in a housing flow through passageway such that the fuel flowing in the passageway between inlet and outlet ends of the housing contacts the fuel conditioning insert assembly. The catalytic metal is most preferably at least one selected from the group consisting of copper, aluminum, stainless steel, titanium, magnesium, chromium, barium, calcium, platinum, palladium, nickel, bronze and iron. The zeolite catalyst material may be dispersed in the form of solid chips throughout a mass of metallic elements form of a catalytic metal.

Abstract: In a chemical reactor for heterogeneously catalyzed reaction of a fluid, comprising a holding device for catalyst particles and/or inert particles (80, 100) through which the fluid flows, the side of the holding device lying upstream when viewed in the direction of flow of the fluid comprises knitted wire mesh fabric (50), and the average clear mesh width of the knitted wire fabric (50) is smaller than the average particle size x50.3 of the particles (80, 100). The invention furthermore relates to a process for reaction of a fluid, wherein the reaction is carried out in a reactor according to the invention in the presence of heterogeneous catalyst particles (80) and the catalyst particles (80) are arranged in the holding device for catalyst particles (80). The invention also provides the use of knitted wire mesh fabric (50) as a holding device for catalyst particles and/or inert particles (80, 100) in chemical reactors.

Abstract: An ozone generating apparatus includes a base container for holder water and a head assembly connected to the upper edge of the base container, the head assembly containing ozone generating cells, each having a dielectric tube and an electrode assembly coaxially disposed with the associated dielectric tube. The dielectric tubes and electrode assemblies are disposed and connected such that the tube and/or electrode assembly of each ozone generating cell can be accessed and replaced independently of all other ozone generating cells, and such that the possibility of cascade failure of all remaining ozone generating cells upon failure of a single cell is substantially eliminated.

Abstract: A tar destruction unit for a biomass gasifier is described, comprising a catalyst and/or heating means situated within the free-board section of the gasifier. Also described is a biomass gasifier having such a tar destruction unit.

Abstract: The soot generator comprises a combustion chamber (11), in which fuel (16) can be burnt with an oxidizing agent (21) in at least one soot particle-producing flame (33), a fuel feed line (15) for supplying fuel (16) to the combustion chamber (11), a soot removal line (36), which is connected to the combustion chamber (11), into which soot removal line quenching gas (38) can be conducted and out of which soot particles can be transported, and a heating device (25-31) for heating the fuel feed line (15) at at least one heating location (15a).

Abstract: A method of making a fluidic device is provided. The method includes locating a meltable sheet material on a face of an extruded body including extended cells therein. At least some of the cells are interconnected by melting the sheet material such that the melted sheet material flows into the at least some of the cells to form a fluidic passage through the body defined within the at least some of the cells. The fluidic passageway may have a longitudinally serpentine path back and forth along the at least some of the cells.

Abstract: A method of forming a dehydrogenation catalyst support is carried out by forming a mixture comprising a bayerite aluminum hydroxide (Al(OH)3) and water into a support material. The support material is particulized. The particulized support material is compressed to a pressure of at least 5,000 psig to form a shaped body. The shaped body is calcined in pure steam at a temperature of at least 750° C. for at least 0.25 hours to form a catalyst support having an average pore diameter of 200 ? or greater. The catalyst support can then be treated with a dehydrogenation catalyst component so that the catalyst support contains the dehydrogenation catalyst component to form a dehydrogenation catalyst that can then be used by contacting a hydrocarbon feed with the catalyst within a reactor in the presence of steam under dehydrogenation reaction conditions suitable to form dehydrogenated hydrocarbon products.

Abstract: This invention provides processes for forming solution compositions, which processes comprises bringing together, in an aqueous medium, i) at least one phosphorus compound; ii) at least one Group VI metal compound; and iii) at least one Group VIII metal compound, such that a solution having a Group VI metal concentration of more than about 5.6 mol/L is formed. Also provided are compositions formed by such processes, processes for forming catalyst compositions from these compositions, and catalyst compositions formed by these processes.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an oxide catalyst that prevents the reduction degradation of the catalyst even during industrial operation for a long time and less reduces unsaturated aldehyde yields, diolefin yields, or unsaturated nitrile yields, and a method for producing the same, and methods for producing unsaturated aldehyde, diolefin, and unsaturated nitrile using the oxide catalyst. The present invention provides an oxide catalyst for use in the production of unsaturated aldehyde, diolefin, or unsaturated nitrile from olefin and/or alcohol, the oxide catalyst satisfying the following (1) to (3): (1) the oxide catalyst comprises molybdenum, bismuth, iron, cobalt, and an element A having an ion radius larger than 0.96 ? (except for potassium, cesium, and rubidium); (2) an atomic ratio a of the bismuth to 12 atoms of the molybdenum is 1?a?5, an atomic ratio b of the iron to 12 atoms of the molybdenum is 1.

Abstract: A zeolite structure is provided which has partition walls composed of a zeolite ion-exchanged with a metal ion and forming a plurality of cells extending from one end face of the zeolite structure to its other end face and functioning as a passage of fluid and which has a honeycomb shape. The content per unit zeolite amount of the metal ion in the surface portion of the partition wall is larger than the content per unit zeolite amount of the metal ion in the inner portion of the partition wall and is preferably 1.1 to 5.0 times the content per unit zeolite amount of the metal ion in the inner portion of the partition wall.

Abstract: A process for producing an alkylated aromatic compound comprises contacting an aromatic starting material and hydrogen with a plurality of catalyst particles under hydroalkylation conditions to produce an effluent comprising the alkylated aromatic compound, the catalyst comprising a composite of a solid acid, an inorganic oxide different from the solid acid and a hydrogenation metal, wherein the distribution of the hydrogenation metal in at least 60 wt % of the catalyst particles is such that the average concentration of the hydrogenation metal in the rim portion of a given catalyst particle is Crim, the average concentration of the hydrogenation metal in the center portion of the given catalyst particle is Ccenter, where 0.2?Crim/Ccenter<2.0. Also disclosed are hydroalkylation catalyst and process for making phenol and/or cyclohexanone using the catalyst.

Abstract: An oxygen reduction catalyst of an embodiment includes: a stack of single-layer graphenes; and a phosphorus compound, wherein some of carbon atoms of the graphenes are replaced by nitrogen atoms, and the phosphorus compound has a peak of phosphorus 2p orbital of 133.0 to 134.5 eV in X-ray photoelectron spectrum.

Abstract: This invention is related to a functional inorganic-organic hybrid nanocomposite structured with boron. With the present invention, a nanosized material is obtained with enhanced UV and Visible region activity wherein metal-oxide nanoparticle combinations with boron compounds are used.

Abstract: Catalysts include five-membered nitrogen containing heterocyclic compounds as ligands for metal ions which have catalytic activity. The catalysts are used to electrolessly plate metal on metal clad and un-clad substrates.

Abstract: In a process for activating a hydroalkylation catalyst, a catalyst precursor comprising a solid acid component and a compound of a hydrogenation metal is heated at a heating rate of less than 50° C./hour in the presence of hydrogen to an activation temperature in a range from 100° C. to 260° C. and then the heated catalyst precursor is treated with hydrogen for a duration effective to reduce at least a portion of the metal compound to an elemental form.

Abstract: An ion-exchange membrane is provided, and the fibers of the ion-exchange membrane are obtained by electrospinning. The electrospinning solution contains 100 parts by weight of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), 10-100 parts by weight of a modifier, 10-100 parts by weight of an ion exchanger, and 100-2,500 parts by weight of water. The modifier has a reactive group that can react with the hydroxyl groups of the PVA. The ion exchanger has a polar functional group that can form hydrogen bonds with the hydroxyl groups of the PVA, and has an anion group that can provide ion-exchange ability.