A method of enhancing the concentration of alkali metal halide in an aqueo us solution comprising (a) feeding said alkali metal halide solution having an alkali metal halide first concentration at a first vapor pressure to an osmotic membrane distillation means having a hydrophobic gas and water vapor permeable membrane separating (i) a first chamber, for receiving said alkali metal halide solutio...

A press head assembly for a concrete pipe making machine includes a head tha t is not released onto a concrete pipe form, but instead remains on the press head assembly after forming the spigot end of a concrete pipe. The machine further includes a linear actuating means, such as a pneumatic cylinder, for raising and lowering the press head assembly, including the head, between a raised position a...

The purpose of the method developed is to form on top of a heat transfer surface a porous surface layer, which is to be fixed to the surface below it at a temperature and time applicable for industrial production. The heat transfer surface is copper or copper alloy. The powder forming a porous surface is fine-grained copper oxide powder, which is reduced to metallic copper on the heat transfer sur...

A method of extruding two or more closure elements onto a web includes extruding the closure elements through a die plate having a first aperture for a first closure element and a second aperture for a second closure element. The first aperture is spaced from and at least partially overlaps the second aperture in a lateral direction. The partial overlapping of the apertures allows the closure elem...

The invention refers to a device and a method for cleaning a gas containing particulate impurities. The device includes a main separator having an inlet for the gas, an outlet for the gas and a rotating member provided between the inlet and the outlet. The rotating member is adapted to bring the gas to rotate for separating by means of centrifugal forces a main amount of the particulate impurities...

Apparatus for monitoring a selected tier in a multi-tier computing environment, the apparatus including a context agent and a dynamic tier extension, the context agent associated with the selected tier and coupled with other context agents, each of which is associated with a respective tier, the dynamic tier extension coupled with the context agent and with specific predetermined points of the sel...

The present invention concerns a local and active fire protection means at a system for cable entries, pipe penetrations etc. Said system may comprise a frame (1) and a number of modules (2) adaptable to different pipes, cables etc. A sprinkler head (7) either connected to an existing sprinkler system (14) or a pressurised reservoir (10) is received in a module (2) inside the frame (1) together wi...

Cable winch arrangement for a vehicle (1), particularly far 2 piste preparation vehicle (1), said cable winch arrangement comprising a cable winch (2) and a. cable (3), and comprising a coupling device (4), disposed on the cable (3), for coupling to and decoupling from an external anchorage point (5), the arrangement having a means for remote-controlled coupling and/or decoupling of the coupling d...

DONDE EL SISTEMA COMPRENDE: UN SERVIDOR DE ADMINISTRACION DE CUENTA QUE ALMACENA Y OPERA EN BASE A CUENTAS, CADA CUENTA INCLUYE: LA INFORMACION DE USUARIO DE CUENTA CON USUARIOS COMPARTIDOS, Y UN BALANCE DE CUENTA CON BALANCES PARA DISTINTOS SERVICIOS DE CUENTA Y UNA MEDICION DEL TIEMPO DE COMUNICACION; EN DONDE EL ADMINISTRADOR DE CUENTA ES CONFIGURADO PARA TRANSFERIR, POR LO MENOS, UNA PORCION D...

An electrical connector including an outer housing that defines an inner bo re between first and second open ends. The first open end being adapted to enga ge a mating electrical connector and the second open end being adapted to receive a conductor. A contact assembly is slidably received in the inner bore and includes a contact adapt ed to engage a contact of the mating electrical connector. The...

The present invention describes a new system to test programs for computers that control machines, so called embedded systems. Test cases that are compiled and linked are downloaded to the embedded system, executed and the results reported. The test cases replace each other in the memory of the controller so that only one or a limited amount of test cases are at the same time in the embedded syste...

A method of reducing fuel vapor permeation through a multi-layer tank includes providing a multi-layer overlay onto at least a portion of a structural layer of the multi-layer tank. The multi-layer overlay preferably comprises at least one structural layer composed of a polymeric material tha t is compatible with one or more of the polymeric structural layer(s) of the multi-layer tank. The multi-l...

A surface mounted electric strike which can be installed on a door jamb without cutting the door jamb. The strike employs a simplified locking mechanism whereby two latches are releasably engaged by a single yoke. An electrical solenoid actuates a cam which directly actuates the yoke. The strike can operate in a fail safe mode or a fail secure mode.

A method for determining a formation fluid property includes acquiring a sui te of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements of a fluid sample using a pulse sequen ce that includes pulsed field gradient pulses for encoding diffusion information, wherein eac h NMR measurement in the suite is acquired with a different value in a parameter i n the pulsed field gradient pulses for producing a diff...

An acrylic composition, or star acrylic polymer, includes the reaction produ ct of an initiator, a first compound, and a highly-branched, polyfunctional core molecule. The initiator has a radical- forming portion and a functional group. The first compound, which includes a vinyl functional group, is reactive with the initiator to form a functionalized intermediate. The core molecule is reactive wi...

A fuel processing method for a solid oxide fuel cell stack comprising the steps of: (a) supplying a feed stream comprising methanol and/or dimethyl ether to a methanation reactor containing catalytic material for the methanation of methanol and/or dimethyl ether; (b) processing the feed stream in the methanation reactor under adiabatic conditions to produce an effluent fuel comprising methane; (c)...

A new class of devices is proposed for flexible AC transmission systems (FACTS) for HV power lines with bundled conductors. These new FACTS devices are based on Switching Modules (SMs), which are mounted on insulated portions of the transmission towers in close proximity to the line conductors. These SMs are composed of electro-mechanical and power electronic switches and could be coupled to some ...

The present invention relates to a method for reducing nitrogen oxide emissions in combustion. Fuel is combusted in a first zone, whereby nitrogen oxides are generated. Supplementary fuel is fed in another zone under reducing conditions. At the same time, the temperature is adjusted so that nitrogen oxides convert essentially to hydrogen cyanide. Finally, air is fed in for finalizing the combustio...

A system for validating data collected in a first clock domain. A performance counter is disposed in a second clock domain to perform performance computations relative to the data. Validation circuitry is in communication with the data in order to provide to the performance counter a validation signal indicative of the validity of the data.