A mercury removing device includes a gasification unit (17) that converts a non-gaseous-mercury-chlorinating agent, which is non-gaseous at room temperature and normal pressure, into gaseous-mercury-chlorinating agent by heating the non-gasecus-mercury-chlorinating agent with heat of hot air generated by using the exhaust gas or hot air generated by using an air heater installed in a flue that con...

A system for managing a digital video recorder includes a transceiver for receiving program signals from a media source and for transmitting the program signals to a display device. The transceiver is further operative to transmit information regarding the digital video recorder to the display device to generate a user-interface management screen on the display device for use in managing operation...

An air nozzle (10) with a nozzle aperture for leading an air flow into a vehicle space. To provide the air flow with good heat transfer capacity, the nozzle (10) has a plurality of the elements (40) which cause turbulence in the air flow outside the nozzle aperture (20).

According to one embodiment, a conference system includes: plural terminals that communicate with each other through a communication network; a server that performs a call control for the terminals; and a conference unit that implements a conference among the terminals through the communication network. At least one of the terminals includes a user interface section that accepts an input operation...

Methods of improving shear recovery time of viscoelastic surfactant fluid systems are described, one method involving providing a viscoelastic surfactant fluid system comprising a major portion of a surfactant and a rheology enhancer in a concentration sufficient to shorten shear recovery time of the fluid system compared to shear recovery time of the fluid system absent the rheology enhancer, the...

One embodiment of the invention comprises a system for operating a railway vehicle (8) comprising a lead powered unit (14/15) and a non-lead powered unit (16/17/18) during a trip along a track The system comprises a first element (65) for determining a location of the vehicle or a time from the beginning of a current trip, a processor (62) operable to receive information from the first element (65...

One embodiment of the invention includes a system for operating a railway network comprising a first railway vehicle ( 400 ) during a trip along track segments ( 401/412/420 ). The system comprises a first element ( 65 ) for determining travel parameters of the first railway vehicle ( 400 ), a second element ( 65 ) for determining travel parameters of a second railway vehicle ( 418 ) relative to t...

An insulation method and ducting configuration is provided. In an embodiment, an attic space of a house has at least one air duct running along a horizontal portion of said attic space. At least a portion of the at least one air duct is covered by a layer of foam insulation.

The invention relates to a monostatic laser radar device for metrology and tri-dimensional colour vision, comprising a transmitter (210, 700, 400, 610, 550) for three unimodal scanning laser beams, which, by means of an achromatic doublet (700) and a scanning camera (500), focusses the beams exiting from three independent unimodal optical fibres upon the target to be probed, located at a distance ...

The invention relates to improved resin bonded sorbent compositions and articles of manufacture fabricated therewith, such as housings, structural components and circuit boards. The introduction of sorbents into resinous molding compositions enables the elimination of more conventional bagged sorbent containments. The novel molding compositions of the invention and parts fabricated therewith are m...

The invention relates to a drying box for drying a cellulose pulp web. The box has a plurality of fans (3, 5), each fan being driven by a motor (9, 11) and contributing to generate a positive pressure in the drying box interior (7). The shaft between a motor (9) and a fan (3) is provided with a reverse blocking arrangement (19) which prevents the fan from being driven in the reverse direction by t...

The invention relates to a sanitary installation element (101) which is arranged in a water line. The installation element (101) according to the invention comprises a mixing device (4) with at least one throttling or closing element (5), which throttling or closing element (5) can be moved under the pressure of the inflowing water from a mixing or open position into a throttling or closed positio...

The operating method involves producing an exhaust gas by an internal combustion engine (1), which is assigned to each of bypasses (10,12) by an exhaust gas re-circulation unit (7). The re-circulation unit has two cooling devices (8,9), each of which is assigned the bypass, redirected on the internal combustion engine. The operation of the internal combustion engine is divided into four loading st...

The invention relates to a method for operating an internal combustion engine, wherein exhaust gas produced by the internal combustion engine is returned to the internal combustion engine via an exhaust gas recirculation device, which comprises at least two cooling units with each of which a bypass is associated, the exhaust gas being cooled in the exhaust gas recirculation device as a function of...