A geo-thermal unit for deaeration of drinking water includes extraction and pump-in geo-thermal wells, gas-slime separator, a heat exchanger, a heater of drinking water, a surface deaerator, a vacuum pump, a condenser, a wind installation connected to the vacuum pump of pump-out of non-condensing gases and tank-accumulator at water tower.

The present invention relates to methods for automatizing financial arrangements in paying for various services, specifically services of the Internet network. The proposed method of carrying out settlements by electronic facilities implies using payment transactions for which funds are available on the accounts of the subscribers of the mobile communication system. According to the proposed metho...

A method of surveying a wellbore that contemplates positioning a probe having an inertial measurement unit in a wellbore at the wellbore bottom. The wellbore is surveyed by retrieving the probe from the wellbore bottom and determining the incremental positions of the probe during the retrieval using the inertial measurement unit. The probe retrieval is stopped at a survey endpoint whose true posit...

The present invention relates generally to the use of polyaryletherketone-based thermoplastic materials in high pressure, high temperature, production logging applications. A polyaryletherketone resin bonded with glass fibers is formed into a housing for formation evaluation sensors permanently located downhole. The housing is constructed by any of the following processes: filament winding, fiber ...

A coring apparatus permitting taking of a non-rotating core sample and testing of same, as by NMR, prior to breakage and ejection from the apparatus. A core barrel is suspended from a rotating outer sleeve by one or more bearing assemblies which permit the core barrel to remain stationary during rotation of the sleeve with attached core bit for cutting the core. A core test device is fixed with re...

Disclosed is a commission transaction lottery/management method for use in a commission transaction lottery/management server accessing a plurality of commission income companies over the Internet. The method includes the steps of: a) registering a specific commission income company requesting a commission transaction lottery/management service from among the commission income companies as a servi...

The present invention relates to a method for linking a biological sample in a collection and/or information related to a biological sample in collection with information from the donor of that biological sample, comprising: the public request or call for information from the donors of the biological samples; the determination of one or more biological characteristics of a donor responding to the ...

A pair of ring shaped electrodes are arranged in neighboring disposition in a peripheral zone of coagulation and cutting instrument, over the vein (100).

The connector has a prismatic body (1) with a circular opening (4) at a central part of its upper surface (3). Orifices in which cylindrical straps of a plug and metallic contacts having earth electrode are introduced are placed in the surface. An additional cylindrical unit (11) is fitted in the opening and extended from the body for protecting the contacts. The unit (11) is made of a transparent...

The present invention relates to polyphosphazene derivatives and their use, having excellent biocompatible properties and imparting bacterial resistance to a coating of an article such as a medical device. In particular, the coating is applied on at least part of a surface of e.g. said medical device and can be used for preventing and/or reducing an inflammatory response upon application of said m...

A silicon carbide-based porous material characterized by comprising silicon carbide particles as an aggregate, metallic silicon and an oxide phase containing Si, Al and an alkaline earth metal; it is high in porosity and strength and superior in oxidation resistance and thermal shock resistance and, when used as a filter, is very low in risk of having defects such as cuts (which cause leakage of f...

An extrusion system utilizes single (30) or tandem extruders (102 and 103) and a mixer-cooler (104) to extrude a foamable extrudate through a die (37) in a sealable chamber. The foamable extrudate is shaped and calibrated within the chamber (40). The product exits the chamber to atmosphere on a continuous basis through a submerged orifice in a water baffle immersion seal. The seal includes the sub...

R-(+)-N-propargyl-1-aminoindane of formula (I) and its pharmaceutically acceptable acid addn. salts are new. (I) is prepd. by reacting R(-)-1-aminoindane with propargyl bromide or chloride in the presence of base (and opt. of solvent), then (I) is isolated by e.g. chromatography, distn. or selective extraction. The racemic starting material can be used instead and (I) then recovered by fractional ...

An aluminum titanate-based ceramic article having a composition comprising u (Al₂O₃-TiO₂)+v (R)+w (3Al₂O₃-2SiO₂)+x (Al₂O₃)+y (SiO₂)+z (1.1SrO-1.5Al₂O₃-13.6SiO₂-TiO₂)+a (Fe₂O₃-TiO₂)+b (MgO-2TiO₂), where, R is SrO-A...

A method of reducing the operating voltage level of a MOS transistor formed in a well, comprising drawing a current from the well and thereby forward biasing the well, while the well potential is allowed to vary according to inherent transistor characteristics.

A three-dimensional fibrous structure with regular corrugations has a liquid absorbency of at least 5 g per g of surface weight and a thickness of at least 0.8 mm. It has outer pile layers (1, 2) welded to a central surface layer (7) that has been shrunk. The welds (5) are in a regular linear pattern and run perpendicular to the direction of greatest shrinkage. The pattern can be continuous or dis...

A method for continuous processing waste plastic materials, particularly polyole fins, into the form of hydrocarbon mixture, wherein waste plastic materials are liquefied, subjected to the thermal transformation without a catalyst or to thermocatalytic transformation, and gaseous products are condensed. A method is characterized in that the feed of waste plastic materials is introduced to the exch...

This invention is directed generally to peptide compounds and salts, and particularly to peptide compounds and salts that are useful as protease substrates, such as matrix metalloprotease ("MMP") substrates. This invention also is directed to methods for making such compounds and salts, as well as amino acids that may, for example, be used in such methods. This invention is further directed to met...

There is disclosed a method of making an additive for increasing the density of a wellbore fluid, the method comprising: comminuting a solid material and a dispersant in an organic medium, so as to produce solid colloidal particles coated with the dispersant.