Fuel additives, fuel formulations, and processes for their preparation and use are provided. The additives improve the combustion properties of hydrocarbon fuels. The enhanced combustion indicates reductions in certain emissions.

FIELD: antenna engineering. ^ SUBSTANCE: proposed antenna array has antenna assembly inclined through certain electric angle and plurality of antennas installed on antenna holders and disposed in at least two subarrays. Antenna array also has antenna inclination angle control unit designed for electrical control of phase difference between signals passed through different signal feeders and ports ...

An efficient technique is disclosed for determining a portion of a document corresponding to a captured image. When a user employs a pen to create a stroke in a document, images of the document are captured by a camera mounted on the pen. While the location of some of the images will be determined from, for example, an analysis of a pattern on the document that is captured by the image or a pixel-...

The present invention relates to colchicine derivatives, in particular to the 3-demethyl and 3-demethylthio-colchicine of the general formula (I) in which X is oxygen or sulfur, a method for the preparation thereof and pharmaceutical compositions containing them. The compounds of formula (I) have muscle relaxing, anti-inflammatory and anti-gout activity.

The contact-holder unit (3) of a socket/plug has a body (7) which can be housed in a housing (1) and a plurality of electrical contacts mounted on the body (7) and constituted by pairs of blades (4a, 4b) lying in a plane perpendicular to the direction (x) of coupling of the socket/plug. The blades of each pair have facing contact edges (4c, 4d) for housing between them an electrical conductor (cl ...

The present invention relates to formulations comprising combinations of analgesic/anti-inflammatory, immunomodulating and cartilage-reconstructing agents in particular comprising saligenig, boswellic acid, procyanidins, N-acety-glucosamine and either glucoronic acid or glucoronolactone, for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and, more generally, of arthritis conditions.

Elemental sulfur is combined with either liquid anhydrous ammonia, liquid sulfur dioxide, or both to form a solution or slurry which is transportable through pipelines or other transport vessels without a risk of clogging due to the environmental temperature drops that these vessels typically encounter. This unusual behavior and the advantages it offers arise from the discovery of unexpected solub...

There is provided a shared access controller (104) of a wireless communication system (100) for providing restricted access of network resources to mobile stations (106). The controller (104) includes an interface (306) configured to receive a request for access to any available network resource from a mobile station (106) of a tier, and a processor (302) configured to reject the request in respon...

A plate ( 71 ) fixed to a wall and a device for fixing the screen to the fixed plate are spaced one from the other in order to let space for a first horizontal arm ( 72 ) and a second 5 horizontal arm ( 73 ) spaced one over the other, the first arm ( 72 ) being articulated by an end to the fixed plate ( 71 ) and with the opposite free end to the screen ( 75 ) and the second arm being articulated w...

A cleaning apparatus for cleaning a surface in which cleaning solution is dispensed to the surface and substantially simultaneously extracted along with the dirt on the surface in a continuous operation is provided. Th e cleaning apparatus includes a base portion for movement along the surface an d a handle pivotally connected to the base portion. A solution tank for supplying a flow of cleaning s...

A system for the supervision control and data acquisition (SCADA) of boats and/or ships which achieves total automation of all the possible functions on board including automatic driving intelligent automatic pilot with the possibility of handing over the command of the boat or ship to a remote control centre. The fundamental element of the system is the specific software for the automation of boa...

FIELD: processes for applying liquids or other fluent materials, particularly for dynamic mixing of several components and immediate mixture application on substrate. ^ SUBSTANCE: method involves choosing at least two unlike components for covering composition preparation from components contained in multi-component apparatus, wherein multi-component apparatus contains at least one binding compone...

FIELD: measuring equipment engineering and automation technologies, possible use for determining viscosity of a liquid flowing through a pipeline. ^ SUBSTANCE: viscosity meter produces value Xeta for measuring viscosity, which represents viscosity of substance flowing through a pipeline. For that purpose viscosity meter contains transformer 10 of vibration type, having at least one measuring pipe ...

A device for the pneumatic operation of a tool includes a generally closed pressure fluid circuit ( 2 ), at least one compressor ( 5 ), for increasing the pressure of the pressure fluid in the circuit, the compressor ( 5 ) having an inlet and an outlet, and a tool driven by the pressure fluid in the circuit, and through which the pressure fluid is transported in the circuit from the outlet to the ...

A method for producing fullerenes is disclosed wherein a hydrocarbon-containing material gas and an oxygen-containing gas are discharged into a fullerene reactor (11) through a discharge portion (21) of a burner (16) arranged in the fullerene reactor (11), and burned to produce fullerenes. In this method, an average discharge rate at which the hydrocarbon-containing material gas and oxygen-contain...

The present invention provides a thin plate type cooling device including at least one cavity formed on an inside wall of coolant circulation loop in order to prevent dry-out of the coolant.

FIELD: power engineering. ^ SUBSTANCE: invention relates to methods of modernization of existing steam turbine thermoelectric plants. Proposed method of operation of steam-turbine thermoelectric plant with-turbine set with stepped expansion of combustion products and intermediate supply of heat of fuel comes to the following: heat of combustion products expanded in gas-turbine unit is recovered, h...

FIELD: power engineering. ^ SUBSTANCE: wind power plant comprises support and rod whose one end is connected to the support through pivot connection. The rod is connected with the device that has surface area and provides the resistance to the wind flow as well as can automatically or manually change the surface area and move along the rod. The device deflects the rod with respect to the pivot con...