An apparatus for separating water from oil-based drilling fluid includes an separation tank, a chemical treatment apparatus having one or more de-oiling polymer preparation tanks, and a dissolved air flotation unit. Slop mud is directed into the separation tank where surfactant is added to separate the drilling fluid from oily water. The drilling fluid is drained for further processing. The oily w...

A method of controlling or preventing pathogenic damage or pest damage in a plant propagation material, a plant, parts of a plant and/or plant organs that grow at a later point in time, which comprises applying on the plant, part of the plant, or surroundings thereof, a pesticidal combination comprising, for example, at least three active ingredient components optionally together with one or more ...

A method for determining genus, species, race and/or geographical origin of biological materials, by directly cleaving with enzymatic methods the fibrillary structures such as feathers, down, hair or horn to form a pool of cleaved peptides, without prior dissolution of structure proteins; and wherein the pool of cleaved peptides obtained from fibillary structure proteins is preferably subjected to...

A through process comprising depolymerization reaction of used PET bottles with EG, recovering DMT by ester interchange reaction with MeOH, obtaining terephthalic acid by hydrolysis of the recovered DMT, and manufacturing a PET polymer which can be used for manufacturing PET bottles again by using the terephthalic acid.

Insulation board is of hard polyurethane foam where the closed cells comprise at least90%. Their surfaces form 1-18 recesses/cm2, with a diameter of 0.1-10.0 mm and a depth of 10-70 mm, on both sides. They form two types of recesses, which differ at least in their dimensions. The outer surfaces of the foam are covered with a foil or a mineral fiber nonwoven, using the same or different claddings o...

A system for enabling payment of bills is provided comprising a printer, sensing device and computer system. The printer prints, on a surface, a bill containing information relating to a requested payment and coded data indicative of an identity of the bill and of at least one reference point of the bill. The coded data is printed in infrared absorptive ink on the surface. The sensing device is an...

A focus test mask is provided with a test pattern that is projected onto a wafer (W) via a projection optical system (PL). This test pattern includes: a plurality of line patterns (12a to 12f) that are lined up in a direction of measurement; phase shift sections (13) that are provided in areas adjacent to each of the plurality of line patterns and that are used to shift the phase of light passing ...

The present invention relates to parking brake lever system (1) for manually tightening and releasing of at least one brake cable (90), wherein the parking brake lever system (1) comprises at least one rotation arm (10, 12) pivotally supported at a fixed support (50), wherein the rotation arm (10, 12) is connected to the brake cable (90), and at least one actuation lever (20, 22,) which at a first...

A method for modifying bitumen with waste rubber powder, including a first step of mixing rubber powder with an aromatic oil in proportions of 98-60 % and 2-40 % respectively, and a second step of mixing the rubber powder from the first step with bitumen in proportions of 3-30 % and 97-70 % respectively, at a temperature of 140-200 degree C and for a time of 5-40 minutes. The method is advantageou...

An improved process and material for making elastomeric nitrile rubber articles is disclosed. In particular, the process and material formulation can produce nitrile rubber based articles, which exhibit force-strain characteristics that are comparable to those of natural rubber latex articles, while maintaining the tensile strength properties of nitrile rubber. The process includes an accelerator ...

An Internet based system and method for mediation of financial loans, purchasing goods and providing services between consumers and providers which employs a mediator therebetween. The system employs a public communication network such as the Internet, to interconnect at least one mediator between at least one creditor, and a client. Over a public networking system, the system provides verificatio...

Cellular phone or internet based system for providing information relating to objects of tourism. The system comprising subscribers' cellular phones or handheld computer devices provided with a SIM card; information database containing information blocks; and assign codes for assigning said information blocks to said objects. One or more information blocks can be selected from said database on the...

A composite safety glass panel with a predetermined breaking position is described, containing at least two prestressed glass panels and a polymeric intermediate layer. The polymeric intermediate layer contains two plastics materials of different fracture resistance, different elongation at break and different fracture propagation resistance. The composite glass panel contains as predetermined bre...

Method for the effective transplantation of chondrocytes/cartilage to an articular joint surface defect is taught, as well as a description of certain instruments and kit for practicing the invention.

PURPOSE: A brushless motor is provided to be capable of reducing the thickness of the brushless motor. CONSTITUTION: A brushless motor(10) is provided with a base part, a flux plate(14) installed at the upper portion of the base part, a circuit board(16) formed at the upper portion of the flux plate, two coils(25) formed at the upper portion of the circuit board, a shaft(20) located between the tw...

A semiconductor substrate, includes: a capacitance-adjusting semiconductor layer which is disposed in a predetermined region on a semiconductor substrate material and which is sufficiently thick and has a lower impurity density than that of the semiconductor substrate material; a first insulation film disposed on the capacitance-adjusting semiconductor layer; and a body layer made of a semiconduct...

A droplet discharge device is provided in which for a head having a plurality of nozzles, nozzle rows having clogged nozzles are detected in advance and suction is performed on the nozzle rows having clogged nozzles independently, thereby recovering the nozzles, while measures against the thickening of a liquid in nozzles can be carried out. A droplet discharge device includes: a head having a plu...

A method and an apparatus for detecting an abnormality of a power-load monitoring control system are provided to enable a manager to easily check an operation state of a terminal unit by using a detector for detecting a voltage or a magnetic field. A power control system includes a control terminal(200), a terminal unit(300), a power detector(100) and a manager terminal(400). A sensor for detectin...