A method is provided for reducing the volatile phosphorous content of gelled oil fracturing fluid comprising the steps of: a) providing a hydrocarbon liquid comprising a hydrocarbon and at least one phosphate ester gelling agent, b) providing a particulate delayed breaker to said hydrocarbon liquid to break the phosphate gelling ester, wherein the delayed beaker comprises an at least partially sin...

A method to control the sleep operation of an air conditioner is provided. T he method includes determining whether or not a sleep operation is activated an d sequentially performing a plurality of sub-modes of the sleep operation when the sleep operation is activated.

A method in the fire protection of a warehouse, particularly a high-rise warehouse, which warehouse comprises at least one shelving in which there are shelves (2) one on the other and vertical supports (3) which form storage positions (4) for loads (5), in connection with which shelving, there is at least one vertical space (8) which in a fire situation functions as a flue space. In a fire situati...

A booster station (5) of sewage water, in which the startings and stoppings of pumps (6) installed in it are controlled by means of pressure prevailing on the suction side of the pumps or in frequency converter drives by means of frequencies. The invention is implemented such that the pumps (6) of the booster station (5) have a common inlet pipe (7) of the suction side which branches from a previo...

A container includes a card holder having a flap portion for retaining a ca rd against the exterior of one wall of the container. The card holder is snap-f it to the wall and pivotable relative to the wall. The flap portion is biased against the wall in order to retain the card. A complementary dolly includes a deck having recesses for receiving the casters of a similar dolly stacked thereon. The ...

A CODEC-driven touch screen video conferencing control system (10) provides a touch screen entry and display device (41) that interfaces with the CODEC (13) of the existing video conferencing system so that remote operation is compatible with the pre- programming of the video conferencing system. A computer (43) with video capture device (45) captures the output video of the video conferencing COD...

SE REFIERE A UN RODILLO QUE ACOPLA UN COLECTOR DE PINTURA AL DISPOSITIVO PROTECTOR, SIENDO EL MENCIONADO COLECTOR UN RECIPIENTE QUE ALMACENA LA PINTURA EXCEDENTE DEL RODILLO Y QUE SE UBICA EN LA PARTE INFERIOR DEL SISTEMA DE PROTECCION, JUNTO A LA BASE DE ESTE. DE ESTE MODO, UNA VEZ LLENO EL RECIPIENTE DE PINTURA RESIDUAL, PUEDE SER RETIRADO DEL PROTECTOR Y VACIADO NUEVAMENTE A LA LATA DE PINTURA ...

SE REFIERE A COMPUESTOS ANALOGOS DE LIPOXINA A4 DE FORMULA (I) O (II), EN DONDE R1, R2 Y R3 SON INDEPENDIENTEMENTE HALO, -OR6, -SR6, S(O)tR7 (t ES 1 O 2) O -N(R7)R8; O R1 Y R2 JUNTO A LOS ATOMOS A LOS CUALES ESTAN UNIDOS FORMAN UN GRUPO DE FORMULA a), b), ENTRE OTROS; R4 ES -R9-R12, -R9-O-R10-R11, -R9-S(O)t-R10-R11, ENTRE OTROS, DONDE t ES DE 0 A 2; R5 ES ARILO O ARALQUILO OPCIONALMENTE SUSTITUIDO...

SE REFIERE A UN COMPUESTO DE FORMULA I, DONDE R1 ES -(CH2)n-(CHR4)-(CH2)m-N(R5)(R5'); n ES 1-4; m ES 0-4; R4 ES H, HIDROXI, ALCOXI; R5 Y R5' SON CADA UNO H, ALQUILO, CICLOALQUILALQUILO, ALCOXIALQUILO, ENTRE OTROS; R2 ES PIRIDINA, PIRAZINA, OXAZOL, ENTRE OTROS, OPCIONALMNTE SUSTITUIDO CON R6; R6 ES H, ALQUILO, HALOGENO, ARILALQUILO, ENTRE OTROS; R3 ES ALQUILO, CICLOALQUILO. SON COMPUESTOS PREFERIDO...

In the case of a steam generator gas burner (1) for burning gases of low calorific value, which comprises a core air tube (2), a gas tube (6) arranged coaxially around the core air tube (2) to form a gas flow cross section (5), in particular an annular gas flow cross section, and at least one further tube element (8) arranged coaxially around the gas tube (6) to form a secondary air flow cross sec...

A system and process for concentrating hydrocarbon in a bitumen feed comprising bitumen, water and solids. The system comprises an inclined plate separator, a hydrocarbon cyclone and a centrifuge. The inclined plate separator separates the bitumen feed into a first overflow stream and a first underflow stream, the first overflow stream having a first bitumen concentration greater than that of the ...

The present invention relates to electrospray emitters that have a rigid substrate layer, a second layer, a channel formed in one of the rigid substrate layer and an exit orifice in flow communication with the channel. The second layer is attached to the first layer. The exit orifice is capable of holding an electric charge. The electrospray emitter may be used with such devices a s a mass spectro...

There is disclosed a system and method for resizing an image on a handhel d mobile communication device prior to uploading to an image repository. In an embodiment, the method comprises: determining the size of an original image; determining any upload size restrictions for uploading the image to the imag e repository; and in dependence upon the upload size restrictions, resizing th e original ima...

There is disclosed a system and method for uploading an image file to an ima ge repository from a mobile handheld communications device having an integrated camera. In an embodiment, the method comprises: upon determining capture of an image using the integrated camera, automatically initiating an image upload module; configuring the image upload module to display an image upload user interface ha...

There is disclosed a system and method for integrating an image upload objec t with a message list. In an embodiment, the method comprises: creating an image uplo ad object for each image to be uploaded; and displaying the image upload object in a message list such that the image upload object may be selected and opened as a message. I n another embodiment, the method may further comprise associat...

To perform thread-based message prioritization, metadata may be extracted fr om a received electronic message. Based on the extracted message metadata and accumulated metadata extracted from previously received messages, a message thread to which the received electronic message belongs may be identified. Based on a set of thread priority assessment criteria, a priority level for the message thread...

A system and process for upgrading hydrocarbons such as heavy oils includes high temperature plasma reactor apparatus, in one or more vessels, into which the oils are introduced along with water, such as steam, to produce lighter hydrocarbon fractions, along with carbon monoxide and hydrogen, that flows to an additional stage where more hydrocarbons and water are introduced for further fractionati...