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A computer executable "aggregate" task is processed by dividing it into subtasks and distributing the subtasks "on demand" to remotely located subscribing computers via a computer network. The aggregate task originates at a coordinating computer, coupled to one or more peripheral computers by appropriate communications links. The coordinating computer divides the aggregate task into multiple independent subtasks. Each peripheral computer begins to "subscribe" to the coordinating computer's aggregate task by obtaining an "idle time activation program" from the coordinating computer, and then installing the program locally. The idle time activation program which may include a screen saver, activates automatically when the subscribing computer is inactive. Continuing the subscription process, each peripheral computer requests a subtask from the coordinating computer. In response, the coordinating computer distributes different subtasks among the subscribing computers, completing the subscription process. The subscribing computers automatically work on their respective subtasks whenever they are idle, as directed by the local idle time activation program. When a subscribing computer completes its subtask, it transmits results back to the coordinating computer. When results of all subtasks have been received from subscribing computers, the coordinating computer compiles and stores these results, concluding the aggregate task.

An apparatus has a communications device associated therewith. In another aspect of the present invention, a pallet is made from thermoformed polymeric sheets with an attached communications device. A further aspect of the present invention provides a radio frequency identification device attached to an apparatus. In still another aspect of the present invention, a communications device is incorporated into one or more sheets of a pallet or other container prior to forming. Methods of making and using a thermoformed pallet and container, having a communications device, are also provided.

The invention relates to systems for stored compressed air without use of combustion. The systems can be installed on the customer side of the meter and creates electricity during peak hours after it has been stored in off peak hours. The invention creates a financial incentive for conserving energy costs by building compressed air storage systems which heretofore have seen little application.

An exemplary embodiment of the present invention described and shown in the specification and drawings is a transceiver with a receiver, a transmitter, a local oscillator (LO) generator, a controller, and a self-testing unit. All of these components can be packaged for integration into a single IC including components such as filters and inductors. The controller for adaptive programming and calibration of the receiver, transmitter and LO generator. The self-testing unit generates is used to determine the gain, frequency characteristics, selectivity, noise floor, and distortion behavior of the receiver, transmitter and LO generator. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or the meaning of the claims.

A process for preparing the micron-class spherical silver powder used for electrically conductive Ag slurry features that in the redox procedure, the silver nitrate solution is dripped into reducer and disperser while the ammonia water is used to regulate the pH value of solution, and the kind of disperser, stirring speed, and reaction temp and time are regulated.

An autonomous personal transportation system for moving passengers and light freights is constructed with a track network and small vehicles on the track network. There are a number of stations and stops for loading and unloading on side tracks off the mainline of the track network. The vehicle width is limited to a dimension for one seat. The vehicles can be coupled statically or dynamically to form a train. The track has side rails for the rigid wheels of the vehicle and a central rail for centering the vehicle on the guideway and providing additional acceleration and braking capability. The control system for the movement of vehicles is divided into three levels: the central control system, the wayside control system and the vehicle control system.

A method and a system for transporting a flow of fluid hydrocarbons containing wax and/or asphaltenes or any other precipitating solids through a treatment and transportation system including a pipeline are disclosed. The flow of fluid hydrocarbons is introduced into a reactor (4), where it is mixed with another fluid flow having a temperature below a crystallization temperature for the wax and/or asphaltenes or other solids and containing particles or crystals acting as nucleating and/or growth cores for the wax and/or asphaltenes or other solids, the mixing temperature providing precipitation of the wax and/or asphaltenes or other solids from the flow of fluid hydrocarbons, and the effluent flow of hydrocarbons and particles is conveyed from the reactor (4) to a pipeline (6) for transportation.

Described herein are processes and apparatus for the large-scale synthesis of boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) by induction-coupled plasma (ICP). A boron-containing feedstock may be heated by ICP in the presence of nitrogen gas at an elevated pressure, to form vaporized boron. The vaporized boron may be cooled to form boron droplets, such as nanodroplets. Cooling may take place using a condenser, for example. BNNTs may then form downstream and can be harvested.

The invention discloses a method for purifying mariculture wastewater by utilizing a compound microbial inoculant. The method comprises the following steps: (1) screening the compound microbial inoculant which consists of photosynthetic bacteria, nitrobacteria, denitrifying bacteria, candida utilis, lactobacillus acidophilus and bacillus; (2) activating the compound microbial inoculant by utilizing a culture medium: directly adding the strain into the culture medium based on 1% of inoculation amount (w/v), and activating the strain by a shaker at the temperature of 37 DEG C with the speed of 150rpm (revolution per minute) for 24 hours so that the total content of microbes is 7*10<8>-9*10<8>CFUs (colony forming units)/mL; and (3) adding the activated compound inoculant into the treated aquaculture wastewater, wherein the compound inoculant accounts for 0.06%-0.12% of the total weight of the aquaculture wastewater. The method has the advantages of no toxicity and harm on aquaculture animals, simple process, fast organic matter degradation speed, obvious effect, no drug residues and no secondary pollution. Therefore, the method has economic feasibility and is applicable to popularization and application to coastal aquaculture industry.

The invention relates to a method for producing metal nanoparticles, wherein metal ions are reduced by means of at least one reducing agent in the presence of at least one polymer stabilizer and are converted into metal nanoparticles. The invention further relates to metal nanoparticles obtained in this way and to the use thereof.

A method of producing short chain alcohols from glycerol generated as a byproduct of biodiesel production is provided.

The invention discloses a pre-oxidation furnace, which comprises a furnace frame on which a furnace body is fixed; the inside of the furnace body is fixed with horizontally arranged clapboards which divide a furnace retort in the furnace body into a plurality of layers of mutually independent furnace chambers; a front end face and a rear end face which are opposite on each layer of furnace chamberare respectively provided with a yarn inlet and a yarn outlet; opposite side walls of each layer of the furnace chamber are provided with an air inlet and an air outlet; the pre-oxidation furnace comprises a fan; and an air outlet of the fan is communicated with the air inlet of each layer of the furnace chamber through an air intake system, while an air inlet is communicated with the air outletof each layer of the furnace chamber through an air outlet system. The pre-oxidation furnace has simple structure, and solves the problems of the prior pre-oxidation equipment in aspects of temperature uniformity, an oxygen content control system and a spontaneous precursor combustion phenomenon, and an effective space of a hearth is fully utilized, so equipment and production cost is saved, and the economic production of carbon fibers is feasible.

The invention provides a preparation method of superfine cupper powder, which takes copper slag generated by hydrometallurgy of zinc as a raw material and is characterized by comprising the following steps: soaking the cupper slag in a sulfuric acid solution for pretreatment; filtering and drying; carrying out oxidization roasting to obtain roasted cupper slag; leaching the roasted cupper slag out by the sulfuric acid solution to obtain lixivium i.e. copper-bath; carrying out purification treatment on the copper-bath; and adjusting the pH value of the purified copper-bath; adding glucose in the copper-bath for pre-reduction to obtain the cuprous oxide sediment; adding a hydrazine hydrate solution in the cuprous oxide sediment to carry out reduction reaction to obtain solid reduced copper powder; and filtering the reduced copper powder, washing, drying and carrying out polished finish to obtain the superfine copper powder. The invention has the copper recovering rate as high as over 95% and simple process, produces the superfine cupper powder by hydrometallurgy of zinc with low cost and wide sources, and has the economic feasibility of industrialization production in a large scale.

The invention relates to a waste heat recovery and utilization system for a coal mine air compressor. The system comprises a heat pipe heat exchanger arranged at the top of the air discharge duct of the air compressor; a heat exchange circulation pipeline is formed between the heat pipe heat exchanger and the casing of a shell-and-tube evaporator through a heat exchange circulating water outlet pipeline and a heat exchange circulating water return pipeline; a refrigerant circulation pipeline is formed between the evaporation heat exchange pipeline of the shell-and-tube evaporator and the casing of a shell-and-tube condenser through a compressor and an expansion valve; a domestic hot water primary circulation pipeline is formed between the condensation heat exchange pipeline of the shell-and-tube condenser and the hot water pipeline of a plate heat exchanger; a domestic hot water secondary circulation pipeline is formed between the cold water pipeline of the plate heat exchanger and a domestic hot water tank; a winter user heating circulation water supply pipeline is formed between user equipment and the condensation heat exchange pipeline of the shell-and-tube condenser; and a summer user refrigerating circulation water supply pipeline is formed between the user equipment and the casing of the shell-and-tube evaporator. By adopting the invention, winter heating, summer refrigerating, and domestic hot water providing all year round for coal mine buildings are realized.

The present invention is a proton exchange membrane fuel cell that includes a fuel cell assembly. The fuel cell assembly includes a bipolar separator, which includes an anode separator, a cathode separator and a membrane electrode assembly. The bipolar separator includes a highly porous, electrically conductive, non-metallic interface and a non-porous frame. The highly porous interface includes micro-channels for fluid communication and diffusion. Both the cathodic interface and anodic interface of the bipolar separator contain the highly porous material in a fluid diffusion region that interfaces with the active area of the MEA interposed between two bipolar separators. The highly porous material connects the fluid diffusion regions with their respective external sources of oxidant and fuel. The bipolar separator includes a non-porous frame that seals the highly porous material and isolates the fluids within the proton exchange membrane fuel cell.

A method and apparatus for the unusually high rate deposition of thin film materials on a stationary or continuous substrate. The method includes delivery of a pre-selected precursor intermediate to a deposition chamber and formation of a thin film material from the intermediate. The intermediate is formed outside of the deposition chamber and includes a metastable species such as a free radical. The intermediate is pre-selected to include a metastable species conducive to the formation of a thin film material having a low defect concentration. By forming a low defect concentration material, deposition rate is decoupled from material quality and heretofore unprecedented deposition rates are achieved. In one embodiment, the pre-selected precursor intermediate is SiH₃. The method further includes combining the pre-selected precursor intermediate with a carrier gas, preferably in a deactivated state, where the carrier gas directs the transport of the pre-selected precursor intermediate to a substrate for deposition of the thin film material.

Methods and systems to achieve clean fuel processing systems in which carbon dioxide emissions (1) from sources (2) may be processed in at least one processing reactor (4) containing a plurality of chemoautotrophic bacteria (5) which can convert the carbon dioxide emissions into biomass (6) which may then be used for various products (21) such as biofuels, fertilizer, feedstock, or the like. Bacteria that reduce oxidized nitrogenous species (13) may be used to supply reduced nitrogenous compounds to the chemoautotrophic bacteria (5).

The present invention relates to a repair clamp providing an improved pipe repair clamp. The clamp according to the invention could be used in some cases as a coupling to join two pipe ends. The clamp comprises; a) a metal clamping band to surround 3600 of a pipe. The band being extended at both ends to form a hollow shape including a flat base, a wedge-shaped section and a convex rounded section, elongated apertures being provided to allow passage for screw fasteners through the hollow shape, narrow edges of the wedge-shaped sections being in contact with each other to form a substantially triangularly shaped space between the formed ends; and a flexible inner sealing sleeve disposed inside the clamping band and a pair of profile strips each having a major face for contacting the outer surface of the convex rounded section, and an opposite seating face for shoulder support of a plurality of screw fasteners, the strips having apertures to allow passage of the fasteners, and a plurality of screw fasteners inserted into the apertures wherein the tightening of said screw fasteners reduces the size of the triangularly shaped space and tightens the metal clamping band to compress the flexible inner sleeve sealingly against the outer diameter of the pipes.

The invention provides a method for cleaning and separating main components of wood fibers, which comprises the following step: separating oligosaccharide, lignin and cellulose components from a lignocellulose raw material by adopting a hydrothermal method and a ternary eutectic solvent, wherein the ternary eutectic solvent is composed of a hydrogen bond acceptor, a first hydrogen bond donor and asecond hydrogen bond donor according to a certain molar ratio. Through the method, oligosaccharide, lignin and cellulose with relatively high purity can be efficiently obtained from the lignocellulose raw material. In addition, the ternary eutectic solvent used in the method is low in cost and easy to recover, so that the method also has environmental and economic feasibility.

The invention discloses a preparation method of two-dimensional feathery copper powder under an ammonia condition, and belongs to the technical field of metal materials and powder. The copper powder prepared by the method is regular and complete feathery copper powder, has an obvious trunk and multiple levels of branch structures; each level of branch and the former level form an angle of about 60 degrees; the first level of branch grows forwards relative to the trunk; the branches more than the first level grow backwards relative to the trunk. An electrolyte comprises the following components: 0.005-0.50mol/L copper sulfate, 0.05-0.20mol/L ammonium sulfate, 0.10-2.0mol/L ammonia water, 0-1g/L additive and the balance of water. Electrolysis is carried out under the conditions that the direct current is 0.6-5.0V and the temperature is 20-75 DEG C. The copper powder on a cathode is treated by virtue of ultrasonic removal, cleaning, filtering and vacuum drying and then the light purplish-red feathery copper powder is obtained. The obtained copper powder is complete and single in shape, uniform in granularity, good in dispersibility and high in purity; the preparation process is safe and environmentally-friendly, and is simple in operating procedure and low in cost.

The present invention provides simple, cost effective, rapid, and scalable at industrial scale and provide high purity and yield of Echinocandin-type compounds at low cost as compared to prior art. Moreover the process allows for the removal of impurities by using economical salt-adsorbent complex and provide highly purified Echinocandin type compounds which is highly improved in terms of purity and sufficient for further processing to obtain an active pharmaceutical ingredient such as, the antifungals caspogungin, anidulafungin, and micafungin.

A method for manufacturing a circuit board featuring conductive patterns, said method comprising the following steps of:

i) affixing a conductive layer, such as a metal foil (3), to a substrate material (1) selectively, such that a part of the conductive layer, such as the metal foil (3), comprising desired areas (3a) for the final product and narrow areas (3c) between the final product's conducting areas, is affixed to the substrate material (1) by means of a bond (2), and removal-intended more extensive areas (3b) of the conductive layer, for example the metal foil (3), are left substantially unattached to the substrate material in such a way that the removable area (3b) is in attachment with the substrate material (1) by not more than its edge portion to be patterned in a subsequent step ii) and possibly by sites which preclude a release of the removable areas prior to a step iii);

ii) patterning, by a removal of material, the conductive layer, such as the metal foil (3), from narrow gaps between the desired conducting areas (3a), and from an outer periphery of the area (3b) removable in a solid state, for establishing conductor patterns;

iii) removing the removable areas (3b), not affixed to the substrate material (1), from the conductive layer, such as the metal foil (3), in a solid state after the conductive layer's edge area, which was removed from the removable area's outer periphery during the course of step ii), no longer holds the removable areas (3b) attached by their edges to the substrate material.

Stable, highly filled cationic dental compositions useful for the production of dental prostheses and dental restoration materials contain: (1) at least one compound which is reactive cationically when activated, advantageously at least one UV-and cationically reactive oxirane-functionalized silicone;

• • (2) at least one dental filler, advantageously SiO₂; (3) at least one organic polymer or copolymer dispersant having an amine index less than or equal to 100 mg of potassium hydroxide per gram of dispersant, advantageously a polyurethane/acrylate copolymer or alkylammonium salt thereof; (4) at least one cationic photoinitiator, advantageously iodonium borate; and (5) optionally, at least one photosensitizer.

A coal transformation system comprises an ecological coal production unit for transforming raw coal into ecological coal. The production unit has an exhaust for carrying in a storage unit combustible, gaseous, waste by-products generated during the transformation of raw coal. A control system is provided for allowing the combustible, gaseous, waste by-products to be withdrawn and subsequently used as an additional source of energy when the system energy demand reaches a predetermined value, thereby contributing to reduce the energy costs during peak power needs.

Cyclododecanone (CDON) is prepared by epoxidizing cyclododecene (CDEN) to epoxycyclododecane (CDAN epoxide), and rearranging the CDAN epoxide to CDON to obtain a mixture comprising said CDON and CDEN, wherein CDEN is separated from the CDON-containing mixture and sent to the epoxidation to CDAN epoxide in step a.