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A pump liner is used to direct a laminar flow of purge gas across a workpiece to remove contaminants or species outgassed or otherwise produced by the workpiece during processing. The pump liner can take the form of a ring having a plurality of injection ports, such as slits of a variety of shapes and / or sizes, opposite a plurality of receiving ports in order to provide the laminar flow. The flow of purge gas is sufficient to carry a contaminant or outgassed species from the processing chamber in order to prevent the collection of the contaminants on components of the chamber. The pump liner can be heated, via conduction and irradiation from a radiation source, for example, in order to prevent the condensation of species on the liner. The pump liner also can be anodized or otherwise processed in order to increase the emissivity of the liner.

A partially open fired heater regenerative cycle wherein the fired industrial type heater cycle's heat transfer fluid replaces the air predominant nitrogen heat transfer fluid employed in a conventional air / fuel combustion heater. The heater cycle's method and apparatus means is susceptible to providing a 95 to 98 percent mass flow reduction of fugitive nitrogen oxide and carbon monoxide mass flow emissions as emitted by current art Low-NO.sub.x art heaters on a rated per million Btu per hour basis, and is further susceptible to developing steady-state heat transfer thermal efficiencies exceeding 124 percent.

Apparatus and processes for vapor deposition of a sublimated source material as a thin film on a substrate are provided. The apparatus can include a deposition head; a receptacle disposed in the deposition head and configured for receipt of a source material; a heated distribution manifold disposed below the receptacle and configured to heat the receptacle to a degree sufficient to sublimate the source material within the receptacle; and, a deposition plate disposed below the distribution manifold and at a defined distance above a horizontal conveyance plane of an upper surface of a substrate conveyed through the apparatus. The distribution plate can define a pattern of passages therethrough that further distribute the sublimated source material passing through the distribution manifold. The distribution plate can have an emissivity in a range of about 0.7 to a theoretical maximum of 1.0 at a plate temperature during deposition.

A method and coating are provided for temporarily protecting a substrate or article during shipping, handling or storage by applying a removable protective coating over at least a portion of the substrate. The substrate may be flat or curved and may have zero, one or more functional coatings. A plurality of substrates with the protective coating of the invention may be arranged in a shipping container so that the protective coating reduces the possibility of damage to the substrate or optional functional coating. In one embodiment, the protective coating is the evaporation or reaction product of an aqueous coating composition containing a polyvinyl alcohol polymer which may be subsequently removed by aqueous washing, thermal decomposition or combustion. In another embodiment, the protective coating is formed by sputtering a substantially carbon coating onto the substrate. The carbon coating is subsequently removed by combustion. The protective coating may have identification materials, such as colorants or fragrance materials, such that different types of substrates and / or functional coatings can be distinguished from each other. Additionally, the temporary protective coating can improve the heating of a functionally coated glass substrate.

A light filament (206) formed from carbon nanotubes is characterized by high mechanical strength and durability at elevated temperatures, a high surface area to volume ratio, and high emissivity. Additionally, electrical resistance of the light filament does not increase with increasing temperature as much as electrical resistance of metallic light filaments. Accordingly, power consumption of the light filament is low at incandescent operating temperatures. A method for making a light filament made of carbon nanotubes includes the steps of: forming an array of carbon nanotubes (20); pulling out carbon nanotube yarn (204) from the carbon nanotube array; and winding the yarn between two leads (30) functioning as electrodes to form the light filament.

In accordance with one aspect of an exemplary embodiment, a dryer for removing hydrocarbons and / or moisture from metal chips is provided. The dryer has a chamber including a top portion and a base portion. The top portion is comprised of a material having a higher emissivity than the material forming the base portion. A burner is provided which introduces heated gas into the top portion. A device for transporting the metal chips is provided in the base portion. The device receives the metal chips at an inlet and transporting the metal chips to an outlet.

An electro-kinetic air conditioner for removing particulates from the air creates an airflow using no moving parts. The conditioner includes an ion generator that has an electrode assembly including a first array of emitter electrodes, a second array of collector electrodes, and a high voltage generator. Preferably, a third or leading or focus electrode is located upstream of the first array of emitter electrodes, and / or a trailing electrode is located downstream of the second array of collector electrodes. The device can also include an interstitial electrode located between collector electrodes, an enhanced collector electrode with an integrally formed trailing end, and an enhanced emitter electrode with an enhanced length in order to increase emissitivity.

A plasma arc torch that includes a torch body having a nozzle mounted relative to a composite electrode in the body to define a plasma chamber. The torch body includes a plasma flow path for directing a plasma gas to the plasma chamber in which a plasma arc is formed. The nozzle includes a hollow, body portion and a substantially solid, head portion defining an exit orifice. The composite electrode can be made of a metallic material (e.g., silver) with high thermal conductivity in the forward portion electrode body adjacent the emitting surface, and the aft portion of the electrode body is made of a second low cost, metallic material with good thermal and electrical conductivity. This composite electrode configuration produces an electrode with reduced electrode wear or pitting comparable to a silver electrode, for a price comparable to that of a copper electrode.

Tin is added to a zinc cathode target to enhance the sputter efficiency of the target. Films deposited using the cathode, e.g., greater than zero but less than 10 weight percent tin and greater than 90 but less than 100 weight percent zinc improve the chemical durability of a high transmittance, low emissivity coating stack over coating stacks having zinc oxides without tin oxide. High transmittance, low emissivity coating stacks are heated with the heated coating having reduced haze by selecting the thickness of metal primer layer between an infrared reflective film, e.g. a silver film and a dielectric film, e.g., a 52-48 zinc stannate, zinc oxide, tin oxide film or a zinc oxide film. Also disclosed are enhancing films that lower the resistivity of silver films deposited thereon and improve chemical durability of the coating stack.

An IR detector in the form of a thermopile including one or more thermocouples on a dielectric membrane supported by a silicon substrate. Each thermocouple is composed of two materials, at least one of which is p-doped or n-doped single crystal silicon. The device is formed in an SOI process. The device is advantageous as the use of single crystal silicon reduces the noise in the output signal, allows higher reproducibility of the geometrical and physical properties of the layer and in addition, the use of an SOI process allows a temperature sensor, as well as circuitry to be fabricated on the same chip. The detector can also have an IR filter wafer bonded onto it and / or have arrays of thermopiles to increase the sensitivity. The devices can also be integrated with an IR source on the same silicon chip and packaged to form a complete and miniaturised NDIR sensor.

An electrode for a plasma arc cutting torch which minimizes the deposition of high emissivity material on the nozzle, reduces electrode wear, and improves cut quality. The electrode has a body having a first end, a second end in a spaced relationship relative to the first end, and an outer surface extending from the first end to the second end. The body has an end face disposed at the second end. The electrode also includes at least one passage extending from a first opening in the body to a second opening in the end face. A controller can control the electrode gas flow through the passages as a function of a plasma arc torch parameter. Methods for operating the plasma arc cutting torch with the electrode are disclosed.

Aluminum phosphate-based microspheres and related compositions and methods of use.

A system for detecting and analyzing chemical and biological materials in a sample. The system includes a spectrometer for passively receiving emissions from the sample in the terahertz frequency band to detect the materials therein. A telescope or other device can be used to confine the field-of-view of the spectrometer. A cold surface is positioned filling the field-of-view of the spectrometer at an opposite side of the sample from the spectrometer. The cold surface provides a low temperature background relative to the sample so as to reduce the background emission and enhance the detection of the emission from the sample.

An infra-red (IR) device comprising a dielectric membrane formed on a silicon substrate comprising an etched portion; and at least one patterned layer formed within or on the dielectric membrane for controlling IR emission or IR absorption of the IR device, wherein the at least one patterned layer comprises laterally spaced structures.

A multilayer radiant-barrier structure is formed on one or both sides of a substrate that can be attached to an insulating layer to produce a reflective insulating material. The metallized layer is protected from environmental degradation without interfering with flammability properties that are critical for radiant and reflective insulation materials used in housing applications. The metal layer is modified to insulate enclosures without blocking cellular communications and the protective functional layer in modified to minimize emissivity, create a hydrophobic and / or oleophobic surface, and / or prevent mold, fungi and bacteria growth. Solutions are provided to solve occupational-hazard problems associated with the use of these materials in enclosures that include power wires.

A blackbody cavity having two types of wall surfaces wherein a first type has high emissivity and a second type has low emissivity. The low emissivity wall surface has an aperture from where the infrared radiation escapes the cavity, and is preferably shaped to minimize the escape through the aperture of radiation emanated directly from the low emissivity wall itself. The combination of high and low emissivity wall surfaces allows the blackbody to reduce the influence of the environmental temperature while maintaining emissivity approaching unity.

An electrical connector is disclosed for enhancing the thermal emissivity of an electrical connection. An electrical connector, such as a typical C-member and wedge style connector, is provided that is constructed of electrically conductive material and has a surface treatment on the exterior surfaces of the connector that increases emissivity of the connector. Contact surfaces are provided on the connector that are electrically conductive for ensuring electrical continuity within the connector. The surface treatment operates to increase the thermal transfer efficiency within the connector and thereby lower the operating temperature of the connector.

A method and apparatus that combines the coating spray booth with process heating and radiation to increase the efficiency of the processing of powder coatings on wood, wood-based composite materials and plastic substrates. The temperature of the parts in process can be maintained within the booth after preheating or elevated in temperature within the booth before, during, and after the application of the coating material. The invention allows for the control of the rate of thermal expansion of heat sensitive materials, thereby reducing substrate damage from cracking. Increased efficiencies permit a significant reduction of processing energy expense. Multiple coatings can be applied and cured to parts in process within the invention while experiencing an overall reduction in the length of the processing system compared to the prior art.

The invention discloses a composite radiation refrigeration film. The composite radiation refrigeration film comprises a top layer and a reflection layer arranged under the top layer. The reflection layer has high reflectivity for at least a part of solar radiation. The top layer comprises one or more polymers, and the polymer has an emissivity of not less than 80% at a wave band of 7-14 microns.The top layer comprises a first emission layer close to the reflection layer and a second emission layer far away from the reflection layer. The first emission layer comprises a first polymer and a plurality of first foam holes formed in the first polymer, and the second emission layer comprises a second polymer and a plurality of second foam holes formed in the second polymer, wherein the diameter of the first foam holes is 1-20 microns, and the diameter of the second foam holes is 1-200 nm.

The present invention generally relates to power generation methods and secondary processes requiring high radiant and emissivity homogeneous combustion to maximize production output. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a top cycle power generator with combustion exhaust modified to have radiant flux in excess of 500 kW per square meter and emissivity greater than 0.90, and supercritical CO2 power generating cycle to maximize exergy efficiency.

The invention relates to an infrared radiation enhanced coating and a preparation method thereof. The downconversion frequency shift infrared radiation enhanced coating is characterized by consisting of the following components in percentage by mass: 20 to 50 percent of radiation synergistic enhancer, 1 to 7 percent of downconversion frequency shift additive, 15 to 45 percent of high-temperature resistant base stock, 32 to 50 percent of high-temperature binder, 1 to 4 percent of flexibilizer and 1 to 4 percent of coating auxiliary agent, and the sum of the mass percentage of the components is 100 percent. The coating not only has high emissivity and good thermal shock resistance, but also can convert visible light into infrared radiation; and the thermal conversion efficiency of the coating is effectively improved.

The present invention is directed towards a coating composition for retarding fire and for substantially eliminating temperature increase of surfaces and / or structures exposed to forms of radiant energy such as solar radiation; particularly towards coating compositions having properties of emissivity, insulation, diffuse reflectivity, emittance, and fire retardant properties effective to eliminate a majority of the heat duty which results from incident heat and radiation impinging upon the surface / structure, and most particularly towards a coating composition containing both fractionally endothermic constituents capable of consuming incident heat, as well as a plurality of evacuated borosilicate microspheres of a size distribution and density effective to maximize properties of diffusive reflectivity and emissivity. The coating functions to both keep elevated temperatures out of enclosed spaces or to confine elevated temperatures within enclosed spaces.

An electrode for a plasma arc cutting torch which minimizes the deposition of high emissivity material on the nozzle, reduces electrode wear, and improves cut quality. The electrode has a body having a first end, a second end in a spaced relationship relative to the first end, and an outer surface extending from the first end to the second end. The body has an end face disposed at the second end. The electrode also includes at least one passage extending from a first opening in the body to a second opening in the end face. A controller can control the electrode gas flow through the passages as a function of a plasma arc torch parameter. Methods for operating the plasma arc cutting torch with the electrode are disclosed.

The invention discloses a variable emissivity and variable reflectivity electrochromic intelligent thermal control coating and a preparation method. Due to the adoption of conductive polymer advanced doping control and multi-layer composite photoelectric matching ways, initial electrochromic voltage is effectively reduced, and variation ranges of reflectivity and emissivity of an electrochromic active layer are widened. The prepared electrochromic coating adopts DC drive, ensures the driving voltage of lower than 2V, and has the reflectivity variations of more than 0.4 and the emissivity variations of more than 0.25; and after positive and negative 100-DC temperature alternation is performed on the coating for 100 times, the reflectivity and emissivity variations of the coating still meetthe indexes, so the coating substantially satisfies the needs of aerospacecrafts in intelligent thermal control.

The invention discloses nano-ceramic composite fine polypropylene fiber and the processing method. The fiber contains nano-ceramic powder with 12-45 of 300, polypropylene with 250-270 of 300, polyethylene wax with 2-18 of 300 by weight. The denier of the fiber monofilament is 0.5-1.5D, the breaking strength is more than 2.5cN / dtex. We can get the fiber by the step of nano-ceramic powder aqueous dispersion, pre-dispersed precursor, composite masterbatch, composite sections, and high-speed spinning. The nano-ceramic powder is made up of ZrO2, or ZrO2 and ZrC, or TiO2 and Ag+. This type of fiber can be made of various type of textiles, such as sports apparel, underwear, bedding, shirt, socks and so on. The textiles with the function of launch biological waves of energy, anti-UV, anti-bacterial, absorption and barrier the near-infrared. So that to make the textiles have the function of anti-bacterial, energy health, insulation sunscreen, regenerative thermal insulation, dry and comfortable and so on.

The invention discloses a high-temperature glaze coating, a preparation method thereof, a binder and a using method of the coating, and aims at solving the problems of poor high-temperature resistance, low emissivity and absorptivity in a high-temperature zone, instability, and easiness of attenuation of the existing far-infrared energy-saving coating. The high-temperature glaze coating has the characteristics of good radiation heat transfer effect, high external blackness (the emissivity is greater than 0.95) and the like, and has the advantages of stable emissivity and absorptivity, non-attenuation performance and long service life in a long-term use process. Meanwhile, the coating can be tightly combined with a basal body by matching with the binder disclosed by the invention; the adhesive force is increased; a glazed ceramic polymer can be formed on the basal body after high-temperature sintering; the high-temperature glaze coating has the advantages of hardness, abrasive resistance, and long service life, and does not fall off; and the coating disclosed by the invention can also evenly coat the surface which cannot be covered by general coatings.

The invention relates to a Trombe wall with the comprehensive application of solar heat collection and radiation refrigeration. The Trombe wall comprises a transparent cover plate, a heat collection and storage wall, an air flow channel, upper ventilation openings, lower ventilation openings and baffles. The transparent cover plate is made of full-wave band high transmittance material. A venetian blind is arranged on the inner side face of the transparent cover plate, one side faces of slats of the venetian blind are coated with selective absorbing coatings, and absorptivity of the coatings ranges from 90% to 95% within the solar radiation wave band ranging from 0.2 micrometer to 3 micrometers. The other side faces of the slats of the venetian blind are selective radiation surfaces, emissivity of the selective radiation surfaces ranges from 80% to 90% within the atmospheric window wave band ranging from 8 micrometers to 13 micrometers, and emissivity of the selective radiation surfaces ranges from 60% to 90% within other wave bands. The Trombe wall can heat a room in the daytime and preserve heat of the room at night in winter, and can reduce heat loads of the room in the daytime and refrigerate the room at night in summer, and therefore the problem that a traditional Trombe wall can only heat the room and is single in function is solved; the defect that the appearance of the traditional Trombe wall is not attractive enough is overcome due to the utilization of the venetian blind attractive in appearance.

The present invention discloses an overheat prevention energy storage system preventing self from overheating, comprising a heat dissipating external surface, wherein at least a portion of the external surface is coated with at least one layer of heat dissipation coating of high emissivity. The present invention further discloses a method for preventing overheat of the energy storage system and a method for forming at least one layer of heat dissipation coating of high emissivity onto at least part of an external surface of the energy storage system or assemblies thereof.