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A method and apparatus for in-sewer wastewater treatment comprising steps of largely spontaneously growing acidogenic bacteria in sewer lines and providing methanogenic bacteria in these lines. Methanogenic bacteria can be grown using wastewater, solid, or other waste, or other organic feedstock as a substrate. Methanogenic bacteria can be cultivated at a wastewater treatment plant or at other locations in special reactors, or provided from anaerobic wastewater pretreatment plants. Digestion gases can be either vented out or collected and used.

Disclosed is a novel polymeric composite including a nanoparticle filler and method for the production thereof. More particularly, the present invention provides a novel halloysite nanoparticle filler which has the generally cylindrical or tubular (e.g. rolled scroll-like shape), in which the mean outer diameter of the filler particle is typically less than about 500 nm. The filler is effectively employed in a polymer composite in which the advantages of the tubular nanoparticle filler are provided (e.g., reinforcement, flame retardant, chemical agent elution, etc.) with improved or equivalent mechanical performance of the composite (e.g., strength and ductility).

Methods for hydrolyzing lignocellulose are provided, comprising contacting the lignocellulose with at least one chemical treatment. Methods for pretreating a lignocellulosic material comprising contacting the material with at least one chemical are also provided. Methods for liberating a substance such as an enzyme, a pharmaceutical, or a nutraceutical from plant material are also provided. These methods are more efficient, more economical, and less toxic than current methods.

A waste toner collector of the present invention includes: a container main body configured to collect and store waste toner; and a conveyance member configured to convey the waste toner in the container main body. The container main body is provided with, on one side wall, a plurality of protruding containing portions that protrude outward from the container main body and are disposed along a longitudinal direction of the container main body, and a plurality of recesses each positioned between adjacent ones of the protruding containing portions. The conveyance member extends along the longitudinal direction of the container main body and is rotatably disposed in the container main body. Waste toner conveyance force of the conveyance member in a rotary shaft direction varies in such a manner that, at border portions between the protruding containing portions and the recesses, the waste toner is pushed toward the protruding containing portions.

The invention provides a combined-cycle combined heat and power system, which comprises a steam turbine, an afterheat boiler and a heat network steam extraction system, wherein the steam turbine comprises a high-pressure cylinder, an intermediate-pressure cylinder and a low-pressure cylinder, the afterheat boiler comprises a high-pressure steam drum, an intermediate-pressure steam drum and a low-pressure steam drum, the three steam drums respectively generate three flows of steam, high-pressure steam, intermediate-pressure steam and low-pressure steam are respectively injected into the high-pressure cylinder, the intermediate-pressure cylinder and the low-pressure cylinder to apply work through expansion, and a generator is driven to output electric energy. A high-discharge check valve is arranged on a steam discharge pipeline of the high-pressure cylinder, and the heat network steam extraction system designed for heating is arranged at the downstream part of the high-discharge check valve and comprises two regulating valves in parallel connection, wherein the first regulating valve is connected with a first-stage temperature and pressure reduction device used for realizing the primary steam extraction regulation of the steam turbine, and the second regulation valve is connected with a pipeline arranged between an intermediate-pressure steam generator and an intermediate-pressure superheater through a cold reheating pipeline. Compared with a traditional combined cycle combined heat and power system, the combined-cycle combined heat and power system provided by the invention has the advantages that the operation efficiency is high, the generating efficiency is high, and high-quality energy source waste is little.

The present invention relates to an applicator for flowable materials to facilitate the repair of damaged metal coatings by allowing the user to quickly, safely, and accurately apply a metal coating solution to a specific portion of a metal surface, alleviating the need to re-immerse the entire metal item in a coating bath. This is particularly advantageous where the metal item is a portion of an automobile chassis or an aircraft which cannot be easily removed. Further, the applicator is a hand-held device which features a safety collar which protects the user from potentially harmful treatment solutions and, because the applicator enables the user to deliver metal coatings accurately and efficiently, chemical waste is essentially eliminated.

The invention discloses a flexible management information system with the process and form customization function. The flexible management information system comprises a customization module, a server, a process engine, a form management module and a definition management module, wherein the customization module is used for customizing the needed form style and the needed business process, the server is used for storing data, converting formats and ensuring safety, the process engine is used for analyzing and executing the business process designed by a designer, the form management module is used for managing various resources, such as form templates and process templates, in various application systems in a unified mode, and having control over the versions and the authority of the templates, and the definition management module is used for managing staff, the authority, the resource catalogues and the like. Real business personnel can customize the business process and the business forms according to the business requirements so as to configure the specific application system, then, operation is carried out according to the customized process through driving of the process engine, data are displayed according to customized forms, the capacity of management software for meeting the individual requirements of enterprises and supporting business process reengineering is greatly improved, the success rate of execution of the software is increased, and the degree of satisfaction of a client for the flexible management information system is improved.

An appliance elevator includes a lift mechanism mounted to a substantially planar mounting panel at least a portion of which extends beyond the body of the lift mechanism to provide an area by way of which the mounting panel and lift mechanism pre-mounted on the mounting panel can be easily positioned within a piece of furniture and attached to the furniture by way of one or more fasteners such that substantially the entire mechanical load on the lift mechanism when it is in use is transferred to the furniture by way of the mounting panel.

A pressure adjustment mechanism can provide ink to a subtank with the inside of the subtank being opened to outside air, by using a low driving force. A liquid tank holds liquid to be used by a printing apparatus. The liquid tank has a structure in which a capacity of the liquid tank can be changed so as to generate a negative pressure in the liquid tank. The liquid tank includes a case having an opening at one side of the tank, and a flexible film that covers the opening, and a compressed spring in the tank for pressing the film outwards.

A mediated electrochemical oxidation process is used to treat, oxidize and destroy halogenated hydrocarbon waste materials. The waste materials are introduced into an apparatus for contacting with an electrolyte containing the oxidized form of one or more reversible redox couples, at least one of which is produced electrochemically by anodic oxidation at the anode of an electrochemical cell. The oxidized forms of any other redox couples present are produced either by similar anodic oxidation or reaction with the oxidized form of other redox couples present and capable of affecting the required redox reaction. The oxidized species of the redox couples oxidize the halogenated hydrocarbon waste molecules and are themselves converted to their reduced form, whereupon they are reoxidized by either of the aforementioned mechanisms and the redox cycle continues until all oxidizable waste species, including intermediate reaction products, have undergone the desired degree of oxidation.

Aspects of the invention provide a method of manufacturing a luminescence device including forming the first electrode on a substrate, forming a function layer including a luminescence layer on the first electrode, forming a second electrode on the function layer, and forming a sealing layer that covers a luminescence portion, formed of the first electrode, the function layer, and the second electrode, and the sealing layer is formed by an ink-jet method. Accordingly, the deterioration of a luminescence device that is sealed with the sealing layer can be prevented for a long period of time by an inexpensive method.

An exhaust smoke processing system capable of economically removing heavy metal, comprising a air preheater 3 for heating combustion air by exhaust smoke discharged from a boiler 1, a heat recoverer 11 for heating a heat medium by exhaust smoke discharged from the air preheater 3, a dust collector 4 for collecting soot and dust in exhaust smoke discharged from the heat recoverer 11, a wet-type exhaust smoke processing apparatus for processing exhaust smoke discharged from the dust collector 4, a reheater 13 for heating exhaust smoke discharged from the wet-type exhaust smoke processing apparatus by the heat medium, and a heat medium circulation pipe passage 15 for circulating the heating medium between the reheater 13 and the heat recoverer 11, wherein the heating medium circulation pipe 15 is provided with temperature control means which measures a heavy metal concentration in exhaust smoke discharged from any one or more of the dust collector 4, the wet-type exhaust smoke processing apparatus 6 and the reheater 13, and adjust the temperature of exhaust smoke at an outlet of the heat recoverer 11 such that the measured value falls within a predetermined range.

The invention discloses an LAA equipment competition access parameter configuration method and device. The method comprises the steps that different LBT mechanisms or LBT mechanism parameter sets corresponding to different priority levels are determined according to different priority levels; competition access operation of an unauthorized carrier is performed by using different LBT mechanisms or LBT mechanism parameter sets corresponding to different priority levels; and when the right to use the unauthorized carrier is successfully acquired according to the LBT mechanisms or LBT mechanism parameter sets, data transmission is performed by using the unauthorized carrier.

This disclosure describes methods and apparatuses for reducing emissions of vehicles, such as waste collection vehicles. The disclosure describes a novel light-weight collection bin that has a weight that is less than previously utilized collection bins. The light-weight collection bin utilizes a bag made of a fabric-like material in combination with a collection bin body that frames the bag to form the light-weight collection bin.

A sperm collecting apparatus is provided and includes a container including a cylindrical container main unit that has an opening portion on at least one end face in a longitudinal direction thereof and a cap that is attached to and detached from the opening portion of the container main unit to close and open the opening portion, and a core member which is accommodated in said container and has an insertion room extending from an insertion port at one end face in a longitudinal direction therein. The core member includes a core main unit having said insertion port and the insertion room and a plurality of ribs provided upright from an outer face of the core main unit to cross one another, and sealed rooms are formed through the outer face of the core main unit.

The invention discloses an automatic assembly machine for assembling an encoder for an intercom. The automatic assembly machine includes a case, a controller, a rotation disc, a cam divider assembly, an upper manual placement mechanism, a stopping base mounting mechanism, a first film sheet mounting mechanism, a second film sheet mounting mechanism, a first rubber rotation sheet mounting mechanism, a first body mounting mechanism, a second rubber rotation sheet mounting mechanism, a second body mounting mechanism, an oil coating mechanism, a riveting mechanism, a discharging mechanism and detection assemblies; a plurality of working station clamps are movably arranged on a circumferential edge of the rotation disc; In assembly, the upper manual placement mechanism transfers a manual placement shaft core sleeve to a matched working station clamp, and then the stopping base, the first film sheet, the second film sheet, the first rubber rotation sheet, the first body, the second rubber rotation sheet, the second body are mounted successively, the oil coating mechanism performs oil coating after the second body is mounted, the riveting mechanism rivets all the parts through rivets to form a finished product, and the discharging assembly sends the finished product to a collection box. The automatic assembly machine is easy to use, is high in assembly efficiency, is high in yield, is simple to maintain, and is long in service life.

A ribbed steel bar truss concrete superimposed sheet and a ribbed steel bar truss concrete construction method comprise a prefabricated layer and a superimposed layer. The prefabricated layer comprises a steel bar truss net and a concrete layer arranged on the lower portion of the prefabricated layer. A steel bar truss is composed of a lower chord steel bar, an upper chord steel bar and a web member steel bar connecting the lower chord steel bar and the upper chord steel bar. The steel bar truss net is composed of the steel bar truss, an additional steel bar shelved on the lower chord steel bar and vertical to the steel bar truss and a longitudinal steel bar in the lower portion of the prefabricated layer and parallel to the lower chord steel bar of the steel bar truss in the same plane. A plurality of concrete ribs are arranged on the upper end face of the concrete layer along the longitude direction and arranged in parallel. The superimposed layer is a cast-in-place concrete layer arranged on the prefabricate layer. A steel rib net is buried in the superimposed layer. The superimposed layer is connected with the upper chord steel bar in the steel bar truss of the prefabricate layer. The superimposed layer comprises an upper longitudinal bar and the additional steel bar vertical to the upper chord steel bar, and poured into a whole with the upper chord steel bar in the steel bar truss of the prefabricate layer and the web member steel bar. The ribbed steel bar truss concrete superimposed sheet and the ribbed steel bar truss concrete construction method have the advantages of being reasonable in steel bar overall arrangement, good in economy, convenient to hoist and transport, and effective in solving problem of sheet joint cracking.

The object of the present invention is to provide a garbage collection (GC) system that suppresses wasteful increase in CPU time required for GC, without stopping all AP threads for an excessively long amount of time. The garbage collection system frees memory areas corresponding to objects that are no longer required in an execution procedure of an object-oriented program composed of a plurality of threads, and includes: a selection unit operable to select the threads one at a time; an examination unit operable to execute examination processing with respect to the selected thread, the examination processing including procedures of stopping execution of the thread, finding an object that is accessible from the thread by referring to an object pointer, managing the found object as a non-freeing target, and resuming execution of the thread; a detection unit operable to, when having detected, after the selection unit has commenced selecting, that an object pointer has been processed as a processing target by a currently-executed thread, manage an object indicated by the processing target object pointer, as a non-freeing target; and a freeing unit operable to, after the examination processing has been completed with respect to all of the threads, free memory areas that correspond to objects other than the objects that are managed as non-freeing targets.

The invention relates to a spinning process of bamboo-like flat filaments produced by a semi-continuous high-speed spinning machine and belongs to the technical field of spinning of semi-continuous spinning machines. The spinning process comprises glue supply, filament strip forming, spinning and winding. The spinning process is characterized in that the glue supply is achieved through a glue supply device which comprises a metering pump, a glue supply tube and a filter; the metering pump is connected with a frequency converter which is used for controlling the amount of the glue supply of the metering pump; the frequency converter controls the metering pump to perform intermittent glue supply; the spinning is achieved through a spinning device which comprises at least one spinning roller which is horizontally arranged relative to an operating surface of a spinning surface; and filament strips surround the spinning roller to achieve drafting, solidification and deacidification in the spinning processes under the rotation of the spinning roller. The spinning process of the bamboo-like flat filaments produced by the semi-continuous high-speed spinning machine has the advantages of solving the problems that the filament strips of the semi-continuous spinning machines are inadequate in response, so that the spinning speed cannot be improved and the production efficiency and product quality cannot be integrated, enabling the arrangement direction of the spinning roller to be changed to enable the spinning speed of the spinning machine to be improved and enabling the high quality bamboo-like flat filaments to be spun out.