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Roll caster (11) produces thin steel strip (12) formed on casting surfaces (22A) of casting roll (22) that passes through first enclosure (37) adjacent casting roll surfaces (22A) and, optionally, thereafter second enclosure (61). Enclosure (37) and/or enclosure (61) may be fitted with spray nozzles (71,72) and/or (67, 68) operable to spray fine water mist adjacent strip (12) to produce hydrogen gas in enclosure (37) while tending to avoid liquid water contact with steel strip (12) and casting surfaces (22A). If hydrogen gas is produced only in enclosure (61), the two enclosures (37, 61) are interconnected so that gas can flow from enclosure (61) to enclosure (37). Enclosure (37) and, if present, enclosure (61) are sealed to maintain positive pressure and oxygen levels less than the surrounding atmosphere, and with the presence of hydrogen gas, reduce formation of scale on the strip in enclosure (37) and, if present, enclosure (61).

A television system for presenting interactive television services to a user. The system comprises a local memory in which one or more data parameters are stored. The system is operable to determine the availability of data from a data source, and capture a first portion of the available data and store it in a first area of the local memory. The system uses the parameters stored in the local memory to determine whether the first data portion references a second portion of the available data. In the event that it does, the second portion of the data is captured and also stored in the first area of local memory. The first and second portions of data are processed according to their identities. The processed data is written to a second area of the local memory, so that it can be used to present interactive television services to the user.

An isolation system for producing oil and gas from one or more formation zones and methods of use are provided comprising one or more pressure activated valve and one or more tool shiftable valve. The tool shiftable valve may be actuated before or after actuation of the pressure activated valve.

This invention is an intelligent home control bus (IHbus). It comprises at least one input node (sensor, announcer) A and at least a output node (operator, listener) L. A control instructions are input from the input node A, and transferred to the output node L through a control bus, and the output node L outputs a logic operation result based on the instructions. The node A is a control device for transmitting data and has at least one input circuit for inputting a special logical state. The node L is a device for receiving data and performing a operation and has at least one output circuit for outputting a special logical state.

A semi-trailer leg loading nut includes a screwed hole provided on a nut column and connecting two ends of the nut. Said nut is a two-layered structure formed of a top layer and an under layer or a three-layered structure formed of a top layer, an intermediate layer and an under layer. The outer outline of at least two layers of the nut is a square with the same cutting angle. The side length of the two layers of squares is equal. The outer outline projection of the two layers of squares overlap with each other along the column axis direction. The outer outline projection of the other layer is within the overlapped projection of the two layers along the column axis direction. A funneled oil cup or an oil groove is provided on the top layer of the nut and communicates with the screwed hole. A bottom of the under layer of the nut is plane and is pressed on a loading plate in a quadrate pipe to transfer load.

A rotary union having a housing, a rotor, and a post such that a fluid can be conveyed through the rotary union. The rotor is rotatably coupled to the housing, preferably by at least one bearing interposed between a portion of the rotor exterior and a portion of the housing interior. The post is positioned in the rotary union in a manner effective to help fluidly couple the rotor to the housing and such that an annular gap surrounds at least a portion of the post such that the annular gap constitutes at least a portion of a drain fluid pathway. The present invention also includes fluid delivery systems including such rotary unions and methods of making and/or using such rotary unions.

A processor controlled induction RF fluorescent lamp, where the processor controls a dimming function, the lamp comprising a bulbous vitreous portion of the induction RF fluorescent lamp comprising a vitreous envelope filled with a working gas mixture; a power coupler comprising at least one winding of an electrical conductor; and an electronic ballast, wherein the electronic ballast provides appropriate voltage and current to the power coupler.

A processor controlled induction RF fluorescent lamp, where the processor controls a rapid startup function, the lamp comprising a lamp envelope filled with a gas mixture at less than typical atmospheric pressure, wherein the lamp envelope comprises at least one metallic structure for collecting mercury; a power coupler comprising at least one winding of an electrical conductor; an electronic ballast, wherein the electronic ballast provides appropriate voltage and current to the power coupler; and where the processor controls the rapid startup function to increase power at lamp startup to rapidly heat and vaporize the mercury collected on the at least one metallic structure to promote rapid luminous development during the turn-on phase of the induction RF fluorescent lamp.

Disclosed is an apparatus for disintegrating bales of agricultural material such as hay. The apparatus has a a chassis, a processing tub with a discharge opening located in one of its side walls, a disintegrator mounted in the processing tub to disintegrate baled crop material positioned within the tub and discharge the processed bale material out the discharge opening and a manipulator mounted within the processing tub adapted to manipulate the baled crop material to expose different parts thereof to the disintegrator. The processing tub is adapted to be mounted on the chassis such that the discharge opening can be positioned on either the left or right side of the chassis. In an embodiment of the invention, the processing tub is sized to accommodated a large square bale lengthwise therein or two or more round bales. The apparatus is also provided with an adjustable fork lift to raise bales of different configurations into the processing tube and a hydraulic selector valve such that two sets of hydraulic systems on the processor can be operated by a single hydraulic line from a tractor or other power source.

In an integrated gasification power plant a steam recovery system is provided. The system enables power generation equipment designed for a predominant fuel and operating condition to efficiently utilize additional steam generation by syngas coolers when heat transfer surface condition or fuel characteristics enable additional steam generation. The system can detect excess steam generation, integrate it with the syngas cleaning process and transmit it to the power generation equipment. The system results in a low cost power generation system which is capable of efficiently operating with a wide range of fuels and a wide rang of operating conditions.

The invention relates to a method, a client, a server and a system for displaying an application information window. The method comprises the following steps that the client responses an operational order of a user side to display a window; the client sends a webpage downloading request to the server through a pre-loaded browser control; the webpage downloading request carries a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) parameter list; the server carries out access authentication and verification on the webpage downloading request according to parameter information in the URL parameter list; when authentication and verification are successful, the server issues a corresponding webpage to the browser control; and the client displays the webpage through the browser control. According to the method, the client, the server and the system for displaying the application information window, the client provides the window and the server provides a webpage display content, so that all client editions can be uniformly modified and published at any moment, and thus the client window display content can operate flexibly and be updated quickly.

The invention relates to a novel air lift type membrane bioreactor, in particular to an external loop air lift type membrane bioreactor which comprises a reaction kettle body 10, a circulating pipe 15and air lifting pipe 2. The external loop air lift type membrane bioreactor is characterized in that a return nozzle of the air lifting pipe is positioned under the liquid level and is connected with a return pipe 8 extending into the reaction kettle body 10; an air distributor 9 replaces the air lifting return pipe 8 to be used for distributing confluent gas, and an inorganic membrane module 10 is packaged in the air lifting pipe 2 to be used as a liquid/solid separator. The invention has simple structure, flexible operation and lower energy consumption, is easy to realize the industrial expansion, and has huge prospect especially in the biochemical reaction.

The invention provides a method for implementing master and standby dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) servers. An access service gateway regularly detects the feasibility of the master and standby DHCP servers; and if one DHCP server returns a response, the DHCP server is determined to be feasible at present, and a DHCP message of a user can be sent to the DHCP server. Therefore, when the master DHCP server goes down, a system automatically switches to the standby DHCP server so as to keep the normal operation of user service.

The invention discloses an onboard seamless data transmission wireless communication system and method. The onboard seamless data transmission wireless communication system comprises an onboard system and a ground system. The onboard system comprises a data merging router, a built-in subnet and an onboard communication system, wherein the built-in subnet is in signal connection with the data merging router. The ground system comprises a data center, a ground communication system and a ground supporting system, wherein the ground communication system is in signal connection with the data center, and the ground communication system is in signal connection with the onboard communication system. The data merging router is used for merging a plurality of single communication links into a unified external communication transmission channel and building the external communication transmission channel communicated with the data center. The data merging router is provided with a communication control interface module. The communication control interface module is used for controlling the onboard communication system to externally initiate a single communication link connecting request to build a communication transmission channel. The onboard seamless data transmission wireless communication system is convenient and flexible to use, smooth in data transmission, short in data switching delay and high in transmission reliability.

A reversible SOFC-based system for generating electricity, including: an solid-oxide-fuel-cell (SOFC) stack containing at least one elementary solid-oxide electrochemical cell, each of which is formed from a cathode, an anode and an electrolyte intermediate between the cathode and the anode; a separator of liquid and gas phases, which separator is connected to the outlet of the fuel-cell stack; a methanation reactor suitable for implementing a methanation reaction, the inlet of which is connected to the outlet of the phase separator and the outlet of which is connected to the inlet of the fuel-cell stack so that the mixture issued from the methanation reactor is introduced into the fuel-cell stack; and a tank for reversibly storing hydrogen, suitable for storing hydrogen, the outlet of which is connected to the inlet of the methanation reactor.

The invention discloses a lever type online safety valve checking device. One end of a V-type lower rod and one end of the other V-type lower rod are hinged to each other, the two ends of a supporting rod adjusting nut are supported by one end of an upper rod and one end of each lower rod, a groove in a supporting rod upper bolt is hinged to one end of the upper rod, a tension sensor is arranged on the middle point of the upper rod, an iron chain and a clamping device with clamping heads provided with transverse tooth-shaped patterns are hung below the upper rod, a manual hydraulic pump is connected with a single-action hydraulic cylinder, the hydraulic cylinder is located on the open end of the lower rods through a hydraulic cylinder holding board, a hydraulic cylinder ejector rod is in contact with the upper rod, a displacement sensor is installed at the bottom of the hydraulic cylinder, a safety valve body is arranged in protruding V shapes of two pressing rods, and a valve neck of a safety valve is clamped by a locking device; the clamping device can clamp a valve rod of the safety valve, the valve rod of the safety valve and the tension sensor are coaxially arranged, and the displacement sensor and the tension sensor are connected with a data processor through data cables. According to the lever type online safety valve adjusting device, the valve rod is lifted according to the lever principle, the power and the size of a lifting mechanism are effectively reduced, checking is rapid and accurate, the application range is wide, and the checking efficiency can be effectively improved.

The invention discloses a method for electro-regeneration of a membraneless ion exchange resin based on an equivalent filter element electrode, which aims at reviving and regenerating inactive cation and anion exchange resin and chelating resin, etc. by using an electrode reaction and OH<-> and H<+> produced in hydrolytic dissociation. A microporous filter element electrode is adopted and the power is supplied by a direct current power source or a chemical power source. When in regeneration, the external pressure of an regeneration chamber of the filter element electrode is higher than the internal pressure of the filter element electrode; displaced counter ions enter into the exterior of an electrode filter element under the coupling effect of an electric field force and a water flow drag force, and an electrochemical reaction system is lead out to realize the regeneration of the resin. The anode derived water is disinfectant fluid with acid oxidation potential and used for regenerating an acidulous cation resin; the cathode derived water serves as raw water for regeneration after going through acidulous resin treatment. The method dispenses with expensive ion exchange membranes, avoids defects of blocking and electrode scaling, etc., owing to the features of membranes and has wide market prospect in a swage treatment industry.

The invention discloses a quantum chip port impedance test device and a test method, and belongs to the field of quantum. The accurate and convenient quantum chip port impedance test device comprisesa lock-in amplifier, a relay array switching circuit, a quantum chip, an MCU controller and an upper computer. Each path of the relay array switching circuit is connected with each port of the quantumchip. The relay array switching circuit comprises a double-pole double-throw relay. The double-pole double-throw relay is connected with the MCU controller. The MCU controller is connected with the upper computer. The test method comprises the following steps: outputting and adjusting a signal of the lock-in amplifier to the minimum voltage, outputting and adjusting the signal of the lock-in amplifier to a test voltage value, opening a communication program of the upper computer, connecting ports, needing to be tested, of the quantum chip in sequence, and collecting the voltage data and the current data by using a lock-in amplifier program of the upper computer. The test device and the test method have the advantages of being high in testing efficiency and convenient to operate, and avoiding breakdown of the quantum chip.

A GPS baseband architecture provides flexibility and power consumption and chip area usage advantages. The GPS baseband architecture includes a first stage having a preamplifier coupled to a low noise amplifier, which is coupled to a mixer. A PLL provides the mixer with a frequency to convert a signal to a higher intermediate (IF) frequency. The output of the mixer is fed to a poly-phase filter. The output of the poly-phase filter is fed to a programmable gain amplifier (PGA), whose output is fed to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to produce an output GPS signal. A saturation bit of the ADC is used to control the PGA through a digital amplifier gain control (AGC) circuit.

The invention relates to a service realizing system of access terminal and relative method. Wherein, the invention sets roaming range information for the access terminal, and judges the position of access terminal when the access terminal realizes the service, to assure if allowing said access terminal to go on realizing the service, to make the user without roaming service only enjoy service in appointed user region, to realize the roaming limit on the access terminal. The invention can meet the roaming limit demands of different communication systems; therefore, the operator can flexibly manage and operate the communication network.