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A system and method of reducing consumption of electricity used to cool electronic computer data center, networking, and telecommunications equipment, and to reduce the incidence of thermal failure of electronic components, includes provision of one or more partitions to reduce the volume of the cooled environment supplying coldest possible cooled air from air conditioning systems to a chamber adjacent to racks containing the electronic components, preventing dilution of the supplied cooling airflow by warmer air from outside of the reduced volume environment, and controlling the delivery of cooling air flow through the reduced volume of the cooled environment.

A method and device for monitoring and controlling a pharmaceutical, chemical or food process, in which the biological activity and / or the bio-mass of micro-organisms in the process is monitored, and in which the state of the process is detected by monitoring viscosity and / or aggregate size and / or content of a dispersion of proteins, crystalline particles or fat droplets that are processed, respectively. The micro-organisms and / or bio-molecules produced in the process, and the proteins, crystals particles or fat droplets being processed are monitored by means of acoustic spectroscopy.

A peristaltic pump 10 for use in ophthalmic surgery includes a housing 12, a pump head 14 having plurality of rollers 16, a backing plate 18 attached to the housing 12, and a length of surgical tubing 50. The rollers 16 and backing plate 18 cooperate to pinch the length of surgical tubing 50 to peristaltically pump fluids from a surgical site to a collection bag 64. At least one of the pump head 14 and the backing plate 18 is moveable, during operation of the pump 10, from a tubing pinched position to a tubing vent position. This movement allows the tubing 50 to be vented by removing the pinched closure of the tubing 50.

The fitment is an elongated connector providing a conduit for aspirant to flow from a pump cartridge to an interior of the collection bag. The connector has a first end configured for attachment to the pump cartridge and a second end for positioning within the interior of the collection bag. The second end also includes at least one notch formed in the connector. The notch acts to prevent the collection bag from sealing off the conduit during surgery so that a sufficient amount of air will remain within the bag to allow a surgeon to air vent an aspiration path during surgery.

The disclosure provides methods and systems for sequestering and / or reducing sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides and / or carbon dioxide present in industrial effluent fluid streams. A solid particulate material comprising a slag component, a binder component (distinct from the slag component), and optionally water is formed and then contacted with the effluent fluid stream to reduce at least one of the sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, and / or carbon dioxide. The contacting of the effluent stream may occur in a packed bed reactor with the solid dry particulate material. Methods of reducing pollutants from exhaust generated by combustion sources, lime and / or cement kilns, iron and / or steel furnaces, and the like are provided.

Air conditioning units, methods of manufacturing, inventories, and buildings wherein certain heat exchanger modules are combined to make air conditioning units. In some embodiments, different combinations of different size modules are used to produce air conditioning units having different capacities wherein some identical modules are used in different size units. Various heat exchanger assemblies include spacers between modules, bends formed after modules are assembled into heat exchanger assemblies, attachment rails at the ends of the modules, inactive multi-tubes at the top and bottom of the modules, copper tubing between aluminum modules to facilitate field replacement of individual modules, name plates that attach between modules, attachment clips or spacers that snap attach to the modules, or a combination thereof, as examples.

An electrolyte fuel system, its operation and program and a recording medium associated with the program is disclosed. Embodiments include a fuel cell system having a load electric current changing means for changing an amount of load electric current that runs in one ore more fuel cells which are operated to generate electricity, a measurement means for measuring voltage responses to the change in said load electric current, a calculating means for calculating impedance of said one or more fuel cells based on said voltage responses measured, and a fuel cell control means for controlling condition for operation of said one or more fuel cells by utilizing calculation results retrieved by said calculating means.

An implantable device for providing one-way flow of air through a lumen in a human lung to reduce the volume of air trapped in a diseased portion of the lung by occluding the lumen to prevent inhalation while permitting expiration out of the diseased portion. The implantable device is deployable in the lumen with a catheter. The device comprises an umbrella-shaped, one-way valve. The valve is collapsible for containment within a catheter and expandable in situ when deployed to occlude the lumen. The valve defines a longitudinal axis and comprises a plurality of metal struts, a resilient membrane, and a central post. The device further comprises an anchor for securing the implantable device within the lumen. The anchor comprises a tapered distal end for penetrating the wall of the lumen, and a planar member positioned to limit advancement of the anchor into the lumen. The implantable device further comprises a mechanism connecting the one-way valve to the anchor. The mechanism is disposed along the longitudinal axis when the device is collapsed. The mechanism is configured to permit the valve to be oriented at an angle to said anchor when deployed. Accordingly, the anchor can be positioned in a section of the lumen that is at an angle to a section of said lumen in which said one-way valve is positioned.

A meltblowing apparatus for dispensing an adhesive through a plurality of first orifices of a die assembly fabricated from a plurality of laminated members to form a plurality of adhesive flows at a first velocity and dispensing air through a plurality of second orifices in the die assembly to form a plurality of air flows at a second velocity. The plurality of first and second orifices arranged in an alternating series so that each of the plurality of first orifices is flanked on substantially opposing sides by one of the plurality of second orifices, wherein the plurality of first and second orifices are oriented to direct non-convergently the plurality of adhesive flows and the plurality of air flows.

When target blowout temperature to the inside of a vehicle is over a predetermined temperature in, an air temperature control system according to the present invention controls a cooling-ability controller to control air temperature of air cooled by a heat exchanger for cooling so that airflow becomes a predetermined temperature, and reduces the amount of blowout air into the vehicle per unit time compared with the amount of the blowout air when the target blowout temperature is under the predetermined temperature. Accordingly, the cooling air temperature due to the heat exchanger for cooling is fixed at the predetermined temperature even when the target blowout temperature is over the predetermined temperature. Therefore, generation of malodors due to dust and mold in the heat exchanger for cooling is prevented.

The invention discloses a circulating sludge biological fermentation tower which comprises a tower body, an openable tower cover, a storage tank and a plurality of rotatable fermentation devices, wherein the openable tower cover is arranged on the top of the tower body; the storage tank is arranged at the bottom of the tower body; the rotatable fermentation devices are arranged in the tower body in parallel; the fermentation devices divide an inner cavity of the tower body into a plurality of layers of fermentation bins along the axial direction; the lower part of each layer of fermentation device is provided with a ventilating oxygen supply pipeline communicated with a blower; the upper part of each layer of fermentation device is provided with an air outlet pipeline communicated with aninduced draft fan and a monitoring device; the monitoring device is controlled by a control room; and a mechanism for driving the fermentation devices and the tower cover to move, the blower and the induced draft fan are all controlled by the control room. The invention also discloses a circulating sludge biological processing system and a processing method. By the circulating sludge biological fermentation tower, the circulating sludge biological processing system and the processing method, industrial biological fermentation desiccation treatment can be continuously and stably carried out onsludge under the conditions of high efficiency and low energy consumption.

An implantable device for providing one-way flow of air through a lumen in a human lung to reduce the volume of air trapped in a diseased portion of the lung by occluding the lumen to prevent inhalation while permitting expiration out of the diseased portion. The implantable device is deployable in the lumen with a catheter. The device comprises an umbrella-shaped, one-way valve. The valve is collapsible for containment within a catheter and expandable in situ when deployed to occlude the lumen. The valve defines a longitudinal axis and comprises a plurality of metal struts, a resilient membrane, and a central post. The device further comprises an anchor for securing the implantable device within the lumen. The anchor comprises a tapered distal end for penetrating the wall of the lumen, and a planar member positioned to limit advancement of the anchor into the lumen. The implantable device further comprises a mechanism connecting the one-way valve to the anchor. The mechanism is disposed along the longitudinal axis when the device is collapsed. The mechanism is configured to permit the valve to be oriented at an angle to said anchor when deployed. Accordingly, the anchor can be positioned in a section of the lumen that is at an angle to a section of said lumen in which said one-way valve is positioned.

An electric machine includes a housing for accommodating a rotatably supported rotor and a stationary stator, and a cooling device for cooling heat-generating components of the rotor and the stator. The cooling device includes a closed-flow system having an evaporator disposed in the housing, a condenser disposed outside the housing at a geodetically higher location, and a closed tube assembly, which connects the condenser and the evaporator, for circulating a coolant using a thermosiphon effect as a result of a difference in density between vapor and liquid portions of the coolant. The closed-flow system contains a liquid-vapor mixture of the coolant in a saturated state and includes a first tube for conducting coolant to the evaporator and a second tube for conducting coolant away from the evaporator. The first tube has hereby a cross section which is smaller than a cross section of the second tube.

Provided is an air conditioner, which is constituted such that a plurality of left and right blades disposed at the blowout ports of an indoor equipment can be controlled independently for a plurality of blocks, and such that the area to be air-conditioned is divided into a plurality of areas by a plurality of human body sensors, and which is equipped with a control device for controlling the left and right blades independently for the individual blocks in accordance with the reaction results of the human body sensors. On the basis of at least one of the area characteristics indicating the frequency, which is decided by accumulating the reaction results of the human body sensors a predetermined number of times and which indicates the presence of a person in each of the areas, the personalactivity in the personal presence area, and the adjacency of the personal absence area to the personal presence area, the control device can control the left and right blades thereby to change the opening ratio of the blowout ports to the plural areas.

The present invention relates to one kind of combined rolling press grinding apparatus, and belongs to the field of inorganic non-metal material grinding technology. The combined rolling press grinding apparatus includes one dispensing mechanism, one lifting and conveying mechanism, one rolling press, one ball mill, one powder concentrator, one dust collector and one fan. The present invention has the advantages of low milling loss, simple structure, several operation mode, high grinding efficiency, low power consumption, etc.

Proposed is a pyrolysis reactor for processing solid municipal and domestic wastes by means of a pyrolytic reaction in the pyrolysis chamber without access of oxygen to the reaction system. The reactor is characterized by containing two waste-feeding screws which have tapered shapes, a gap between the outer surfaces of the threads, are inclined in the vertical plane and converge towards each other in a horizontal plane in the direction from the inlet to the outlet end. The gap is adjustable with diminishing toward the outlet end.

In an air conditioning apparatus for a vehicle, a double layer flow mode is set when the maximum heating state is set during an air outlet mode where both a foot opening portion and a defroster opening portion are opened. During the double layer flow mode, an air passage of an air conditioning case is partitioned into a first air passage through which inside air flows and a second air passage through which outside air flows, in such a manner that the first air passage communicates with the foot opening portion and the second air passage communicates with the defroster opening portion. When the double layer flow mode is set, the maximum rotation speed of a blower for blowing air is reduced by a predetermined level as compared with an entire outside air mode or an entire inside air mode. Thus, heating capacity for a passenger compartment of the vehicle can be improved.

The invention discloses an air conditioner indoor unit. The air conditioner indoor unit is provided with an air outlet, an air guide plate, a first air dispersing plate, a second air dispersing plate, a controller and a temperature detector, wherein a plurality of ventilation holes are formed in each of the first air dispersing plate and the second air dispersing plate; the temperature detector is used for detecting the indoor temperature; the controller is used for controlling the first air dispersing plate and the second air dispersing plate to open air outlet and controlling the air guide plate to rotate at a preset angle so as to partially shield the air outlet when judging that the air conditioner indoor unit enters a preset operation mode under the operation state of refrigeration of the air conditioner indoor unit; and the controller is also used for controlling the first air dispersing plate and the second air dispersing plate to be located at different rotation positions according to the indoor temperature detected by the temperature detector to shield the air outlet after the air conditioner indoor unit enters the preset operation mode. The invention also discloses an air conditioner indoor air output control method. According to the air conditioner indoor unit and the air conditioner indoor air output control method, the environmental comfort is improved.

A peristaltic pump 10 for use in ophthalmic surgery includes a housing 12, a pump head 14 having plurality of rollers 16 held within the housing 12, and a backing plate 18 attached to the housing 12. The pump head14 moves relative to the housing 12 and backing plate 18.

The invention relates to a combustor comprising an air flow channel for feeding air into the interior, and a fuel nozzle disposed in the air flow channel and having a spout port for spouting fuel, wherein a turbulence generating body adjacent the spout port of the fuel nozzle is installed in the air flow channel. It also relates to a combustor comprising an air flow channel for feeding air into the interior, and a fuel nozzle disposed in the air flow channel and having a spout port for spouting fuel, wherein a diffuser section is installed in the air flow channel, the diffuser section causing the cross sectional area of the portion of the air flow channel positioned in the vicinity of the spout port to be smaller than the cross sectional area of the downstream portion of the air flow channel positioned more downstream than the spout port with respect to the flow of air. Thereby, the generation of combustion vibration is suppressed while enhancing the fuel-air mixing action.

An article of footwear including a sole and an upper with an exterior and interior surface, and a bladder which comprises at least one of the exterior or interior surfaces. The bladder comprising sheets of polyurethane attached together via welding. The bladder includes a medial compartment and a lateral compartment attached to each other under the foot of the wearer. The article of footwear also includes a inflation mechanism for selectively introducing air to the chambers. The inflation mechanism is located under the foot of the wearer to be activated by the normal action of the wearer.

In a battery cooling system that cools a battery by using conditioned air (inside air of a passenger compartment) of a vehicle air conditioner, a battery control unit controls a battery blower to increase an air amount supplied to the battery when a predetermined condition is satisfied. In contrast, an air-conditioning control unit decreases a compression capacity of a compression device after an air amount supplied to the battery is increased to a predetermined amount by the battery control unit. For example, the air-conditioning control unit decreases the compression capacity of the compression device after a predetermined time passes after the air amount supplied to the battery is increased to the predetermined amount. Accordingly, the temperature inside the passenger compartment and the compression device can be stably controlled.

The invention is directed to an improved feeding nipple, including a substantially solid nipple portion. The nipple includes one or more ducts formed therethrough for conveying fluids through the nipple. The nipple is radially compressible and a reinforcing member is disposed in the nipple adjacent the one or more ducts.

A peristaltic pump 10 for use in ophthalmic surgery includes a housing 12, a pump head 14 having plurality of rollers 16, a backing plate 18 attached to the housing 12, and a length of surgical tubing 50. The rollers 16 and backing plate 18 cooperate to pinch the length of surgical tubing 50 to peristaltically pump fluids from a surgical site to a collection bag 64. At least one of the pump head 14 and the backing plate 18 is moveable, during operation of the pump 10, from a tubing pinched position to a tubing vent position. This movement allows the tubing 50 to be vented by removing the pinched closure of the tubing 50.

The invention is an inflatable bladder assembly for use in HVAC zone control systems. The bladder has a nozzle for inflating and deflating the bladder. The nozzle connects to a small air tube that is connected to the control system that provides pressure and vacuum for inflating and deflating the bladder. The bladder has at least two mounting tabs for attaching the bladder to a mounting fixture. A restraint fixture is attached to the mounting fixture. The restraint fixture firmly grips the nozzle and air tube. The restraint fixture allows the nozzle and air tube to be easily inserted into the fixture such that an airtight seal is made between the nozzle and air tube. The restrain fixture strongly resists forces that would remove the nozzle or air tube from the restraint fixture. The mounting fixture is attached to the duct system.

A driving control system and method of a fuel cell system are provided. The driving control method includes determining, by a controller, when a fuel cell stack is in a water shortage, based on an oversupply of air to the fuel cell stack or a deterioration of the fuel cell stack. A diagnostic level is then assigned to the fuel cell system and at least one recovery driving mode that corresponds to the assigned diagnostic level is performed.

The invention discloses an afterheat recovery system and an afterheat recovery method of dry granulating liquid slag. The system comprises a granulating cabin, a moving bed and an afterheat recovery system, the inner surface of the granulating cabin is provided with a granulating cabin water cooling wall, the center of the top of the granulating cabin is provided with a slag pipe, the slag pipe extends into the granulating cabin, the lower part of the tail end of the slag pipe is provided with a centrifugal granulator, the centrifugal granulator is connected with a motor arranged at the lower part of the centrifugal granulator, the lateral side of the centrifugal granulator is provided with an air supply pipeline, an annular air opening is formed between the centrifugal granulator and the air supply pipeline, the lower part of the granulating cabin is provided with the moving bed, the inner surface of the moving bed is provided with a moving bed water cooling wall, the top of the moving bed is provided with an air outlet, the bottom of the moving bed is provided with a slag discharge device, an air inlet device is arranged above the slag discharge device, the afterheat recovery system comprises a primary dust remover, an afterheat boiler, a secondary dust remover, an exhaust fan and a chimney which are connected in sequence, and the primary dust remover is connected with the air outlet arranged at the top of the moving bed. The system and the method effectively solve the problems of heat recovery and furnace slag granulation of equipment such as a blast furnace.

The invention discloses a telligent dry separator (TDS). The telligent dry separator is characterized in that an intelligent identification method is adopted for establishing corresponding analysis models according to different characteristics of coal quality, through big data analysis, digitalized identification is conducted on coal and gangue, and finally the gangue is discharged through an intelligent execution system. The telligent dry separator (TDS) comprises four major systems, namely a feeding system, a material distribution system, an identification device and an execution mechanism, and three auxiliary systems, namely an air supplying system, a dedusting system and an electric control system. By means of the telligent dry separator (TDS), separation precision can be improved, the lower separation limit can be further lowered, and a condition is created for achieving the effect that all block raw materials ranging from 3mm to 300 mm adopt the intelligent dry separation process. Compared with traditional cleaning equipment, the telligent dry separator (TDS) has the advantages that on the aspect of construction investment, a system can be simplified, investment can be reduced, and the construction period can be shortened; on the aspect of separation effects, precision can be guaranteed, the heat value can be raised, and no coal slime is generated; on the aspect of production cost, consumption can be lowered, maintenance can be reduced, and manual work can be decreased.

The present invention discloses an improved rotary forced-air cooler, which comprises a double layer trolley, a supporting beam structure, a material blocking proof air duct sealing plate arranged at the connecting part of the double layer trolley and an air supplying system, a double layer trolley unit static seal device and an air duct device. The supplying system structure is based on a rectangular beam, a triangle beam is arranged on the rectangular beam, and a plurality of ventilation channels are arranged on the bevel edge steel plates at the both waists; an air duct pipe is arranged on the air vent of the material blocking proof air duct sealing plate, an inclined plate inclining upwards from the air vent at the bottom part of the air duct pipe has a transition to a horizontal plate, a stopping ventilation fence is added to the air duct pipe at the side of the trolley; two rubber sealing parts with extended bottom edges are arranged at the outer sides of the lower parts of inner and outer sealing plates of the double layer trolley unit static seal device, an ash baffle plate which can move up and down is hung at the inner side; an air water sealing wave subduing device adopting a damping plate is arranged on the air duct device. The present invention further improves the sealing performance of the equipment, and reduces energy consumption and pollution.