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A coal formation may be treated using an in situ thermal process. A mixture of hydrocarbons, H2, and / or other formation fluids may be produced from the formation. Heat may be applied to the formation to raise a temperature of a portion of the formation to a pyrolysis temperature. Heat may be applied to the formation from heating elements positioned within wellbores. Portions of the heater elements may be free to move within the wellbores to inhibit failure of the heater elements due to thermal expansion.

A precursor composition for the deposition and formation of an electrical feature such as a conductive feature. The precursor composition advantageously has a viscosity of at least about 1000 centipoise and can be deposited by screen printing. The precursor composition also has a low conversion temperature, enabling the deposition and conversion to an electrical feature on low temperature substrates. A particularly preferred precursor composition includes silver and / or copper metal for the formation of highly conductive features.

The present invention realizes electronic commerce by providing a reception section that receives product information and service information and a barcode formation section that forms a barcode based on the received information, displaying the barcode formed by the barcode formation section on a display section and allowing a barcode reader provided at a shop terminal, etc. to read this barcode.

The present invention realizes electronic commerce by providing a reception section that receives product information and service information and a barcode formation section that forms a barcode based on the received information, displaying the barcode formed by the barcode formation section on a display section and allowing a barcode reader provided at a shop terminal, etc. to read this barcode.

New hydrocarbon based slurry compositions and drilling, fracturing, completion and production fluids including the hydrocarbon based slurry composition are disclosed, where the composition includes a hydrocarbon soluble polymer adapted to decrease particle settling rates of particulate materials present in the fluids and in the case of fluids that include hydratable materials to increase hydration properties of such materials.

A payment transaction system including a payment authentication token associated with a customer; and a payment platform associated with the authentication token, the payment platform storing a stored value payment account having a pre-paid stored value and information corresponding to a plurality of linked funding accounts. In response to a transaction authentication performed by the authentication token and transaction data associated with the transaction, the payment platform selects the stored value payment account or a linked account, and settles the transaction with the selected account.

Precursor compositions having a low conversion temperature and methods for the fabrication of recessed electrical features from the precursor compositions. The electrical features can be conductors, resistors and dielectric features. The precursor compositions are deposited into recessed features, such as trenches, formed in a substrate and are reacted at a low temperature to form electrical features having good electrical and mechanical properties. The substrate can be a low temperature substrate, such as an organic substrate.

An apparatus and method for installing blown installation where insulation is entrained in a stream of air and is blown through an electrostatic dissipating hose. The hose contains an electrically conductive and grounded element to dissipate the static charges built up in the entrained insulation passing through the hose and exiting the hose for application into a selected space.

The present invention pertains to an aqueous inkjet ink made from certain aqueous titanium dioxide slurries, and an associated inkjet ink set for inkjet printing. The invention also pertains to a method of inkjet printing with the ink and ink set. The use of the specific titanium dioxide slurries described herein result in inkjet inks having improved stability and better anti-settling performance with less pigment agglomeration and flocculation over time.

Disclosed is a non-aqueous inkjet ink containing certain titanium dioxide slurries, an associated inkjet ink set for inkjet printing, and a method of inkjet printing with the inkjet ink or ink set. The solvent and mixtures of solvents used for the dispersed titanium dioxide have a hydrogen bonding solubility parameter of greater than about 9. The inks have improved anti-settling properties with less pigment agglomeration and flocculation over time such that they can be utilized to prepare a stable inkjet ink. Also described is the use of this ink to print on colored or transparent surfaces.

The invention concerns a process for optimal operation of a slurry bubble column containing a suspension of solid particles in a liquid, characterized in that a gas phase containing the reactant(s) required for the production of the desired products is injected in the form of bubbles close to the lower extremity of said reactor and at least a portion of the liquid fraction and optionally of the solid fraction of said suspension is recirculated, drawn off from close to one extremity of said reactor and reintroduced close to the other extremity of said reactor, with a liquid flow rate U1 in the reactor which is at least equal to and preferably greater than the sedimentation rate Us of the solid particles. The invention also concerns an apparatus for optimal operation of the process. Finally, the invention concerns the use of the process and apparatus in the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis.

Implants including non-resorbable frameworks and resorbable components, as well as methods of use thereof are disclosed. The embodiments include different combinations of a non-resorbable framework (in some case structural and in other cases non-structural), and a resorbable component embedded within and / or around the framework (again, in some cases structural and in other cases non-structural). The disclosed implants provide an efficient means of providing structural support for the vertebral bodies post-implantation, as well as encouraging resorption of the implant and fusion of the associated vertebral bodies without negative side effects and / or failure, such as subsidence of the implant or cracking / fracturing of a portion of the implant when implanted.

A precursor composition for the deposition and formation of an electrical feature such as a conductive feature. The precursor composition advantageously has a viscosity of at least about 1000 centipoise and can be deposited by screen printing. The precursor composition also has a low conversion temperature, enabling the deposition and conversion to an electrical feature on low temperature substrates. A particularly preferred precursor composition includes silver and / or copper metal for the formation of highly conductive features.

The invention discloses a foundation treatment method for controlling the post-construction settlement and deformation of soft soil. the method sequentially comprises the following steps: setting a vertical envelope wall around an area to be reinforced; inserting vertical drainage systems and laying horizontal drainage systems in the area to be reinforced; paving sealing materials on the surface of a foundation; backfilling settlement refills or exerting pre-loads on the foundation; carrying out vacuumizing, well-point dewatering or vacuum well-point dewatering on the drainage systems so as to reinforce the foundation; and after the consolidation degree of the foundation reaches 60-90%, carrying out sealing on all the vertical and horizontal drainage systems. The method disclosed by the invention is used for simultaneously carrying out reinforcement and plugging on an untreated soft soil foundation, so that the post-construction settlement can be controlled while the foundation is treated. Duo to the one-time treatment, the treatment time can be saved, and the treatment cost can be reduced, thereby achieving the purpose of effectively reinforcing the foundation and controlling the post-construction settlement.

Methods of manufacturing alumina abrasive for use in chemical mechanical polishing are described, wherein the abrasive is in a slurry having gamma alumina formed in a low temperature fuming process, water, an acid sufficient to maintain the pH below about 7, wherein the slurry does not settle appreciably in an 8 to 24 hour period. Advantageously, the alumina is wet-milled without the use of wet-milling salt additives.

Precursor compositions having a low conversion temperature and methods for the fabrication of recessed electrical features from the precursor compositions. The electrical features can be conductors, resistors and dielectric features. The precursor compositions are deposited into recessed features, such as trenches, formed in a substrate and are reacted at a low temperature to form electrical features having good electrical and mechanical properties. The substrate can be a low temperature substrate, such as an organic substrate.

The invention discloses a different-strength bearing roadway-beside filling body of a gob-side entry under a coal mine, which is characterized in that a gangue wall built by gangue bags (width: 1.5 to 2.0 meters) and a paste filling body (width: 1.5 to 2.0 meters) are closely combined so as to form a roadway-beside filling body made of different-strength materials by way of coupling; after a waterproof cloth is hung on the inner side of the gangue wall, a fixed die plate is used as the lower support of the paste filling body, and a temporary die plate is arranged as the upper support of the paste filling body, then the paste filling materials are filled into the die plates so as to form the different-strength bearing roadway-beside filling body after the filled paste filling materials are solidified. In the invention, a different-strength coupling roadway-beside filling body is formed by using the gangues and the roadway-beside filling bodies produced in the process of producing a working surface, which simply uses paste cementing material filling bodies, and can significantly reduce the pressure bore by the original roadway-beside filling body, and relieve the roof settlement of the floor bulge so as to adapt to the motion of rocks around the roadway better and obtain a better gob-side entry effect, meanwhile, the produced gangues can be digested in situ, and the economic benefits and environmental benefits can be obtained.

Precursor compositions for the fabrication of electronic features such as resistors and capacitors. The precursor compositions are formulated to have a low conversion temperature, such as not greater than about 350° C., thereby enabling the fabrication of such electronic features on a variety of substrates, including organic substrates such as polymer substrates.

The invention discloses a construction method for undermining a connected channe between shield sections in a water-rich sand cobble stratum tunnel. The construction method comprises steps of preparing for construction, constructing for a precipitation well, performing grouting reinforcement on stratum around a segment of a connection port of the connected channel, performing pre-measurement line drawing for a segment dismounting part on the segment of the connection port of the connected channel, setting up a temporary steel support at the connected channel, setting up a pipe shed and performing pipe shed grouting reinforcement, cutting the segment dismounting part and monitoring segment deformation and vault crown settlement conditions in real time, beginning to perform earth rock excavation and initial stage support of the connected channel, performing earth rock excavation and initial stage support of a pump house, performing waterproof construction of the connected channel, performing secondary lining for the connected channel and the pump house and second lining back grouting, dismounting the steel support and cleaning the site, and accepting check. The construction method of the invention is applicable to the construction of the water-rich sand cobble stratum connected channel, is reasonable and strict in layout, safe in construction process and multiply guaranteed in construction quality.

The invention discloses a filing layered sedimentation monitoring device and method. The monitoring device comprises a bottom sedimentation monitoring unit, a middle sedimentation monitoring unit and a ground surface sedimentation monitoring unit which are buried in a soil layer to be monitored from bottom to top and are vertically arranged. Burying holes are formed in the soil layer to be monitored. An anchoring head is arranged under the bottom sedimentation monitoring unit. The bottom sedimentation monitoring unit, the middle sedimentation monitoring unit and the ground surface sedimentation monitoring unit are all provided with inclinometer pipes, extensible pipes arranged on the outer sides of the inclinometer pipes in a sleeving mode and displacement sensors installed on the upper portions of the inner sides of the inclinometer pipes. The monitoring method comprises the steps that firstly, drilling of the burying holes is conducted; secondly, the bottom sedimentation monitoring unit is installed; thirdly, the middle sedimentation monitoring unit is installed; fourthly, the ground surface sedimentation monitoring unit is installed; and fifthly, layered sedimentation monitoring is conducted. The filing layered sedimentation monitoring device and method are reasonable in design, convenient and easy to operate, convenient to bury, high in measuring precision and capable of effectively solving the problems that existing layered sedimentation monitoring equipment is large in equipment burying workload and low in measuring precision.

The invention discloses a filling method capable of exploring while filling coal mine goafs, solving the existing problem by that a buttress is filled before direct top inbreak after a working face is boosted. The technical method for construction comprises the following steps: determining the amount and thickness parameters of the buttress; preparing a paste-like material; arranging a transmission pipeline below working surface supporting equipment; installing a paste-like fill pump, a crossheading filling pipeline and the like in a working surface rail crossheading and a conveying crossheading; communicating the fill pump with each group of filling templates in the goaf by the crossheading filling pipeline; after one or two webs are explored for the working face, conveying the paste-like material by the fill pump to serve as the first group of filling buttresses; and after the buttresses filling material is solidified and the working face is boosted for one web, filling the second group of buttresses again. The filling method has the beneficial effect that because the filling method capable of exploring while filling by the paste-like material is adopted, the paste-like material can be filled in time, the breaking range of a roof becomes small, advance mine pressure is obviously weakened, and filling effect is good.

The invention discloses a fast large-cross-section tunnel construction method adapting to complicated and variable geological conditions. Middle walls and steps are combined, whether the arrangement of temporary inverted arches of each steps and middle partition walls of upper, middle and lower steps is needed or not is determined according to actual geological condition change conditions and field monitoring information in the tunnel construction process, when the rock surrounding condition becomes poor in the tunnel construction process, temporary support and protection of each excavated parts are respectively implemented, when the rock surrounding condition becomes good, a plurality of small excavated parts can be combined into a large excavated part until the full cross-section one-step excavation forming method is adopted, and division positions of each excavated parts in the construction process is not changed. The method has the advantages that in the construction, the conversion problem of the construction method does not exist when the geological conditions are changed, the construction speed of large-cross-section tunnels under the complicated and variable geological conditions is greatly accelerated, the construction work period is shortened, and the construction cost can be properly reduced.

The invention relates to a shield tube push bench with a super-large rectangular cross section. The tube push bench comprises a cutterhead device, a driving system, a shield structure, a screw conveyer and a back up system, wherein the section of the shield structure is rectangular, and the upper part of the shield structure is in the shape of an arch camber; the shield structure comprises a front shield, error correcting cylinders, a tail shield, adjustable hinged seals and an appearing cylinder; the front shield supporting and driving system is characterized in that the front shield is connected with the tail shield through at least two sets of error correcting cylinders, and the appearing cylinder is arranged at the rear end of the tail shield. In order to further improve the structure of the push bench, the cutterhead device is a combined cutterhead, and can ensure that the earth pressure of the front shield and a tunnelling surface is balanced, and disturbance to an earth layer is small; the driving system is an independent drive system, and a torque can be regulated in a real time manner according to a geological condition. Therefore, the push bench is high in construction efficiency, and small in disturbance to a bottom layer, the ground surface settlement is decreased, the construction reliability is improved, the deslagging efficiency is improved, and the assembling, disassembling, operation and control of the whole tube push bench is convenient and safe; the construction cost of the tube push bench is low, and the tube push bench is economical and practical.

The invention relates to a damping-adjustable magneto-rheological lag damper. The damping-adjustable magneto-rheological lag damper comprises a cylinder barrel, a piston rod, a piston component and a damping adjusting mechanism. Stub shafts are integrally produced at the outer edge of the left end of the cylinder barrel symmetrically and radially, and an end cover is mounted at the right end of the cylinder barrel hermetically and coaxially. The piston rod is penetratingly mounted in the cylinder barrel coaxially, and two ends of the piston rod are positioned outside the cylinder barrel. The piston component is mounted at the position, on the inner left side of the cylinder barrel, of the piston rod coaxially. The damping adjusting mechanism is slidably mounted at the position, corresponding to the piston component and positioned on the inner right side of the cylinder barrel, of the piston rod coaxially and rotates around an axial center by a certain angle prior to being fittingly mounted together with the piston component, and the left end, positioned outside the cylinder barrel, of the piston rod is in coaxial threaded connection with a rod-end joint bearing. The damping-adjustable magneto-rheological lag damper has the advantages of simple structure, low energy consumption, small size, rapidity in response, continuous forward and reverse adjustability in damping force within a wide range, good temperature stability, easiness in combination with a computer to achieve intelligent control and the like, thereby being quite promising in application prospect.

The invention relates to a method for adopting long plastic drainage plate (or sand drain) and short cement-soil mixing pile in connection to deal with highway soft foundation (abbr. a long plate-short pile working method, or called a D-M working method). Compared with the single prepressing drainage method, such method has the advantages of effectively raising the stability of foundation effectively and accelerating the construction of road embankment owing to the existence of a short pile, thus shortening the constructing period correspondingly. Compared with a single deep mixing pile, the method can accelerate the consolidation settlement of deep soft soil owing to the existence of a long plate; therefore, the settlement after working is controlled in a certain range; besides, the coordination of settlement speed rates among different sections becomes possible by adjusting the space, the length and the prepressing style between the pile and the plate.

The invention discloses a method for constructing foundation pits for a station which can protect the adjacent running tunnel of operating subways, which comprises the steps of constructing underground continuous wall, reinforcement of the foundation in the pits, constructing precipitation well points in the pits, excavating the foundation pits, structure reconstruction, reinforcement of outer row of soil outside the foundation pits and reinforcement of inner row of soil outside the foundation pits. The construction of the underground continuous wall adds the construction of sealing wall; the excavation of the foundation pits and the structure reconstruction adopt a top-down method below the medium plate of the foundation pits corresponding to where the adjacent running tunnel is buried deeply and a bottom-up method over the medium plate; the reinforcement of outer row of soil outside the foundation pits is to reinforce the soil between the foundation pits and the adjacent running tunnel and 3m far away from the foundation pits; and the reinforcement of inner row of soil outside the foundation pits is to reinforce the soil between the foundation pits and the adjacent running tunnel and within 3m from the foundation pits. The method of the invention adopts comprehensive protection measures during the whole process of construction, thereby protecting the adjacent running tunnel of operating subways overall and reducing the effect on the adjacent running tunnel of operating subways to the utmost extent during constructing a subway station.

The invention provides a bentonite slurry compression balance shield machine which is applied to the tunneling construction machinery industry and has four operational modes of cut mode, bypass mode, isolation mode and reversion mode; the operating principle of the invention is that a sealed cabin of an anterior shield mounting baffle plate is injected with the pressured bentonite slurry which is the prepared bentonite-water mixture, forming a pressured slurry cabin, the stable cut surface is realized by the compression system and the pressure-maintaining system; the injected pressured bentonite slurry can be penetrated into the stratum with the depth of a plurality of centimeters and embedded into clearances between soil particles, forming a layer of 'slurry film' which can make the stratum relative stable and water seepage resistant and capable of firmly supporting the soil in front side; when the soil is cut by the cutter head, the cut soil enters the slurry cabin through holes in the cutter head and is mixed with the feeding bentonite slurry to form the high density slurry which is closed in the slurry cabin and conveyed to grounded treatment factories by the deslagging pump. The invention causes little disturbance and sedimentation to the stratum, thereby the invention has wide application range of soil quality and is applied to tunnel constructions in places with high ground water pressure such as river bottom, stream bottom and sea bottom.