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A heat and cooling system having an indoor air coil subcircuit, an outdoor air coil subcircuit, a geothermal subcircuit, and a control system for selectively operating the system in air-to-air heating, air-to-air cooling, geothermal heating, air-to-air defrost (optionally) and geothermal defrost modes. The various subcircuits may be connected to one another in parallel. The heating and cooling system may include a control system that permits refrigerant to be selectively routed through any two of the heat exchangers to provide the various modes of operation. In one embodiment, the control system may generally include a circuit having a single reversing valve, a plurality of check valves, a plurality of solenoid valves and a plurality of expansion devices.

An electro-mechanical energy conversion system coupled between an energy source and an energy load comprising an energy converter device including a permanent magnet induction machine coupled between the energy source and the energy load to convert the energy from the energy source and to transfer the converted energy to the energy load and an energy transfer multiplexer to control the flow of power or energy through the permanent magnetic induction machine.

An electro-mechanical energy conversion system coupled between an energy source and an energy load comprising an energy converter device including a doubly fed induction machine coupled between the energy source and the energy load to convert the energy from the energy source and to transfer the converted energy to the energy load and an energy transfer multiplexer to control the flow of power or energy through the doubly fed induction machine.

A conductive polymer material and preparing method and uses thereof are provided. The conductive polymer material comprises conductive polymer and fluorinated graphene doping thereof. The weight ratio of the conductive polymer to the fluorinated graphene is 1:0.05-1. The conductive polymer is one of polythiophene or its derivatives, polypyrrole or its derivatives, and polyaniline or its derivatives. The cycle stability of the conductive polymer material is greatly enhanced for doping of the fluorinated graphene, and the conductive polymer contributes to the good capacitance properties. The preparing method can be operated simply with cheaper cost and lower request for equipments, and is suitable for industrial production.

A novel method suitable for commercially mass production of hollow microneedle with high quality for delivery of drugs across or into biological tissue is provided. It typically includes the following processes: (1) coating an elongated template of a first material with a second material to form a cover; (2) removing tips of the template and cover to form an opening in the cover; and (3) removing the template of the first material to obtain hollow microneedles of the second material. This simple, efficient and cost-effective fabrication method can mass produce hollow microneedle arrays involving no complicated and expensive equipments or techniques, which can be used in commercial fabrication of hollow needles for delivering drugs or genes across or into skin or other tissue barriers with advantages of minimal damage, painless, long-term and continuous usages.

A system and method for monitoring and distributing available bandwidth within a home network by- use of a home gateway is provided. The system comprises a home Gateway, one or several Set-Top Boxes and one or several home display units such as e.g. a TV, mobile phone and personal computer When the user selects a movie, a point-to-point unicast connection is set up between the user's set-top-box and the delivering streaming server located outside the local network. Accordingly, the home gateway receives a request signal for a displaying a movie from the set-top box, which signal includes bandwidth information, the home gateway monitor the home gateway if there is available bandwidth. An accept signal will be sent to the STB if there is available bandwidth and the set-top box will send an join-message to the delivering streaming server and the movie is displayed on the home device.

Disclosed is a spectrally selective solar absorbing coating and a method for making same. The spectrally selective solar absorbing coating includes a multilayer stack including, from the substrate to the air interface: substrate (1), infrared reflective layer (2), barrier layer (3), composite absorbing layer (4) consisting of metal absorbing sublayer (4.1), metal nitride absorbing sublayer (4.2), and metal oxynitride absorbing sublayer (4.3), and antireflective layer (5). Therefore, the solar absorbing coating has good high and low temperature cycle stability and superior spectrum selectivity, with a steep transition zone between solar absorption and infrared reflection zones. It has a relatively high absorptance α>95%, and a low thermal emissivity ∈≦4%, PC (performance criterion)=−0.3. The solar absorbing multilayer stack can be obtained by reactively magnetron sputtering the metal target in argon or other inert gas with some amounts of gas containing oxygen or nitrogen or their combination.

A method of integration of concentration-dehydration and aerobic air-drying of sewage sludge comprises the following steps: (a) conditioning by an organic agent (3); (b) gravitationally concentrating (5) the residual sludge conditioned by the organic agent; (c) conditioning by inorganic agents (7); (d) mechanically dehydrating (8); (e) crushing and dispersing (10); and (t) aerobically air-drying (11). The method has the following advantages: (i) to improve the sedimentation performance of the residual sludge, thus improving the concentration efficiency of sludge, reducing the concentrating time and reducing the volume of the concentrating pool; (ii) to reduce the volume of the dehydrated sludge correspondingly, thus reducing the subsequent heat treatment load; (iii) to have low energy consumption for drying; (iv) the sludge granules moving at low speed during the drying process, thus being produced stably and securely without powder; (v) the dried exhaust air can reach environmental-friendly standard discharge after being washed by water; (vi) the output sludge granules are not compact, which is good for reclamation.

The present invention belongs to the technical field of biomass carbon materials, and relates to a lignin porous carbon nanosheet, a preparation method therefor, and an application thereof in supercapacitor electrode materials. The method of the present invention performs layer-by-layer self-assembly of sulfonated lignin and oxalate in a selective solvent to prepare a layer-by-layer self-assembled lignin/oxalate composite, which is then carbonized and pickled to obtain the lignin porous carbon nanosheets. The lignin porous carbon nanosheets prepared by the above method of the present invention have a specific surface area of 200-1500 m²/g, a micropore specific surface area of 100-500 m²/g, a mesoporous specific surface area of 100-1000 m²/g, a pore diameter of 0.5-30 nm, and a pore volume of 0.5-1.5 cm³/g; they can be applied to supercapacitor electrode materials, showing higher specific capacitance and excellent rate performance (with a specific capacitance retention rate of 76.6%), having good potential application value.

A method for preparing aromatic hydrocarbons with carbon dioxide hydrogenation, comprising: directly converting a mixed gas consisting of carbon dioxide and hydrogen with the catalysis of a composite catalyst under reaction conditions of a temperature of 250-450° C., a pressure of 0.01-10.0 MPa, a feedstock gas hourly space velocity of 500-50000 mL/(h·g_cat) and a H₂/CO₂ molar ratio of 0.5-8.0, to produce aromatic hydrocarbons. The composite catalyst is a mixture of a first component and a second component. The first component is an iron-based catalyst for making low-carbon olefin via carbon dioxide hydrogenation, and the second component is at least one of metal modified or non-modified molecular sieves which are mainly used for olefin aromatization. In the method, CO₂ conversion per pass may be above 33%, the hydrocarbon product selectivity may be controlled to be above 80%, the methane content is lower than 8%, C₅₊ hydrocarbon content is higher than 65% and the proportion of the aromatic hydrocarbons in C₅₊ hydrocarbons may be above 63%.

The present invention relates to a process for chocolate crumb manufacture and to chocolate crumb and confectionery products made using the process. The process comprises: a) providing a milk and sugar mixture or mixing together milk and sugar so as to form a mixture; b) heating the mixture to a temperature in the range of 55-110° C. under a lowered pressure in the range of 18-25 kPa so as to effect evaporation of liquid from the mixture; c) adding cocoa mass/liquor to the mixture during and/or after step (a) and/or step (b); d) subjecting the mixture to conditions effective to bring about sugar crystallisation in the mixture; and e) drying the mixture so as to form chocolate crumb. Evaporation takes place at a reduced temperature and pressure so as to produce a sweetened condensed milk. In one embodiment the milk and sugar mix is evaporated to between 85-88% solids by heating the mixture to between about 85° C. to 95° C. under a lowered pressure of approximately 24 kPa for 30 minutes.

Utilization of process and equipment for oxidation of metal sulfides, preferably two step metal sulfide oxidation reactions, and more preferably with looping back of second step oxide to the first step as an oxidizing agent, to generate sulfur dioxide and a useful metal or metal oxide, and react the sulfur dioxide with halogen (iodine or bromine) and water to produce sulfuric and halogen acid under moderate process conditions and equipment requirements and then dissociating the halogen acids (HI or HBr) to halogen and hydrogen as an overall environmentally and cost efficient and otherwise acceptable safe process for producing hydrogen and other useful products.

Method and laser processing device to process tissue. In a general aspect, the method to process tissue may include applying a photosensitizer into an area surrounding a region of the tissue to be processed, and irradiating the region of the tissue to be processed with the pulsed processing laser beam, the laser beam emitting laser pulses with a temporal full width at half maximum in a range between about 100 femtosecond and about 1 nanosecond. In another general aspect, the laser processing device to process tissue may include a laser radiation source to provide a pulsed processing laser beam providing emitting laser pulses, a laser beam decoupling unit to decouple the laser beam towards a region of the tissue to be processed, and an output device to output a photosensitizer in a direction of an area surrounding the region of the tissue to be processed, the output device being connected to the decoupling unit.

A work machine equipped with an automatic hammering function is capable of preventing breakage of the hammer caused by blank firing. Hydraulic oil fed to a hydraulic breaker at the distal end of a work machine is controlled by first and second spools. Operating an operation lever so as to contract single rod type boom cylinders to press the hydraulic breaker against an object to be crushed. Head-side pressure and rod-side pressure of the boom cylinders are respectively detected by pressure sensors. Any one of switches is used to switch the mode of automatic hammering operation between an automatic hammering inhibiting mode and an automatic hammering authorizing mode. In the automatic hammering authorizing mode, a controller controls the first and second spools of the hydraulic breaker so as to open them only when head-side pressure and rod-side pressure of the boom cylinders are in a given range of pressing force.

A sorting apparatus which separates a work according to a predetermined standard flowing on a production line and arrays the work in one column is characterized by being equipped with a carrying-in line carrying in the work, a work identifying machine provided on the way of the carrying-in line, a plurality of columns of temporary accumulating units installed neighboring the carrying-in line at an approximately same height as the carrying-in line, a plurality of trays provided respectively corresponding to the temporary accumulating units of plurality of columns of temporary accumulating units, a pusher pushing out a work which flows in said carrying-in line into one column of the temporary accumulating units based on a result identified by the work identifying machine, and a transfer machine gripping/transferring a predetermined number of works all together to the trays corresponding to the temporary accumulating units when the predetermined number of works is accumulated in a temporary accumulating unit.

A threaded adaptor has a first end and an opposite second end of a generally hollow cylinder. At least one end has threading for connection to a hose or fitting and the ends form the male half of the connection. Centered upon the adaptor, a collar provides at least two faces for gripping of the adaptor by a tool. Within the adaptor, the two ends open into a smooth chamber that allows for uninterrupted fluid flow. To further seal the adaptor, at least one O-ring and at least one gasket are provided as alternate embodiments. In another alternate embodiment, the adaptor has one threaded end, an opposite barbed end with a clamp, and a collar with six faces. These two ends open into a chamber with a stepped diameter. The adaptor provides for flow of fluid with little turbulence.

A reactor using honeycomb catalyst is provided for fuel reformation with high activity and heat stability. The reactor comprises a heating tube, a methane gas inlet, a three-way steam inlet and a hydrogen-rich gas outlet. The three-way steam inlet is near to the heating tube for providing heat required for reformation and to reduce power consumption. The heating tube is made of an inconel material so that the overall reaction may be carried out at high temperature. The heating tube is set with a honeycomb carrier of cordierite. The honeycomb carrier is pasted with carbon nanotube and heat-treated to increase internal surface area. The honeycomb carrier has a Pt/CeO₂/α-Al₂O₃ catalyst; is placed in the heating tube; and has honeycomb-pores channels parallel to a main axis of the heating tube.

A distilled water production system (1) includes a main tank (2), a pressure reducer (3), a cooler (4) and a pool (5). Sea water or dirty water is contained in the main tank (2) as raw water for producing distilled water. The pressure reducer (3) brings an inside of the main tank (2) into a reduced pressure state. The cooler (4) is disposed in an upper part within the main tank (2) and cools water vapor produced by evaporation of the raw water occurring in the reduced pressure state. The pool (5) is disposed at a position below the cooler (4) within the main tank (2) and contains the distilled water obtained by cooling and condensation of the water vapor by the cooler (4). According to the distilled water production system (1), the running cost and construction and equipment costs can be suppressed to be low.

A method for processing a lignocellulose material, comprises the following steps: (1) crushing and sieving the lignocellulose material, and collecting granules with a particle size of between 0.08 and 0.1 mm; (2) mixing the granules obtained in step (1) with water, and dispersing through a colloid mill to yield a suspension with a particle size of 40-80 μm; (3) homogenizing the suspension obtained in the step (2) under high pressure to have a particle size of between 10 and 40 μm; and (4) buffering the suspension obtained in the step (3) with a buffer solution of sodium acetate and acetic-acid, adding cellulase, β-glucosidase, and xylanase, and performing zymolysis for 36-72 hours.