2635 results about "Mass transfer" patented technology

Electroporation is performed in a controlled manner in either individual or multiple biological cells or biological tissue by monitoring the electrical impedance, defined herein as the ratio of current to voltage in the electroporation cell. The impedance detects the onset of electroporation in the biological cell(s), and this information is used to control the intensity and duration of the voltage to assure that electroporation has occurred without destroying the cell(s). This is applicable to electroporation in general. In addition, a particular method and apparatus are disclosed in which electroporation and/or mass transfer across a cell membrane are accomplished by securing a cell across an opening in a barrier between two chambers such that the cell closes the opening. The barrier is either electrically insulating, impermeable to the solute, or both, depending on whether pore formation, diffusive transport of the solute across the membrane, or both are sought. Electroporation is achieved by applying a voltage between the two chambers, and diffusive transport is achieved either by a difference in solute concentration between the liquids surrounding the cell and the cell interior or by a differential in concentration between the two chambers themselves. Electric current and diffusive transport are restricted to a flow path that passes through the opening.

Impure carbon dioxide (“CO₂”) comprising a first contaminant selected from the group consisting of oxygen (“O₂”) and carbon monoxide (“CO”) is purified by separating expanded impure carbon dioxide liquid in a mass transfer separation column system. The impure carbon dioxide may be derived from, for example, flue gas from an oxyfuel combustion process or waste gas from a hydrogen (“H₂”) PSA system.

The invention relates to identification documents, and in particular to providing optically variable personalized data to identification documents. In one implementation, we provide an identification document comprising a document layer and a first indicium. The document layer comprises a material capable of being printed by a thermally transferable optically variable ink. The first indicium is printed on the document layer and comprises personalized data and printed to the document layer by a thermally transferred optically variable ink. The first indicium may be printed to the document layer by disposing a thermally transferable optically variable ink in a mass transfer panel of a printer ribbon adapted for use in a dye diffusion thermal transfer printer, and printing the first indicium as part of a mass transfer printing process. The thermally transferred optically variable ink can be selected and printed such that the first indicium has at least one of a luster, shine, sheen, pearlescent appearance, iridescent appearance, and mirror-like appearance. This technology enables the creation of a halftone “mirror image” over a color ghost image to achieve a layered and linked multiple personalization scheme of ID documents.

A method for volatilising active and/or aroma substances for the purpose of releasing an inhalable aerosol, wherein combustion gases of a flammable gas, which is preferably combusted with an excess of air, are passed partially or entirely, optionally mixed with ambient air, through an active and/or aroma substance depot and wherein a desired temperature is selectable by the proportion of combustion gases and optionally by the mixing ratio of said combustion gases with ambient air and the device implementing the method in the shape and dimensions of a cigarette or cigar for releasing an inhalable aerosol, comprising a mouthpiece (3) containing an active and/or aroma substance depot (32), a heating member (2) with a housing sleeve with one or more air inlets and one or more hot air outlets at the mouthpiece end, a filling valve (21) for filling a gas tank (22) with a flammable gas, preferably propane or butane gas, a regulating valve (24) for the controlled release of the gas from the gas tank (22) to a burner (25) and a mass transfer exchanger (26) for heating the air by the hot combustion gases produced by means of the burner (24), wherein the mouthpiece (3) is detachably connected to the heating member (2) and control of the regulating valve (24) is effected by means of the reduced pressure and/or stream of air generated by a user's suction on the mouthpiece (3). Fuelling station for such a device.

An apparatus and method for the purification of contaminated water whereby the contamination level of the wastewater is automatically monitored and treatment self-adjusted and continued until the desired level of purification is reached. Specifically, if upon treatment a pre-set purification level is not obtained a water recycle control means completely precludes the uptake of additional contaminated water and recycles wastewater within the apparatus until the desired level of purification is obtained. The present invention more particularly pertains to an efficient, turn key, economical, movable, automatic and compact apparatus and method for treating a fluid with ozone comprising multiple pressurized contact columns which are arranged in a hybrid parallel and series column configuration, which utilizes a unique water recycle control system and piping arrangement to improve the efficiency of the mass transfer of ozone into the water and increase its solubility by increasing the contact time between the water phase and the gas phase. The apparatus and method of the present invention has the further advantage that it requires minimal installation and may be used to fulfill the clean and safe water needs of any hotel, resort, restaurant, hospital, light industry, commercial business, apartment complex or small city.

The current invention, Supercritical Antisolvent Precipitation with Enhanced Mass Transfer (SAS-EM) provides a significantly improved method for the production of nano and micro-particles with a narrow size distribution. The processes of the invention utilize the properties of supercritical fluids and also the principles of virbrational atomization to provide an efficient technique for the effective nanonization or micronization of particles. Like the SAS technique, SAS-EM, also uses a supercritical fluid as the antisolvent, but in the present invention the dispersion jet is deflected by a vibrating surface that atomizes the jet into fine droplets. The vibrating surface also generates a vibrational flow field within the supercritical phase that enhances mass transfer through increased mixing. Sizes of the particles obtained by this technique are easily controlled by changing the vibration intensity of the deflecting surface, which in turn is controlled by adjusting the power input to the vibration source. A major advantage of the SAS-EM technique is that it can be successfully used to obtain nanoparticles of materials that usually yield fibers or large crystals in SAS method. Microencapsulation via coprecipitation of two or more materials can also be achieved using the SAS-EM technique.

A reactor for conducting a process using supercritical water to upgrade a heavy hydrocarbon feedstock into an upgraded hydrocarbon product or syncrude with highly desirable properties (low sulfur content, low metals content, lower density (higher API), lower viscosity, lower residuum content, etc.) is described. The reactor is operable under continuous) semi-continuous or batch mode and is equipped with means to enable momentum, heat and mass transfer in and out of and within the reactor.

Chemical reactions are carried out with molten fluoropolymer, most conveniently in an extruder, wherein the reaction zone in the extruder is isolated from the melting zone, and the molten fluoropolymer is subdivided in the reaction zone sufficiently that contact and reaction between the reactant and the molten fluoropolymer in the reaction zone is essentially free of mass transfer limitation, followed by devolatilization in isolation from the reaction zone, and cooling the devolatilized fluoropolymer.

The invention discloses a mass transfer method of Micro LED (Light Emitting Diode) chips, and belongs to the technical field of a semiconductor. The mass transfer method comprises the steps of: producing a plurality of first Micro LED chips, wherein the same sides of P-type electrodes and N-type electrodes of the first Micro LED chips are contrary name magnetic poles; arranging P-type electrode fixing blocks and N-type electrode fixing blocks at positions on a driving circuit board, where the first Micro LED chips are mounted, wherein the opposite sides of the P-type electrode fixing blocks and the P-type electrodes are contrary name magnetic poles, and the opposite sides of the N-type electrode fixing blocks and the N-type electrodes are contrary name magnetic poles; placing the driving circuit board and a plurality of first Micro LED chips into the same solution, and fixedly mounting the first Micro LED chips on the driving circuit board under the action of a magnetic force. The mass transfer method disclosed by the invention can implement mass transfer of the Micro LED chips, and does not have the problem that when one chip has defects, all chips need to be replaced; production efficiency is improved; and production cost is reduced.

An air conditioning system includes a first chamber having a plurality of first sectors, a second chamber having a plurality of second sectors, a first airflow device forming a first airflow through the first chamber, a second airflow device forming a second airflow through the second chamber, and a heat and mass transfer substance flowing in a plurality of the first and second sectors, the substance interacting with the first and second airflows through the first and second chambers. Thermal inducement apparatus thermally interacts with the substance establishing a thermal gradient between the first sectors and a thermal gradient between the second sectors providing a heat and mass energy gradient for the first airflow through the first sectors and a reversed heat and mass energy gradient for the second airflow through the second sectors. Plumbing is provided, which moves the substance throughout the system.

The invention comprises a PSA process and apparatus wherein the fixed adsorbent bed comprises an equilibrium zone and a mass transfer zone. Further, the equilibrium and mass transfer zones each comprise at least one adsorbent material, selective for the adsorption of a more selectively adsorbable component, that is selected on the basis of the performance of that adsorbent material under the process conditions applicable to either the equilibrium or mass transfer zones.

The invention provides a membrane dispersion microchannel reactor. An outer pipe and an inner pipe form a bushing, an annular microchannel is formed between the inner pipe and the outer pipe, and the outer pipe is provided with a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet; and one end of the inner pipe is provided with a fluid inlet, while the other end is distributed with a micrporous membrane with a plurality of micropores along the circumferential direction of the pipe wall. Compared with the prior microchannel reactor, the cross section of the channel of the reactor is increased, and the treatment capacity is increased. The mixing and the mass transfer between fluids are strengthened. The stronger micromixing is also guaranteed when the large treatment capacity is achieved. Particularly the rapid micromixing is realized in the synthesis of nanometer particles, and barium sulfate particles with the average particle size of 37 nanometers are synthesized. The reactor has the advantages of simple operation, low operation cost, and large treatment capacity, and has good application prospect in the industrial production relating to the rapid process.

A method with associated equipment for feeding two gases into and out of a multi-channel monolithic structure. The two gases will normally be gases with different chemical and/or physical properties. The first gas and the second gas are fed by means of a manifold head into channels for the first and second gases, respectively. The gases are distributed in the monolith in such a way that at least one of the channel walls is a shared or joint wall for both gases. The walls that are joint walls for the two gases will then constitute a contact area between the two gases that is available for mass and/or heat exchange. This means that the gases must be fed into channels that are spread over the entire cross-sectional area of the monolith. The entire contact area or all of the monolith's channel walls are directly used for heat and/or mass transfer between the gases. This means that the channel for one gas will always have the other gas on the other side of its channel walls.

The present invention relates to a gas-liquid mass transfer and reaction equiopment of high-pressure rotating bed in ultragravity force field. Said invention drive equipment is a magnetic drive equipment, including driving portion, driving magnetic stell protecting cover positioned on the exterior of the machine shell and driving magnetic steel and driving shaft which are placed in the protecting cover and driven portion, driven magnetic steel protecting cover positioned in the interior of the machine shell and driven magnetic steel and driven shaft which are placed in the driven magnetic steel protecting cover. The driving portion and driven portion are separatedy by means of magnetic isolation cover between both them. Said invention adopts band pressure design and measures of internal and internal magnetic steel protecting cover, magnetic steel cooling system, high-effective coating layer and others so as to raise mass transfer effect.

The air lift externally circulation bubble tower oxidation apparatus includes cylinder bubble tower with top expanded section, outer circulating pipe, gas distributor, reflux liquid distributor and condensator. The outer circulating pipe has its upper end and lower end communicated with the upper part and the lower part of the bubble tower reaction section separately and is used to lead slurry from the upper part of the tower to the lower part via air lift effect so as to form the fluid circulation in the whole tower and complete the liquid phase catalytic oxidation of xylene. The bubble tower has relatively high height/diameter ratio and thus reinforced gas-liquid mass transfer and the air lift outer circulation pipe improves the temperature distribution and concentraion distribution inside the tower. The tower has no moving part, simple structure and low cost and is suitable for oxidizing xylene to prepare terephthalic acid via different technological processes.

The present invention is a fuel cell power plant that includes a fuel cell having a membrane electrode assembly (MEA), which is disposed between an anode support plate and a cathode support plate, and porous water transport plates adjacent the anode and cathode support plates. The porous water transport plates have interdigitated flow channels for the reactant gas streams to pass therethrough and conventional flow channels for a coolant stream to pass therethrough. The fuel cell power plant also has means for creating a pressure differential between the reactant gas streams and the coolant stream such that the pressure of the reactant gas streams is greater than the coolant stream. Incorporating the interdigitated flow channels into the porous water transport plates and operating the fuel cell at a pressure differential allows the coolant water to saturate the water transport plates thereby forcing the reactant gases into the anode and cathode support plate. This, in turn, increases the mass transfer of such gases into the support plates, thereby increasing the electrical performance of the fuel cell. Current densities of about 1.6 amps per square meter are achieved with air stochiometries of not over 2.50.

The invention relates to a method to remove the non-degradable organic in water with a packed bed in high-voltage impulse electric field, which comprises: forcing impulse high voltage between the high-voltage electrode (2) and the grounding electrode (3) in reactor (4) filled particulate filling (5) with high dielectric constant; at the same time, pumping the being treated water to sprinkle evenly by mist liquid droplet form to the reaction area through an atomizer or sprinkler (6) on top between two electrodes, and forming a thin water film on surface of (5); exposing air, oxygen or ozone evenly by the aeration tube arranged on middle below the (2) and (3). This invention overcomes the drawbacks in prior art, such as flooding the filling, realizing hardly local filling discharge, large energy consumption, and disbenefit to mass transfer and diffusion.

The present application is directed to a continuous contacting apparatus for separating a liquid component from a liquid mixture. The apparatus comprises: (i) an evaporation chamber (15) having first and second ends, an inlet (50) and an outlet (55) for a carrier gas, and an inlet (30) and an outlet (40) for a liquid mixture, wherein the inlet (30) for the liquid mixture and the outlet (55) of the carrier gas are located on the first end of the evaporation chamber (15); (ii) a dew-formation chamber (20) having an inlet (60) and an outlet (65) for a carrier gas and an outlet for the separable liquid component (80), wherein the inlet for the carrier gas (60) of the dew-formation chamber (20) is situated in a countercurrent manner to the inlet for the carrier gas of the evaporation chamber; (iii) a common heat transfer wall (10) providing thermal communication between the evaporation chamber (15) and the dew-formation chamber (20); (iv) a feeding device for providing the liquid mixture onto the evaporation side of the heat transfer wall; (v) an air mover for controlling a flow of a carrier gas through the chambers, wherein the gas flow in the evaporation chamber is countercurrent to the gas flow in the dew-formation chamber; and (vi) a heating apparatus for heating the carrier gas from the outlet of the evaporation chamber, wherein the heated carrier gas is directed to flow into the inlet of the dew-formation chamber. Also described is a process for separating a liquid component from a liquid mixture in a continuous contacting manner comprising employing such an apparatus for such separation.

A method for contacting large volumes of gas and liquid together on a microscopic scale for mass transfer or transport processes wherein the contact between liquid and gas occurs at the interfaces of a multitude of gas bubbles. Multiple porous tubes assembled in a bundle inside a pressure vessel terminate at each end in a tube sheet. A thin film helical liquid flow is introduced into the inside of each porous tube around and along its inside wall. Gas is sparged into the porous media and the liquid film so that an annular two phase flow with a uniform distribution of tiny gas bubbles results. The gas flow is segregated from the liquid flow without first passing through the porous media and through the liquid film. Nozzles at the lower end of the tubes divert liquid flow to a vessel and redirect the gas flow in a countercurrent direction.

The invention provides super macroporous polymer microspheres and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: firstly, preparing an oil-in-water in-water composite emulsion as a template for super macroporous microspheres through a two-step emulsion process; then, solidifying an oil phase by using a solvent removal method to form super macroporous microspheres provided with inner-outer through pore passages; and finally, after molding the microspheres, further crosslinking microsphere skeleton molecules to obtain microspheres with rigid resin structures. The microspheres prepared by the method have a through pore passage structure, the controllable particle size range is 0.1-300 microns, the controllable pore size range is 0.09-90 microns, and the controllable porosity range is 10-90%. Super macroporous structures are beneficial for biological macromolecules to penetrate through and enter the microspheres, the mass transfer by convection in the microspheres can be realized, and the rigid structure can tolerate higher pressure and higher flow velocity. The super macroporous polymer microspheres can be used as stationary phase fillers for chromatographic separation, immobilized carriers of enzymes, cell culture micro-carriers, tissue engineering micro scaffold materials, adsorbing materials and the like.

This invention relates to a method and system of preparing ethanol based on the solid state fermentation of sweet sorghum stem, belonging to the ethanol production technology of solid state fermentation. It includes the following key processes and device: raw materials smash is to choose the suitable mill to smash sweet sorghum stalk, strain addition is to add ethanol bacteria at the entrance of solid-state fermentation tank, solid-state fermentation is that the raw materials added bacteria is fermented in the slant rotor solid-state fermentation tank, solid distillation is to distill the solid-state fermented materials to obtain ethanol.

The invention discloses a fuel cell ordered porous nano-fiber single electrode, a membrane electrode and a preparation method. Polymer nano-fibers are deposited on one side of a gaseous diffusion material through an electro-spinning technology; metal nanoparticles with catalytic activity are deposited on the surfaces of the polymer nano-fibers by using magnetron sputtering and vacuum evaporation methods, or catalyst slurry is directly sprayed to one side of a nano-fiber thin film to form a porous single electrode; then two single electrodes and a layer of proton exchange membrane are combined into a three-in-one membrane electrode. The fuel cell ordered porous nano-fiber single electrode, the membrane electrode and the preparation method have the beneficial effects that the conventional micro-porous layer is substituted by the nano-fiber layer with high porosity and high specific surface area, prepared by electro-spinning, so that the catalytic activity area is increased and the three-phase reaction interface and the mass transfer are facilitated, and an active metal catalytic layer formed by magnetron sputtering and vacuum evaporation has high adhesion, is uniform in coating and has controllable thickness, so that the using amount of the active metal catalyst is reduced and the utilization rate of the catalyst is also greatly increased.

The invention relates to a preparation method of a mesoporous-containing Y-shaped molecular sieve, and relates to a preparation method of a Y-shaped molecular sieve. The preparation method aims to solve the problems of small pore diameter and pore volume of the Y-shaped molecular sieve prepared through the traditional method. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: 1, preparing a sodium type Y-shaped molecular sieve; 2, preparing an ammonium type Y-shaped molecular sieve; 3, processing through an organic acid water solution; 4, processing through NaOH; and 5, processing through an ammonium nitrate water solution so as to obtain the mesoporous-containing Y-shaped molecular sieve. The mesoporous-containing Y-shaped molecular sieve is synthesized through a simple and effective method under a moderate condition, contains abundant mesoporous, is unchanged in microporosity, achieves the volume of the mesoporous at 0.5-1.5 mL/g, greatly promotes the macromolecule to approach a catalytic active center and is favorable for reaction mass transfer through more concentrated pore diameter distribution, has the advantages of adjustable ratio of silicon and aluminum contained in a framework and good hydrothermal stability and can be used as a catalyst carrier or directly used as a catalyst. The preparation method disclosed by the invention can be used for preparing the mesoporous-containing Y-shaped molecular sieve.

Systems and methods for transferring a micro device from a carrier substrate are disclosed. In an embodiment, a mass transfer tool includes an articulating transfer head assembly, a carrier substrate holder, and an actuator assembly to adjust a spatial relationship between the articulating transfer head assembly and the carrier substrate holder. The articulating transfer head assembly may include an electrostatic voltage source connection and a substrate supporting an array of electrostatic transfer heads.

The invention provides a technique method for integrating coupling in-situ CO2 through utilizing a plurality of processes such as CO2 absorbing separation, carbonation fixation and solid wastes recovery in stack gas and a device thereof. A supergravity rotating packing bed reactor is used for intensifying transmission and multi-phase reacting process through utilizing powerful centrifugal force generated by the high-speed rotary packing bed, which is a breakthrough technology and can strengthen order of magnitude to the transmitting process of liquidoid-controlled CO2, etc., thus greatly improving mass transfer absorption rate of the CO2.

The invention features a method of adjusting the concentration of at least one but not all of a plurality of analytes in a fluid sample to match a known working range of detection of an analyte assay system, where each of the plurality of analytes may or may not be present within an expected initial concentration range having a high end and a low end, and at least one analyte has a high end expected concentration range that exceeds the high end of the working range of the assay system. The expected concentration of the high concentration analyte is adjusted by a proportional scaling constant, α, so that the high end of the adjusted expected concentration range is less than or equal to the high end of the working range, without adjusting the expected concentration range of at least one other of the plurality of analytes. Adjustment is preferably accomplished by adding to the solution phase of the assay one or more scaling agents, each scaling agent binding with specificity to an analyte and thereby preventing it from being detected by the assay system, e.g., by competing with binding to immobilized capture agent. This scaling method contrasts with prior methods, in which a concentration of available analyte is offset by a fixed amount to adjust the detectable threshold of the assay. Here, the amount of scaling agent is proportional to a scaling coefficient, and the scaling agent is present in the solution phase of the assay at high concentrations relative to analyte. Due to the equilibrium conditions established by the laws of mass transfer, the amount of free analyte remaining in solution in the presence of scaling agent is predictable and finite, and can be measured as a quantitative indicator of the initial concentration of the analyte in the sample.

The invention discloses a shale gas reservoir gas diffusion coefficient experiment test method. According to a method, a one-dimensional diffusion mathematic model is built by monitoring pressure attenuation data in a shale plunger rock sample under effective stress conditions of methane gas with a certain initial pressure in a constant-temperature closed system with the micro-pore structure and the gas existence state of a shale reservoir as bases, the diffusion coefficient of the gas (methane) in shale is calculated, and the diffusion mass-transfer capacity of the gas (methane) in the shale is quantitatively assessed. In the experiment testing process, the diffusion process of gas in the shale gas reservoir can be effectively simulated, and influences of effective stress, gas adsorption/desorption and other factors on the diffusion coefficient are reflected. Besides, the method can overcome influences of gas free expansion stage data in a traditional adsorption/desorption method on the diffusion coefficient. The method can assess the diffusion mass-transfer capacity of the gas in the shale and provide experiment support for researches in the aspects of shale gas reservoir productivity models, productivity prediction and the like.

The invention relates to a gas diffusion layer with a gradient hole structure for fuel batteries and a preparation method and applications thereof. The gas diffusion layer consists of a macroporous carbon-based support body and a micro-porous layer which are overlapped, wherein the material of the micro-porous layer is embedded in the macroporous carbon-based support body from one side, far from the flow field of a battery, of the macroporous carbon-based support body to form a transitional hole layer; the transitional hole layer is composed of the material of the micro-porous layer and the fiber of the macroporous carbon-based support body and is obtained by embedding the material of the micro-porous layer in the side, far from the flow field of a battery, of the macroporous carbon-based support body; and the curvature of reaction gas transfer from the side next to the flow field to the side next to a catalyst layer in the gas diffusion layer increases gradiently and the air permeability gradually reduces from 4-10s/100ml to 100-900s/100ml. By adopting the gas diffusion layer with the structure, the mass transfer curvatures of water and the gas in the gas diffusion layer (GDL) can be effectively increased, the transfer path of the product-water can be prolonged and liquid water in the battery can be maintained; and the gas diffusion layer is particularly suitable for fuel batteries working under low humidity and the cathodes of alkaline fuel batteries.

A mass transfer or energy transfer module is provided which includes a manifold, a cartridge and a bowl which houses the cartridge. The cartridge and bowl are connected to each other at least two flanges which fit into slots of the bowl to form a unitary construction.

A light emitting diode (LED) is made of a substrate and an epitaxial structure. A surface of the epitaxial structure has many mass transferred patterns. The mass transferred patterns are formed by a mass transfer method to deform an original rough surface of the epitaxial structure. The surface topography of the mass transferred patterns is smoother and more gradual than that of the original rough surface of the epitaxial structure, and thus the light extraction efficiency of the LED is improved. In addition, the issue of instrument detection errors related to device positioning due to the roughness or the patterns of the LED surface can be reduced.