1236 results about "Percolation" patented technology

The present invention includes a composition having a co-continuous interconnecting channel morphology. These co-continuous interconnecting channels are predominately occupied with a polymer and particles that control the percolation through the composition. The particles are composed of a material such as an absorbing agent, releasing agent and/or activation agent. The polymer composition may be used to form a desired shaped article such as plug type inserts and liners for closed containers, or it may be formed into a film, sheet, bead or pellet.

A cartridge for extracting a beverage from a particulate substance contained therein by means of water under pressure, the cartridge comprising: a main body comprising a cup portion and a lid portion, the cup portion comprising a base, a sidewall and a rim opposed to the base, the lid portion being fixedly attached to the rim of the cup portion so as to define an internal volume of the cartridge, the internal volume of the cartridge housing the particulate substance comprised within filtering means for retaining the particulate substance and for percolating fluid substances therethrough, the lid portion comprising a lid port defining a first passage for percolation fluid substances, the base of the cup portion comprising a cup port defining a second passage for percolation fluid substances, wherein the base comprises a plurality of ridges directly formed thereon and protruding towards the internal volume of the cartridge, so as to support the filtering means and the particulate substance and to define a fine canalization between the filtering means and the cup port.

A heat exchanger system suitable for facilitating the economical cooling of hot fluids in the vicinity of a body of water. The preferred embodiment of the present invention contemplates a vertical, or combination vertical and horizontal thermosyphonic, passive, heat exchanger column situated in a body of water and enveloped by a caisson or the like, and configured to facilitate, through percolation, enhanced circulation of seawater therethrough and effecting significant cooling of a hot, hydrocarbon well stream, or other hot fluid in the vicinity of a body of water. A vertically situated bundle of tubes forms the heat exchanger, which may include a system of staggered baffles to direct the flow of cooling seawater to effect even temperature distribution throughout the tube bundle. The present system further teaches a system for cooling high pressure, hot fluids as may be found in a deep hydrocarbon reserve offshore, utilizing a the vertical heat exchange column of the present invention. Upon passing through the system, a gaseous fluid stream, significantly cooled, should experience a commensurate pressure reduction and allow the use of conventional pipeline materials. The present system dispenses with the necessity of providing expensive, pro-active cooling, generally expending significant fuel, or the necessity of constructing an expensive, high pressure, non-corrosive pipeline of, for example, titanium or the like.

Single-dose capsule comprising a sealed moulded-plastic casing (10) having an end wall (16) provided with orifices (24) and a bottom sealing foil (17). A chamber (30) is formed between the said foil (17) and the bottom surface (18) of the perforated end wall (16) and is filled with the beverage percolated through the said orifices (24) before it is discharged directly towards an underlying container through the spout created at the moment of opening or tearing of the said bottom foil (17), immediately before the start of percolation.

• USE: preparation of a percolated of the beverage.
• ADVANTAGES: high quality of the beverage.

Fractal computers are neural network architectures that exploit the characteristics of fractal attractors to perform general computation. This disclosure explains neural network implementations for each of the critical components of computation: composition, minimalization, and recursion. It then describes the creation of fractal attractors within these implementations by means of selective amplification or inhibition of input signals, and it describes how to estimate critical parameters for each implementation by using results from studies of fractal percolation. These implementation provide standardizable implicit alternatives to traditional neural network designs. Consequently, fractal computers permit the exploitation of alternative technologies for computation based on dynamic systems with underlying fractal attractors.

The invention discloses a simulation regulation and control system and method of the percolation performance of an aeration zone of a river or a lake and relates to the technical field of research on water and soil resources and environmental engineering. The system comprises a seepage control device, an aeration zone simulation device, an underground water level regulation and control device anda data monitoring system, wherein the seepage control device comprises a seepage control column and a regulation column; the upper layer of the regulation column is connected with the seepage controlcolumn through a flange plate, and the lower layer of the regulation column is connected with the aeration zone simulation device through a water supply pipeline and a peristaltic pump; the aeration zone simulation device comprises a plurality of soil columns connected in series, and the underground water level regulation and control device comprises an underground water supply Markov bottle and an underground water balancing device which are connected through an underground water supplementing pipeline, and the underground water balancing device is connected with the aeration zone simulationdevice through the underground water supplementing pipeline. By adopting the system and the method, the hierarchical accurate simulation of a layered soil structure is realized, the accurate monitoring of the percolation performance of the aeration zone of the river or the lake is realized, and the simulation precision of the different types of layered soil is greatly improved.

The invention discloses an environment protective acid leaching-extraction process for the waste lithium battery recovery, lithium cobaltate and carbon power material can be obtained by splitting waste lithium electrically, a multi-section contra-flow acid leaching can be performed in sulphuric acid/oxydol mixed solution, two to four sections can be in counter current percolation extraction, the pH value of the leach solution is 2 to 6, and extracting process can be promoted by the leach liquor; after sulphuric acid/oxydol and washing water are dropped into the raffinade, back to acid leaching section; the raffinade can be used circularly, after lithium is concentrated to 2 to 10g/L in the raffinade, deposit lithium, then the waste water can be discharged and processed. The multi-section counter current percolation extraction is adopted by the invention, thus the pH value of the raffinade meets the requirement of the P507 extraction exactly, one hand, the consumption of alkali is reduced, on the other hand, the raffinade can be used circularly after extraction, water consumption in the process can be saved, and 5 to 15 times of discharge amount of the waste water can be reduced.

In order to reduce incoming atmospheric carbon dioxide levels in compressed air prior to cryogenic distillation, a water spray cooling tower equipped with biocatalytic packing, or fed with absorptive reagents, is used to convert gaseous carbon dioxide into bicarbonate ions which dissolve in the cooling water. The hydration reaction and refrigeration occur synergistically. The bicarbonate ions are subsequently removed from the solution using the heat from the compressed air in a regenerator re-boiler unit, and then fed to a percolation cooling tower for releasing CO₂ and cooling.

Hybrid transparent conducting materials are disclosed with combine a polycrystalline film and conductive nanostructures, in which the polycrystalline film is “percolation doped” with the conductive nanostructures. The polycrystalline film preferably is a single atomic layer thickness of polycrystalline graphene, and conductive nanostructures preferably are silver nanowires.

An efficient percolation aggregation solver methodology captures media connectivity and continuity to reliably incorporate relevant flow solution trends in subterranean formation models. The approach allows introduction of meaningful physical information that is generally overlooked by state-of-the-art algebraic algorithms in the solution process. Percolation aggregation extends the efficiency and robustness of solution methods used to solve scientific and engineering problems.

A multi-sensor as disclosed herein can include a substrate and at least three sensing elements disposed on the substrate. Each sensing element includes two electrodes separated by a distance and a nanowire mat adjacent to and in contact with the electrodes. The nanowire mats include nanowires which define a percolation network. The density of the nanowires in the nanowire mat of one sensing element is different than the density of the nanowires in the nanowire mat of either of the other at least two sensing elements.

The invention relates to a visualized microscopic model of a real core and a manufacturing method of the visualized microscopic model of the real core. The model comprises a real core sheet, an organic glass cover plate, an organic glass slide and a needle and is formed via the pressure at high temperatures; the real core sheet is milled to be visualized and is then clamped between two pieces of the organic glass; the needle is firstly fixed well, and the organic glass cover plate is then arranged; at a high temperature and at a high pressure, the organic glass is softened to be adhered more tightly with the core sheet; and the model is formed by cooling. According to the visualized microscopic model and the manufacturing method provided by the invention, the physico-chemical properties of the real core are kept, and the distribution and flowing condition of the multi-phase fluid in the porous medium pores are observed, so that the visualized microscopic model and the manufacturing method play an important role in studying the percolation mechanism and enhancing the yield of the polymer microspheres.

An apparatus for producing high density slurry and paste backfills for use, for example, in mining operations. The high density slurry or paste is produced from a mill tailings mixture in a silo which includes a percolation and decant apparatuses for percolating water out of the mill tailings mixture and for decanting clarified water from atop the settled tailings. While settling occurs, air is introduced from the bottom of the silo to agitate the mixture to ensure substantially homogeneous settlement of the solids. Once settled, the resultant high density slurry or paste is fluidized by air in order to give the paste more readily flowable characteristics.

The invention provides a microlayer coextrusion device to prepare layered polymer-based conducting composite material with insulating layers and conducting layers, which are interlaced. The insulating layer granules and the conducting layer granules are fed into two extruders of the microlayer coextrusion device for fusion and plastification. Two streams of fusant are superposed into two layers at the position of a convergence unit. After the fusant is cut and superposed by n separation and superposition units, the composite material of 2<N+1> layers is got. The conductibility of the material has anisotropy. The proportion of the number of the layers to the thickness of the conducting layers and the insulating layers is determined by the number of the separation and superposition units and the speed ratio of the extruders. Accordingly, the percolation value and the resistivity of the conducting material are designable. Compared with the traditional method of preparation, the polymer conduction composite material prepared by the invention has the characteristics of low percolation value, low resistivity, and high breaking extensibility. The equipment provided by the invention is simple and available. The required raw materials are sold in the market without synthetizing other chemicals. The equipment is operated simply; the manufacturing cost is low; the efficiency is high.

The invention relates to an on-line testing device for high temperature and high pressure rock physical property and percolation mechanism nuclear magnetic resonance. The on-line testing device comprises a nuclear magnetic resonance on-line testing module, a rock fluid displacement module (comprising core holder compatible with nuclear magnetic resonance tests) and a computer control and data processing module, a nuclear magnetic resonance testing system and a rock fluid displacement system are combined into a whole through computer control, formation temperature and pressure are simulated, rock displacement tests are carried out under high temperature and high pressure conditions, and real-time nuclear magnetic resonance signals are measured on line to obtain rich rock parameters (porosity, permeability, reservoir forming critical pressure, wettability and the like). The on-line testing device serves as a device for oil gas reservoir forming geological research and oil gas target assessment, and the purposes of analyzing core physical properties and percolation mechanism from micro perspective are achieved.

The invention discloses a graphene elastomer nano composite material with low filling quantity and a preparation method thereof, which belong to the technical field of preparation of dielectric elastomer. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: adding an aqueous solution of graphene oxide into water-soluble rubber latex so that the graphene oxide is dispersed in rubber matrix on molecular level, reducing the graphene oxide into graphene by adopting an in-situ hot-pressing reduction method, and thus forming a network structure that graphene flake layers wrap latex particles. The obtained composite material has high dielectric constant under low filling quantity, keeps low dielectric loss, and has low percolation value. The composite material solves the problem that the performance of the composite material is reduced because the filling quantity required when an inorganic conductor is filled with rubber and the dielectric constant and the dielectric loss are simultaneously improved.

The invention belongs to the technical field of oil exploitation and particularly relates to a calculation method for predicating recovery percentage and water cut of an oil field. The method for predicting the recovery percentage and water cut of the oil field comprises the following steps of: (1) obtaining a water-oil mass ratio: Qw/Qo, i.e. Fg; (2) obtaining the initial oil saturation: Soi; (3) testing the irreducible water saturation: Swi; (4) obtaining a crude oil volume factor Bo; (5) putting the above parameters into a formula as shown in the specification so as to obtain a relationship between the water cut and the recovery percentage. According to the method for predicting the recovery percentage and water cut of the oil field provided by the invention, a universal method applicable to water-flooding development of reservoirs with high-permeability, low-permeability and ultra-low permeability is obtained, and the actual changing rule of the water cut and recovery percentage of reservoirs and the percolation characteristic representation of the oil reservoirs of different types can be reflected, therefore the method is fit for the practical situation better; furthermore, the development index prediction precision can be improved, therefore the method has an important practical significance on the production practice of the oil fields.

The invention discloses a functional rainwater garden applicable to a sponge community. The functional rainwater garden comprises a pre-percolation layer, a water storage layer and an overflowing facility, wherein the pre-percolation layer comprises an annular edge slope arranged at the periphery of the garden; a zeolite-active carbon filtering system is laid on the annular edge slope; a part, far away from the garden, of the annular edge slope is higher than a part close to the garden; the water storage layer comprises a covering layer, a planting soil layer, a percolation layer and a filling layer which are arranged in sequence from top to bottom; an overflowing pipe of the overflowing facility penetrates into the water storage layer along the vertical direction; an overflowing hole of the overflowing facility is higher than the water storage layer. According to the functional rainwater garden, a multi-grade percolation system composed of the pre-percolation layer, an active carbon layer and the water storage layer has the effects of filtering, precipitating, permeating and adsorbing rainfall runoff, carrying out ion exchange, biodegradation and plant absorption and the like, and pollutants including heavy metal, organic matters, nitrogen and phosphorus and the like in the runoff are reduced, so that absorption and purification of the runoff are realized; water for greenbelts is reduced, and urban waterlogging and municipal drainage pressure are alleviated; a heat island effect is alleviated and an ecological city is constructed.