424 results about "Water particle" patented technology

A camera washing device has an air pump, a wash water tank storing wash water, an injection nozzle with an injection part, a junction joint having a high-pressure air passage and a wash water passage, and an electromagnetic valve. The air pump generates and supplies high-pressure air to the high-pressure air passage. When the control part instructs the electromagnetic valve to be switched to an open state, the wash water and the high-pressure air are mixed in the junction joint to generate water particles. The generated water particles are supplied to the injection nozzle. When the electromagnetic valve is switched to the open state after injecting the high-pressure air only to a lens of a rear camera, the injection part injects the water particles to the lens of the camera.

System and methods for creating shaped, non-circular boreholes in rocks especially for use with geothermal heat pump applications and for increasing wellbore support in applications such as horizontal oil and gas drilling are described. The systems and methods when applied to geothermal heat pumps create an elliptical shaped hole that is optimized for placing heat transfer tubes with a minimum of grout used. The significantly reduced cross-sectional area of the elliptical borehole also increases the overall drilling rate in rock and especially in hard rocks. In horizontal hard-rock drilling, creation of a horizontal non-circular borehole or modification of a circular borehole to a non-circular geometry is used to stabilize the borehole prior to casing insertion, and may also allow the use of lower mud pressures improving drilling rates. The system uses a non-contacting drilling system which in one embodiment uses a supersonic flame jet drilling system with a movable nozzle that swings between pivot points. In a second embodiment the elliptical shaped hole is created by an abrasive fluid or particle bearing-fluid or air jet drill that moves between pivot points. In another embodiment a non-contacting drill can use dual parallel nutating nozzles that create a pair of overlapping circular holes. The non-circular shaped hole is created by either the high temperature flame or water-particle jet or chemically active fluid jet as it removes rock material by erosion, dissolution and or thermal spalling. Modifications of circular boreholes to a generally elliptical shape can also be done using milling or jetting techniques.

The present invention provides an electrostatically atomizing device capable of instantly giving an electrostatically atomizing effect without requiring a water tank. The electrostatically atomizing device includes an emitter electrode, an opposed electrode opposed to the emitter electrode, a water feeder configured to give water on the emitter electrode, and a high voltage source configured to apply a high voltage across said emitter electrode and said opposed electrode to electrostatically charge the water on the emitter electrode for spraying charged minute water particles from a discharge end of the emitter electrode. The water feeder is configured to condense the water on the emitter electrode from within the surrounding air, enabling to supply the water on the emitter electrode in a short time without relying upon an additional water tank. Thus, an atomization of the charged minute water particles can be obtained immediately upon use of the device.

The present invention provides a laundry detergent sheet with significant improvements in solubility. That is, the invention provides a sheet of laundry detergent comprising a layer containing a detergent composition and a water-soluble substrate provided on both sides of the layer, wherein said layer comprises a water-soluble or disintegrating-in-water particle group, having an average particle diameter of 60 to 2000 mum, consisting of a particle group. The water-soluble or disintegrating-in-water particle group means less than 0.025 g of residue on a screen after 0.5 g of the particle group is introduced into 1 L water at 10° C., stirred at a revolution rate of 800 rpm for 10 minutes, and sifted through a screen of 200 mesh size.

A weather adjustment system for fighting forest and brush fires under dry, hot and winding conditions which includes a fan/blower for generating wind at extremely high speeds, a water source which supplies cold water into the wind forming a stream of cold water particles and a screen mesh which provides very fine particles of water within the stream. The stream is directed to a forest or brush fire dropping the temperature at the edge of the fire which eventually extinguishes the fire.

A battery module includes a plurality of rechargeable batteries and a housing configured to receive the rechargeable batteries, wherein the housing has a vent opening; and a valve configured to close the vent opening, wherein the valve includes a porous film with pores having a diameter larger than that of gas molecules and smaller than that of water particles.

A snow-gun for producing man-made snow from a combination of compressed air and water features a new nozzle configuration for discharging a mixture of water-particles and air into the surrounding atmosphere. Such nozzle is provided with an elliptically-shaped discharge port having a transverse cross-section that gradually expands in size in the direction in which the air and water particles are discharged from said nozzle. Preferably, the area of the elliptical port changes non-linearly through the front wall of the nozzle, whereby water particles exiting the gun through the nozzle port are less likely to collide with the side walls of the port or with each other before reaching the relatively cold ambient atmosphere.

A total air temperature (TAT) probe for measuring TAT includes an inlet scoop which receives airflow from free stream airflow moving toward the inlet scoop from a first direction. A first portion of the airflow entering the inlet scoop exits the probe through a main exit channel. A second portion of the airflow enters a TAT sensor flow passage, which extends longitudinally along an axis. This axis is oriented to form an angle of less than 90 degrees with the first direction from which the free stream airflow moves toward the inlet scoop. A sensor assembly extends longitudinally in the sensor flow passage and measures a total air temperature of airflow through the sensor flow passage. By increasing the angle through which the internal air turns, better inertial extraction of ice and water particles is realized. As a result, sensor clogging from accreted ice is significantly reduced. A second improvement is achieved by repositioning the sensor element to be more in-line with the internal airflow direction. This helps lower DHE by minimizing heated boundary layer spillage onto the sensing element.

A coalescing filter element provides an integrated filter element with a three stage design with a hydrophobic or hydrophilic coalescing layer. A coalescing filter element comprises: a) At least one particulate filtration layer; b) A coalescing layer promoting coalescing of water particles, wherein the coalescing layer is downstream of the at least one particulate filtration layer relative to the flow of fluid through the element; c) An annular coalescing space downstream of the coalescing layer; d) A sump in a lower portion of the filter element in fluid communication with the annular coalescing space; and e) A hydrophobic layer downstream of the annular coalescing space, wherein fluid being cleaned by the element flows through the hydrophobic layer. The coalescing layer may be a hydrophobic or a hydrophilic coalescing layer. A filter assembly will include the coalescing filter element of the present invention.

A ventilation system comprises ductwork, a fan for creating a current of air passing through the ductwork, and an air supply outlet for supplying outdoor air into a living space of a house by means of the current of air. The ventilation system further comprises an electrostatic atomizer located at the side of the air supply outlet. The electrostatic atomizer is configured to produce mist of charged fine water particles by means of electrostatic atomization to spray the mist into the living space.

An electrostatically atomizing device includes an emitter electrode, an opposed electrode opposed to the emitter electrode, and a cooling means which condenses the water on the emitter electrode from within the surrounding air, and a high voltage source applying a high voltage across the emitter electrode and the opposed electrode to electrostatically charge the water for atomizing charged minute water particles from a discharge end of the emitter electrode. The device further includes a controller for discharging the charged minute water particles in a stable manner. The controller monitors a discharge current flowing between the two electrodes to control the cooling means for keeping the discharge current at a predetermined level, thereby regulating the atomizing amount of the charged minute particles from the emitter electrode.

The invention discloses a quantitative evaluation system and method of a crude oil emulsion stability. The system comprises a signal generator, an oscilloscope, a voltage amplifier, a bottle-test type demulsification dehydrator, a constant-temperature water bath, an emulsion test bottle, a kinetic stability analyzer and a computer, wherein the signal generator generates electric signals with a specific waveform, voltage and frequency, signal amplification is performed through the voltage amplifier, and then an asymmetric high-intensity electric field is applied to crude oil emulsion in the bottle-test type demulsification dehydrator to enable water particles therein to produce electrostatic coalescence and further to accelerate gravity settlement; or under the situation that no electric field is applied, a demulsification agent is directly added into the crude oil emulsion in the bottle-test type demulsification dehydrator to perform chemical demulsification; quantitative analysis and evaluation are performed on the demulsification effect by calculating emulsion dehydration rate or by using the kinetic stability analyzer. The evaluation system and method are convenient, quick, accurate and reliable to use, and can provide convenience for evaluation work of the emulsion demulsification effect under various conditions in laboratories and engineering fields.

The present invention discloses a novel and efficient electrostatic pre-coalescence method and a device applied to dehydration and desalt of crude oil. The invention is used for dehydration of crude oil in the system of oil-gas gathering and transportation in oil fields and for dehydration and desalination of oil refineries, therefore enables the small water particle dispersed phase in the crude oil emulsion to coalesce and grow. The core part of the device is an electrode assembly comprising an electrically conductive metal rod, multilayer cannular electrodes vertically and coaxially mounted, and tabular electrodes parallelly mounted. When high pressure alternating current is applied to the electrode assembly, the dispersed phase water particles in the crude oil emulsion undergo demulsification because of the mechanism of dielectrophoresis coalescence and vibration coalescence, thereby the dispersed phase water particles coalescing and growing up, the subsequent time of gravity settling being reduced notably and the process efficiency being improved. Moreover, the device is compact and efficient. On the basis of the mechanism of dielectrophoresis phenomenon, the dosage of chemical demulsifiers and the total operating cost can be reduced and the economical benefit of oil refineries can be improved.

A wave energy converter apparatus comprising at least two members joined mutually by a connector movable so as to allow mutual displacement of the members in response to waves in water where the apparatus is located. The apparatus also includes an energy converter for converting motion of the connector to electrical energy, and a device for storing and/or transporting elsewhere the energy produced. Preferably, the members are non-floating and completely submerged, thereby causing the apparatus, as a whole, to be neutrally buoyant. A member is additionally provided for maintaining each of the submerged members substantially at rest relative to the surrounding water with which they are in contact, such that the members move under wave action substantially in the same manner as an undisturbed water particle located in the same region, the at least two submerged members being spaced mutually by the connector so as to assume respective positions affected differently by the wave-induced water motion.

The invention discloses a novel high-efficiency crude oil electric dehydration and desalination method and novel high-efficiency crude oil electric dehydration and desalination equipment, which can be used for dehydrating and desalinating crude oil emulsion in oil refineries. The processing equipment mainly comprises an inlet component, a tank and an electrostatic precoalescer; when a high-voltage explosion-proof transformer outside the device applies high-voltage alternating current to the crude oil emulsion in a corrugated hollow tube through metal electrode plates by a high-voltage insulating wire, a non-uniform alternating current field is produced between the electrode plates to cause dielectrophoresis coalescence of dispersed phase water particles; the flow state of the crude oil emulsion in the hollow tube is turbulent flow, and the turbulent flow increases the collision probability of the dispersed phase water particles in the crude oil emulsion and obviously shortens hydraulic retention time; and a flowing passage in the electrostatic precoalescer can be designed to be corrugated circular or wavelike quasi-rectangular. By using the method and the equipment, the dispersed phase water particles subjected to electrostatic precoalescence can obviously reduce subsequent gravity settling time and improve the processing efficiency; and after the crude oil emulsion enters the tank from the inlet component at the left end, the crude oil emulsion flows along the horizontal direction and can reduce the power consumption of an inlet.

A dam bursting flood routing simulation method based on two-dimensional SPH belongs to the technical field of geographic-science course simulation and geographic information systems. By the method, data information of a reservoir and downstream geographic space is obtained firstly, a flood routing two-dimensional mode based on a shallow water equation is established according to the obtained data, and a simulation course undergoes initialization which comprises initial configuration of particle properties, establishment of a neighborhood particle list of particles and setting of parameters; simulation circulation is started then, wherein whether boundary virtual particles are set is determined according to positions of the particles, and the neighborhood particle list of each water particle is updated; force borne by each water particle is calculated, and then the position and the speed of each water particle at the next time step are calculated; and collision detection is carried out, boundary punishment force is applied to change the position and the speed of the particle in case of a boundary, a fluid surface is extracted according to particle distribution, and the extracted fluid surface is rendered. The method provided by the invention can realize the relatively real analogue simulation of the large-scale dam bursting flood routing situations.

The invention provides a method for modeling and simulating a three-dimensional discrete element for shale pneumatic and hydraulic fracturing. The method includes the steps of (1) establishing a three-dimensional close packing model with specific elastic property and destructive property according to a conversion formula, and establishing an integrated isotropic random module through particle diameter normal distribution adjustment and random packing, (2) adjusting the diameter of particles according to given confining pressure, setting particle anisotropic ellipsoid parameters, moving the boundary of the models, adjusting the confining pressure to the given value, and finally connecting a particle solidification model to obtain an anisotropic shale model with specific confining pressure and mechanical property, (3) establishing a hydraulic pressure cavity model and a hydraulic pressure boundary model according to requirements, generating hydraulic pressure and stress waves through mutual extrusion of water particles, and simulating generation and development of hydraulic fractures. The method avoids human influences of a traditional method based on continuity mechanics, can simulate the processes of hydraulic pressure propagation and hydraulic fracturing more really, and achieves predication of shale pneumatic and hydraulic fracturing.