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A water recovery system for use in a confined space, comprising: a cation-exchange device in which wastewater originating in a confined space is treated by cation exchange with a cation-exchange resin; an organic-component decomposing device (2, 3) in which an organic component contained in water discharged from the cation-exchange device is decomposed, wherein the organic-component decomposing device includes a diamond-electrode electrolysis device including a conductive diamond serving as an electrode and a catalytic decomposition device; a three-compartment electrodialysis device with a bipolar membrane in which water discharged from the organic-component decomposing device is treated by electrodialysis; and further comprising a regeneration unit in which the cation-exchange resin is regenerated using an acid and an alkali that are produced in the electrodialysis device, wherein the cation-exchange resin is a Na-type weakly acidic cation exchange resin. a cation-exchange device in which wastewater originating in a confined space is treated by cation exchange with a cation-exchange resin; an organic-component decomposing device (2, 3) in which an organic component contained in water discharged from the cation-exchange device is decomposed, wherein the organic-component decomposing device includes a diamond-electrode electrolysis device including a conductive diamond serving as an electrode and a catalytic decomposition device; a three-compartment electrodialysis device with a bipolar membrane in which water discharged from the organic-component decomposing device is treated by electrodialysis; and further comprising a regeneration unit in which the cation-exchange resin is regenerated using an acid and an alkali that are produced in the electrodialysis device, wherein the cation-exchange resin is a Na-type weakly acidic cation exchange resin.
A method of forming a tri-layer self supporting film for delivery of a therapeutic agent comprising: providing a first and second film layer containing at least one hydrophobic polymer; providing a solution containing at least one water-soluble therapeutic agent; passing the solution through a spray nozzle to generate droplets of the solution; depositing the droplets on the first film layer to form an intermediate layer; positioning the second polymeric film layer on the intermediate layer to form three layers; and spraying the three layers with a binding agent to bind the three layers together; wherein the step of providing a first film layer comprises spraying a first solution comprising at least one hydrophobic polymer on to an inert substrate, and wherein the hydrophobic polymer comprises a copolymer of about 10 weight percent glycolide and about 90 weight percent ε-caprolactone; and wherein the at least one water-soluble therapeutic agent is selected from the group consisting of bupivacaine hydrochloride, fluorouracil, cisplatin, methotrexate, capsaicin and combinations thereof. providing a first and second film layer containing at least one hydrophobic polymer; providing a solution containing at least one water-soluble therapeutic agent; passing the solution through a spray nozzle to generate droplets of the solution; depositing the droplets on the first film layer to form an intermediate layer; positioning the second polymeric film layer on the intermediate layer to form three layers; and spraying the three layers with a binding agent to bind the three layers together;
An axial flow turbine of radial-inflow type for recovering power from energy of working fluid, comprising: a rotation shaft extending in an axial direction of the axial flow turbine; a turbine wheel including a plurality of turbine blades each extending from a blade root to a blade tip outwardly in a radial direction of the axial flow turbine, the turbine wheel being configured to rotate together with the rotation shaft; and a housing including a scroll part for swirling the working fluid flowing into the housing along a circumferential direction of the rotation shaft and a bend part for changing a flow direction of the working fluid flowing inwardly in the radial direction from the scroll part into a direction along the axial direction to direct a flow of the working fluid to the turbine blades, wherein the bend part includes a tip-side inner wall surface of a bend shape at least in a region at an upstream side, in the axial direction, of a portion of a leading edge of the turbine blades, the portion being adjacent to a hub, and wherein the bend shape of the tip-side inner wall surface along the axial direction includes a first linear section, a second linear section disposed on a downstream side of the first linear section in the axial direction, and a corner section at which the first linear section intersects with the second linear section. a rotation shaft extending in an axial direction of the axial flow turbine; a turbine wheel including a plurality of turbine blades each extending from a blade root to a blade tip outwardly in a radial direction of the axial flow turbine, the turbine wheel being configured to rotate together with the rotation shaft; and a housing including a scroll part for swirling the working fluid flowing into the housing along a circumferential direction of the rotation shaft and a bend part for changing a flow direction of the working fluid flowing inwardly in the radial direction from the scroll part into a direction along the axial direction to direct a flow of the working fluid to the turbine blades, wherein the bend part includes a tip-side inner wall surface of a bend shape at least in a region at an upstream side, in the axial direction, of a portion of a leading edge of the turbine blades, the portion being adjacent to a hub, and wherein the bend shape of the tip-side inner wall surface along the axial direction includes a first linear section, a second linear section disposed on a downstream side of the first linear section in the axial direction, and a corner section at which the first linear section intersects with the second linear section.
A method for random selecting tones in a control channel of a peer-to-peer ad hoc wireless network, comprising: determining that a control channel is to be sent in the peer-to-peer ad hoc wireless network; determining whether at least one tone of the control channel, which is to be sent, contains critical information, wherein a tone contains critical information when if the tone is not received, communication cannot be established with the node sending the control channel; if it is determined that none of the tones contains critical information, choosing a non-channelized tone selection, wherein the non-channelized tone selection comprises randomly selecting only four tones out of a total number of tones available in the time-frequency plane of the control space of the control channel, and wherein any choice of four tones out of the total number of tones available in the time-frequency plane of the control space of the control channel is allowed; if it is determined that at least one tone contains critical information, choosing a channelized tone selection, wherein the total number of tones available in the time-frequency plane of the control space of the control channel is divided in a predefined manner into predefined sets of only four tones and randomly selecting one of the sets of four tones; wherein a node performs a random selection of tones in the control channel by the chosen non-channelized or channelized selection; and transmitting by the node on the selected tones in the control channel. determining that a control channel is to be sent in the peer-to-peer ad hoc wireless network; determining whether at least one tone of the control channel, which is to be sent, contains critical information, wherein a tone contains critical information when if the tone is not received, communication cannot be established with the node sending the control channel; if it is determined that none of the tones contains critical information, choosing a non-channelized tone selection, wherein the non-channelized tone selection comprises randomly selecting only four tones out of a total number of tones available in the time-frequency plane of the control space of the control channel, and wherein any choice of four tones out of the total number of tones available in the time-frequency plane of the control space of the control channel is allowed; if it is determined that at least one tone contains critical information, choosing a channelized tone selection, wherein the total number of tones available in the time-frequency plane of the control space of the control channel is divided in a predefined manner into predefined sets of only four tones and randomly selecting one of the sets of four tones; wherein a node performs a random selection of tones in the control channel by the chosen non-channelized or channelized selection; and transmitting by the node on the selected tones in the control channel.
A microphone chip, wherein the microphone chip comprises: a substrate and a diaphragm that are disposed oppositely; a reflector attached to a side that is of the diaphragm and that is closer to the substrate; a grating group located between the substrate and the diaphragm; and optical emitters and an optical detector that are located between the substrate and the grating group, wherein the grating group comprises a plurality of gratings, and distances (d1, d2) between at least two gratings in the plurality of gratings and the reflector are different, wherein a difference g between the distances (d1, d2) between the at least two gratings in the plurality of gratings and the reflector meets: (2n - 1) x λ/8 - λ/16 ≤ g ≤ (2n - 1) x λ/8 + λ/16, wherein n is an integer greater than 0, and characterized in that the microphone chip comprises two of the optical emitters, and wavelengths of light emitted by the two optical emitters are respectively λ 1 and λ 2, wherein λ is the maximum value of the multiplexed wavelengths λ 1 and λ 2 and meets λ = λ 1 × λ 2 λ 1 − λ 2. a substrate and a diaphragm that are disposed oppositely; a reflector attached to a side that is of the diaphragm and that is closer to the substrate; a grating group located between the substrate and the diaphragm; and optical emitters and an optical detector that are located between the substrate and the grating group, wherein the grating group comprises a plurality of gratings, and distances (d1, d2) between at least two gratings in the plurality of gratings and the reflector are different, wherein a difference g between the distances (d1, d2) between the at least two gratings in the plurality of gratings and the reflector meets: (2n - 1) x λ/8 - λ/16 ≤ g ≤ (2n - 1) x λ/8 + λ/16, wherein n is an integer greater than 0, and characterized in that the microphone chip comprises two of the optical emitters, and wavelengths of light emitted by the two optical emitters are respectively λ 1 and λ 2, wherein λ is the maximum value of the multiplexed wavelengths λ 1 and λ 2 and meets λ = λ 1 × λ 2 λ 1 − λ 2. (2n - 1) x λ/8 - λ/16 ≤ g ≤ (2n - 1) x λ/8 + λ/16, wherein n is an integer greater than 0, and characterized in that the microphone chip comprises two of the optical emitters, and wavelengths of light emitted by the two optical emitters are respectively λ 1 and λ 2, wherein λ is the maximum value of the multiplexed wavelengths λ 1 and λ 2 and meets λ = λ 1 × λ 2 λ 1 − λ 2.
A wireless device comprising: a multiple-input, multiple-output, MIMO, transceiver comprising a plurality of antennas (104, 106), the MIMO transceiver being configured as a plurality of single-input, single output, SISO, transceivers (114, 116), each SISO transceiver comprising a respective antenna of the plurality of antennas, and at least one processor configured to: concurrently perform discovery of respective different wireless devices (206, 208) using at least two of the plurality of antennas (104, 106) by using a first antenna of the at least two antennas to discover a first wireless device of the different wireless devices, and by using a second antenna of the at least two antennas to discover a second wireless device of the wireless devices; wherein the different wireless devices are different access points, APs, of respective different wireless networks, and the at least one processor is configured to further: use, prior to association of the wireless device with any wireless network, another antenna other than the first and the second antenna of the plurality of antennas to acquire information about services provided by a wireless network as part of a task different from network discovery; the individual SISO transceivers of the plurality of SISO transceivers (114, 116) being configured to be used concurrently to separately search for the different wireless networks; use the MIMO transceiver to perform SISO operations prior to association of the wireless device with the wireless network. a multiple-input, multiple-output, MIMO, transceiver comprising a plurality of antennas (104, 106), the MIMO transceiver being configured as a plurality of single-input, single output, SISO, transceivers (114, 116), each SISO transceiver comprising a respective antenna of the plurality of antennas, and at least one processor configured to: concurrently perform discovery of respective different wireless devices (206, 208) using at least two of the plurality of antennas (104, 106) by using a first antenna of the at least two antennas to discover a first wireless device of the different wireless devices, and by using a second antenna of the at least two antennas to discover a second wireless device of the wireless devices; wherein the different wireless devices are different access points, APs, of respective different wireless networks, and the at least one processor is configured to further: use, prior to association of the wireless device with any wireless network, another antenna other than the first and the second antenna of the plurality of antennas to acquire information about services provided by a wireless network as part of a task different from network discovery; the individual SISO transceivers of the plurality of SISO transceivers (114, 116) being configured to be used concurrently to separately search for the different wireless networks; use the MIMO transceiver to perform SISO operations prior to association of the wireless device with the wireless network.
A method for receiving, by a user equipment, UE, a downlink channel, in a 3rd generation partnership project, 3GPP, based communication system, the method comprising: receiving, by the UE, a physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, carrying downlink control information, DCI, in a transmission time interval, TTI, on a resource block, RB, set configured for PDCCH reception; and receiving, by the UE, a physical downlink shared channel, PDSCH, in the TTI according to the DCI, wherein the TTI is equal to or shorter than 0.5 ms in a time domain, wherein each RB of the RB set is defined as 12 consecutive subcarriers in a frequency domain, wherein the PDCCH consists of one or more consecutive control channel elements, CCEs, wherein each of the one or more CCEs consists of multiple resource element groups, REGs that are selected in an ascending order of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, OFDM, symbol index in an RB and then selected in a next RB within OFDM symbols used for the PDCCH reception on the RB set, and wherein each of the multiple REGs are composed of 12 consecutive resource elements, REs, along the frequency domain, within an OFDM symbol regardless of a RE in which a reference signal, RS, is received. receiving, by the UE, a physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, carrying downlink control information, DCI, in a transmission time interval, TTI, on a resource block, RB, set configured for PDCCH reception; and receiving, by the UE, a physical downlink shared channel, PDSCH, in the TTI according to the DCI, wherein the TTI is equal to or shorter than 0.5 ms in a time domain, wherein each RB of the RB set is defined as 12 consecutive subcarriers in a frequency domain, wherein the PDCCH consists of one or more consecutive control channel elements, CCEs, wherein each of the one or more CCEs consists of multiple resource element groups, REGs that are selected in an ascending order of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, OFDM, symbol index in an RB and then selected in a next RB within OFDM symbols used for the PDCCH reception on the RB set, and wherein each of the multiple REGs are composed of 12 consecutive resource elements, REs, along the frequency domain, within an OFDM symbol regardless of a RE in which a reference signal, RS, is received.
Control method for controlling the supply of fuel to a gas turbine plant; the plant comprising a gas turbine and a combustion chamber fed with a mixture of fuel and oxidizer; the method comprising the steps of: - detecting at the exhaust of the gas turbine at least a first parameter related to the unburned fuel concentration; - calculating a first error (UHC ERR) between a first reference value (UHC REF) and the detected first parameter; - detecting at the exhaust of the gas turbine at least a second parameter related to the specific energy produced by the combustion; - calculating a second error (CO ERR) between a second reference value (CO REF) and the detected second parameter; - detecting at the exhaust of the gas turbine a third parameter related to the oxygen concentration (O 2); - calculating the fuel flow rate (Q TOT) to be supplied to the combustion chamber on the basis of the first error (UHC ERR), of the second error (CO ERR) and on the basis of the third parameter (O 2). - detecting at the exhaust of the gas turbine at least a first parameter related to the unburned fuel concentration; - calculating a first error (UHC ERR) between a first reference value (UHC REF) and the detected first parameter; - detecting at the exhaust of the gas turbine at least a second parameter related to the specific energy produced by the combustion; - calculating a second error (CO ERR) between a second reference value (CO REF) and the detected second parameter; - detecting at the exhaust of the gas turbine a third parameter related to the oxygen concentration (O 2); - calculating the fuel flow rate (Q TOT) to be supplied to the combustion chamber on the basis of the first error (UHC ERR), of the second error (CO ERR) and on the basis of the third parameter (O 2).
A method comprising: receiving two or more input audio data portions of a common time window index value, the two or more input audio data portions being respectively generated based on responses of two or more microphones to sounds occurring at a location; generating two or more pluralities of subband portions from the two or more input audio data portions, each plurality of subband portions in the two or more pluralities of subband portions corresponding to a respective input audio data portion of the two or more input audio data portions; determining (a) a peak power and (b) a noise floor for each subband portion in each plurality of subband portions in the two or more pluralities of subband portions, thereby determining a plurality of peak powers and a plurality of noise floors for the plurality of subband portions; computing, based at least in part on a plurality of peak powers and a plurality of noise floors for each plurality of subband portions in the two or more pluralities of subband portions, a plurality of weight values for the plurality of subband portions, thereby computing two or more pluralities of weight values for the two or more pluralities of subband portions; generating, based on the two or more pluralities of subband portions and two or more pluralities of weight values for the two or more pluralities of subband portions, an integrated audio data portion of the common time window index; wherein the peak power is determined from a smoothened banded power of a corresponding subband portion; and wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices. receiving two or more input audio data portions of a common time window index value, the two or more input audio data portions being respectively generated based on responses of two or more microphones to sounds occurring at a location; generating two or more pluralities of subband portions from the two or more input audio data portions, each plurality of subband portions in the two or more pluralities of subband portions corresponding to a respective input audio data portion of the two or more input audio data portions; determining (a) a peak power and (b) a noise floor for each subband portion in each plurality of subband portions in the two or more pluralities of subband portions, thereby determining a plurality of peak powers and a plurality of noise floors for the plurality of subband portions; computing, based at least in part on a plurality of peak powers and a plurality of noise floors for each plurality of subband portions in the two or more pluralities of subband portions, a plurality of weight values for the plurality of subband portions, thereby computing two or more pluralities of weight values for the two or more pluralities of subband portions; generating, based on the two or more pluralities of subband portions and two or more pluralities of weight values for the two or more pluralities of subband portions, an integrated audio data portion of the common time window index; wherein the peak power is determined from a smoothened banded power of a corresponding subband portion; and wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.
A method for starting a four-stroke reciprocating internal combustion piston engine, comprising the steps of: rotating a crankshaft, and during an instroke of a combustion piston within a combustion cylinder, maintaining a respective exhaust valve in an open position characterized by, during said instroke, providing an airflow into said combustion cylinder from an air valve, so as to expel any remaining liquid contents from said combustion cylinder to an exhaust port past the exhaust valve, and wherein said instroke is a compression stroke of the combustion piston. rotating a crankshaft, and during an instroke of a combustion piston within a combustion cylinder, maintaining a respective exhaust valve in an open position characterized by, during said instroke, providing an airflow into said combustion cylinder from an air valve, so as to expel any remaining liquid contents from said combustion cylinder to an exhaust port past the exhaust valve, and wherein said instroke is a compression stroke of the combustion piston.
Conveyor belt system comprising a plurality of identical or different conveyor belt system standing concrete modules standing loosely on the ground and/or standing on each other, characterised in that at least one conveyor belt system standing concrete module comprises a base body having an U-shape or H-shape with a base leg and two side legs (3, 4), the side legs (3, 4) comprising a mounting region in the region of inner sides facing towards each other for mounting a belt conveyor strut (46, 47) extending parallel to the conveyor belt and holding conveying rollers, wherein preferably the base leg and/or at least one side leg also comprise a belt conveyor strut contact region.