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A method of conditioning and removing deposits including mixtures of inorganic compounds comprising, in sequence, the steps of: a) taking a heat exchange system of a nuclear power plant out of service, the heat exchange system including a steam generator having thereon scale comprising deposits of anhydrous and/or hydrated oxides and/or hydroxides of aluminum and/or silicon; b) introducing into the steam generator an aqueous cleaning solution comprising a treatment concentration of a quaternary ammonium hydroxide, wherein a room-temperature pH of the aqueous cleaning solution is at least 7; c) dissolving the deposits of anhydrous and/or hydrated oxides and/or hydroxides of aluminum and/or silicon through a chemical reaction between the quarternary ammonium hydroxide and the deposits by contacting the deposits with the aqueous cleaning solution for a treatment period; d) maintaining the aqueous cleaning solution within a treatment temperature range during the treatment period; e) removing the dissolved deposits and substantially all of the aqueous cleaning solution from the steam generator after the treatment period; and f) returning the heat exchange system to service. a) taking a heat exchange system of a nuclear power plant out of service, the heat exchange system including a steam generator having thereon scale comprising deposits of anhydrous and/or hydrated oxides and/or hydroxides of aluminum and/or silicon; b) introducing into the steam generator an aqueous cleaning solution comprising a treatment concentration of a quaternary ammonium hydroxide, wherein a room-temperature pH of the aqueous cleaning solution is at least 7; c) dissolving the deposits of anhydrous and/or hydrated oxides and/or hydroxides of aluminum and/or silicon through a chemical reaction between the quarternary ammonium hydroxide and the deposits by contacting the deposits with the aqueous cleaning solution for a treatment period; d) maintaining the aqueous cleaning solution within a treatment temperature range during the treatment period; e) removing the dissolved deposits and substantially all of the aqueous cleaning solution from the steam generator after the treatment period; and f) returning the heat exchange system to service.
A solid immersion lens unit comprising: a solid immersion lens having a contact surface allowed to be in contact with an inspection object and a spherical surface allowed to be opposite to an objective lens; a holder holding the solid immersion lens; a magnet provided to the holder; and a spherical body rotatably held by a magnetic force of the magnet at a position opposite to the spherical surface, wherein the holder swingably holds the solid immersion lens in a state where the spherical surface is in contact with the spherical body such that a movement of the solid immersion lens resulting in an inclination with respect to an optical axis of the objective lens is permitted, and wherein the spherical body is configured to rotate while the spherical surface of the solid immersion lens is in point contact with the surface of the spherical body. a solid immersion lens having a contact surface allowed to be in contact with an inspection object and a spherical surface allowed to be opposite to an objective lens; a holder holding the solid immersion lens; a magnet provided to the holder; and a spherical body rotatably held by a magnetic force of the magnet at a position opposite to the spherical surface, wherein the holder swingably holds the solid immersion lens in a state where the spherical surface is in contact with the spherical body such that a movement of the solid immersion lens resulting in an inclination with respect to an optical axis of the objective lens is permitted, and wherein the spherical body is configured to rotate while the spherical surface of the solid immersion lens is in point contact with the surface of the spherical body.
Method for controlling a flow generator in a tank configured for housing a liquid comprising solid matter, the flow generator comprising an impeller and being located at a height (h-mixer) in the tank and the tank having a predetermined maximum filling height (h-max), wherein the flow generator is configured to be operated at a variable operational speed (n) and the demand of operational speed (n-demand) is dependent on the present liquid level height (h-present) in the tank, wherein a max operational speed (n-max) of the flow generator is the operational speed required when the liquid level in the tank is equal to the maximum filling height (h-max), the present operational speed (n-present) being set equal to the demand of operational speed (n-demand) of the flow generator characterized in that the operational speed is determined using the formula: n − present = n − demand = n − max h − max / h − present ∧ a at least when [ (h-mixer) + X] ≤ (h-present) ≤ (h-max), wherein a ≥ (1/4) and a < 2/3, X = radius of the impeller of the flow generator + 1, and all heights and measures are given in meter. at least when [ (h-mixer) + X] ≤ (h-present) ≤ (h-max), wherein a ≥ (1/4) and a < 2/3, X = radius of the impeller of the flow generator + 1, and all heights and measures are given in meter.
A method for filling a compartment in an inner part of a container with an amount of liquid CO 2 which is partially converted into an amount of solid CO 2 upon injection of the liquid CO 2 into said compartment, said container being designed to contain one or more products loaded into it, wherein said products are to be maintained at a defined temperature, below a defined temperature, or within a defined temperature range, which temperature or temperature range is below environmental temperature, using said solid CO 2, wherein said container is subjected to a weighing operation using weighing means resulting into a weight of said container, wherein said weight of said container, is determined by said weighing means at least before and after said container has been supplied with said amount of converted solid CO 2, wherein said method comprises the following steps: (a) determining the weight of said container, using weighing means; and characterized in that said method further comprises the following steps: (b) generating barcode data by scanning a barcode, provided with the container; (c) calculating the weight of the amount of converted solid CO 2 to be supplied to said compartment in the inner part of said container, based on said barcode data, generated in step (b); (d) filling said container with an amount of liquid CO 2, thereby monitoring the weight of the container, until the weight of the container is equal to the weight of the container, as determined in step (a), increased by the weight of the amount of converted solid CO 2, as calculated in step (c); (e) storing in a database, the barcode data, obtained in step (b); and (f) storing in said database, data on the weight of the amount of converted solid CO 2, supplied to said container, as determined in step (c). (a) determining the weight of said container, using weighing means; (b) generating barcode data by scanning a barcode, provided with the container; (c) calculating the weight of the amount of converted solid CO 2 to be supplied to said compartment in the inner part of said container, based on said barcode data, generated in step (b); (d) filling said container with an amount of liquid CO 2, thereby monitoring the weight of the container, until the weight of the container is equal to the weight of the container, as determined in step (a), increased by the weight of the amount of converted solid CO 2, as calculated in step (c); (e) storing in a database, the barcode data, obtained in step (b); and (f) storing in said database, data on the weight of the amount of converted solid CO 2, supplied to said container, as determined in step (c).
A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment, UE, comprising: receiving a downlink control channel communication in a first slot during a discontinuous reception, DRX, on duration; and determining a second slot based at least in part on a data channel communication scheduled by the downlink control channel communication, wherein determining a second slot based at least in part on a data channel communication scheduled by the downlink control channel communication comprises determining the second slot based at least in part on an uplink data channel communication scheduled by the downlink control channel communication; and wherein the second slot occurs a number of slots before a slot in which the uplink data channel communication is scheduled; and starting a DRX inactivity timer in the second slot. receiving a downlink control channel communication in a first slot during a discontinuous reception, DRX, on duration; and determining a second slot based at least in part on a data channel communication scheduled by the downlink control channel communication, wherein determining a second slot based at least in part on a data channel communication scheduled by the downlink control channel communication comprises determining the second slot based at least in part on an uplink data channel communication scheduled by the downlink control channel communication; and wherein the second slot occurs a number of slots before a slot in which the uplink data channel communication is scheduled; and starting a DRX inactivity timer in the second slot.
An intravascular blood pump, comprising - a drive section which has a motor housing having a proximal end and a distal end and an electric motor disposed in the motor housing, with the electric motor possessing a motor shaft which protrudes at one end out of the distal end of the motor housing and is mounted radially (27, 31) in the motor housing both at the proximal end and at the distal end of the motor housing, with the radial bearing of the motor shaft at the proximal end of the motor housing and/or the radial bearing of the motor shaft at the distal end of the motor shaft being configured as a radial sliding bearing and the motor shaft being mounted in the motor housing axially by means of at least one axial sliding bearing or radial-axial sliding bearing, - a catheter which is connected to the proximal end of the motor housing and along which there extend lines for power supply to the electric motor, and - a pump section having a tubular pump housing which is fastened to the distal end of the motor housing, and an impeller which is seated on the end of the motor shaft protruding out of the distal end of the motor housing and is rotatable in the pump housing, characterized in that the motor shaft is made of ceramic, and one of the surfaces forming the bearing gap of the radial bearing (27, 31) configured as a or radial sliding bearing is a ceramic surface and the respectively other of the surfaces forming the bearing gap is formed by the ceramic shaft, with a purge-fluid line being so disposed that fluid fed through the purge-fluid line flows through the radial sliding bearing located at the distal end of the motor housing and the bearing gap of the axial sliding bearing or radial-axial sliding bearing. - a drive section which has a motor housing having a proximal end and a distal end and an electric motor disposed in the motor housing, with the electric motor possessing a motor shaft which protrudes at one end out of the distal end of the motor housing and is mounted radially (27, 31) in the motor housing both at the proximal end and at the distal end of the motor housing, with the radial bearing of the motor shaft at the proximal end of the motor housing and/or the radial bearing of the motor shaft at the distal end of the motor shaft being configured as a radial sliding bearing and the motor shaft being mounted in the motor housing axially by means of at least one axial sliding bearing or radial-axial sliding bearing, - a catheter which is connected to the proximal end of the motor housing and along which there extend lines for power supply to the electric motor, and - a pump section having a tubular pump housing which is fastened to the distal end of the motor housing, and an impeller which is seated on the end of the motor shaft protruding out of the distal end of the motor housing and is rotatable in the pump housing,
A communication station for an intercom network, comprising a housing with a housing front and a housing rear side, wherein a plurality of operating elements (15a, 15b, 15c) and at least one display (16a, 16b, 16c, 16d) are arranged on the housing front, the display being configured as a touchscreen display, wherein the operating elements comprise a plurality of selection buttons (17a, 17b, 17c, 17d), wherein the communication station as a result of an operator actuating a selection button provides a direct listening and/or speaking connection to another selected communication station (18a, 18b) of the intercom network, in particular via a switching station, wherein in a first function state of the display information (A; B, C) of a first kind can be displayed and/or data (A; B; C) of a first kind can be entered on the display, the information and/or data relating to at least one operating element, characterised in that the display can be shifted between an inactive position and a switching position, wherein as a result of shifting the display into the switching position, the display enters into a second function state, in which information (D; E; F) of a second kind can be displayed and/or data (D; E; F) of a second kind can be entered on the display, the information and/or data relating to at least one operating element.
A method of controlling a lighting system comprising: - sending a change operational state command to a lighting device group comprising several lighting devices, and thereby prompting each of the lighting devices to change their operational state with a randomized delay within a delay interval or with individual predetermined delays within a delay interval; characterised by further comprising - detecting changes in the total drive power fed to the group of lighting devices within the respective delay interval and counting the total number of changes; - comparing the total number of changes with a nominal number corresponding with the number of lighting devices within the group of lighting devices; - generating a lighting device error signal if the number of changes is smaller than the nominal number multiplied by a predetermined constant c, wherein 0<c≤1. - sending a change operational state command to a lighting device group comprising several lighting devices, and thereby prompting each of the lighting devices to change their operational state with a randomized delay within a delay interval or with individual predetermined delays within a delay interval; characterised by further comprising - detecting changes in the total drive power fed to the group of lighting devices within the respective delay interval and counting the total number of changes; - comparing the total number of changes with a nominal number corresponding with the number of lighting devices within the group of lighting devices; - generating a lighting device error signal if the number of changes is smaller than the nominal number multiplied by a predetermined constant c, wherein 0<c≤1.
A silicone hydrogel comprising a water content of at least 50% and an oxygen permeability of at least 80 barrers wherein said silicone hydrogel is formed from a reaction mixture comprising 30 to 75 wt% of at least one slow-reacting hydrophilic monomer having a slow-reacting hydrophilic monomer kinetic half life; at least one silicone-containing component having a silicone-containing component kinetic half life, which may be optionally substituted with at least one hydroxyl containing group; at least one hydroxyl-containing component selected from said silicone-containing components substituted with at least one hydroxyl group, at least one hydroxyalkyl monomer, and mixtures thereof, wherein the ratio of said slow-reacting hydrophilic component half life to said silicone-containing component half life is at least 2, said reaction mixture comprising a total amount of silicon between 9 and 14 wt% (excluding diluent) and less than 5 wt% 3-methacryloxypropyltris(trimethylsiloxy)silane (TRIS) and wherein all reactive components other than said slow-reacting hydrophilic monomer and said silicone containing components are ancillary components in the reaction mixture and are present in an amount between 11 and 92 mmol/100g reactive components.
Process for producing of a container made from glass, in the form of a hollow body open on both ends for pharmaceutical and medical applications, in particular in the form of a syringe barrel preferably made from a borosilicate glass, wherein the container is produced by a press-blow process, wherein the container is initially preformed in a pressing step, by making a ram press a dispensed glass drop into a mold that is open at its bottom, wherein the parison so produced is given its final form by a subsequent blowing step and is opened at its end, wherein the parison after removal of the ram before the subsequent blowing step is heated in its medium portion and is cooled at at least one of its ends.
Valve for opening and closing a flow channel in a Lab-on-a-Chip-System, comprising a support body which has at least one first recess in the form of a flow channel and has a second recess directly next to a subregion of the first recess, wherein the second recess is at least partially filled with an elastomer compound, wherein in a first state the elastomer compound and the support body form together boundary surfaces of the flow channel in the subregion of the first recess, and wherein in a second state the elastomer compound is deformed under the effect of pressure in such a way that a cross section of the flow channel in the first recess is fully filled, so that the flow channel is closed, characterized in that the second recess has the shape of a cylinder with rim, wherein a rim elevation is formed on the outer circumference of the rim, so that the elastomer compound is anchored well or stably in the support body.
A method of manufacturing a display apparatus, the method comprising: preparing a display substrate in which at least one hole region is defined when viewed in a planar view; placing a first adhesive film on the display substrate; etching the hole region of the display substrate by irradiating first light in the form of laser; and peeling off the first adhesive film, wherein the first adhesive film transmits at least a portion of the first light characterised in that the first adhesive film comprises: a base layer; and an adhesive layer below the base layer, wherein the adhesive layer is placed between the display substrate and the base layer in the placement of the first adhesive film. preparing a display substrate in which at least one hole region is defined when viewed in a planar view; placing a first adhesive film on the display substrate; etching the hole region of the display substrate by irradiating first light in the form of laser; and peeling off the first adhesive film, wherein the first adhesive film transmits at least a portion of the first light characterised in that the first adhesive film comprises: a base layer; and an adhesive layer below the base layer, a base layer; and an adhesive layer below the base layer, wherein the adhesive layer is placed between the display substrate and the base layer in the placement of the first adhesive film.
Method for operating a parallel-hybrid drivetrain of a vehicle having an electric machine and an internal combustion engine and a separating clutch situated in between, wherein the electric machine and the internal combustion engine are operatively connectable by means of the separating clutch, wherein the electric machine alone, or together with the internal combustion engine, drives the vehicle via a torque converter with a pump impeller and with a turbine impeller, wherein, in the driving state of the vehicle, proceeding from electric driving, in which driving state exclusively the electric machine drives the drive wheels of the vehicle and the separating clutch is open, a start of the initially shut-down internal combustion engine is performed by means of the rotating electric machine by closure of the separating clutch during travel, wherein at least an angular speed (ω EM) of the electric machine is acquired as an actual value and is compared with a setpoint value, corresponding to a modelled angular speed (ω' EM) of the electric machine, of a model of the parallel-hybrid drivetrain, wherein the model of the parallel-hybrid drivetrain does not include the internal combustion engine, such that, in the model of the parallel-hybrid drivetrain, no disturbance of a characteristic variable of the electric machine can arise from the starting of the internal combustion engine, wherein the angular speed (ω EM) of the electric machine is both an operating variable and also a characteristic variable of the parallel-hybrid drivetrain, wherein the comparison is performed by means of a closed-loop controller, wherein the closed-loop controller, in the event of deviations between the angular speed (ω EM) of the electric machine and the modelled angular speed (ω' EM) of the electric machine during the starting of the internal combustion engine, ascertains an additional closed-loop controller torque which is applied to the electric machine, such that the deviation between the angular speed (ω EM) of the electric machine and the modelled angular speed (ω' EM) of the electric machine is minimized, characterized in that the torque converter is modelled in a converter model by means of characteristic curves and/or a characteristic map, wherein an angular speed (ω F) of a vehicle drive component or a speed of the vehicle and the modelled angular speed (ω' EM) of the electric machine are input as input variables into the converter model for the purposes of replicating the torque converter, wherein a modelled pumping torque (M' P) is ascertained by means of the converter model, wherein the modelled angular speed (ω' EM) of the electric machine is ascertained with the aid of the modelled pumping torque (M' P) and a driver demand torque (M F).