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A heat exchanger comprising: a first manifold ; a second manifold separated from the first manifold; a plurality of tube segments arranged in spaced parallel relationship and fluidly coupling the first manifold and the second manifold, the plurality of tube segments including a bend defining a first slab and a second slab , the second slab being arranged at an angle to the first slab; and a divider arranged within the first manifold to form a first manifold first section and a first manifold second section ; and a divider arranged within the second manifold to form a second manifold first section and a second manifold second section ; wherein the heat exchanger has a multi-pass configuration relative to an air flow including at least a first pass and a second pass, the first pass including a first portion of the plurality of tube segments and having a first flow orientation and the second pass including a second portion of the plurality of tube segments and having a second flow orientation, the second flow orientation being different than the first flow orientation, wherein a number of tube segments in the first portion and a number of tube segments in the second portion are different; characterised by a longitudinally elongated distributor insert being disposed within the second manifold second section. a first manifold ; a second manifold separated from the first manifold; a plurality of tube segments arranged in spaced parallel relationship and fluidly coupling the first manifold and the second manifold, the plurality of tube segments including a bend defining a first slab and a second slab , the second slab being arranged at an angle to the first slab; and a divider arranged within the first manifold to form a first manifold first section and a first manifold second section ; and a divider arranged within the second manifold to form a second manifold first section and a second manifold second section ; wherein the heat exchanger has a multi-pass configuration relative to an air flow including at least a first pass and a second pass, the first pass including a first portion of the plurality of tube segments and having a first flow orientation and the second pass including a second portion of the plurality of tube segments and having a second flow orientation, the second flow orientation being different than the first flow orientation, wherein a number of tube segments in the first portion and a number of tube segments in the second portion are different; characterised by a longitudinally elongated distributor insert being disposed within the second manifold second section.
Modular polyhedron object , preferably in paralellepiped/cuboid, prism, or cube shape, in the assembled state with at least four outer surfaces , in each case of different shape or colour configuration, wherein the object is constructed from a plurality of individual structural components , which in each case form a module of the shape and/or colour configuration of each outer surface , wherein the structural components can be assembled loose or with detachable connection means to the object , and the individual structural components of each module inside the object comprise at least four differently configured side surfaces , characterised in that the side surfaces of each individual structural component of each module inside the object are configured in such a way that, at the assembly of the object in a congruent form, the situation is attained both that outer surfaces which are of concordant configuration are derived on each side of the object , as well as, in the interior of the object , the mutually opposed side surfaces of the structural components concur, wherein vertically and horizontally concordant pair codings are present, wherein the different configurations of the side surfaces of the structural components are formed with in each case mutually engaging depressions and elevations of at least four different shapes, and wherein the structural components comprise detachable connection means, in particular in the form of plug connections, adherent connections, or the like, for the shape-congruent assembly of the object .
A paint comprising a pigment, a carrier liquid, a binder, one or more additives, and one or more inorganic or ceramic taggants selected to correspond to the one or more additives, in which the one or more taggants are provided in an amount up to 0.1% by weight of the paint, the one or more taggants are evenly dispersed and suspended in the carrier liquid, the one or more taggants have a particle size or particle size range suitable for remaining in suspension, and in which for authentication of the paint on a substrate the one or more taggants are excitable by infra-red or ultraviolet light at one wavelength to emit light at one or more other wavelengths, the emission wavelength or spectrum of the one or more taggants being indicative of the additive(s) in the paint for use in authenticating the paint.
A measurement system , comprising: a base plate; plate ; a sample manifold connected to the base plate and configured to receive at least a portion of a sample tube assembly , whereby the sample tube assembly is configured to receive one or more sample tubes and is communicatively coupled to the measurement system; a locking assembly for securing the sample tube assembly to the sample manifold, characterized in that the locking assembly compring: a ramp block including a body having one or more slots defined therein and configured to at least partially receive the portion of the sample tube assembly, and a plurality of surface features defined along the body and configured to at least partially engage at least the portion of the sample tube assembly and to urge the sample tube assembly into engagement with the sample manifold, the ramp block being movable along the base plate between a plurality of positions including an open position in which the portion of the sample tube assembly is received through or removed from at least one of the one or more slots, and a closed position in which the sample tube assembly is substantially sealed against or within the sample manifold for testing of the one or more samples received in the sample tube assembly. a base plate; plate ; a sample manifold connected to the base plate and configured to receive at least a portion of a sample tube assembly , whereby the sample tube assembly is configured to receive one or more sample tubes and is communicatively coupled to the measurement system; a locking assembly for securing the sample tube assembly to the sample manifold, characterized in that the locking assembly compring: a ramp block including a body having one or more slots defined therein and configured to at least partially receive the portion of the sample tube assembly, and a plurality of surface features defined along the body and configured to at least partially engage at least the portion of the sample tube assembly and to urge the sample tube assembly into engagement with the sample manifold, the ramp block being movable along the base plate between a plurality of positions including an open position in which the portion of the sample tube assembly is received through or removed from at least one of the one or more slots, and a closed position in which the sample tube assembly is substantially sealed against or within the sample manifold for testing of the one or more samples received in the sample tube assembly.
A method for transferring particulate and/or fibrous feedstock from a zone 1 with lower termperature T1 and a lower pressure P1 into a zone 2 having a higher temperature T2 and a higher pressure P2, wherein P2 mainly derives from vapour which will condense at T1, comprising - compaction of said feedstock within the confines of a flow feeder chamber (2.3) having an outlet (2.4) to zone 2 by a loading device (2.5) against a variable counter pressure provided by an unloading device or a choke member, which can also close the outlet of the flow feeder completely in emergency and start-up situations, to form a moving plug having a density at which vapour from a high pressure reactor (zone 2) having the higher pressure P2 can penetrate said moving plug, forming a condensation front that moves at a controllable velocity towards P1 into said plug, counter-current to the motion of said plug which is from P1 towards P2, and - avoiding leakage of vapour from P2 to P1 by adjusting the velocity at which said condensation front moves towards P1 into said plug relative to the velocity at which said plug moves from P1 to P2. wherein T1 is below the condensation temperature of the vapour from which P2 mainly derives. - compaction of said feedstock within the confines of a flow feeder chamber (2.3) having an outlet (2.4) to zone 2 by a loading device (2.5) against a variable counter pressure provided by an unloading device or a choke member, which can also close the outlet of the flow feeder completely in emergency and start-up situations, to form a moving plug having a density at which vapour from a high pressure reactor (zone 2) having the higher pressure P2 can penetrate said moving plug, forming a condensation front that moves at a controllable velocity towards P1 into said plug, counter-current to the motion of said plug which is from P1 towards P2, and - avoiding leakage of vapour from P2 to P1 by adjusting the velocity at which said condensation front moves towards P1 into said plug relative to the velocity at which said plug moves from P1 to P2.
A method for reducing the high sulphur content in liquid fossil fuels named Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO), comprising: a) a step of heating and mixing the fuel with water ; b) an ozonation step in which, while maintaining agitation, ozone is added as an oxidising agent to the fuel at the temperature reached in a); c) a step of mixing the fuel obtained in b) with a liquid catalyst (C) and, optionally, water (B), at the temperature reached in a), by static mixer; d) a stage of sonication by applying ultrasound to the mixture obtained in c) for the oxidation of the sulphur compounds and emulsion of the fuel; e) a step of extraction of the oxidised sulphur compounds obtained in d) by means of a polar aprotic solvent and density difference; f) a step of recovering the liquid catalyst, the extraction solvent and, optionally, the water used in the process, and by means of centrifugation; g) a step of obtaining the fuel having a reduced sulphur content. a) a step of heating and mixing the fuel with water ; b) an ozonation step in which, while maintaining agitation, ozone is added as an oxidising agent to the fuel at the temperature reached in a); c) a step of mixing the fuel obtained in b) with a liquid catalyst (C) and, optionally, water (B), at the temperature reached in a), by static mixer; d) a stage of sonication by applying ultrasound to the mixture obtained in c) for the oxidation of the sulphur compounds and emulsion of the fuel; e) a step of extraction of the oxidised sulphur compounds obtained in d) by means of a polar aprotic solvent and density difference; f) a step of recovering the liquid catalyst, the extraction solvent and, optionally, the water used in the process, and by means of centrifugation; g) a step of obtaining the fuel having a reduced sulphur content.
A method comprising: identifying, by a first network device in a ring network, a point-to-multipoint, P2MP, label switched path, LSP, for receiving multicast traffic from a multicast source for a specific multicast group for which the first network device has an interested receiver, wherein the first network device is to be an egress network device of the P2MP LSP; and sending, by the first network device to an ingress network device of the P2MP LSP, a P2MP egress identification message to add the first network device as an egress network device of the P2MP LSP, wherein sending the P2MP egress identification message comprises outputting the P2MP egress identification message into a multipoint-to-point, MP2P, ring LSP in the ring network for which the ingress network device of the P2MP LSP is a sole egress network device of the MP2P ring LSP, and wherein sending the P2MP egress identification message further comprises encapsulating the P2MP egress identification message within an MPLS packet bearing an outer MPLS label associated with the MP2P ring LSP. identifying, by a first network device in a ring network, a point-to-multipoint, P2MP, label switched path, LSP, for receiving multicast traffic from a multicast source for a specific multicast group for which the first network device has an interested receiver, wherein the first network device is to be an egress network device of the P2MP LSP; and sending, by the first network device to an ingress network device of the P2MP LSP, a P2MP egress identification message to add the first network device as an egress network device of the P2MP LSP, wherein sending the P2MP egress identification message comprises outputting the P2MP egress identification message into a multipoint-to-point, MP2P, ring LSP in the ring network for which the ingress network device of the P2MP LSP is a sole egress network device of the MP2P ring LSP, and wherein sending the P2MP egress identification message further comprises encapsulating the P2MP egress identification message within an MPLS packet bearing an outer MPLS label associated with the MP2P ring LSP.
Headlamp for a motor vehicle, said headlamp comprising at least: - one light source configured to generate a light beam (F); - a movement means capable of moving the light beam (F) and to bring it at least into a so-called nominal position (P0) to generate a light beam corresponding to a low-;beam function and - an electrical corrector capable of being controlled, said corrector being configured to act on the movement means in order at least to raise the light beam (F) generated by the light source relative to the nominal position (P0), and to bring it into a raised low-beam position (P1), the corrector being controlled according to an electrical control signal received, characterised in that it further comprises: - a detection element implementing a detection function and configured to detect at least one loss of said control signal; and - a control element implementing a protection function during the implementation of the raised low-beam function and configured to control the corrector in order for it to bring the light beam (F) into a so-called lowered position (P2), which is lower than the raised low-beam position (P1), in case of detecting a loss of the control signal, the detection element being also configured to detect a short circuit on the control signal when the raised low-beam function is not activated, and the control element being also configured to control the corrector in order for it to freeze the position of the light beam (F) at the position that it has at the time of the detection, in case of detecting a short circuit on the control signal outside of the raised low-beam position. - one light source configured to generate a light beam (F); - a movement means capable of moving the light beam (F) and to bring it at least into a so-called nominal position (P0) to generate a light beam corresponding to a low-;beam function and - an electrical corrector capable of being controlled, said corrector being configured to act on the movement means in order at least to raise the light beam (F) generated by the light source relative to the nominal position (P0), and to bring it into a raised low-beam position (P1), the corrector being controlled according to an electrical control signal received, - a detection element implementing a detection function and configured to detect at least one loss of said control signal; and - a control element implementing a protection function during the implementation of the raised low-beam function and configured to control the corrector in order for it to bring the light beam (F) into a so-called lowered position (P2), which is lower than the raised low-beam position (P1), in case of detecting a loss of the control signal,
A communication control system comprising: a control device ; and one or more control target devices connected to the control device over a network, wherein the control device includes storage means for storing information about synchronization intervals, which are periods for synchronization with the control target devices , and about a plurality of communication intervals, which are periods set in each of the synchronization intervals, computation means for computing control instructions for the respective control target devices for instructing the control target devices to synchronously operate, and communication control means for performing control so as to transmit to and receive from the control target devices the control instructions in each of the synchronization intervals, allocating each of the control instructions respectively corresponding to the control target devices to at least one communication interval among the plurality of communication intervals set in each of the synchronization intervals, and transmitting and receiving, in each of the communication intervals, data that includes a corresponding one or more of the allocated control instructions, on the basis of the information stored in the storage means , characterised in that the communication control means transmits to and receives from the control target devices the corresponding one or more of the allocated control instructions in each of the communication intervals at timings that are within a first section or a second section among three sections obtained by equally dividing each of the communication intervals into three parts.
A method of manufacturing an optical device comprising a pair of a first and second optically transparent electrode layers at opposite sides of a cavity filled with liquid crystalline material, said cavity being laterally enclosed by a border , wherein said first and second optically transparent electrode are respectively present on a first and a second optically transparent thermoplastic layer , which first optically transparent electrode is positioned in between the first optically transparent thermoplastic layer and a diffractive optical element comprising a diffractive structure such as a blazed grating, a Fresnel lens or a Fresnel axicon, wherein at least one spacer is present between the diffractive optical element and the second optically transparent thermoplastic layer , which method comprising: - providing the first optically transparent thermoplastic layer , - forming by nanoimprint on the first optically transparent layer the optical diffractive element , the at least one spacer and optionally, a bottom part of the border , which optical diffractive element is arranged at an inside of said border , said border therewith enclosing the optical diffractive element; - applying an adhesive so as to constitute at least an upper part of the border , wherein an inner edge of the adhesive is in direct contact with the cavity ; - providing the second optically transparent thermoplastic layer such that the second optically transparent thermoplastic layer closes the cavity , and wherein the second optically transparent thermoplastic layer on which the second optically transparent electrode layer is formed, is attached to the adhesive ; - filling the cavity with the liquid crystalline material , and - sealing the cavity . - providing the first optically transparent thermoplastic layer , - forming by nanoimprint on the first optically transparent layer the optical diffractive element , the at least one spacer and optionally, a bottom part of the border , which optical diffractive element is arranged at an inside of said border , said border therewith enclosing the optical diffractive element; - forming by nanoimprint on the first optically transparent layer the optical diffractive element , the at least one spacer and optionally, a bottom part of the border , which optical diffractive element is arranged at an inside of said border , said border therewith enclosing the optical diffractive element; - applying an adhesive so as to constitute at least an upper part of the border , wherein an inner edge of the adhesive is in direct contact with the cavity ; - providing the second optically transparent thermoplastic layer such that the second optically transparent thermoplastic layer closes the cavity , and wherein the second optically transparent thermoplastic layer on which the second optically transparent electrode layer is formed, is attached to the adhesive ; - filling the cavity with the liquid crystalline material , and - sealing the cavity .
Flat heat pipe with a two-phase liquid-vapor working fluid, comprising: - a first plate , intended to receive thermal energy from a heat source , - a second plate , intended to transfer thermal energy to a cold source , arranged opposite and substantially parallel to the first plate, - an edge sealingly connecting the first and second plates, to form a closed internal space enclosing the two-phase working fluid , - a capillary structure , interposed between the first and second plates, - vaporization channels adjacent to the first plate, - at least one transfer passage placing the evaporation channels in communication with the condensation channels for the transport of vapor , characterized in that the heat pipe comprises - condensation channels adjacent to the second plate, - at least one collection channel forming a reservoir, in fluid communication with each condensation channel, said collection channel being adjacent to the second plate; such that the collection channel is arranged to attract and store the excess liquid phase . - a first plate , intended to receive thermal energy from a heat source , - a second plate , intended to transfer thermal energy to a cold source , arranged opposite and substantially parallel to the first plate, - an edge sealingly connecting the first and second plates, to form a closed internal space enclosing the two-phase working fluid , - a capillary structure , interposed between the first and second plates, - vaporization channels adjacent to the first plate, - at least one transfer passage placing the evaporation channels in communication with the condensation channels for the transport of vapor , - condensation channels adjacent to the second plate, - at least one collection channel forming a reservoir, in fluid communication with each condensation channel, said collection channel being adjacent to the second plate; such that the collection channel is arranged to attract and store the excess liquid phase .