Abstract:
A system is provided, the system including at least one integrated optical circuit (IOC) formed from at least one material, and a support-structure configured to support the at least one IOC to couple light between other components. A performance of the at least one IOC is improved by treatment with at least one selected gas.
Abstract:
The present invention concerns a method of applying a coating (11, 12) to a glass sleeve (3) with an inner surface (5) and an outer surface (7), which glass sleeve (3) is realized as a part of a solar-receiver tube (1). Thereby, the coating (11, 12) is solely applied to one of the said surfaces (5, 7) of the glass sleeve (3). The invention also concerns such glass sleeve (3) a method of fixing such glass sleeve (3) in an interior of a coating tank, such coating tank (35) and a fixing arrangement (28) for fixing such glass sleeve (3) in an interior of a coating tank (35).
Abstract:
The invention provides a condenser configured to be used with an apparatus for increasing the size of gas-entrained particles in order to render the gas-entrained particles detectable by a particle detector; the condenser in use being in fluid communication with an outlet of an evaporation chamber of the apparatus; the condenser having an outlet for connection to the particle detector; wherein the condenser is provided with means for removing condensed substance from the interior walls of the condenser.
Abstract:
An engagement head (18) for engaging a porous substrate (114) includes at least two pin sets, each pin set including a plurality of pins (30) arranged in a plurality of parallel pin rows at a predetermined pin angle, wherein pins of immediately neighboring pin rows are arranged such that pin angles for the pins in a pin row are inversely symmetrical to pin angles for the pins in a neighboring pin row. The pins (30) of a pin row move collectively in the same direction when a pin set is extended, which direction is determined by the pin angle of the pin row, whereby neighboring pin rows move in opposite longitudinal directions from one another when the pin set is extended. The pin sets may be extended and retracted in unison by a single actuation source.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a method and device for processing of granules of solidified salts, by forming at least one injection zone in a fluidised bed where a feed stream of seed particles is contacted/coated by the liquid product by simultaneous injection of a feed stream of the seed particles and a feed stream of the liquid product to be sprayed, forming at least one granulation zone in the fluidised bed where contacted/coated seed particles may be dried and/or shaped and/or cooled to form granules, extracting granules from the at least one granulation zone(s) and sorting the extracted granules into three fractions; undersize granules with too small diameters compared to the desired size range, on-size granules with diameters within the desired size range, and oversize granules with too large diameters compared to the desired size range, passing the fraction of on-size granules to post-processing treatment for forming the product granules, removing the oversize, typically by reducing the size of at least a fraction of the oversize granules and admixing them with the fraction of undersize granules, and passing the fraction of undersize granules into the feed stream of seed particles, wherein the granules are made to pass through at least one classifier placed in the at least one granulation zone(s) of the fluidised bed, which segregates the granules according to their size and which passes at least a part of the segregated undersize granules back into the injection zone(s) for further enlargement. The invention also relates to a granulator for performing the inventive method.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for changing properties of a plastic component (10), wherein a medium (5) is introduced into a porous plastic component, and wherein by dissolving (7) the plastic component at least partially the medium forms a homogeneous compound therewith.
Abstract:
The invention concerns a method of treating rubber stoppers intended to seal packages containing sterile products. After washing, rinsing and thereafter siliconising said rubber stoppers in an emulsion of silicone oil and water, the stoppers are sterilised and dried. According to the inventive method silicone oil and water are mixed under sufficiently vigorous stirring to produce an emulsion, whereafter the resulting emulsion is transferred to a container (11) in which the stoppers are stored and the siliconising process is carried out. A device for performing this method comprises a first pump (4) arranged to pump dosed amounts of silicon, and a second pump (9) arranged to form, while exercising a strong dispersing action, an emulsion from the water and the amounts of silicon and to pump the resulting emulsion to the container (11).
Abstract:
Process for producing a thin layer of at least one amphiphilic compound on a support, whereby an at least partially oriented layer of molecules of an amphiphilic compound is produced by compression and expansion at the interphase between a fluid and a polar liquid, a solid support is moved through said layer and the layer is thereby transferred onto said solid. To this end, an oriented current of the polar liquid containing on its surface the expanded amphiphilic molecules in dissolved or insoluble form is generated in a generally horizontally oriented channel and is retained by a weir which is provided at the interphase between fluid and polar liquid. The rate of flow and, if applicable, the concentration of the amphiphilic molecules are selected in such a manner that a layer of amphiphilic molecules is continually produced by compression before the weir at the interphase between fluid and polar liquid. The corresponding device comprises a horizontally oriented current channel for receiving a liquid, a weir arranged at the interphase for retaining the surface current in the channel, a device for producing a current of the liquid and a device for dipping a solid support into the channel near the weir and removing it therefrom slowly and in a controlled manner.