Abstract:
The process of making an aqueous alkaline solution containing alkali hydroxide and hydrogen peroxide and having an alkali hydroxide/H.sub.2 O.sub.2 molar ratio of 0.5 to 2.5 includes providing an electrochemical cell having a porous oxygen diffusion cathode, an anode and a cation exchange membrane separating an anode chamber containing the anode and a cathode chamber containing the cathode, providing a decomposition tank outside the electrochemical cell for receiving an aqueous starting solution containing at least one alkali sulfate, alkali hydrogen sulfate, alkali sulfite, alkali hydrogen sulfite, alkali carbonate and/or alkali hydrogen carbonate; feeding an alkali hydrogen sulfate-containing feed solution from the decomposition tank into the anode chamber, feeding an oxygen-containing gas to the cathode and feeding an alkali hydroxide-containing electrolyte into the cathode chamber; passing an electric current between the anode and the cathode to form alkali hydroxide and hydrogen peroxide at the cathode by cathodic reduction and to form sulfuric acid at the anode, withdrawing a sulfuric acid-containing solution from the anode chamber and feeding at least part of it into the decomposition tank together with the starting solution and withdrawing a product solution containing the alkali hydroxide and the hydrogen peroxide from the cathode chamber.
Abstract:
The invention is directed to a combination of a viewing and/or documenting apparatus and an endoscope connected forward thereof. The endoscope can be pulled out relative to the apparatus and can be deflected at an angle if desired. A coupling is provided between the focusing position of the main objective of the apparatus and the pull-out length of the endoscope in such a manner that the intermediate image supplied by the endoscope is always focused independently of the particular pull-out length.
Abstract:
An ophthalmoscopic attachment 1 for a surgical microscope 13 accommodates an optical system 14 which erects an inter-image of the fundus (or other particular area of the vitreous body of the eye) produced by at least one ophthalmoscopic lens 8 and interchanges the optical viewing paths. The optical system 14 is located directly behind the produced inter-image at a point where the stereoscopic optical viewing paths are still intertwined. The optical system 14 is configured either as a triplet with field lenses or as a straight-view inversion prism. The attachment also includes a lens 15 that is (a) positioned between the optical system 14 and the lens end of the attachment, and (b) movable along the optical axis of the attachment to put the critical section of the eye into focus.
Abstract:
In a process of manufacturing a channel plate assembly including a plurality of partial plates confining passages for a first medium which continuously define on all sides in direction of flow and interconnected by a plurality of spacers spaced apart in the direction of flow, the spacers are fixed in a fixture and joined to a first plate, and then the spacers are joined to another plate in a fixture on a side which faces away from the first plate.
Abstract:
A channel plate assembly comprises parallel plates, which are joined to each other and define passages for a first flowing fluid. Each of said passages is continuously defined on all sides in the direction of flow. Parallel plates are interconnected by spacers, which are spaced apart in the direction of flow and have a width that is smaller than the width of each passage which is continuously defined in the direction of flow. A process of manufacturing the channel plate assembly, two fixtures for use in carrying out the process and the use of the channel plate assembly for supplying and/or discharging a first flowing fluid in a plate apparatus are provided.
Abstract:
A microscope having two optomechanically coupled observation barrels to permit simultaneous use by two individuals. While each barrel is provided with its own eyepieces and its own magnification system, they share a common optical axis including a single objective lens and a specially designed composite prism which allows part of the observation beam (the light reflected by the object) to pass through it, undiminished, to one of the observation barrels, while the other part of this light is deflected to the other observation barrel by a mirror layer within the prism. The microscope's illumination beam is directed onto the object field along the same common optical axis followed by the returning observation beam, and this illumination is deflected into this optical axis at a point between the object field and the objective lens.
Abstract:
The invention contemplates a stereoscopic binocular surgical microscope wherein a principal objective of defined focal length is rigidly attached to the microscope and serves both observation-ray paths; an additional lens system is swingably positionable in and out of the ray paths for quick change of focal length, without changing the principal objective, and the additional lens system has provision for selective small radial adjustment of the axis of the additional lens system with respect to the axis of the principal objective, when in operative position.
Abstract:
The invention is directed to a double microscope for a surgeon and an assistant. The double microscope includes an optical splitter plate which splits the light coming from the operation field and directs the split beams to the two microscopes. The optical splitter plate, together with the objective of the assistant microscope and a beam deflection element, are all accommodated in a component connecting the two microscopes.
Abstract:
SO.sub.2 -containing, hot gases are catalytically converted in part in a first contacting stage. The water and the SO.sub.3 formed is removed from the reaction gas. The remaining gas is heated and then supplied to the second contacting stage. The water vapor content in the reaction gas delivered by a first contacting stage corresponds to an H.sub.2 O/SO.sub.3 mole ratio below 1. The reaction gas delivered by the first contacting stage is precooled by an indirect heat exchange to such a temperature that the wall temperatures of the heat exchanger are above the dew point temperature of the reaction gas. The precooled reaction gas entering a condensing stage is contacted in a venturi with cocurrent sulfuric acid of 98.0 to 100% concentration and a temperature of at least 95.degree. C. The exit temperature of the gas from the condensing stage is maintained at least at 120.degree. C. The gas rises in a succeeding absorption stage through a packing layer, which is contacted with trickling sulfuric acid having a concentration of 98 to 100% and a temperature of 70.degree. to 120.degree. C. The dry gas which leaves the absorption stage and has been freed from SO.sub.3 is maintained at a temperature which is as high as or slightly higher than the temperature of the acid as it initially contacts the packing in the absorption stage. The sulfuric acid concentration is controlled by a supply of water into the sulfuric acid in the condensing and/or absorption stage.
Abstract translation:含SO 2的热气体部分地在第一接触阶段被催化转化。 所形成的水和SO 3从反应气体中除去。 将剩余气体加热,然后供给到第二接触级。 由第一接触阶段输送的反应气体中的水蒸汽含量对应于低于1的H 2 O / SO 3摩尔比。由第一接触阶段输送的反应气体通过间接热交换预冷至如此温度 热交换器高于反应气体的露点温度。 进入冷凝阶段的预冷反应气体在文氏管中与98.0至100%浓度的并流硫酸和至少95℃的温度接触。来自冷凝级的气体的出口温度保持在至少120℃ C.气体在接下来的吸收阶段通过填充层升高,该填充层与浓度为98-100%,温度为70-120℃的滴流硫酸接触。离开吸收阶段的干燥气体 已被除去的SO3保持在与吸收阶段最初接触填料时酸的温度高或略高的温度。 通过在冷凝和/或吸收阶段向硫酸中供应水来控制硫酸浓度。
Abstract:
A process for the concentration of dilute phosphoric acid in a phosphoric acid process characterized by a plurality of separate phosphoric acid cycles when the phosphoric acid is concentrated in each cycle by a vacuum evaporation is described wherein the phosphoric acid cycles is heated by indirect heat exchange by heat of formation formed in a sulfuric acid contact process.