摘要:
The present invention facilitates improvements in laser ablation of solid samples to be analyzed by an external inductively coupled plasma (ICP) emission spectrometer, ICP/mass-spectrometer (ICP-MS), or flowing afterglow (FAG) mass spectrometer (FAG-MS) for elemental analysis (ICP and ICP-MS) or molecular analysis (FAG-MS). A novel invention mirror-with-hole beam combiner eliminates chromatic aberration in the invention sample view and allows rad-hardening the laser ablation invention for use in a radiation hot cell for analysis of high activity nuclear waste. Many other novel invention rad-hardening attributes facilitate a comprehensive rad-hardened laser ablation system (the world's first). In other embodiments, invention novelties include unusually large homogeneous focused laser spot diameters, unusually long laser objective lens focal length, wide range operationally variable laser path length with built-in re-alignment, operationally variable demagnification ratio and diameter of the focused laser spot, the use of significantly higher powered SMR lasers in a large spot diameter to facilitate high sensitivity bulk analysis of solid samples, a demountable and gravitationally self-sealing stack assembly laser ablation cell, and the world's first auto-samplers (mechanized sample changers) for analytical laser ablation.
摘要:
The present invention is for valved musical wind instruments in the musical keys of BB-flat, CC, E-flat, and F with progressive cylindrical mid-section bore or gradual conical mid-section bore expansion or a combination, not to exceed 0.85 inch bore within the first 65% of instrument length and bell throat diameters not to exceed 3 inches measured 10 inches from the bell flare, in which bass trombone tone qualities prevail. Progressive mid-section bore is novel, enhances responsiveness, and enables “early” valve placement options. A 4-valve B-flat bass valve trombone, B-flat cimbasso, or B-flat Tu-Bone is claimed, and may have a single constant cylindrical mid-section bore, or progressive cylindrical mid-section bore or gradual conical mid-section bore expansion or a combination. A valved B-flat bass inverted full double trombone, cimbasso, or Tu-Bone is claimed, as well as a “compensated” version and a full double euphonium. Invention valves may be any piston or rotary valves.
摘要:
The invention encompasses multi-stage naturally amplified global-scale carbon dioxide capture systems combining basic capture from (CCS—carbon capture and sequestration) clean-coal-fired and CCS gas-fired power plants, CCS natural-gas reformation systems, CCS cement plants, outdoor air, CCS home and building flues, CCS incinerators, CCS crematoriums, CCS blast-furnaces, CCS kilns, CCS refineries, CCS factories, CCS oil gasification systems and CCS coal gasification systems which yield concentrated carbon dioxide, with a collective, globally distributed capture capacity of up to 3 GtC/yr, feeding the captured carbon dioxide into land-based invention stage-1 bioreactors for rapid, selective, high capacity conversion to a high-density, fast-sinking marine algae by means of accelerated photosynthesis and/or coccolithogenesis (calcification) consuming carbon dioxide as the algae bloom, and transporting a primary fraction of the stage-1 bioreactor-produced algae to seaports for seeding the oceans at regular intervals in stage-2 operations-at-sea to produce naturally amplified 14 GtC/yr algal blooms at sea, the stage-2 operations circumventing classic prior-art (and natural) ocean fertilization limits of low bloom rate, grazers eating algae seed before it blooms, interfering buoyant algal species which don't clear the photic zone to allow light penetration for multiple blooms per year, and proximal post-bloom anoxia, and reserving a secondary fraction of the stage-1 bioreactor produced algae for feeding cultures of ocean grazers contained in a second bioreactor, in which the second bioreactor produces dimethylsulfide (DMS), a natural cloud seeding agent as the bioreactor-contained ocean grazer cultures eat the secondary fraction of stage-1 original bioreactor-produced algae. A total invention CO2 capture and safe storage capacity of 17 GtC/yr (land and sea) is projected during fair-weather, and a 40% foul weather down-time allowance ensures that an average 10 GtC/yr of impact capture would result. If emissions are concurrently capped by at 12 GtC/yr by 2023, with invention-assisted reduction to 6 GtC/yr by 2050, 3 GtC/yr by 2062, and 1 GtC/yr by 2078, atmospheric CO2 will be reduced to 280 ppm by 2075. The CIP invention production of DMS (both inland invention DMS production and invention ocean-amplified DMS production following ocean-amplified algal blooming and ocean-amplified capture of atmospheric CO2) may be used to seed rain-clouds over or adjacent to semi-arid lands, enabling drought and famine relief. If the rain clouds are seeded adjacent to semi-arid lands, winds may drive the rain clouds over the drought stressed lands.A spin-off technology includes use of excess dead bioreactor algae for agricultural soil spreads to enhance soil moisture retention—which is important in maximizing drought relief.
摘要:
The invention encompasses multi-stage naturally amplified global-scale carbon dioxide capture systems combining basic capture from (CC—carbon capture) clean-coal-fired and CC gas-fired power plants, natural-gas reformation systems, cement plants, outdoor air, home and building flues, incinerators, crematoriums, blast-furnaces, kilns, refineries, factories, oil gasification systems and coal gasification systems which yield concentrated carbon dioxide, with a collective, globally distributed capture capacity of up to 3 GtC/yr, feeding the captured carbon dioxide into land-based invention stage-1 bioreactors for rapid, selective, high capacity conversion to a high-density, fast-sinking marine algae by means of accelerated photosynthesis and/or coccolithogenesis (calcification) consuming carbon dioxide as the algae bloom, and transporting the stage-1 bioreactor-produced algae to seaports for seeding the oceans at regular intervals in stage-2 operations-at-sea to produce naturally amplified 14 GtC/yr algal blooms at sea, the stage-2 operations circumventing classic prior-art (and natural) ocean fertilization limits of low bloom rate, grazers eating algae seed before it blooms, interfering buoyant strains which don't clear the photic zone to allow light penetration for multiple blooms per year, and proximal post-bloom anoxia. A total invention CO2 capture and safe storage capacity of 17 GtC/yr (land and sea) is projected during fair-weather, and a 40% foul weather down-time allowance ensures that an average 10 GtC/yr of impact capture would result. If emissions are concurrently capped by at 12 GtC/yr by 2023, with invention-assisted reduction to 6 GtC/yr by 2050, 3 GtC/yr by 2062, and 1 GtC/yr by 2078, atmospheric CO2 will be reduced to 280 ppm by 2075.A spin-off technology includes hydrogen (H2) production by natural-gas reformation—enough H2 to fuel a significant fraction of transportation by 2050. Spin-off side benefits of the invention system include restoring ideal ocean pH and re-proliferating decimated marine populations, restoring them to levels last seen in the 18th to mid-19th centuries. Additional spin-off applications of invention bioreactor algal production include silage, animal feed, feed supplements, fertilizer, biofuels, food for fish and mollusk farming, cleansing lakes and rivers of bacteria and agricultural run-off, and elimination of coastal water HAB's (harmful algae blooms), such as the notorious “red tide” in Florida.