Abstract:
The present invention generally relates to a method and an apparatus for connecting an add-on pipe segment to a pipe string to lengthen the pipe string using friction stir welding. The pipe string is suspended in a borehole using a spider or some other pipe suspending device, and the lower end of the pipe segment is brought into an abutting or nearly abutting relationship with the proximal end of the pipe string positioned above the pipe suspending device and above the rig floor. The friction stir welding machine is brought to well center to weld the abutment or gap between the pipe segment and the pipe string and join the pipe segment to the pipe string to lengthen the pipe string. In one aspect, the method includes friction stir welding an expandable pipe segment to an expandable pipe string to form a lengthened expandable pipe string. The pipe segment may be comprised of two or more pipe segments that have been friction stir welded or conventionally welded to form a pipe stand. After friction stir welding to lengthen the pipe string, the lengthened pipe string is lowered into the borehole and the proximal end of the lengthened pipe string is favorably positioned to abut or nearly abut a new add-on pipe segment for friction stir welding at the resulting abutment or gap. The friction stir welding process provides a highly reliable pipe joint for expansion.
Abstract:
The present invention lies in developing a novel method for the preparation of oligonucleotide microarrays obviating the drawbacks to an extent, such as time consuming complex chemical reactions, preparation of modified supports/oligomer modifying reagents, use of activating/condensing reagent, low signal to noise ratio, poor immobilization and hybridization efficiencies, etc. Further, the prepared arrays can be used to detect single or multiple nucleotide mismatches using hybridization assay.
Abstract:
An process for the preparation of pyridine and/or picolines is disclosed. The process comprises contacting a mixture of carbonyl compound with ammonia in the presence of surface-passivated titanium-silicate catalyst in gas phase at a temperature ranging between 300-500° C., at gas space velocity in the range of 300 to 3000 h−1 and at a pressure ranging between 1 to 10 atmosphere, condensing and separating the products by conventional methods and if desired, further purifying the product using well known conventional methods.
Abstract:
A unified session detail records of a multi-hop session is provided. The multi-hop session may be established through multiple nodes in a VoIP network. Each node may generate session detail records for the legs of the multi-hop session that are connected to the node. The nodes on the path of the multi-hop call may send the record to a single node to consolidate the session detail records of the legs of the multi-hop call in the single node so that the single node can provide unified session detail records of the multi-hop session. By providing unified session detail records, the user does not need to track down the nodes that are on the path of the multi-hop call to obtain the session detail records of the multi-hop session.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a single-pot process for the preparation of metal nicotinates, useful as a dietary supplement, from beta picoline as a source of the starting material, said process comprising the steps hydrosulfonation of beta picoline with sulfuric acid, heating the reaction mixture thus obtained to a temperature of about 150°-210° C. followed by oxidation with a suitable oxidizing agent to obtain nicotinic acid sulfate, reacting the nicotinic acid sulfate with a water soluble zinc and/or chromium salt to produce a solid metal nicotinate and separating it to thereby recover the corresponding metal nicotinates of high purity.
Abstract:
A method of doing meaningful modifications on an image is presented. These modifications can then be used in variety of applications related to image shape manipulation and similar shape retrieval. The method extracts macrofeatures and microfeature from a given shape. Deformations are done on the macrofeatures only. These deformations are either predefined, or are taken from a deformation library, or are calculated from the shape itself, The microfeatures are then added to the deformed macrofeatures to get a deformed shape. The shape deformations then allow user's perception of shape similarity to be learned, which is reflected in the values of parameters in a parameterized shape similarity metric. The user can use one of the deformed shapes as the initial query point, instead of the shape he or she started with. The shape database compression is achieved by storing only the identification of a similar shape and value of global deformations which will generate this shape approximately, instead of storing every shape feature individually.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an improved, efficient and enantio-selective process for the synthesis of (4R, 6S)-4-hydroxy-6-hydroxymethyl tetrahydropyran-2-one, employing the Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation and regiospecific nucleophilic hydride opening of the cyclic sulfite/sulfate as the key steps. The invention also resides in the intermediates used in the process.
Abstract:
An improved CRC generation mechanism for generating a CRC value of relevant data in a digital data stream is disclosed wherein relevant data in the data stream is identified and partitioned into a plurality of intervals. A CRC value is determined for each interval by partitioning the interval into a plurality of chunks, loading from persistent storage a table of CRC values for a range of chunks, determining a CRC value for each of the chunks with parallel table lookup operations on the table, and combining the CRC values for the chunks. The CRC values for each of the intervals is combined to generate the CRC for the relevant data. The parallel table look operation is preferably a vector permute instruction that is executed by a SIMD-style vector unit.
Abstract:
This composite consists of an aluminum-alloy matrix containing by volume percent, 0.4 to 8.8 alumina, 1 to 4.4 carbon or graphite and 0.5 to 20 nickel-bearing aluminide. The alumina particles have an average size between 3 and 250 &mgr;m and the carbon and graphite particles have an average size between 10 and 250 &mgr;m. The composite is cast by stirring alumina and carbon or graphite contained in a molten aluminum or aluminum-base alloy to form a molten mixture. The molten mixture is cast directly from a temperature above the liquidus of the matrix alloy. While solidifying, carbon or graphite particles delay or hinder the settling of alumina to create a more uniform composite structure. The resulting composite structure contains an aluminum-base alloy, alumina, carbon or graphite and nickel-bearing aluminide dispersoids.