Abstract:
A gas generator assembly and method of operation. A plurality of stacks of laterally adjacent and laterally and axially supported gas generant wafers are contained within a housing. An igniter material is placed between the wafer stacks and an initiator. Upon ignition of the igniter material by the initiator, the wafer stacks are ignited and combust, generating a gas which, when reaching sufficient pressure within the housing in excess of ambient exterior pressures, opens a closed exhaust gas port and is released into a gas discharge structure where the gas passes through a heat sink material, cooling the gas before it exits the gas discharge structure for an intended use.
Abstract:
Technologies are generally described for forming graphene and structures including graphene. In an example, a system effective to form graphene may include a chamber adapted to receive graphite oxide. The system may also include a source of an inert gas and a source of hydrogen, which may both be configured in communication with the chamber. A processor may be configured in communication with the chamber, the inert gas source and/or the hydrogen source. The processor may be further configured to control the flow of the inert gas from the first source through the chamber under first sufficient reaction conditions to remove at least some oxygen from the atmosphere of the chamber. The processor may also be configured to control the flow of the hydrogen from the second source to the graphite oxide in the chamber under second sufficient reaction conditions to form graphene from the graphite oxide.
Abstract:
A water reaction tank for reacting water containing suspended solids with a flocculant includes a housing having an input, an output, and a water flow path between the input and the output. The flow path has a mixing section and a reaction section. Sealable flocculant ports are provided for inserting a flocculant into the mixing section of the housing. Each of the mixing section and the reaction section contains baffles. The mixing section baffles encourage turbulent flow to increase contact with the flocculant, and the reaction section baffles encourage turbulent flow and increase the length of the water flow path.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an improvement in the method and the apparatus for reducing tungsten oxide powder to tungsten metal powder. The method produces more uniform particle size distribution by decreasing the variability of temperature and inconsistency of reductant gas flow during the reduction process. The method includes the steps of: providing powder particles of WOx in a unique reaction boat with a low aspect ratio to a multi-tube furnace; (a) contacting particles of WOx, wherein x is at least 2.5, with hydrogen and water vapor under fluid bed conditions at a temperature in the range of about 600 degrees to about 1000 degree Centigrade and at a water partial pressure equal to or greater than the equilibrium partial pressure, whereby said particles of WOx are reduced essentially to particles of WO2 with substantially no formation of tungsten metal, and (b) reducing the partial pressure of water in the fluid bed to a level sufficient to achieve reduction of said particles of WO2 to tungsten metal while continuing to maintain said bed at a temperature which is substantially equal to or higher than said first temperature but not over about 1000 degree Centigrade.
Abstract translation:本发明涉及将钨氧化物粉末还原成钨金属粉末的方法和装置的改进。 该方法通过在还原过程中降低温度的变化性和还原剂气体流的不一致性来产生更均匀的粒度分布。 该方法包括以下步骤:向多管式炉提供具有低纵横比的独特反应舟中的WOx粉末颗粒; (a)在流化床条件下,在约600摄氏度至约1000摄氏度的温度范围内和在等于或大于等于或等于1000℃的水分压下使WOx的颗粒与其中的氢和水蒸气接触,其中x至少为2.5。 平衡分压,其中所述WO x颗粒基本上被还原成WO 2的颗粒,基本上不形成钨金属,和(b)将流化床中的水的分压降低至足以实现所述颗粒的 WO 2至钨金属,同时继续将所述床保持在基本上等于或高于所述第一温度但不超过约1000摄氏度的温度。
Abstract:
This invention concerns the discovery of a new fluid that promotes the fluorination of polymeric materials more safely, more completely, and more efficiently than the fluids used in the prior art. The new fluid is called "dioxifluorine," which is a mixture of carbon dioxide and fluorine where carbon dioxide is the carrier fluid and fluorine is the reactant.
Abstract:
A ceramic surface-metallic core particle composite fine powder material is disclosed, composed of fine particles each having a metallic core and a ceramic surface layer, in which the average value of the ratio of the thickness of the surface layer of a powder particle to the radius of the particle is substantially greater than 0.05. A method and an apparatus for making this material from core metal and a gas which combines with the core metal to form the ceramic outer layer are also described, in which a gaseous mixture of vapor of the core metal and the gas is passed through a convergent-divergent nozzle and is thereby rapidly cooled by adiabatic expansion so that the core metal as it solidifies forms metal cores for fine particles while the gas reacts with the outer layers of these particles to form ceramic surface layers.
Abstract:
A batch process for the halogenation of solid polymeric or metallic material comprising the following steps:(a) providing a closed system comprising a chamber containing air at about atmospheric pressure and having inlet and outlet means, a heat exchanger, and a circulation pump, all connected in series;(b) introducing the material into the chamber;(c) heating the chamber and the material to a selected temperature in the range of about 100.degree. F. to about 200.degree. F. by recirculating the air through the heat exchanger;(d) evacuating the system;(e) introducing a halogen into the system in an amount (i) of up to about 10 percent in excess of the theoretical amount of halogen required to halogenate the polymeric material to a desired depth and (ii) sufficient to provide a partial pressure in the system in the range of about 0.1 psia to about 3 psia;(f) introducing an inert gas into the system in an amount sufficient to provide a total pressure in the system of about one atmosphere;(g) maintaining the selected temperature by recirculating the halogen/inert gas mixture through the heat exchanger;(h) recirculating the halogen/inert gas mixture a sufficient number of times to reduce the amount of halogen to less than about 5 percent of the amount of halogen initially introduced into the system;(i) evacuating the system;(j) introducing air into the system to provide about atmospheric pressure; and(k) removing the material.
Abstract:
Continuous fluorination of carbon is carried out by employing an apparatus for contact reaction of solid powder and reactive gas which comprises a horizontal reactor having a trough provided with weirs (e.g. height: 1 to 6 mm., interval: 5 to 30 cm.) and a vibrating means for vibrating the trough, and in which carbon particles supplied continuously are transported on the trough in a form of thin layer by the vibration of the trough while continuing the reaction by contacting efficiently the carbon particles with a fluorine gas. The contact reaction is efficiently conducted without accumulating the reaction heat to produce the fluorinated carbon in high yields, and the process is useful for the mass production. The apparatus is also useful for various contact reaction of a solid powder and a reactive gas.
Abstract:
FINELY PARTICULATE SILICON OXIDES ARE PRODUCED FROM COARSE PARTICULATE SILICON DIOXIDE USING A LIQUID STABLISHED PLASMA BURNER. HYDROCARBONS ARE USED AS THE STABILISING LIQUID, AND THE COARSE PARTICULATE SILICON DIOXIDE IS REDUCED BY THE HYDROCARBON PLASMA JET LEAVING THE PLASMA BURNER, AND A PART OF THE HYDROCARBON WHICH WITH IS EVAPORATED AND DECOMPOSED IN THE ARC ZONE IS WITHDRAWN TOGETHER WITH THE LIQUID HYDROCARBON STABILISING MEDIUM, WHICH IS RE CYCLED, SEPARATED FROM THE LIQUID, AND USED AS CARRIER GAS FOR FEEDING THE COARSE PARTICULATE SILICON DIOXIDE. FINELY PARTICULATE SILICON MONOXIDE IS INITIALLY FORMED, AND MAY
BE RECOVERED AS SUCH, OR OXIDIZED AT THE ANODE OF THE PLASMA BURNER TO SILICON DIOXIDE.
Abstract:
ENERGY IS TRANSFERRED THROUGH THE COLUMNS TO BARIUM OXIDE CRYSTALS RETAINED IN THE COLUMNS BY MESH. AS THE TEMPERATURE OF THE BARIUM OXIDE CRYSTALS INCREASES, AIR FLOW THROUGH THE INLET PASSAGE AND THE COLUMNS FORMS BARIUM PEROXIDE WHILE THE UNREACTED GAS AND NITROGEN FLOW THROUGH AN OUTLET PASSAGE INTO THE ENVIRONMENT.
AN APPARATUS FOR HEATING BARIUM OXIDE TO A REACTION TEMPERATURE WITH AIR TO FORM BARIUM PEROXIDE. THE APPARATUS HAS A HOUSING WITH AN AIR INLET PASSAGE WHICH PARTIALLY SURROUNDS AND IS CONNECTED TO AN INTERNAL CHAMBER. CENTRALLY LOCATED IN THE INTERNAL CHAMBER ARE HOLLOW PLATE MEMBERS INTERLOCKED BY A SERIES OF FRICTIONAL ABUTTING SLOTS TO FORM RECTANGULAR COLUMNS. INSIDE OF THE HOLLOW PLATE MEMBERS BETWEEN THE SLOTS A PLURALITY OF ELEMENTS ARE CONNECTED TO A SOURCE OF ELECTRICITY. A BLANKET OF ELECTRICALLY INSULATING MATERIAL SURROUNDS EACH ELEMENT TO PREVENT ELECTRICAL ENERGY FROM BEING TRANSMITTED TO THE PLATE MEMBERS. A CONTROL SWITCH REGULATES THE FLOW OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY TO EACH ELEMENT WHICH CONVERTS THE ELECTRICAL ENERGY TO THERMAL ENERGY. THIS THERMAL