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20080307798 | Cryogenic liquid tank and method - A tank and method for containing a cryogenic liquid in which a purge gas is introduced into an insulation space defined between an outer vessel and an inner vessel to contain insulation material. The inner vessel is used to contain the cryogenic liquid. The purge gas can be cryogenic vapor evolved from the liquid and routed into the insulation space. Control of the purge gas within the insulation space can be provided by a programmable logic controller in which purge gas is vented from the insulation space should the pressure be indicative of a leak within the inner vessel and purge gas is introduced into the insulation space should the pressure be below the ambient to maintain a positive purge gas pressure. An adsorbent bed can also be located within the insulation space to adsorb any moisture. | 12-18-2008 |
20100179057 | PRODUCTION OF ACTIVATED CHAR USING HOT GAS - A gas mixture preheated to high temperatures using an oxy-fuel, an oxygen-enriched air-fuel or an air-fuel burner is used to devolatilize and partially oxidize carbonaceous feedstock, thereby producing an active residual char that can be used in applications utilizing activated carbon. Use of hot gas and ground carbonaceous feedstock allows the equipment to be minimized, thereby allowing the activated carbon to be produced at or near points of use, for example the production of activated char at or near utility boilers for use in the reduction of mercury emissions from flue gas streams. | 07-15-2010 |
20100233052 | MERCURY ADSORBENTS COMPATIBLE AS CEMENT ADDITIVES - Solid adsorbents, following their use for mercury removal from flue gas, that do not interfere with the ability of air-entraining additives (such as surfactants) to form stable bubbles when added to fly ash containing the adsorbents. The interference is overcome by heating the materials used in the manufacture of the adsorbent so that magnesium hydroxide and/or one or more alkali compounds containing one or more silicate, aluminate, and/or phosphate moiety, added or already present in the materials, binds multivalent cations present in the materials that could otherwise interfere with the surfactant activity. | 09-16-2010 |
20100234214 | MERCURY ADSORBENTS COMPATIBLE AS CEMENT ADDITIVES - Solid adsorbents, following their use for mercury removal from flue gas, that do not interfere with the ability of air-entraining additives (such as surfactants) to form stable bubbles when added to fly ash containing the adsorbents. The interference is overcome by heating the materials used in the manufacture of the adsorbent so that magnesium hydroxide and/or one or more alkali compounds containing one or more silicate, aluminate, and/or phosphate moiety, added or already present in the materials, binds multivalent cations present in the materials that could otherwise interfere with the surfactant activity. | 09-16-2010 |
20110312491 | CATALYTIC ADSORBENTS FOR MERCURY REMOVAL FROM FLUE GAS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE THEREFOR - The present invention provides catalytic adsorbents formed from doping activated carbon with a dispersed halide salt. The catalytic adsorbents provided herein are stable and harmless at room temperature, yet allow for chemical adsorption at elevated temperatures typical of those for flue gas streams. The present invention also provides methods of manufacturing the doped activated carbon adsorbents. | 12-22-2011 |
20120277097 | PRODUCTION OF ACTIVATED CHAR USING HOT GAS - A gas mixture preheated to high temperatures using an oxy-fuel, an oxygen-enriched air-fuel or an air-fuel burner is used to devolatilize and partially oxidize carbonaceous feedstock, thereby producing an active residual char that can be used in applications utilizing activated carbon. Use of hot gas and ground carbonaceous feedstock allows the equipment to be minimized, thereby allowing the activated carbon to be produced at or near points of use, for example the production of activated char at or near utility boilers for use in the reduction of mercury emissions from flue gas streams. | 11-01-2012 |
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20090136176 | OPTICAL FIBER MODE COUPLING DEVICE, HAVING AN OPTIMIZED FIBER INTERFACE AND METHOD OF FABRICATION THEREOF - An optical fiber mode coupling device, capable of being readily connected to a conventional optical fiber with a high degree of ruggedness, is provided. The inventive mode coupling device only allows transmission of at least one supported fiber mode therethrough, and is preferably configured to maximize the coupling, of at least one desired fiber mode, to the at least one supported fiber mode. Advantageously, the inventive mode coupling device is capable of performing the functions of a mode filter for the signal entering its first end, or serving as a mode conditioner for the signal entering its opposite second end. Thus, in one practical application thereof, the novel mode coupling device functions as a mode filter by maximizing the coupling between at least one desired fiber mode of a multi-mode input signal entering the device's first end, and at least one supported mode of the device, to produce an output signal at the device's second end that comprises at least one predetermined fiber mode, corresponding to at least one desired fiber mode. In another practical application thereof, the novel mode coupling device functions as a mode conditioner by maximizing the coupling between an input signal, comprising at least one predetermined fiber mode, that enters the device's second end, and, and at least one supported mode of the device, to produce an output signal at the device's first end that comprises at least one desired fiber mode, corresponding to a conditioned at least one predetermined fiber mode. | 05-28-2009 |
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20110191128 | Method and Apparatus for Creating a Monitoring Template for a Business Process - Methods and apparatus are provided for creating a monitoring template for a business process. A monitoring template for a business process monitoring system is generated by providing a predefined schema definition for the monitoring template, wherein the predefined schema definition comprises a predefined format for describing the business process monitoring system using one or more predefined keywords, wherein the predefined schema definition comprises at least one monitoring model element that allows a user to specify one or more monitoring elements required to generate the business process monitoring system; and receiving a specification of the one or more monitoring elements from the user. The monitoring template can be used, for example, to generate deployable code for an operational runtime version of the business process monitoring system. The monitoring template allows monitoring models and business process monitoring systems to be reused. | 08-04-2011 |
20110191143 | Method and Apparatus for Specifying Monitoring Intent of a Business Process or Monitoring Template - Methods and apparatus are provided for specifying a monitoring intent of a business process or a monitoring template. A monitoring intent of a business process monitoring system is defined by providing a predefined schema definition for the monitoring intent, wherein the predefined schema definition comprises a predefined format for describing the monitoring intent using one or more predefined keywords, wherein the predefined schema definition comprises a description of the monitoring intent and one or more contextual keywords; and receiving a specification of the description and the one or more contextual keywords from the user. The monitoring intent generally specifies one or more monitoring requirements of the business process monitoring system. The monitoring intent of a business process or a monitoring template may be matched with one or more search keywords. The predefined schema definition for the description comprises a set of expression rules. | 08-04-2011 |
20110191351 | Method and Apparatus for Using Monitoring Intent to Match Business Processes or Monitoring Templates - Methods and apparatus are provided for using monitoring intent to match business processes or monitoring templates. One or more business processes and monitoring templates are identified by obtaining at least one business process or monitoring template, wherein at least one of the obtained business process or monitoring template has an associated monitoring intent comprising one or more monitoring keywords; obtaining a user-specified monitoring intent from the user, the user-specified monitoring intent comprising one or more search keywords; assigning a score to at least one of the obtained business process or monitoring template, wherein the score is based on a matching of one or more of the monitoring keywords from the associated monitoring intent with the search keywords of the user-specified monitoring intent; and identifying the one or more of the plurality of business processes and the plurality of monitoring templates based on the assigned score. The business processes and monitoring templates each have a plurality of keywords and a weighted score is optionally assigned to each of the plurality of keywords. The assigned score is based, for example, on a weighted score of matching keywords. A ranked list is optionally generated. | 08-04-2011 |
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20080228742 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF AUTOMATIC METHOD SIGNATURE ADAPTATION FOR DYNAMIC WEB SERVICE INVOCATION - A method (and apparatus) for adapting an input parameter, for dynamically invoke the target Web services, and for adapting output results, the method including: receiving an invocation request including an input parameter in a first format; retrieving MetaWSDL (Meta Web Service Description Language) wherein said MetaWSDL includes a universal XML (eXtended Markup Language) representation which includes semantic information of a Web service method signature; invoking a MetaWSDL processor to adapt the input parameter to a second format using the retrieved MetaWSDL; dynamically invoking the target Web services using the adapted parameter in the second format; and adapting the output result in a first format to a second format using the MetaWSDL. | 09-18-2008 |
20080288792 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF ADAPTIVE INTEGRATION ACTIVITY MANAGEMENT FOR BUSINESS APPLICATION INTEGRATION - An adaptive integration activity management framework for on demand business process integration provides a mechanism to enable easy integration of legacy and new applications. The framework minimizes the effort need to integrate a new application into an existing business process environment such that the new activity is a “plug-in” into an action manager by implementing a standard adaptation layer. Activity integration is implemented in the principle of “on-demand” because it is invoked as required, so the communication and collaboration between partners become much more flexible. | 11-20-2008 |
20110131080 | Performance-Aware Enterprise Components - Techniques for generating and executing a performance-aware enterprise component (PAEC) are provided. The techniques include creating a performance-aware enterprise component definition, wherein an enterprise component is a component with defined behavior and data models that represent an enterprise capability and provide a service to a client through a defined interface, and wherein the definition comprises an extensible markup language file comprising process component lifecycle information, one or more data items to be used in the component lifecycle, and one or more performance metrics, and executing the performance-aware enterprise component, wherein executing the performance-aware enterprise component comprises reading the performance-aware enterprise component definition and one or more relationships with the one or more data items, and operating the component lifecycle, wherein operating the component lifecycle comprises using the one or more performance metrics within the component lifecycle to enable one or more localized changes to be made within the enterprise component. | 06-02-2011 |
20120066662 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO VALIDATE AND REPAIR PROCESS FLOW DRAWINGS - Disclosed is a system and method for validating and repairing flow diagrams using a process modeling validation method in conjunction with a process modeling repair method. The process modeling validation method points out structural ambiguities in a flow diagram that can make its automatic interpretation difficult. It also proposes fix to resolve such ambiguities. The method discloses a process semantic annotation scheme that can interpret process semantics in a flow graph implicit in a flow diagram. Further, the validation process compares one or more components of one or more drawings to a set of rules determined by a business process modeling standards and provides a set of semantic errors describing faulty parts of the drawing that do not comply with the business process modeling standards. The process modeling repair method corrects the drawing to ease and enable its automatic interpretation of the flow diagram and make the faulty parts of the drawing comply with the business process modeling standards. | 03-15-2012 |
20130338971 | BUILDING INFORMATION MANAGEMENT (BIM) ENABLEMENT PLATFORM OF BIM DATA MODEL, DATA MANAGEMENT SERVICES APIS, RESTFUL APIS FOR BIM CONTENT AND META DATA HOSTING, FORMAT EXCHANGE, AND WORKFLOW ENABLEMENT - An end-to-end interoperability and workflows from building architecture design to one or more simulations, in one aspect, may comprise establishing a BIM enablement platform architecture. A data model defines data entities and entity relationships for enabling the interoperability and workflows. A data definition language may be implemented that defines and creates a table schema of a database associated with the data model. Data management services and/or application programming interfaces may be implemented for interacting with the data model. Web services may also be provided for interacting with the data model via the Web. A user interface may be implemented that communicates with users and uses the BIM enablement platform architecture, the data model, the data definition language, data management services and application programming interfaces to provide functions to the users to perform work related to building information management. | 12-19-2013 |
20130338972 | BUILDING INFORMATION MANAGEMENT (BIM) ENABLEMENT PLATFORM OF BIM DATA MODEL, DATA MANAGEMENT SERVICES APIS, RESTFUL APIS FOR BIM CONTENT AND META DATA HOSTING, FORMAT EXCHANGE, AND WORKFLOW ENABLEMENT - An end-to-end interoperability and workflows from building architecture design to one or more simulations, in one aspect, may comprise establishing a BIM enablement platform architecture. A data model defines data entities and entity relationships for enabling the interoperability and workflows. A data definition language may be implemented that defines and creates a table schema of a database associated with the data model. Data management services and/or application programming interfaces may be implemented for interacting with the data model. Web services may also be provided for interacting with the data model via the Web. A user interface may be implemented that communicates with users and uses the BIM enablement platform architecture, the data model, the data definition language, data management services and application programming interfaces to provide functions to the users to perform work related to building information management. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339403 | INTEROPERABILITY FORMAT TRANSLATION AND TRANSFORMATION BETWEEN IFC ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN FILE AND SIMULATION FILE FORMATS - Automatically translating a building architecture file format (Industry Foundation Class) to a simulation file, e.g., for EnergyPlus and/or Radiance, in one aspect, may comprise extracting from a building architecture file, data and metadata used by a target simulation tool; creating interoperability data objects and storing the extracted data in the interoperability data objects; preparing a model translation procedure to identify a mapping from a Model View Definition to a translation and transformation function; transforming the extracted data using the data stored in the interoperability data objects, an input Model View Definition template, and the translation and transformation function to convert the extracted data to correct geometric values needed for a target simulation file format used by the target simulation tool; and generating the simulation file in the target simulation file format. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339404 | INTEROPERABILITY FORMAT TRANSLATION AND TRANSFORMATION BETWEEN IFC ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN FILE AND SIMULATION FILE FORMATS - Automatically translating a building architecture file format (Industry Foundation Class) to a simulation file, e.g., for EnergyPlus and/or Radiance, in one aspect, may comprise extracting from a building architecture file, data and metadata used by a target simulation tool; creating interoperability data objects and storing the extracted data in the interoperability data objects; preparing a model translation procedure to identify a mapping from a Model View Definition to a translation and transformation function; transforming the extracted data using the data stored in the interoperability data objects, an input Model View Definition template, and the translation and transformation function to convert the extracted data to correct geometric values needed for a target simulation file format used by the target simulation tool; and generating the simulation file in the target simulation file format. | 12-19-2013 |
20140297395 | END-TO-END EFFECTIVE CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT VIA ADVANCED ANALYTICS AND SENSOR-BASED PERSONAL ASSISTANT CAPABILITY (EECEASPA) - Providing an end-to-end citizen engagement, in one aspect, may comprise obtaining data of multiple disintegrated sources from one or more of communication and social computing channels via one or more adapters. Data refactoring and management, integration and process orchestration of the data according to a data model as data attributes of the data model may be provided. One or more analytics may be performed based on the data attributes stored according to the data model and input specified to the one or more analytics. One or more results computed by performing the one or more analytics may be provided. One or more application logics supporting one or more front-end applications may be produced. One or more front-end applications for automated sensing of user activities and sensor-based personal assistant capability may be provided. | 10-02-2014 |