730 results about "Carbon monoxide gas" patented technology

The self-calibrating carbon monoxide detector and method of the present invention utilize the gas for which the detector was designed to detect as the calibration gas. Specifically, a carbon monoxide gas generator is included in the detector assembly, and is controller to produce a known amount of CO. The sensor response to the quantity of CO generated is monitored, and the calibration thereof adjusted as necessary. The operation of the gas generator is also monitored, and any failures are flagged for user attention. The gas generator specifically suppresses the generation of hydrogen through the materials used in its construction. Temperature effects may also be compensated either through control of gas generation control parameters or compensation of the sensor output in view of the generator temperature effects.

The present invention provides for a method for treating an ischemic disorder in a subject which comprises administering to the subject a pharmaceutically acceptable form of a selectin antagonist in a sufficient amount over a sufficient time period to prevent white blood cell accumulation so as to treat the ischemic disorder in the subject. The invention further provides a method for treating an ischemic disorder in a subject which comprises administering to the subject carbon monoxide gas in a sufficient amount over a sufficient period of time thereby treating the ischemic disorder in the subject. The invention further provides a method for treating an ischemic disorder in a subject which comprises administering to the subject a pharmaceutically acceptable form of inactivated Factor IX in a sufficient amount over a sufficient period of time to inhibit coagulation so as to treat the ischemic disorder in the subject.

A system for controlling a flow of a gas stream into a plurality of combustion chambers of an engine is provided. The system comprises a fuel reformer module configured to provide the flow of the gas stream containing hydrogen gas and carbon monoxide gas, a cooler module positioned downstream of the fuel reformer module with respect to the flow of the gas stream. The cooler module is configured to control a temperature of the gas stream. A flow control assembly is positioned downstream of the cooler module and upstream of the plurality of combustion chambers with respect to the flow of the gas stream. The flow control assembly is configured to supply a first effluent stream to a pre-chamber of the plurality of combustion chambers. The flow control assembly also supplies a second effluent stream to a main chamber of the plurality of combustion chambers.

In a fuel processor based on autothermal cyclic reforming process, the fuel processor having a reformer, the reformer having two reactors with integrated heat exchangers, the two reactors cycling between a reforming step and a regeneration step, a method of generating hydrogen gas includes receiving a mixture of fuel and steam in the reformer reactor operating in a reforming step to produce hydrogen-rich reformate gas. The fuel is delivered from a fuel supply and the steam is generated by a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG). The reformate gas is fed to a shift reactor to reduce the concentration of carbon monoxide (CO) gas present in the reformate gas. Product gas generated by the shift reactor is received in a condenser to recover heat from the product gas. In one embodiment output gas stream from the condenser is supplied to a CO oxidizer to further reduce the CO concentration. The output gas stream from the CO oxidizer is supplied to an anode of a fuel cell, the fuel cell including a cathode for receiving ambient air to initiate an electrochemical reaction with the gas stream received by the anode. In another embodiment the output gas stream from the condenser is supplied to a Pressure Swing Adsorber (PSA). The output gas is high-purity hydrogen which can be utilized for industrial hydrogen or hydrogen vehicle refueling applications.

The present invention provides an integrated engine system; said integrated engine system includes an air-compression means, an air-buffer-system, a power-management-unit, and at least two cold-expansion-chambers; wherein each of said at least two cold-expansion-chamber includes a spark-ignition means, a fuel-supplying means, a cold-air-injection means, and a reenergize-air-injection means; each cold-expansion-chamber operates in a Mackay Cold-Expansion Cycle, which includes a first-intake-process, a hot-combustion-process, a fuel-cooling-process, a second-intake-process, a cold-expansion-process, and an active-exhaust-process; wherein the fuel-cooling-process may be disabled according to the operation condition.The air-buffer-system buffers a cooled high-boost-air for said cold-air-injection means and a heated high-boost-air for said reenergize-air-injection means; said power-management-unit includes sensor means and computation circuits to drive said fuel-supplying means, said cold-air-injection means, said reenergize-air-injection, and said spark-ignition means in order to maximize the energy efficiency of the Mackay Cold-Expansion Cycle, such that a cold-expansion-medium produces power in a controlled-temperature oxygen-rich condition; wherein the average medium temperature is reduced by 30%-80% to block heat-loss during the second-intake-process, and all the carbon-monoxide-gas of said cold-expansion-medium is spontaneously reacted with an excessive oxygen-gas during the cold-expansion-process, thereby fully releasing the energy of the supplied fuel by an accelerated conversion of carbon-dioxide-gas before the cold-expansion-medium is expelled out of the associated cold-expansion-chamber; wherein, the average temperature of said cold-expansion-medium is regulated within the range of 400-1100 degree Celsius by the power-management-unit, in order to efficiently produce power at a slowly-decreasing expansion pressure with the least heat-loss.Furthermore said air-buffer-system recovers the thermal energy from a heat-transfer-catalytic-converter, which utilizes the thermal energy of the expelled cold-expansion-medium to heat up a high-boost-air for the second-intake-process; thereby the energy efficiency is increased in a heavy load operation by reducing the workload on the air-compression means, and the temperature of the expelled cold-expansion-medium is maintained at an operable temperature of the catalytic-conversion means in a light load operation without comprising the energy efficiency.

The invention relates to an inspecting and alarming device for poisonous gas in automobile, comprising gate circuit of delay switch for inspecting if the time when automobile is in idle speed and motion state achieves the setting value. When the time achieves the setting value the signal is emitted and the inspecting circuit is opened. CO sensor is set in the inspecting circuit to collect the concentration signal of CO and transform the signal into voltage signal, which is amplified subsequently. When amplified voltage signal achieves the setting value alarm is started while three signals are outputted. One signal output is used to control car window to open; another signal output is used to control engine to close and the residual signal output is used to open anti-theft alarming device. By adopting the method of opening inspection circuit automatically, the device prolong the using time of sensor greatly while the problem that in the original technology only alarm can be started and the source of poisonous gas can not be cut is conquered. The safety is increased. It is provided with simple structure, strong practicability. It is widely applied in various automobiles.

The present invention provides a gas sensor element having physical, electrical and chemical properties capable of detecting methane and carbon monoxide selectively with 1 intergrated filtering, catalyzing sensor by improving gas selectivity of the semiconductor gas sensor. The present invention relates to a gas sensor element, which has a carbon monoxide sensor layer with an ability to function as a catalyst film that blocks carbon monoxide, which impedes detection of methane, and has a layer-built structure where the surface of a methane sensor is covered with the carbon monoxide gas sensor which can be obtained by a gas-phase method.