1757 results about "Dry ice" patented technology

Devices and methods for cooling vessel walls to inhibit restenosis in conjunction with medical procedures such as coronary artery angioplasty. Stenosed vessel walls can be cooled prior to angioplasty, after angioplasty, or both. The invention is believed to inhibit restenosis through cooling to a temperature near freezing, preferably without causing substantial vessel wall cell death. One catheter device includes a distal tube region having coolant delivery holes radially and longitudinally distributed along the distal region. In some devices, holes spray coolant directly onto the vessel walls, with the coolant absorbed into the blood stream. In other embodiments, a balloon or envelope is interposed between the coolant and the vessel walls and the coolant returned out of the catheter through a coolant return lumen. Some direct spray devices include an occlusion device to restrict blood flow past the region being cooled. Pressure, temperature, and ultrasonic probes are included in some cooling catheters. Pressure control valves are included in some devices to regulate balloon interior pressure within acceptable limits. In applications using liquid carbon dioxide as coolant, the balloon interior pressure can be maintained above the triple point of carbon dioxide to inhibit dry ice formation. Some cooling catheters are coiled perfusion catheters supporting longer cooling periods by allowing perfusing blood flow simultaneously with vessel wall cooling. One coiled catheter is biased to assume a coiled shape when unconstrained and can be introduced into the body in a relatively straight shape, having a stiffening wire inserted through the coil strands.

Devices and methods for cooling vessel walls to inhibit restenosis in conjunction with medical procedures such as coronary artery angioplasty. Stenosed vessel walls can be cooled prior to angioplasty, after angioplasty, or both. The invention is believed to inhibit restenosis through cooling to a temperature near freezing, preferably without causing substantial vessel wall cell death. One catheter device includes a distal tube region having coolant delivery holes radially and longitudinally distributed along the distal region. In some devices, holes spray coolant directly onto the vessel walls, with the coolant absorbed into the blood stream. In other embodiments, a balloon or envelope is interposed between the coolant and the vessel walls and the coolant returned out of the catheter through a coolant return lumen. Some direct spray devices include an occlusion device to restrict blood now past the region being cooled. Pressure, temperature, and ultrasonic probes are included in some cooling catheters. Pressure control valves are included in some devices to regulate balloon interior pressure within acceptable limits. In applications using liquid carbon dioxide as coolant, the balloon interior pressure can be maintained above the triple point of carbon dioxide to inhibit dry ice formation. Some cooling catheters are coiled perfusion catheters supporting longer cooling periods by allowing perfusing blood flow simultaneously with vessel wall cooling. One coiled catheter is biased to assume a coiled shape when unconstrained and can be introduced into the body in a relatively straight shape, having a stiffeninig wire inserted through the coil strands.

The invention relates to a device for comminuting dry ice granules, comprising a housing having a flow channel for dry ice granules which can be applied, by means of compressed gas, to a surface to be cleaned, and also comprising a first comminution member for comminuting the dry ice granules which are to be dispensed. In order to provide a device of this kind with which different degrees of comminution of dry ice granules can be achieved in a simple manner, it is proposed according to the invention that the device has at least one second comminution member which can be disposed in the housing in a position in which a total degree of comminution, which is greater than the individual degree of comminution which can be achieved solely by the first comminution member, can be achieved in combination with the first comminution member. A dry ice dispensing arrangement for dispensing a mixture of compressed gas and dry ice granules is also proposed, having a device of the above kind.

A nozzle for spraying sublimable solid particles and preventing frost from forming at surfaces of the nozzle. The nozzle includes: a cleaning agent block for phase-changing a cleaning agent into a snow containing sublimable solid particles; a nozzle block for growing the cleaning agent snow through adiabatic expansion and spraying the grown cleaning agent snow onto a surface of an object; a carrier gas block for supplying a carrier gas to the nozzle block to mix with the cleaning agent snow; and a heater for heating at least a portion of the carrier gas supplied from the carrier gas supply source. Fine dry ice particles and liquid CO2, passing through a solenoid valve from a CO2 reservoir tank and a pressure drop of a flow rate regulation valve, are introduced into the spray nozzle and then mixed with the carrier gas, such as N2 or purified air, and discharged.

A temperature regulation apparatus includes a dry ice module that encloses dry ice so that the module's outside surface is not hazardous to touch. Insulation, breathable material, or a combination of insulating and breathable materials, allows dry ice sublimation at a sufficiently slow rate within the attached dry ice module to control the ambient temperature in the area to be cooled. The dry ice module can be attached in a location that maximizes the dry ice cooling properties, typically at or near the top of the area to be cooled. Since sublimated carbon dioxide is heavier than normal air, it falls to the bottom of the area to be cooled and builds up. The venting placement in the dry ice module is based upon the make up of the dry ice module and the breathable materials inside of it.

Polycrystalline silicon of the invention contains: (a) polycrystalline silicon fragments, wherein at least 90% of the fragments have a size from 10 to 40 mm, (b) <15 ppmw of silicon dust particles having particle sizes <400 μm; (c) <14 ppmw of silicon dust particles having particle sizes <50 μm; (d) <10 ppmw of silicon dust particles having particle sizes <10 μm; (e) <3 ppmw of silicon dust particles having particle sizes <1 μm; and (f) surface metal impurities in an amount ≦0.1 ppbw and ≧100 ppbw. A polycrystalline silicon production method of the invention includes fracturing polycrystalline silicon deposited on thin rods in a Siemens reactor into fragments; classifying the fragments by size; and treating the fragments with compressed air or dry ice to remove silicon dust from the fragments without wet chemical cleaning.

The invention discloses a method which utilizes natural gas pressure energy; namely, the pressure and the temperature of the natural gas in a high pressure pipeline are reduced by a no-power refrigerator so as to gain low temperature natural gas which then exchanges the heat with a normal-temperature refrigerant which is sent by a normal-temperature tank; the low temperature refrigerant with temperature reduced enters a refrigerant storage tank for standby and is finally delivered to a cold energy user; the normal-temperature natural gas with temperature increased enters the pipeline. The method which utilizes natural gas pressure energy has convenient and practical whole process technique and high efficiency, spends little investment on the self-pressure energy in the pressure reduction process of the high pressure natural gas which is recovered by a pressure modulating station, converts the pressure energy into the cold energy with low operation cost, leads the cold energy to be used by cold quantity users of cold storages, cold water air conditioners, wasted rubber deep-cold crushing round the pressure modulating station by means of the refrigerant, etc., or to be made into ice blocks and dry ice products for abroad sale, etc., thus gaining huge economic benefits, improving the utilization ratio of the energy resource and eliminating the safe hidden trouble which is generated by sudden coolness of the equipment in the normal pressure modulating process.

The invention relates to a method for producing high-strength thin strip steel in a short process. Twin roll strip casting is adopted for producing an atmospheric-corrosion-resistant steel casting belt containing a rare earth element Re, hot rolling, cooling and anti-oxidation intensive cooling scale removing are performed on the steel casting belt, and then the steel casting belt is reeled up after being straightened, wherein in the hot rolling process of the strip steel, rolling reduction is not smaller than 20%, and finishing rolling temperature is 850-1000 DEG C; then, a staged cooling mode of atomization cooling plus anti-oxidation intensive cooling ( spraying dry ice) is adopted, and intensive cooling is carried out on the high-temperature strip steel, wherein the cooling rate in the atomization cooling process is 50-100 DEG C / s, and the cooling rate in the anti-oxidation intensive cooling process is 100-200 DEG C / s. In this way, through the combined type staged cooling, the uniform steel of a bainite microscopic structure can be obtained, and the bainite structure can remarkably improve the toughness of the steel. The method is especially applicable to atmospheric-corrosion-resistant high-strength thin strip steel with the surface roughness Ra smaller than 2 microns, the thickness of typical strip steel is 0.8-1.6mm, and the strip steel can be supplied in a hot mode instead of a cool mode.

A nozzle for spraying sublimable solid particles and preventing frost from forming at surfaces of the nozzle. The nozzle includes: a cleaning agent block for phase-changing a cleaning agent into a snows containing sublimable solid particles; a nozzle block for growing the cleaning agent snow through adiabatic expansion and spraying the grown cleaning agent snow onto a surface of an object; a carrier gas block for supplying a carrier gas to the nozzle block to mix with the cleaning agent snow; and a heater for heating at least a portion of the carrier gas supplied from the carrier gas supply source. Fine dry ice particles and liquid CO2, passing through a solenoid valve from a CO2 reservoir tank and a pressure drop of a flow rate regulation valve, are introduced into the spray nozzle and then mixed with the carrier gas, such as N2 or purified air, and discharged.

Provided are boron-containing weather-proof thin strip steel and a manufacturing method thereof. The manufacturing method comprises performing double roller thin strip continuous casting to produce boron-containing weather-proof steel; after a cast strip is processed through a crystallizing roller, adopting a mode of spraying dry ice to perform uniform strengthened cooling on the cast strip, rapidly cooling the cast strip to below 1,280 DEG C, and enabling the cooling speed to be 200-300 DEG C / s, so that precipitation of thick and large BN in the cooling mode is promoted, emergency of low-melting-point-phase B203 and precipitation of tiny AlN are avoided, and the aims of homogenizing austenite grains and reducing yield ratio are achieved; then performing austenite on-line recrystallization rolling; then performing anti-oxidizing rapid cooling to cool the strip steel undergoing hot rolling, and enabling the cooling temperature to be 80-200 DEG C / s; and enabling coiling temperature to be 500-600 DEG C. Steel with low yield ratio can be obtained through the manufacturing method, and the problems that steel produced by thin strip continuous casting are universally uneven in structure, high in yield ratio and difficult to form and cannot meet the requirements for cold rolling materials are effectively solved.

The invention belongs to the technical field of nanometer material preparation and particularly relates to a method for preparing graphene powder by using a dry process. The method comprises the steps of firstly, carrying out microwave heat treatment on graphite to form pre-expanded graphite; placing pre-expanded graphite into a high-pressure-resistant peeling reactor, and adding dry ice or liquid nitrogen to peel at high pressure and high speed to obtain graphene. The method for preparing the graphene powder is simple in production equipment, few in process flow, free of oxidation reduction and subsequent acid treatment processes, environment-friendly and suitable for large-scale production; the prepared graphene powder is few in defect, good in conductivity and suitable for the application fields such as supercapacitors, sensors, sea water desalination and the like.

An apparatus for treating a substrate with a cryogenic impingement fluid includes a protective enclosure defining an internal cavity, a cryogenic fluid applicator positioned within the internal cavity and a snow generation system connected to the cryogenic fluid applicator. The snow generation system includes a condensing subsystem and a diluent or propellant gas subsystem. Each subsystem is connectable to a common gas source. The condensing subsystem includes a condenser for condensing liquid carbon dioxide into solid carbon dioxide particles, or dry ice snow. The condenser includes at least two segments of differing diameter connected to one another. Liquid carbon dioxide is introduced into the smaller diameter first segment and upon entering the larger diameter second segment, solidifies into dry ice particles. The dry ice particles, along with diluent or propellant gas produced from the diluent subsystem, are delivered to the cryogenic fluid applicator via a coaxial delivery tube.

The invention relates to a method for cleaning a turbo-machine stage (100) consisting of at least one of the following steps: a cleaning nozzle (1) is introduced into an opening of a turbo-machine, in particular into an inspection opening (220); and the blade (100) of the stage is acted upon by solid particles, said particles subliming at the blade temperature, in particular into dry ice particles.

A case for a galley cart defines a cavity with at least two dividers positioned within the cavity, each having a first end edge and an opposing second end edge, with the dividers defining at least two chambers within the cavity. A door is movably attached to the case having a first position in which the cavity is accessible and a second position in which the cavity is substantially sealed. The door incorporates a housing having at least one cooling puck corresponding to at least a first one of the chambers and a second cooling puck corresponding to a second one of the chambers. At least one sealing member is coupled to the housing in the door and configured to compress against the first end edges of the dividers and to provide flow communication between the first cooling compartment and the first chamber and between the second cooling compartment and the second chamber when the door is in the second position.