58 results about "Inert gas dilution" patented technology

A method of determining ventilation inhomogeneity in the lungs is provided. During the first step of the method, a lung volume series is calculated from a series of measured lung inert gas concentrations and lung inert gas volumetric change measured data series. As a second step, the series of lung volumes is completed with a series of value representing the total gas exchange efficiency in the lungs. A global inert gas dilution ratio may be used for this purpose. The gas exchange efficiency values are such that less ventilation is represented by lower numbers. As the third step, the gas exchange efficiency series is plotted as an ordinate and lung volume series as an abscissa to form a graph. From this graph both the lung volume and homogeneity of ventilation become directly apparent.

The present invention relates to a process for production of a synthetic quartz glass having a fluorine concentration of 1,000 mass ppm or more, the process comprising: (a) a step of depositing and growing quartz glass fine particles obtained by flame hydrolysis of a glass forming raw material onto a substrate, to thereby form a porous glass body; (b) a step of keeping the porous glass body in a reaction vessel that is filled with elemental fluorine (F2) or a mixed gas comprising elemental fluorine (F2) diluted with an inert gas and contains a solid metal fluoride, to thereby obtain a fluorine-containing porous glass body; and (c) a step of heating the fluorine-containing porous glass body to a transparent vitrification temperature, to thereby obtain a fluorine-containing transparent glass body.

A method for transforming at least a part of the catalyst precursor hematite into χ-carbide (Fe5C2) and ε′-carbide (FeC2.2) without a large amount of fines generation. This method slows the transformation of the hematite to iron carbides by reducing the partial pressure of the synthesis gas by inert gas dilution. The activation time is about three to about five hours.

The invention discloses an Al / Al2O3 heat storage material and a preparation method thereof. Aluminum oxide serves as a base material; and a spherical metallic aluminum 'core' is enclosed by a layer of aluminum oxide 'enclosure'. In the process of heat storage, metallic aluminum can absorb heat to be changed from a solid state to a liquid state and the temperature of the metallic aluminum rises; at the same time, the external aluminum oxide layer also can absorb the heat, so that the temperature of the external aluminum oxide layer rises; and in the process of heat transfer, the liquid metallic aluminum releases both hidden heat and sensible heat and the aluminum oxide enclosure releases the sensible heat. The preparation process of the Al / Al2O3 heat storage material is obviously differentfrom a conventional method, and comprises the following steps of: atomizing the liquid metallic aluminum (above 660 DEG C) into tiny particles with an atomizing device; and cooling the tiny liquid metallic aluminum particles in an oxidizing atmosphere and oxidizing the external aluminum oxide layer to form the Al / Al2O3 phase-change heat storage material taking the metallic aluminum as the 'core' and taking aluminum oxide as the 'enclosure', wherein the oxidizing atmosphere may adopt oxygen, water vapor, carbon dioxide or air diluted by an inert gas. The preparation method is simple and easy to realize large-scale production.