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|Turning his back on the Nuggets and becoming a free agent this summer is not Carmelo's best choice.
The Carmelo Anthony trade watch drags on, causing "Melo fatigue" to set in with most of Western civilization. The only solace comes from the hope that this will all be over by next Thursday.
Well, maybe.
If Anthony isn't traded before the Feb. 24 trade deadline and doesn't sign his $65 million extension, he could play the rest of the season in Denver, and we could see a whole new round of Melo Drama when the Nuggets' season ends.
One way that Melo can influence the outcome is to continue his threats not to sign the extension. If Denver believes he is willing to play out the season without signing the extension, invokes the early termination option in his contract and become a free agent in the offseason, they may feel as if they have to move him now. Ordinarily this is how unhappy players get their way. A "trade me or lose me" threat usually leaves the team with little choice but to cede to the player's demands.
But these aren't ordinary times. The looming termination of the league's collective bargaining agreement changes the playing field dramatically. If Anthony becomes a free agent, he will do so under the terms of the next agreement. This is a situation he should avoid, as the new agreement will likely tilt strongly in favor of the owners.
Anthony is savvy enough to recognize this, telling the Denver Post recently he would be "screwed" if he didn't sign the extension and instead became a free agent.
Indeed, becoming a free agent this offseason carries many risks. Anthony's reluctance makes sense when you consider the following factors:
ESPN.com's Chad Ford has reported that there is a growing sentiment among owners to add "franchise player" tags, similar to those used in the NFL, to the next agreement. Franchise tags are a form of restricted free agency, allowing a team to potentially prevent a player from leaving on his own. They are tailor-made for situations like Anthony's, in which a player is considered too valuable to the franchise to risk losing.
But they are by no means a certainty in the next agreement. Not all owners are in favor of the concept, and if they do decide to negotiate for it they can expect stiff resistance from the players. If franchise tags make it into the next agreement, however, Anthony could find himself unable to leave the Nuggets on his own initiative. One of the strongest potential threats, "Trade me now or I walk this summer," would be nullified.
Armchair GMs are eyeballing the Knicks' cap situation, looking to make sure the team will have enough cap room to sign Anthony as a free agent. They also hope to acquire Anthony without losing Wilson Chandler, who will be a restricted free agent this summer. The problem with these projections is that they are meaningless -- they use rules that no longer will be in effect when Anthony and Chandler are free agents.
|If Melo tries to join the Knicks as a free agent, they could wind up losing Landry Fields the next year.
Nobody knows how the final agreement between the owners and players will look. The labor dispute boils down to player salaries, and the principal mechanism controlling salaries is the salary cap. Perhaps the new cap will be based on a different percentage of gross revenues (from the current 51 percent), or maybe the new formula switches from using gross revenues to net revenues. Whatever the final agreement, we can be pretty confident that the new cap will be more restrictive than the one currently in place.
According to NBA commissioner David Stern, player salaries were over $750 million too high last season, which translates to at least 32 percent. If the salary cap is lowered by that amount, the cap would decrease next season from its current $58 million to about $44 million. The Knicks are already committed to $44.2 million next season (including Ronny Turiaf's player option), and that's before factoring in Chandler or their first-round draft pick. While this may be a worst-case scenario, the cap almost certainly will go down in the new agreement -- the only question is how much. The lower it goes, the less money will be available to offer Anthony.
The bottom line is that we don't know where the cap will end up. Neither does Anthony. He apparently has his heart set on joining the Knicks, and he is aware that while he may be free to join them this summer, they may not have the cap room to make the kind of offer he wants.
The NBA utilizes a soft salary cap, which means teams cannot exceed the cap unless they are using one of several salary-cap exceptions. Take away those exceptions, and a hard cap -- one which there is no mechanism to exceed -- remains. The owners' original proposal included a hard cap, and they apparently haven't wavered on that stance. The two sides have yet to get down to serious horse trading, so we don't know yet whether a hard cap will survive into the final agreement.
But any hardening of the cap will have an impact on Anthony's marketability as a free agent; he could find himself an unrestricted free agent, but with no team to meet his price.
If he does manage to sign with the Knicks, his signing could have negative consequences for the team. A true hard cap would eliminate Bird rights -- which allow a team to exceed the cap to sign its own players -- perhaps forcing New York to choose between Anthony and Chandler. It might even lead them to say goodbye to Landry Fields next summer. It almost certainly would make it much more difficult for Knicks management to finish honing the team into a contender, since exceptions like the midlevel would be gone.
A hard cap -- or even a harder cap -- could mean Anthony would be joining a Knicks team that is stuck in mediocrity, with little or no ability to add the players who would make the team a title contender.
Under the current system, a team can re-sign its own free agent for the purpose of trading him to a new team. This is how much of the significant free-agent movement currently gets done -- for example, it's how LeBron James and Chris Bosh got to Miami this summer, and it's how Amare Stoudemire got to New York.
In many cases, a sign-and-trade is viewed as a win-win-win for the three parties. The player gets a larger contract, since he's signed using Bird rights. His previous team gets something in return for losing its prized free agent (rather than nothing). And, most importantly, a sign-and-trade provides an opportunity for capped-out teams to acquire free agents they otherwise couldn't afford. The player's new team just needs to send the assets necessary to complete the trade, which is often much easier than signing the player outright.
|Amare was able to pick New York and get paid. But it will likely be much tougher under the new CBA.
Sign-and-trade arrangements have facilitated a lot of high-profile free-agent movement, but those days could be coming to an end. Such a deal is one of the mechanisms that leads to inflated salaries. It's like a consumer using a credit line to make purchases he couldn't otherwise afford -- eventually it all adds up to trouble.
Even if the sign-and-trade rule does survive into the next agreement, there's no guarantee it will help Anthony. The sides could find themselves in the same standoff that currently prevails, with the Nuggets uninterested in the package of players being dangled by the Knicks. If there's no way for Anthony to join the Knicks at his preferred salary without the help of Nuggets GM Masai Ujiri, and Ujiri isn't inclined to help facilitate his exit, then Anthony once again finds himself without a clear path to joining the Knicks.
So we come back to a midseason trade being preferable to waiting for free agency, from Anthony's point of view. And if the Nuggets can't stomach the idea of Anthony walking away, this is also what they should push for, since teams typically get better returns in a midseason trade than they get from a sign-and-trade when the player is a free agent. It's conceivable that the Nuggets could get a better deal right now from a team like Houston that would be viewing him as a rental than they would in a sign-and-trade after the season.
If Anthony signs his extension (whether to remain a Nugget or to join another team in an extend-and-trade transaction), then he locks in his $18.5 million salary for 2011-12, and adds three additional seasons at $20.3 million, $22.1 million and $23.9 million, for a total of $84.8 million over four seasons. These salaries would be set (for the time being), since Anthony would be signing his extension under the purview of the current collective bargaining agreement. (See Section 6 below for a discussion of a potential rollback of player salaries.)
But if Anthony becomes a free agent this summer, his next contract will be under the terms of the new agreement. If the new agreement reduces maximum salaries, reduces raises, limits the number of years, or reduces the salary that can be guaranteed, his contract will be forced to conform to the new rules.
Under the current rules, if Anthony becomes a free agent this summer he can sign (assuming his team has enough cap room, or can work out a sign-and-trade with the Nuggets) for a hair over $18 million in 2011-12, and up to $80.6 million (signing directly) or $82.4 million (sign-and-trade) over the same four years. But the theme here remains the same -- we won't be operating under the same rules this summer.
Maximum salaries are likely to fall under attack as a means of reducing the players' share of the pie. One reason is practical, and strategic -- most players don't earn anywhere near maximum salary, so a proposal that gets everyone back to work without significantly hurting the lower and middle classes is more likely to be approved under the current "one player, one vote" system. If maximum salaries take a significant hit in the next agreement, Anthony could find himself with considerably less earning power -- even if his team of choice ends up with a lot of cap room.
Some suggest that some of Anthony's lost earning power could be recouped with a signing bonus. But the ability to structure contracts in this way is limited, and this also assumes that signing bonuses will survive unscathed in the next agreement. Besides, it's also possible to add signing bonuses to extensions, so we're back to a free-agent contract not providing any advantage over an extension.
Now to be fair, an extended Anthony would still be subject to the new maximum-salary rules in 2012, when his extension takes effect. But the fact remains that there will be more gotchas with a new contract than there will be with an extension of his existing contract.
And speaking of gotchas with extending his existing contract
If salary rollbacks are implemented, changes made in the new collective bargaining agreement would apply to more than just new contracts. Some changes would also retroactively apply to existing contracts -- those signed under the current agreement. If this happens, no contract is safe. One line of reasoning suggests that since Anthony would lose money either way, he might as well become a free agent so he can at least go where he wants.
|If he isn't traded soon, things will only get tougher for Anthony.
The flaw in this line of reasoning is failing to appreciate the risk in each alternative. We can be pretty sure the new agreement will add significant limitations to new contracts. And while owners will be pushing for rollbacks, they have to be considered much less of a certainty.
"It's part of our proposal," NBA deputy commissioner Adam Silver confirmed to CBSSports.com -- a proposal players union chief Billy Hunter previously dismissed as "a nonstarter." So there exists the possibility that salaries won't be rolled back at all, or through negotiation, that they are rolled back a relatively small amount.
The upshot is that Anthony faces a more certain loss of earning power as a free agent than by signing an extension, even when you factor in the possibility of rollbacks to existing contracts. And that's before factoring in other possible limits to raises, years and guarantees in new contracts.
Just about any way you slice it, Anthony is much better off financially extending his current contract than becoming a free agent this summer in search of a new one. He knows that this year isn't like any other year, and he's not the one with all the leverage. The threat to leave as a free agent -- a potent threat in other years -- just doesn't have the same teeth this year.
Anthony is better off taking the extension, whether it's to remain a Nugget or to be traded to another team. He needs to work with Ujiri to achieve the best possible outcome.
Larry Coon is the author of the NBA Salary Cap FAQ. Follow him on Twitter.


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The Japan Studies Program is excited to announce a generous gift of $62,500 from the Mitsubishi Corporation. The gift will support the new Mitsubishi Corporation Lecture Series and will allow the program to bring internationally renowned experts from Japan to the University of Washington for three public events.
Seattle branch general manager of the Mitsubishi Corporation Americas (MCA) Shinichiro Kawazoe expressed "the pleasure of the Mitsubishi Corporation and the MCA Seattle Branch to keep the partnership with the UW through this program as it strengthens the relationship between Japan and the local community. This program will deepen the understanding of the Japan-U.S. relationship among both people on campus and in the local community. We are proud that our cooperation with the Japan Studies Program at the UW will contribute to the community of Seattle and the State of Washington." This gift is part of a Mitsubishi Corporation program to contribute to the social, economic, and/or cultural development of each country or region that receives support. The Japan Studies Program was one of two recipients in 2013.
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A vehicle (150) includes a fuel cell stack (151) started below freezing, by connection (158) to the vehicle propulsion system (159) within a few seconds of starting the flow of fuel (179) and oxidant (173), or when open circuit voltage (155, 156) is detected. The fuel in excess of stochiometry requirement and the oxidant in excess of at least twice stochiometric requirement, are at atmospheric pressure and at 4 kPa (0.6 psi) or more above the pressure of any water in said water passages due to a water passage vacuum pump 205, and may be below freezing. Water transport plates (84, 86, 88, 89) have water passages connected to a water circulation loop (170) including a reservoir (164) having an auxiliary heater (161) connected (160) to the stack. Warming of cell stack materials and ice in the water transport plates, heat of fusion of melting ice, warming of melted water, and evaporative cooling of water melted in the water transport plates keep the stack cool until liquid coolant is circulated.
1. A method of initiating operation of an electric load powered by a proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell stack at least part of which is at a temperature below the freezing temperature of water, said stack having a plurality of cells and having water passages connected to a water circulation system to provide at least one of (i) product water removal (ii) condensate removal (iii) humidification of reactants, and (iv) cooling, each of said cells including a MEA disposed between an anode support plate and a cathode support plate, a fuel reactant gas flow field on an anode side of said cell, and an oxidant reactant gas flow field on a cathode side of said cell, said method comprising:
(a) monitoring the current provided by and voltage across said stack;
(b) evacuating said water passages so as to provide the pressure of any water in said water passages at least 4kPa (0.6 psi) below the pressure of said reactant gases;
(c) with said stack disconnected from said load, providing at least stochiometric requirement of fuel reactant gas to said fuel flow fields and at least stochiometric requirement of oxidant reactant gas to said oxidant flow fields; and
(d) after said step (c), connecting said stack to power said load.
2. A method according to
(e) after said step (d), starting circulation of water flowing within said water passages.
3. Apparatus comprising:
an electric load;
a proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell stack at least part of which is at a temperature below the freezing temperature of water, said stack having a plurality of cells and having water passages connected to a water circulation system, to provide at least one of (i) product water removal (ii) condensate removal (iii) humidification of reactants, and (iv) cooling, each of said cells Including a MEA disposed between an anode support plate and a cathode support plate, a fuel reactant gas flow field on an anode side of said cell, and an oxidant reactant gas flow field on a cathode side of said cell;
(a) means for monitoring the current provided by and voltage across said stack;
(b) means for evacuating said water passages so as to provide the pressure of any water in said water passages at least 4kPa (0.6 psi) below the pressure of said reactant gases;
(c) means for providing at least stochiometric requirement of fuel reactant gas to said fuel flow fields and at least stochiometric requirement of oxidant reactant gas to said oxidant flow fields with said stack disconnected from said load; and
(d) means for connecting said stack to power said load after said reactant gases are provided to said stack.
4. Apparatus according to
(e) means for starting circulation of water flowing within said water passages after connecting said stack to said load.
This invention relates to rapidly initiating operation of a fuel cell power plant at sub-freezing temperature, in which product water is removed by drawing it into the water transport plates by means of a vacuum.
It is generally agreed that one difficulty with utilizing fuel cells to power the propulsion system of electric vehicles is the requirement that such vehicles be operable at temperatures below that at which water will freeze. Freezing provides potential mechanical damage as a consequence of the expansion of ice, and presents problems due to the inseparability of water and the fuel cell processes. Heretofore, various methods of initiating operation of a fuel cell, preparatory to the operation of an electric vehicle, have concentrated on providing heat, either by reaction or combustion of fuel, or by means of battery power, to various water and other coolant conduits and reservoirs. Other efforts are directed toward processes designed to accelerate the rate at which a fuel cell stack will heat up to above-freezing temperatures, as a consequence of its own operation.
In copending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/390,439 filed Mar. 17, 2003, a PEM fuel cell stack at subfreezing temperature is connected to a vehicle propulsion system or other electric load within a few seconds or as soon as the stack provides open circuit voltage. According to the invention, the fuel cell stack is started with more than a stochiometric flow of fuel and at least stochiometric flow of oxidant, which may be at subfreezing temperatures, or not, whereby to prolong operation without localized heating, thereby permitting the vehicle (or other load) to be used during the time that the apparatus and fluids are being heated to suitable, operational temperatures.
In one known type of PEM fuel cells, the coolant water is managed through porous water transport plates, and by recirculating the water through a restriction, the water is caused to be at between 7 and 21 kPa (1 to 3 psi) below the pressure of the reactants, which are typically at atmospheric pressure. This ensures that water will not pool in the reactant gas channels, that the water is forced into the water channels, and that the hydrophilic substrates will not be flooded and will have sufficient open porosity to permit reactant diffusion. However, when freezing temperatures are encountered, the water in the reactant channels, coolant channels, water pump and other conduits of the water circulatory system is drained upon shutdown of the fuel cell system; upon startup, there is no circulating water so there is no way to maintain negative pressure in the water channels. Therefore, water can build up in the reactant channels.
In one embodiment of said copending application, at least one of the reactant gases is provided to the fuel cell stack at a pressure of at least about 4 kPa (0.6 psi) above the pressure of any water in the water channels, which typically will be about atmospheric pressure. This prevents liquid water from pooling in the reactant channels, and flooding the electrode substrates, which is particularly important in the oxidant gas reactant channel where product water can accumulate.
Objects of the invention include: operating, at subfreezing temperature, a fuel cell stack without flooding of the cathode; improved initiation of fuel cell operation at subfreezing temperature; initiating fuel cell operation at subfreezing temperature without pressurizing the reactant gases; and avoiding the need for reactant pressure above atmospheric when starting a frozen fuel cell stack.
Other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent in the light of the following detailed description of exemplary embodiments thereof, as illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
The invention may be used with a wide variety of fuel cell stacks, having fuel cells of various configurations.
According to the invention, when starting a PEM fuel cell stack at below-freezing temperatures, the water in at least one of the reactant gas flow fields is drawn into porous water transport plates by means of a vacuum created in the water flow channels of the fuel cells. Referring to
The anode support plate 17 and cathode support plate 19 may include hydrophobic diffusion layers 76, 78 and hydrophilic substrate layers 80, 82. The anode diffusion layer 76 is adjacent to a side of the anode catalyst 72, and the anode substrate layer 80 is adjacent to the anode diffusion layer 76 opposite the anode catalyst 72. The anode diffusion layer 76 and the hydrophilic anode substrate layer 80 allow the fuel reactant gas, which passes through a passageway 94 in a water transport plate 84, and the water, which passes through a passageway 96, to reach the anode catalyst 72. In the general case, the water passageways may be adjacent to the plate that provides the reactant gas passages. The fuel cell 12 also includes a hydrophobic cathode diffusion layer 78 and a hydrophilic cathode substrate layer 82, which allow the oxidant reactant gas passing through a passageway 92 in a water transport plate 86 to reach the cathode catalyst 74. The cathode diffusion layer 78 is adjacent to a side of the cathode catalyst 74, and the cathode substrate layer 82 is adjacent to the cathode diffusion layer 78 opposite the cathode catalyst 74. The hydrophobic cathode diffusion layer 78 and the hydrophilic cathode substrate layer 82 also allow the product water, which forms in the cathode catalyst 74, to migrate toward the water transport plate 86.
The diffusion layers 76, 78 are applied to both the anode and cathode substrate layers 80, 82, within the anode support plate 17 and cathode support plate 19, by procedures well known in the art. One procedure is described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,233,181. The diffusion layers 76, 78 are typically constructed of porous conductive layers that are rendered hydrophobic or partially hydrophobic by means of a hydrophobic polymer.
As shown in
The water transport plates 84, 86, 88, 89 are typically porous graphite having a mean pore size of approximately two (2) to three (3) microns and a porosity of about 35% to 40%. It is preferable to make the water transport plates 84, 86, 88, 89 hydrophilic by treating them with tin oxide (SnO2) such as described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,840,414, which is owned by the assignee of the present invention and hereby incorporated by reference.
The hydrophilic porous nature of the cathode water transport plate 86, in conjunction with a negative pressure differential between the coolant and oxidant reactant gas streams, ensures proper removal of the product water formed at the cathode. Specifically, the water flows from the cathode support plate 19, through the water transport plate 86 and into the coolant passageways 98. Also, the anode water transport plate 84 furnishes the anode support plate 17 with a continuous supply of water, which eventually reaches the PEM and prevents it from becoming dry.
Alternatively, a fuel cell may differ from the fuel cell 12 in
In another alternative, a fuel cell which may be used with the present invention may have interdigitated reactant passageways within the substrate layers, rather than in the water transport plates thereby allowing the reactant gas streams to pass directly into and through the substrate layer. Whether the reactant gas passageways have a conventional or serpentine flow-through configuration or interdigitated configuration, the water transport plates include additional grooves on their opposite side. When this opposite side abuts another water transport plate, or any other plate, these grooves serve as passageways for the coolant stream to pass therethrough. Additionally, when the anode and cathode water transport plates abut each other and these grooves align, these grooves jointly create a single coolant stream passageway that serves as water transport plates for both the anode of one cell and the cathode of an adjacent cell.
The fuel cell stack may have solid separator plates between fuel cells disposed between the anode water transport plates 84, 89 and the cathode water transport plates 86, 88. Or, each cell may be separated from an adjacent cell by solid separator plates having coolant channels therein, as shown in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/036,181, filed Dec. 28, 2001. The coolant channels would similarly be placed, at every fourth or so fuel cell, between an anode water transport plate, such as one of the plates 84, 89, and a cathode water transport plate, such as one of the transport plates 86, 88, of an adjacent fuel cell. In the case of coolant plates between adjacent cells or occasionally interspersed in the stack, the coolant therein may either be antifreeze solution, or it may be water. In the usual case, if separate coolant channels are utilized, antifreeze may typically be used so as to simplify the handling of coolant in climates which are below the freezing temperature of water.
There are additional configurations disclosed in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/733,133, filed Dec. 8, 2000, with which the invention may be used.
The invention may also be used with passive water management fuel cells, such as that disclosed in the aforementioned application Ser. No. 10/036,181, in which the ends of water channels adjacent to corresponding reactant gas inlet manifolds are dead ended, and the other ends of the water channels drain excess water into a related reactant gas exhaust manifold.
Referring now to
A controller 185 responds to load current determined by a current detector 186 as well as to the voltage across the lines 155, 156; it may also have temperature of the stack provided on a line 187. The controller, in turn, can control the valve 180 over a line 190 as well as controlling the other valves, the switches 158, 160 and the pumps 174, 170, as shown in
The controller 185 responds to start and speed control signals from the vehicle propulsion system 159 on lines 193 and 194, which will indicate when the fuel cell should commence operation, and the amount of power being demanded by the vehicle propulsion system.
It is assumed that the vehicle propulsion system will be started up in a condition in which at least a portion of the fuel cell stack 151 is below the freezing temperature of water. When that is the case, the entire vehicle may be in an ambient environment which is below the freezing temperature of water. It is further assumed, for the explanation that follows, that the fuel cell stack has had substantially all of the water in the porous support plates and the reactant gas flow fields removed, which may be achieved in accordance with a procedure disclosed in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/826,739, filed Apr. 5, 2001. Thus, there will likely be ice in the PEM, in the anode and cathode catalyst layers, as well as within the pores of the water transport plates. However, it should be borne in mind that the water transport plates themselves can hold ice within the pores without doing damage to the water transport plates, as in the case for the PEM. Furthermore, the substrates 80, 82 (
According to the invention, a valve 200 is provided so as to be able to isolate the water transport plates 84, 86, 88, 89 in conjunction with the valve 166. Additionally, a line 202 is provided to a valve 203, which in turn is connected to a small vacuum pump 205. During initial startup, with the valves 166 and 200 closed, and the valve 203 open and the vacuum pump 205 operating, any water formed adjacent to the cathode will be drawn into the water transport plates. The pressure of the reactant gases will be above the pressure in the water channels by at least 4 kPa (0.6 psi) and preferably 4 to 21 kPa (0.6�3 psi), due to the vacuum in the water channels. The pressure differentials are measured between the reactant exhaust manifolds and the water inlet manifold of the stack.
Whenever a start signal is sent from the vehicle propulsion system 159 over the line 193 to the controller 185, signals from the controller will cause the valves 166 and 200 to be closed, the valve 203 to be open and the pump 205 to run. Also, the valves 180, 181 and the pump 183 will be operated appropriately so as to provide fuel reactant gas to the flow fields of the anode 17, and the valve 175 and pump 174 will be operated appropriately to provide ambient air to the flow fields of the cathode 19. Initially, more than a stochiometric amount of hydrogen based on current density during startup will be provided to the anode 17. Similarly, at least twice the stochiometric amount of air is provided initially; preferably an amount up to about five times stochiometric requirement of air is initially provided. The more air that is provided, the more uniform will be the current distribution among the various cells of the stack 151.
When fuel and air of sufficient quantity have been provided uniformly to the cells, open circuit voltage will be detected on the lines 155, 156 by the controller 185. At that time, the controller 10 closes the switch 158 so as to connect the fuel cell stack 151 to the vehicle propulsion system 159. Optionally, the controller 185 may also close the switch 160 at the same time so as to connect the fuel cell stack to an auxiliary load, which may comprise the heater 161 in the reservoir 164, which will start to melt some of the ice in the reservoir 164. With the fuel cell stack providing power to the loads, heat produced by the reactions within the fuel cell stack causes the fuel cell stack materials and the ice to begin warm up.
When the temperature of the stack reaches about 0� C. (32� F.), the heat generated by the stack is absorbed as the heat of fusion of the ice within the stack, substantially all of which is in the water transport plates. In fact, the water transport plates may have as much as 10 or 20 times more ice than the PEM, causing the temperature of the stack to remain at 0� C. out to nearly three minutes after startup, depending upon the power level. After about two and one-half minutes, heat generated by the operation of the stack is absorbed as sensible heat by the materials of the stack and the water inside the stack. Then, evaporative cooling begins to occur.
Although the air and hydrogen that are being brought into the stack may be very cold, and even below the freezing temperature of water, as the gases pass through the flow fields, they rapidly warm up and after about three and one-half minutes, will begin evaporating product water and water in the water transport plates into the gas streams, thereby providing cooling to the cell stack. During the entire initial time that the cell stack is operating, up to about seven and one-half minutes, the stack is relying on air cooling and primarily evaporative cooling to prevent excessive local heating at any point within the stack.
At about seven and one-half minutes after initiating stack operation, there typically will be sufficient liquid water in the reservoir 164 to fill the water circulating system. The controller then opens valves 166 and 200, closes valve 203, shuts off the pump 205, and turns on the pump 170. Water then passes from the tank through the valve 166, through the water transport plates, through the valve 200 and the radiator 168, the pump 170 and back to the reservoir 164. Although there may not be sufficient water to replace all of the ice in the reservoir 164 at this time, that is not, however, necessary. Therefore, circulation of water flowing within the water circulation system, including the water passages in the cell stack, can begin, and suitable negative water pressure will be achieved through adjustment of the valve 166 by the controller 185. Thereafter, liquid cooling of the cell stack, as in normal cell stack operation, will take place.
Note that the vehicle was placed in condition for operation within about 15 seconds of starting the flow of reactant gases into the stack; the stack was maintained in a sufficiently cool state by the heat of fusion of the melting ice in the water transport plates, by the heating up of the mass of the stack and water, and by the evaporation of water from the water transport plates into the reactant gases, particularly the oxidant reactant gas (air).
All of the aforementioned patents and patent applications are incorporated herein by reference.
Thus, although the invention has been shown and described with respect to exemplary embodiments thereof, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that the foregoing and various other changes, omissions and additions may be made therein and thereto, without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
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A prominent Catholic priest is calling for Catholics to boycott the upcoming feature film version of Dan Brown�s popular novel "The Da Vinci Code."
Father John Trigilio, president of the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy, EWTN contributor and author of four books, has provided me with the following (slightly edited) statement:
�I am asking my parishioners and Catholics everywhere to boycott the film and any of its advertising sponsors. I am asking them to protest by sending e-mail, snail mail, phone calls, and faxes to those who made this film.
�The Da Vinci Code is offensive, sacrilegious, blasphemous and historically inaccurate, as well as incredulous.
�While those who proclaim �it is only fiction� forget that any and all written words have an impact on the reader; and erroneous conclusions based on imaginary premises can and often do lure many readers to accept and believe as true what their normal common sense and ordinary human reason tell them is utter nonsense.
�When I read historical fiction or any fiction for that matter (even science-fiction), if I find sloppy research as evidenced by inaccurate historical or scientific facts, no matter how peripheral or essential to the plot, I stop reading the book or stop watching the movie. I expect the author to use logic and reason in addition to overcoming their laziness and investigate material they use in their work. Hence, if I read an historical fiction set in the Civil War era and the author erroneously inserts U.S. Grant as President when it was actually Andrew Johnson who was in office at the time the plot is supposed to take place, I refuse to read the rest of the book.
�Poor scholarship discourages me; manipulating and distorting history annoys me.
�No credible, scholarly evidence exists to support the ludicrous claims about Mary Magdalene. The Gnostic Gospel of Mary Magdalene was not written before the fourth century at least, whereas the Gospels have been verified to the first century. Not even the worst enemies of the Church, be it the pagan Roman Empire or the Jewish Pharisees and Sadducees of the same period, made such bizarre claims.
�Would you find in a scholarly scientific journal an article on archeology which proposed as a valid hypothesis that UFO's built the pyramids in Egypt? Of course not. There are crackpots who believe that but you will not find them and their ideas being given any credibility in Scientific American. So why should anyone give credence to theories concocted by a 20th century French forger who admitted he faked documents to establish his ludicrous claim to the French throne?
�The Apocryphal scriptures were never hidden nor forbidden. They were discredited and discounted. They are declared non-inspired, and in the case of the Gnostic Apocryphal writings, they are deemed completely inaccurate and untrue. Brown is using a sort of post-hypnotic suggestion in his book so that after reading it, Catholics and non-Catholics alike will say a day or two later, 'It is so bizarre, it just might be true.� Josef Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda for Hitler and the Nazi party said, �The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it.' Well, Elvis is dead, the lunar landing in 1969 was not a fake and Mary Magdalene was not the wife or lover of Jesus Christ and not the mother of His children, either.
�Conspiracy and Catholicism begin with the same letter, �C,� and that is the only similarity between the two. Opus Dei has no monks, let alone an Albino hit-man who sounds more like a character in a James Bond movie.
�Fiction, yes. Literature, no. Recommend, no. Denounce and repudiate, yes. Had such ludicrous conspiracy theories been written about Islam, Judaism or any other religion, there would be lawsuits and protests galore. Catholics let their enemies kick them in the groin too much. It�s time to wake up, stand up and defend our religion and our Church. Dan Brown should find another hobby.�
(Matt C. Abbott is a Catholic journalist and commentator. He is a columnist for and/or contributor to Catholic Online, TheConservativeVoice.com, RenewAmerica.us, MichNews.com, Opeds.com and Speroforum.com. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com)
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We were actually able to take an up-close look at the engine at the GDC. The centerpiece of Epic's technology demo was a series of scripted real-time sequences that showed the graphics engine's ability to handle large, incredibly detailed environments, as well as effects like blurring, bump mapping, and real-time player shadows. In a separate real-time demo, Epic's lead designer, Cliff "CliffyB" Blezinski, took the controls to show how Math Engine's Karma physics engine has been integrated into the Unreal engine to allow for extremely realistic physics on vehicles and player models.
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Near the end of the scripted demo, there was a firefight scene that dramatically illustrated how parts of the Unreal technology could come together to produce the sort of drama you'd expect from a good action movie. In the scene, small squad of space marines approached a lightly guarded entrance to an installation, and individual soldiers smoothly crouched behind cover on one side of the approaching bridge. They took out a couple of guards, who crumpled to the ground depending on how they were hit by gunfire--an effect made possible by the Karma physics system. When a guard in a mobile suit stepped out to stop the attack, a rocket went astray, hitting a stalactite, which in turn crashed down into the bridge. The bridge explodes somewhat differently every time the demo runs, because the physics engine determines how the debris collides. As a finale, one soldier from each side ended up in hand-to-hand brawl in the chasm below. A punch sent a helmet flying, the soldiers tussled on the ground, and they exchanged a series of vicious blows until one ripped the other's arm off. The sophistication of the skeletal animation system and ability to take character models apart by component elements added a lot to the sequence.
What was even more impressive was the demo of the new physics system. In an outdoor environment with smoothly rolling terrain, Blezinski jumped a jeep with full suspension over hills and drove through the engine's new procedural water, leaving a rippling wake in the jeep's trail. In a complex vehicle like a jeep, the physics engine models each moving piece as a simple Newtonian object with properties like mass and inertia and connects them with constraints that model springs and joints. For efficiency's sake, the physics engine uses simplified geometry to calculate the collision and interaction of objects, so a vehicle can be displayed at extremely high levels of polygon detail without slowing down a CPU with lots of unneeded physics processing.
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) is slated to report its first-quarter 2014 results before the
market opens on May 6. In fourth-quarter 2013, the company
recorded a positive earnings surprise of 1.10% as well as
provided an encouraging outlook for 2014.
Let us see how things are shaping up for first-quarter 2014
earnings release and whether the company will be able to post
another quarter of upbeat results.
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International Flavors & Fragrances' stellar performance in
fourth-quarter 2013 coupled with a robust outlook for 2014 have
made investors optimistic of strong growth in the quarters ahead.
The company's share price, since Feb 13, has risen by 12%, while
year-to-date gain is nearly 31.3%.
For 2014, International Flavors & Fragrances anticipates
growth in revenues and earnings to remain strong. Acquired assets
of Aromor, in Jan 2014, are expected to add 1% to local currency
sales growth and be accretive to earnings in 2014. Also, the
company plans to invest $50 million in Indonesia for expansion of
its Flavors business in the region. Besides expansion plans, the
company's investments are aimed to strengthen its innovation
platforms. Rewarding shareholders also remains a priority for the
In the past 5 years, International Flavors & Fragrances'
earnings grew 10.5%, while it is expected to grow 6.5% over the
next 5 years.
However, weather-related adversities in the United States in
first-quarter 2014 impacted various industries across the
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of concern.
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