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Determination of Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate in Toothpastes by a PVC Matrix Membrane Sensor
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The construction and characteristic performance of a new potentiometric PVC membrane sensor responsive for sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) are described. The sensor is based on the use of cetyltrimethylammonium-tetraphenylborate (CTA-TPB) ion-pair complex as electroactive material in PVC matrix in presence of dioctyl phthalate as a solvent mediator. The sensor exhibits a rapid, stable and near-Nernstian response for SDS over the concentration range of 5 × 10−3–5 × 10−6 mol dm−3 at 25 ± 2 °C and the pH range 4–8.5 with slope of 59.6 mV/decade change in SDS concentration. The lower detection limit is 5 × 10−6 mol dm−3 and the response time is 45 s. The determination of selectivity coefficients for different anions shows there is no interference except that of dodecyl benzene sulfonate (DBS−) ion which has a strong interference. The results obtained in the determination of SDS in toothpastes, using this sensor as an indicator electrode, were compared with those obtained from the spectrophotometric method using methylene blue as the reagent.
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- Title
- Determination of Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate in Toothpastes by a PVC Matrix Membrane Sensor
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Journal of Surfactants and Detergents
Volume 16, Issue 3 , pp 391-396
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- 2013-05-01
- 10.1007/s11743-012-1419-z
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- 1097-3958
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- 1558-9293
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- Springer-Verlag
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- PVC membrane electrode
- Dodecylsulfate
- Cetyltrimethylammonium
- Tetraphenylborate
- Potentiometry
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- Mahesh C. Chattopadhyaya (1)
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- 1. Electrochemical Sensors Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, 211002, UP, India


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This presentation gives an overview of the Climate Change Authority's recent report on the case for a light vehicle carbon dioxide emissions standard in Australia. The Authority is an independent statutory agency, established to provide expert advice on Australian climate change policy. This work extends a previous Authority report which noted that the transport sector is a significant and growing source of emissions and recommended that the government investigate the near-term introduction of fleet-average carbon dioxide emissions standards for light vehicles. The latest paper draws on commissioned modelling to demonstrate the net private and social benefits of standards and provides detailed proposals for the design of an Australian standard.
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SUWANEE -- If you want C.J. Blackwell and Corey Heyward to fight like brothers, ask one who is the NBA's best player.
Let Corey start.
"LeBron (James) is better because he plays defense and has way more leadership. The only reason Kobe (Bryant) is winning right now is because of those Lakers teams when they had the prime Shaq ..."
And C.J. can't say quiet any longer.
"Shaq wasn't there that last two," he interrupts with a counter-point.
Corey continues: "But he had Lamar Odom and another power. When this whole free agent thing comes up (James) just needs one more key element. LeBron can shoot, pass and dunk on you ..."
Enter C.J.: "So can Kobe."
Corey: "But his is awkward."
C.J.: "LeBron is powerful, yeah, but the stats prove it. What year hasn't Kobe been on the all-defensive team?"
Corey: "I don't want to hear it. I like LeBron way better."
C.J.: "I just like Kobe."
The debate must stop because basketball practice has already started at Peachtree Ridge and the two are missing it. It is not kitchen talk time. They don't have infinite time to debate the bona fides of two of the NBA's greatest players. But by the time this short spat ends, each is equally annoyed at the other. Heyward more than Blackwell because LeBron lacks Kobe's championships, but neither is satisfied with the other's refusal to concede the point.
But once they reach their own court, they are again on the same team. The debate can wait until the step-brothers get home.
"Do we argue about anything but sports?" Blackwell asks. Heyward sits silently, thinking ... for a while.
"We argue about the front seat," he says.
"Everybody does. We call it weeks in advance," Blackwell responds.
Blackwell and Heyward played basketball together before they lived under the same roof and the two easily made the transition from teammates to family.
"We were comfortable before," Blackwell says.
That comfort only grew over the five years since Blackwell's father married Heyward's mother. The same age, the two interact like fraternal twins. Their love of sports -- basketball especially -- transcends their differences. Heyward is quiet and withdrawn. He admits he would rather stay home and play video games. Blackwell hates to be at home. He tries to get Heyward to go out with him. It rarely works.
On the court, the differences fade. Their sizes dictate different positions. Heyward is a physical guard and Blackwell plays forward. But each has their own athletic family pedigree. Blackwell's father, Corey, played in the NBA after a successful college career at Wisconsin. Heyward's father is late NFL fullback Craig "Ironhead" Heyward. Both are second siblings at Peachtree Ridge. Blackwell's older sister, Amber, played basketball for the Lions and now plays at Carson-Newman. Heyward's brother, Cameron, played football and basketball and now plays defensive line at Ohio State.
When the elder two return on college breaks, the conversations continue.
"We have kitchen talk," Blackwell says. "We will sit there for hours.
"We talk about everything. It will start off with something about basketball and end up with the weirdest things from video games to everything."
The two learned from watching their older siblings and parents, but they learned the most from Cameron.
"Cameron was a workhorse," Heyward says. "He was just everywhere on the court. He was the biggest dude on the court and just worked hard."
"He kept his image clean and everything," Blackwell said.
As juniors and starters, the two step-brothers are now trying to build on what Cameron started for Peachtree Ridge basketball. They both remember skipping the Lions' Region 7-AAAAA win over Norcross when they were in eighth grade.
"I thought we were going to lose," Heyward says of the game against the defending and future state champs.
They don't want big wins to be upsets any longer. They want big wins to be expected and recognized. Peachtree Ridge, in part because of Cameron Heyward and a state championship, established itself early in its existence as a football school. But this Heyward, who shed football after junior high, and Blackwell want basketball to reach the same level.
It's a process.
"We are getting more fans and everything," Blackwell says. "But we still have to ask the athletic director to announce our basketball games. He announces football."
And that's the challenge. Both agree winning is the solution. It's the one thing they agree LeBron and Kobe both do well.
"We want to make this a basketball school and not just a football school," Heyward says.
Blackwell agrees: "Just win. We have a good team. We have talent. We just have to work harder than anyone else. That is how we are going to get it done."
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Using imagination and innovation, students are hard at work designing robots. The creations range from cars to robots responding to wireless instructions.
Robotics has caught up with the student community in a big way and many students have started forming groups in colleges to discuss several aspects of robotics
They run, jump, dance and can even respond like humans. The only difference is that they are made of metal and wires. Robotics has caught up within the student community in a big way and this is just the beginning.
From cars to making one's own wireless controlled robots and also canned satellites, it's all made thanks to tech savvy students, who are on the look out for components online or rather manufacture parts themselves.
The craze is such that many students have started forming groups in colleges to discuss several aspects of robotics and Aditya Baghel, CEO of Workshop India bears witness to the phenomenon.
"The scene is catching pace and most of the students are taking initiatives to promote robotics among their peers," says the final year student from Vellore Institute of Technology. "Most of the colleges teach the theoretical aspects of robotics. But lack in practical applications. However, the scene is changing now. Information is readily available online and several forums, where like minded people from around the globe share their experiences and video logs about their projects," he says.
A series of workshops are conducted by Workshop India on the technical and non-technical aspects of robotics. Be it the basic electrical features such as motors, switches and batteries and the mechanical aspects such as arms, grippers, tank belts which are used in making a robot. "Apart from mechanics and electronics, students from communications background too are doing their bit to make robots more interactive. Things such as wireless controlling too are getting better by the day, which is a good sign. Also, there are very few courses that cater to the needs of robotics, students from other streams get together to share knowledge on different subjects," says Rahul Kumar, a student from JNTU.
Several things such as microprocessors, micro controllers give students an advantage to program their robots to carry out a specific task, given to the level of complexity of the task. "One can buy components on the Internet according to their projects. Most of the wireless controllers available online are costly. However, there are components which help control robots from a range of 50 meters to 400 meters," says Mr. Baghel.
Such high end processors and components only help the robot to complete complex tasks such as solving a maze or navigating a path, not to mention detecting things. But the main factor in robotics remains team work. "Its just not what you know, the team work counts too. Sometimes, we might be stuck with a problem and the team members come forward to help, this is what makes robotics special," says Mr. Kumar.
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Campaigners for same-sex marriage in Australia have vowed to make the issue a key issue in the lead up to Australians voting on 7 September.
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced the election date yesterday and Australian Marriage Equality has released new polling that shows that same-sex marriage will be a key issue for swing voters.
A poll by the Galaxy research company found marriage equality could be an election-decider with 11% of Liberal/National Coalition supporters saying they were more likely to vote Labor because of Rudd's support on the issue while 57% of voters including 37% of Coalition voters said Opposition leader Tony Abbott's opposition on the issue was out-of-step with community attitudes.
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Candy for 1 year olds treat bags?
Those are sticky and hard to chew for babies. Does it have to be candy? What about Baby Goldfish? Or yogurt melts? Or freeze dried fruit cut into bite-size pieces? I would just avoid candy at this age...they don't know what they're missing, so they won't be mad or anything.
For DS's preschool (4 yr olds), I'm sending in valentines with temp. tattoos and cupcakes. I figure they'll get enough candy!!
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a 1½ yr old little bear!!
I agree Mommy. You can buy indiv. packs of graham type snacks (annie's for one). Animal crackers are usually a hit too.
Mommy to DS 10/11/07, DD 4/23/10, & DS 12/15/11
Unfortunately our area schools no longer allow edible treats. So I have to pencils, activity pads, cheap beanie bears, stickers, crayon.... Type stuff.
Pinterest had some cute ideas with tiny toy cars or lil plastic dinosaurs.
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Co GO Dec 2011
Yeah.. I purposely avoided food for that reason. I made love shake bottles..my son loves playing with them.
I also say no to candy. Good luck :).
~Don't look back. You're not going that way.~
I agree, i wouldnt give my one year old any kind of candy. too risky.
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what about melting down crayons into heart shapes (as seen on pinterest) or something more useful and fun than candy. just think, do those kids moms want them having candy at such a young age, let alone the choking hazards.
check pinterest for ideas.
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Jurors: FEMA trailer didn't expose family to fumes
NEW ORLEANS A federal jury on Thursday rejected a New Orleans family's assertions that the government-issued trailer they lived in after Hurricane Katrina exposed them to dangerous fumes, in the first of several trials that could lead to hundreds of similar claims being resolved.
Five men and three women decided that a trailer made by Gulf Stream Coach Inc. and occupied by Alana Alexander and her 12-year-old son, Christopher Cooper, was not "unreasonably dangerous" in its construction. One juror saying the plaintiffs' attorneys never had the "smoking gun" that proved their case.
The jury also concluded that Fluor Enterprises Inc., which had a contract to install FEMA trailers, wasn't negligent. The federal government wasn't a defendant in this first of several "bellwether" trials, which are designed to help the New Orleans court test the merits and possibly settle of other claims over formaldehyde exposure in FEMA trailers.
Lawyers on both sides wouldn't speculate on how the verdict could affect other cases. A law professor who specializes in toxic tort cases said verdicts in bellwether trials can steer parties toward a mass settlement of similar claims.
Alexander and Cooper lived in a FEMA trailer for 19 months after Hurricane Katrina damaged their home in August 2005.
Alexander's lawyers claimed elevated levels of formaldehyde aggravated Cooper's asthma and increased his risk of getting cancer. Formaldehyde, a chemical commonly found in construction materials, can cause breathing problems and has been classified as a carcinogen.
Plaintiffs' attorneys accused Gulf Stream and other trailer makers of using shoddy materials and methods in a rush to meet the Federal Emergency Management Agency's unprecedented demand for temporary shelters after hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Gulf Stream denied its trailer jeopardized the health of Alexander and her family. A company lawyer also noted that Alexander took her son off a steroid medication for his asthma for more than two years.
The jury heard eight days of testimony and deliberated about four hours before delivering its decision.
Juror Roy Pierce, 43, of Boutte, said he was troubled by testimony about some of Gulf Stream's "in-house practices" but didn't think the evidence supported a verdict against the companies.
"You didn't have the smoking gun," he said.
Plaintiffs' attorney Gerald Meunier said he was disappointed.
"We thought we presented a strong case. The jury has spoken on this one," he said.
Andrew Weinstock, a lawyer for Nappanee, Ind.-based Gulf Stream, said FEMA had purchased thousands of trailers from the company since 1992 without receiving any formaldehyde complaints until 2006.
Weinstock said the company is pleased with the outcome, but he wouldn't speculate on how the verdict could impact similar cases awaiting trial.
"If some good came from this, it's that Christopher Cooper is now on the proper asthma medication ... and we're happy for that," he added.
Pavel Wonsowicz, a UCLA School of Law professor who specialized in toxic tort and products liability cases as a trial attorney in Boston, said verdicts in bellwether trials can steer parties toward settling many others.
But lawyers typically wait for several cases to be tried, he said. For example, Merck Inc. had won 10 of 15 federal and state court verdicts – including four of five in federal court – when it agreed to a $4.85 billion settlement with people who had suffered heart attacks or strokes after taking its painkiller Vioxx for at least 30 days.


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Grace Collection Horseshoe Counter Height Pub Table
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|Product Type: Pub table
|Table Base Type: Legs
|Table Shape: Square
|Style: Traditional
|Distressed: No
|Table Base Material: Metal
|Table Top Material: Glass
|Number of Items Included: 1
|Warp Resistant: Yes
|Stools Included: No
|Table Casters Included: No
|Shelves Included: No
|Drawers Included: No
|Cabinets Included: No
|Custom Made: Yes
|Drop Leaf: No
|Extension Included: No
|Foldable Table: No
|Table Foot Rest Included: Yes
|Wrought Iron: Yes
|Adjustable Table Height: No
|Commercial Use: Yes
|Product Care: Wipe with a dry cloth
|Country of Manufacture: United States
|Assembly Required: No
|Installation Required: No
|Additional Parts Required: No
|Product Warranty: 1 year
About the ManufacturerGrace Manufacturing Company Inc. is a metal and wrought iron bedroom furniture manufacturing company, located in Rome, Georgia. Grace manufactures wrought iron beds, chairs, and tables. The company has been in business for over 25 years and employs skilled artisans and craftsmen.
Aside from having state of the art manufacturing equipment Grace still assembles and finishes their products by hand. Many of their items are hand made or hand painted and very unique. Grace has a reputation for implementing unique ideas to traditional wrought iron bedroom furniture.
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The owners of Norwalk Custom Order Furniture still may have a long road ahead before they can start churning out goods.
But they made progress Tuesday night when the Norwalk City Council approved a $225,000 revolving loan fund agreement benefiting the furniture company.
The seven-year loan has a 2 percent fixed-interest rate. An identical loan on the open market would carry an interest rate several times that, officials said.
The loan will be used to purchase a mix of equipment, which in total is expected to cost the company $450,000, said Ben Kenny, development coordinator for the WSOS Community Action Commission. WSOS advises the city of Norwalk in some financial matters.
"There's some machinery they need to get in their ownership to continue with the full production," Kenny said. "It includes some equipment, I believe, that is off site in Tennessee."
The new furniture makers have compiled a veritable laundry list of necessary equipment. Topping that list are wood routers -- essential to creating the patterned frames of the furniture products, said Denny Camp, an outside tax consultant who is representing the company.
Camp said the new company's business philosophy will have to be different from that of the company it replaces. He said the entire business model is going to change to improve efficiency, starting with plans to make the frames on site.
"The old corporation had another business that they owned produce the wood frames. ... If you ordered a couch, they would order those frames up, and they'd have to order a pallet of them," Camp said. "If 50 of them come on that pallet, then 49 of them sit on there until somebody else orders that same couch," he added. "We'll cut things as lean as we can and make operations as efficient as possible."
The overhaul will also impact the sales format.
"It's going to be a licensing-type structure, more or less," Camp said. "With a franchise, the only products they can put on their floor are Norwalk Furniture products, where this (new format) will allow them to put whatever they want. All we want them to do is sell furniture, and we'll say our furniture can stand up to anybody," he added.
A lot is riding on Norwalk Custom Order Furniture's success. Hundreds of jobs are hanging in the balance.
That partly explains why the city is taking a stake in its future with a low-interest loan. But the loan was also a prerequisite for the company to secure state assistance.
The Ohio Department of Development pledged a $2 million loan to the dozen investors to help purchase the Norwalk Furniture plant, Mayor Sue Lesch said. The department also arranged a $718,916 job creation tax credit on the promise that Norwalk Custom Order Furniture would generate 260 full-time jobs within three years.
Part of the requirement for receiving this tax relief is a local match.
As the new investors strive to get production going, former Norwalk Furniture employees are struggling to make ends meet.
Under the Trade Adjustment Act, Lesch said extended unemployment and training benefits are available to about 505 Norwalk Furniture employees. Mandatory meetings for interested employees are slated for Oct. 30-31 at the Norwalk High School Performing Arts Center.


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The new Converged Media report, the culmination of a series of consumer and marketer surveys by London-based agency Seven.
Paid media is great for driving awareness and makes a promise to a consumer, but owned media is the vehicle by which to deliver against those promises.
So says the new Converged Media report, the culmination of a series of consumer and marketer surveys by London-based agency Seven. Marketers strongly agree with a converged approach to media, spending an increasing amount on paid while investing heavily in owned channels.
"There's a big shift in PR and Advertising. Although advertisements are still important, they don't work that well anymore," says Sam Bredl, Content and Marketing Manager at Take Off PR, a Vienna-based content marketing start-up. "Now you need to find your consumers' needs and produce information that can be used by them."
Useful information aside, Bredl suggests that marketers should create concise content and deliver the information in different formats. "It's important to create blog posts for your clients and use all social media channels," Bredl tells ClickZ.
Indeed, owned media, including blogs, email newsletters, brand websites and social media channels have increasingly appealed to marketers. More than 9 out of 10 brands have used an owned media channel or format in 2013, according to Seven, while 67 percent of marketers believe owned media will continue its upward trend next year.
Meanwhile, nearly 50 percent of advertisers agree that owned media is "important" or "extremely important". Four-fifths advertisers in the interview said that owned media is "very effective" or "somewhat effective" at delivering overall return on investment (ROI). This number is in line with the ratings given to both digital media (83 percent) and traditional paid media (78 percent).
A deeper look at the budget allocation reveals that owned media spend is spread across a variety of channels. Content-led websites, email and branded social media page including Facebook, Google+ and Twitter lead in spend.
Converged media goes beyond the use of both paid and owned media, to a deep understanding of the role each plays in assisting a customer in making a purchasing decision. Consumers and marketers agree that paid media rules at the beginning of the customer journey, says Seven. However, owned media is the key to conversion.
How can marketers begin to adopt a converged approach to new media? Seven recommends:
Paid and owned media are stronger together. Marketers recognize the opportunity and are hungry to work in this way, says Seven.
Seven conducted online surveys of 1,969 British consumers, as well as phone interviews with senior marketers from 71 members of the Incorporated Society of British Advertisers, in their research. Get the full Converged Media report from the Seven website.
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Firefox frequently installs updates to my add ons automatically. That's fine, but every time it does one of these updates, it opens a URL in a new tab. The URL is apparently determined by the add on developer. Often three or more of these extension update tabs open when I start firefox. It's a right pain, and I want to disable the feature entirely. Does anyone know how I might do that? Thanks.
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A device for balancing a plurality of at least two batteries or cells of a multicell battery comprises a multicell battery and a battery management system with a balancing circuit. Thereby all individual battery cells are connected to the battery monitoring system, wherein the battery monitoring system measures single cell voltage as well as the battery temperature and the current. The battery monitoring system is able to discern the lowest cell voltage and to discern a number of cells having a voltage higher than a determined maximum allowable voltage, which will be balanced until the charge imbalance decreases to an acceptable amount. The battery management system is active during charging and discharging of the multicell battery and the thresholds vary with the state of the battery.
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9: A device for balancing a plurality of at least two cells of a multicell battery comprising:
a battery monitoring system having a balancing circuit; and
a multicell battery having individual battery cells, wherein all individual battery cells are connected to the battery monitoring system,
wherein the battery monitoring system measures every single cell voltage and discerns at least one cell having one of a lowest cell voltage and a voltage below a determined lower threshold voltage and discerns a number of cells having a voltage higher than a determined maximum allowable voltage, and
wherein the battery monitoring system generates a control signal for the balancing circuit to allow balancing of the cells if a voltage difference between the cell having the lowest cell voltage and the cells having a voltage higher than the determined maximum allowable voltage is greater than a predetermined threshold.
10: The device according to
11: The device according to
12: The device according to
determining a balancing threshold, dependant on a state of the multicell battery (charge or discharge current) and other factors from the group comprising: an actual state of charge, voltage of a weakest and voltage of a highest cell, a value of charging current or load current, a maximum balancing current, a maximum balancing time, a temperature, an age and number of cycles of the multicell battery, or any combination thereof;
evaluating the cell that has the lowest cell voltage;
calculating the maximum allowable cell voltage, which is an upper border of voltage band by adding a balancing threshold to the voltage of the lowest cell;
comparing a cell voltage of every single cell to the maximum allowable cell voltage;
optionally, comparing the cell voltage of every single cell to the minimum threshold value;
storing/transmitting balancing information of specific cell and enable balancing, if the voltage of said cell exceeds said threshold value.
13: The device according
14: The device according to
15: The device according
16: A device for balancing a plurality of at least three cells of a multicell battery comprising:
a multicell battery;
a battery monitoring system; and
an internal resistance measurement unit for providing an internal resistance measurement comprising two units for difference calculation, a unit for resistance calculation and a unit for a small signal compensation,
wherein the two units for difference calculation create a difference signal of voltage and current, respectively,
wherein the two units for difference calculation are connected to the unit for resistance calculation, the output of the unit for resistance calculation is provided to the unit for signal compensation discarding results that were received from the unit for resistance calculation at small currents, and
wherein the internal resistance measurement is conducted during operation time of the multicell battery.
17: The device according to
18: The device according to
19: The device according
The present invention relates to a device to improve the charging or discharging process of a battery, to increase the usable capacity and the usable lifetime (number of cycles) of a battery.
Using balancing for charging/discharging batteries is known from prior art.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,114,835 for example discloses a balancing circuit that incorporates a voltage threshold which determines when to initiate a charge balance mode in order to equalize the level of charge in at least two cells of a multi-cell battery pack. Thereby balancing is initiated when the voltage level of a first cell reaches a first threshold voltage and balancing is stopped, when reaching a second threshold voltage. Balancing is used during charging a battery to balance the charge between cells. This can be done using passive balance circuits or active balance circuits. Normally the balancing method/balancing procedure is started at the end of charging, when one or more of the cells reach prematurely the end of charge voltage or during charging, when one cell voltage reaches a predefined fixed threshold. Then the balance circuit will equalize the charge of this cell compared to at least one of the other cells.
It is a drawback of this device that balancing is only applied between two specific thresholds and that it is only applicable for charging a battery. Furthermore the equalization takes a long time since the threshold is fixed at a certain value.
Patent application US2005/0140335 discloses a terminal voltage equalization circuit to equalize the terminal voltage of a series of connected battery strings. This patent application states that the charging current of the higher charge cells is reduced and the lower charged cells are equalized, making it therefore clear, that they use their concept during charge only. It is a further drawback that balancing is used on certain time intervals only.
According to prior art there are several methods and devices known to determine the state of health or the age of a battery. The internal battery resistance for example is a very good indicator for the state of health (or age) of the battery. Common methods for the internal resistance measurement are either the AC Impedance measurement, where a medium to high frequency signal is used to measure the impedance or the DC Resistance measurement, where with an additional circuit a DC current is used to measure the voltage drop and calculate the DC resistance. The latter is used off-line, meaning, that when the battery is not used, the cell is discharged with a constant current and the voltage drop is measured. To get an accurate reading the discharge current has to be in the order of half or full nominal battery current. This is not an energy problem as the pulses are quite short, but the measurement current has to be switched on (needs large semiconductor switch).
An object of the present invention is to provide a device for monitoring a battery comprising two or more cells in series and to keep the charge imbalance between the cells within a narrow band using a balanced scheme that does not have the disadvantages of prior art as already mentioned.
It is another object of the invention to provide a method and a device that is able to reach a full charge of a battery in a shorter time than methods and device of prior art.
According to invention there is provided a device for balancing a plurality of at least two batteries or cells of a multicell battery comprising a multicell battery and a battery management system with a balancing circuit. The device is characterized in that all individual battery cells are connected to a battery monitoring system, wherein the monitoring system measures every single cell voltage as well as the battery temperature and the current. The said battery monitoring system is able to discern a charge imbalance between the cells of a multicell battery (e.g. discern the lowest cell voltage or when the voltage of one or several cells is below the average voltage of all or when one or more cells are outside a statistical tolerance band given by the standard deviation) and to discern a number of cells having a voltage higher than a determined maximum allowable voltage, which will be balanced until the charge imbalance decreases to an acceptable amount. The battery management system is active during charging and discharging of said multicell battery, wherein the thresholds vary with the state of the battery. These measurement values are used for various calculations described below.
The balancing method is applicable on the directly measured cell voltages as well as on the corrected cell voltages according to the method. The advantage of using the corrected voltages is that these voltages are equivalent to the charge of the specific cell whereas the uncorrected values are influenced by the current and the temperature and the age of the battery, which may lead to unintentional balancing of certain cells with an internal resistance that differs from the average internal resistance inside the battery pack. This leads to a more efficient balancing, especially for batteries with a higher number of cells in series.
The battery monitoring system of the device effectively monitors all individual cells continuously or intermittently. If inconspicuous cells are checked, the battery monitoring system can store a value stating that the voltage of a given cell is far away from, i.e. lower than, the upper threshold and is also in its voltage quite higher than the lowest voltage in question. Such cells can then be omitted in a continuously running check and can be checked intermittently with a lower frequency. Such cells will then be reallocated to the usual check frequency, if their values approach the given limits.
The drawings will be explained in greater detail by means of a description of an exemplary embodiment, with reference to the following figures:
By means of the
Throughout the following description several terms will be used which are defined as follows:
All cells of the battery are monitored by a battery monitoring system 31, shown in
As it can be seen from the diagram in
It has to be noted that, if all cells are in between the said voltage band, there is no balancing. The term maximum allowable cell voltage is defined to discern one or more cells, having already reached a certain cell voltage, while at least one cell stays behind in terms of voltage.
The term dependant on state of battery and other factors can comprise the actual state of charge of the weakest cell, the value of the charging current or the load current and the temperature of the cells. It has to be noted that above steps are also carried out when the cells are discharging. Other factors may the actual state of charge, voltage of the weakest and voltage of the highest cell, the value of the charging current or the load current and different further factors.
The calculation does take into consideration, that these factors will change the values of the voltage difference ΔU as calculated in point I) to V) on page 7. A temperature change of the battery will either increase or decrease the voltage per usable capacity change ratio. At lower temperature is the usable capacity much lower (typically 50% at −10� C. for Li-Poly Systems, other values for different Lithium based systems). As a consequence the voltage drop per imbalance charge quantity will vary also. This change can be directly calculated from charge/discharge curves from the manufacturer.
Over time (age) and number of cycles there is also a decrease of usable capacity, which again influences the ratio between voltage difference ΔU and the imbalance charge quantity
It is also possible to run the method 10 in a different way. The loop 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19 is only effected for cells cell(m) near the upper end of the voltage band. A second slower monitoring circuit looks at the remaining usually uncritical cells and includes them in the method 10 according to
Generally, the lowest voltage Ulow is determined without considering the internal resistance of the battery. However, it is also possible that the internal resistance of the cell will be taken into account as described above.
The balancing threshold ΔU is a result of weighted calculations of state of operation (charge or discharge), state of charge (fully charged, fully discharged, partially discharged or partially charged), temperature and age (state of health). Basically, the balancing threshold ΔU is proportional to a certain amount of imbalance. If this imbalance increases beyond the acceptable level, balancing circuit gets active to reduce this charge imbalance.
It is noted that during the operation of the balancing circuit the steps according to
Thereby the system to determine the internal resistance according to the present invention comprises an element for difference calculation 21, an element for resistance calculation 22, an element for small signal correction 23, a low pass filter 24 and an offset correction 25. The element for signal correction discards results, which were received from the element for resistance calculation 22, at small currents. This to avoid calculation errors, which may occur at small signals. The offset correaction 25 cancels the difference between short- and long term measurements. Its value equals the slow electrochemical part of the internal resistance.
Thereby the voltage of each cell is monitored and the current is measured as well. The current is measured as a mean to protect the battery. With the difference of these two parameters it is possible by means of ohms law to determine the internal resistance. Thereby the voltage drop over the specific cell is divided by the current variation. This means that the internal resistance may be determined under normal operation conditions during charge as well as during discharge. This is a big advantage over prior art, because no external components are needed and measurements can be carried out without stopping the device.
If the current variations are very small, it is possible that noise could affect the result in a severe way. To prevent such measurement resolution errors, advanced filtering methods are used and the measurements at low signal values will be discarded. The measurement should therefore only be made when the current variations are big enough. However, this small signal correction does not filter all non ideal calculations. A low pass filter 24 avoids too big steps of the value of internal resistance, which occur when the calculation is made at a not ideal sampling point.
The method is shown in
The measurement of the internal resistance is very important for assessing the battery in terms of state of health or age (SOH Algorithms). If one or multiple cells have an increased internal resistance in contrast to the average internal resistance, they are considered as 'weak cells'. Since the performance of the whole battery pack is determined by the weakest cell, it is vital to replace these cells before they affect the performance in a very negative way. The results from the internal resistance calculation 20 allow such an early detection of weak cells.
The result of method 30 is a corrected voltage which is independent of the current and which is proportional to the charge of the cell. Basically, it is the voltage 'inside' the cell, without the effects from the internal resistance and the connection resistance.
Such values are of big significance for all voltage based algorithm and thresholds like balancing, end of charge, end of discharge and others.
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The report was a collaborative effort with Human Rights Watch and the Cameroonian LGBT organizations Alternatives-Cameroun and l'Association pour la Défense des Droits des Homosexuels. Based on interviews with human rights defenders, survivors, and officials as well as visits to detention centers, "Criminalizing Identities" documents the prejudice, discrimination, and abuse suffered by LGBT people in Cameroon at the hands of police, politicians, the media, and their own communities. Included are accounts of arrests, abuse in detention, the difficulties faced by HIV-positive in accessing medico-legal services as well as the violence, ostracism and fear experienced when individuals are seen to violate strict gender norms.
The launch of "Criminalizing Identities" in Cameroon included meetings with government officials and advocacy at the African Commission on Human and People's Rights. IGLHRC organized a highly-attended panel at the November session of the African Commission in the Gambia. The report recommends the decriminalization of homosexuality in Cameroon and calls on the government to provide effective legal protections for LGBT people.
IGLHRC first worked in Cameroon to help defend a group of individuals arrested in a cafe in Yaounde in 2005. Since that time, the LGBT movement in Cameroon has developed into one of the strongest in Africa. Prepared with this report IGLHRC is committed to ongoing support to LGBT Cameroonians in their opposition to discrimination and violence.


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DJ Logic set to debut "Are You Ready" (Created June 20, 2013)
Jason "DJ Logic" Kibler is just a kid from the Bronx who worked a practiced hand on the turntable at local parties. Except he became more, thanks to his work with nu-jazz/acid-jazz and various jam bands. In other words, if you haven't heard the name of DJ Logic, you will soon.
From small community events, DJ Logic's star was on the rise pretty quickly. It was inside of a decade that he went from the group Eye & I to performing with bands such as Living Color and Body Count. He later hooked up with the jazz trio MMW (keyboardist John Medeski, drummer Billy Martin and bassist Chris Wood) and they burned up the road on tour while working on "Combustication" (MMW's fifth album).
Logic later released his debut album, "Project Logic," to critical acclaim in 1999. Two years later came "Anomaly," which featured a meld of industrial and aria on "Hip-Hopera" and was also hailed by critics and fans alike. But the project also proved to be the second of just five discs by the artist, who hasn't been featured on a full-length LP since "The John Popper Project" in 2006. (Though that could change on June 25, 2013 as Logic's "Are you Ready" is slated for release and features Grammy Nominated saxophone player Jay Rodriguez from Groove Collective, vocalist Jamelle Bundy and Rolanl Richards on piano and keyboards).
DJ Logic often tours with his own group, but has also recorded and performed with a myriad of other artists including John Mayer, Medeski Martin & Wood, Jack Johnson, Chris Whitley, Bob Belden and many more. He recently appeared at Bonnaroo, and has dates booked through the summer around the United States. Another date also booked well in advance is the JamCruise, which departs with DJ Logic aboard on January 4, 2014 from Port Miami, Florida.
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Anna woke up. Her head hurt terribly after she had spent the night on her laptop searching for the answers to her homework. The floorboards creaked, as she made her way towards the window, and caught a glimpse of a crowd of boys bullying a scrawny kid. She shook her head wearily. Diverting her thoughts, she checked the next door's garage to find the gigantic lorry that had arrived yesterday, facilitating them to move all their furniture and washing equipment. Suddenly, she jumped as a deafening drone came from a flying car, which whizzed overhead. The day had now begun…
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The tennis community needs more Macs, Connors', Nastases and Rios'. Remember that women like the bad boy racquet smashers like Marat Safin. They care nothing for the calm stolidity of a John Isner. To whom would you rather be akin?
Those kind of actions can disturb the concentration of others playing on other courts. Many people pay money to see bad boys like Mac to be entertained and know nothing about tennis. Those players are in stadiums not disturbing other players concentrations.
TTMR, surely you don't feel behavior, by adults behaving badly, that could be witnessed by young impressionable children nearby, who may then think it's acceptable to behave in such a fashion on a tennis court.
I commend the OP for fessing up, a reasonable amount of frustration is OK to demonstrate on rare occasions but the more Fed like self-control a tennis player can develop, the better off they and others around them will be.
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Hedberg, Devils silence Islanders
Martin Brodeur isn't the only New Jersey Devils goalie who knows a thing or two about shutouts.
NHL ACTIONTake a look at the best NHL photos from this week's games.
Veteran backup Johan Hedberg made 22 saves for his 22nd career blanking, and Steve Bernier scored two of New Jersey's three third-period goals in the Devils' 3-0 victory over the New York Islanders on Sunday.
The game was scoreless until Bernier broke the deadlock with a power-play goal with 3:54 remaining. He doubled New Jersey's lead just 1:10 later, and David Clarkson sealed the win with an empty-net goal in the final minute as the Devils snapped a four-game losing streak (0-1-3).
''We're going to have to have contributions from all kinds of different people,'' Devils coach Pete DeBoer said. ''It's nice to be able to get the win.''
Hedberg's biggest save came 8:08 into the third period when he denied Michael Grabner on a short-handed breakaway.
''He had a few breakaways against us, especially short-handed,'' Hedberg said of the speedy Grabner. ''Just tried to come out and try to match his speed as (well) as possible.
''He's one of the quickest players in the world, I think. I haven't seen him do that move before. I've seen him shoot, I've seen him go to the backhand and now something else.''
Evgeni Nabokov was strong in making 24 saves for New York. His best stop was 2:05 into the second when he snared a drive by Patrik Elias following Brian Strait's giveaway in the Islanders zone.
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''He played well. Kept us in, especially in the second period when they gained some momentum,'' Islanders coach Jack Capuano said. ''(New Jersey) came at us pretty hard. I thought both goalies played well. Nabby gave us a chance to win the game.''
However, he couldn't stop Bernier's rebound putback of Adam Henrique's shot that was blocked in front.
Bernier struck again soon after with his second of the game and third of the season - all against the Islanders.
''We were buzzing around on the power play and we (shot) the puck and go for the rebound. That's exactly what happened,'' Bernier said. ''On the second, our line (Stephen Gionta and Ryan Carter) did a great job on the forecheck. We were able to keep the puck in.
''I was trying to put the puck in the right places in front of Nabby where I (would) be able to get the rebound and the puck went in. It's great. Obviously great work by everybody on the ice.''
The teams took turns controlling playing throughout the first 55 minutes. New York outshot the Devils 10-7 in a high-tempo first period, and New Jersey clamped down on defense in the second.
New Jersey killed all seven New York power plays. The Islanders stifled the Devils' first two advantages before Bernier broke through with the winning goal on New Jersey's third power play.
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The Islanders generated only five shots in their 11:30 of power-play time. New York entered the day with the NHL's most potent power play.
''We can't get too frustrated. We had our opportunities on the power play,'' Capuano said. ''They came a little bit more aggressive, I thought. They probably made a few adjustments, but again I thought we got in the zone in our entries the way that we had to but after that there was no energy.
''They were winning all the puck battles. We weren't moving our feet. We weren't functioning properly.''
NOTES: New York scratched defensemen Joe Finley and Radek Martinek, and RW Colin McDonald. New Jersey scratched defensemen Peter Harrold and Henrik Tallinder, and C Stefan Matteau. .The Islanders and Devils will play twice more this season - Feb. 16 at Nassau Coliseum, and April 1 in New Jersey. ... The announced attendance was 11,558.
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