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I hate to burst the bubble, but the Tleilaxu eyes were made of a blank matte metal. They said that they were far superior to normal human eyes, but you didn't see many Tleilaxu giving them up for the 'enhanced' version!
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"I hate to burst the bubble, but the Tleilaxu eyes were made of a blank matte metal. "
They don't do overnight shipping, either.
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From the book of ancient secrets and birth of earth, a word Yoga comes out, which is very old and having no idea of its birth. Our ancestors used to go for deep and long meditation in search of peace and truth. Yoga helped them to attain healthy body by doing varying types of asana or poses. Yoga not only rejuvenates mind, body, and soul but it also gives smarter personality and good health. If it is either, shaping your body or being cured from physical disorder or metabolic diseases, Yoga is a great solution to every those problems.
A systematic yoga done in classes everyday with regular practice, gives us an immediate effect which is visible in very short period of time. Our current life status wants luxury and comfort, which is depriving us from being fit and fine and have a charming appeal. We hesitate to give some extra time on body workout and remain happy and worried with increasing fat and any metabolic disorder in our body. The adverse effect of our negligence shows its worst output in long run of age and time period. For good heath and boon of long life, it is very necessary to do yoga with regular practice. .
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Anguil Environmental Systems is a global provider of industrial air pollution control, emission abatement and energy recovery systems. We design, manufacturer, service and install thermal and catalytic oxidation technologies as well as heat recovery systems for a variety of applications and industries.
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Advanced Cyclone Systems, S.A. (ACS) is a company exclusively dedicated to the development and commercialization of high efficiency cyclone systems, worldwide. The company works in a very close cooperation with its clients in order to design custom made cyclone systems that really solve their unmet needs.
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Catalytic Products International is the preferred resource for innovative and efficient industrial air pollution control solutions. Customers from across the globe rely on our expertise to solve their most complex VOC, NOx, and Odor pollution challenges. The custom engineered systems include, Thermal Oxidizers, Catalytic Oxidizers, Regenerative Thermal Oxidizers, Heat ...
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[This is a review of The Blacklist season 1, episode 21. There will be SPOILERS.]
One of the things that made the 'Anslo Garrick' storyline two of the more effective episodes of The Blacklist was the way the two-pronged approach to episodic storytelling was fused into a semi-cohesive whole. This fusion of procedure and mythology isn't something the show does very often, but it should be, since the penultimate episode 'Berlin' proves that kind of cohesion helps give the narrative the feeling of being more significant. For the most part, the episode adheres to the series' well-established rules of delaying actual story progression for as long as possible, but it does at least attempt to do something different with the blacklist component of its plot, by folding that aspect into the larger issue that will obviously end the season.
The major issue is, of course, centered on the question: Who is Berlin? Sadly, the answer is not a new wave band from the '70s and '80s. Instead, from what Keen and the rest of the special FBI task force can surmise, Berlin is actually a person, and a deadly one at that. For the most part, the myth building around Berlin gets epic pretty quickly. Early on, Tom mentions Berlin to the guy he's about to flay, telling him, "You don't choose Berlin, he chooses you." Later, after some quiet time with a stack of old case files, Liz figures out that the blacklist is almost entirely connected, and that it all leads back to one person chasing Red.
After all the portent surrounding this mysterious figure, all the talk of the "five horsemen of the apocalypse" (thanks to John Glover and his amazing hair for that one), and the highly convoluted blackmail scheme wherein a bunch of schlubby airport employees are infected with a deadly virus to facilitate a prison break, The Blacklist presents the audience with the man we presume is Berlin himself. And it turns out he's really just some goofy guy wearing an oversized hood on an airplane (which is only slightly less annoying than people who wear sunglasses indoors). It's incredibly silly but it also makes sense, because even highly-organized super villains are prone to getting chilly from time to time, and it's hard to intimidate James Spader while also battling a runny nose.
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you're continuing to run the loop after you've found it, which means you'll come into your 'else' block again. and there you overwrite the value you have stored.
I think, a better way would be to run your loop, when you've found your desired index, don't store it in a value, just immediately return it.
and after the loop, just put return -1, this way, if your index is not found, you'll still return -1.
You loop through all the files in drive[]. When you hit the right one you set value = i, which is the index you want. But then you continue through the rest of the array, and set value = -1 overwriting the value you wanted (unless the one you wanted happened to be the last file in the array).
As soon as you hit the required file you should return immediately, as in
if(drive[i]!=null ....) return i;
then after the loop, if you get that far you konw you didn't find the file so you can
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Hi stultuske. My turn to post second this time!
Not quite right. What happens if the correct file is in drive[1]? - it's not in drive[0] so you immediately return -1 and that's it.
You get the error message because Java sees that if you complete the loop you will go from line 9 to line 10 and exit the method without returning anything. You know that that's not possible with your code, but Java doesn't.
Time to go back and read the previous posts with the same care that they were written with. You just had two independent posts that both said "after the loop ... return -1;"
Lines 2 and 4 are redundant - you never use the value of int indexOfFile.
The structure looks OK now, so you should use print statements to check the data values. eg instead of line 4 try
so you can see what's actually happening in your loop.
I assume that wasn't a response on my answer? :)
No, it was a comment on the previous post with the OP's code. I've never known your posts to be "not quite right"! ;-)


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The researchers wanted to examine whether lung cells from patients with TB were different from those of healthy people or those with different lung diseases, and what that tells us about the way the infection spreads in the lung. In particular, they looked at the surface of the lung cells, because this is the part directly involved in the first contact with the Mycobacterium. As they report now in the international open-access medical journal PLoS Medicine, they studied 74 individuals, 40 of whom had TB, 25 had other inflammatory lung diseases, and 9 had neither active TB nor lung inflammation and served as healthy "controls." The patients underwent a procedure called broncho-alveolar lavage that washes out some of the secretions and cells from the lower respiratory tract. The researchers then analyzed the cells in different ways. They concentrated on a type of cell called a macrophage (the natural target of Mycobacterium) and found that macrophages from patients with TB had much more the DC-SIGN protein on their surface than macrophages from patients with other diseases or from the control individuals.
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Who needs superpowers, anyway? Certainly not Natascha Romanoff, aka Black Widow. As an agent of SHIELD, she might not wield an enchanted hammer or wear a mechanized suit of armor -- she really doesn't wear much of anything, to be honest -- but she can still pack a punch.
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It's no surprise that Johansson as Black Widow is one tough customer. She single-handedly cleared out a corridor full of guards in a climactic action scene in "Iron Man 2," her first appearance as the comic book character. In that fight, though, she was outfitted in a stretchy catsuit and had all four limbs at her disposal. But here she shows she can knock guys flat with her hands tied behind her back (or at least at her side), and she proves that a revealing little black dress really is appropriate for any occasion.
Rest assured, Black Widow will be back in her skintight costume later in the film. In a report from the set on HitFix, Johansson talked about how miserable she and her costars were in their outfits, especially in the heat of New Mexico, where much of the film was shot. She said, "Everybody looks incredibly uncomfortable until the cameras are rolling and then we all look f***ing badass." And she did reveal that she wasn't wearing anything under her unitard.
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Gregory of Sanok
Gregory of Sanok (Polish: Grzegorz z Sanoka) (born in Sanok in 1403 or 1407 died January 29, 1477, Rohatyn) was a Polish bishop, a professor at Academy of Krakow, metropolitan archbishop of Lwow, scholar, philosopher, and a major figure of Polish humanism.
He left his home at age twelve and for the next ten years traveled across Europe, including to Germany, where he learned the language.[1]
After his prolonged studies abroad, in 1421 he returned and initially studied at University of Krakow serving as choirmaster during his student days. Gregory graduated in 1433, was appointed as tutor to the children of Jan Tarnowski, and journeyed with the family to Italy. He came to the attention of Pope Eugenius IV and studied in Florence. After his return to Poland in 1439 he was a professor of Graeco-Roman poetry and Italian literature at the Academy of Krakow. He became Archbishop of Lwów in 1451 and a pioneer of Polish Humanism. He gathered groups of scholars and poets to his residence in Dunajów.[2]
- ^ Harold B. Segel: Renaissance Culture in Poland: The Rise of Humanism, 1470-1543, Cornell University Press, 1989 ISBN 0-8014-2286-8, ISBN 978-0-8014-2286-7, 285 pages
- ^ Norman Davies, God's Playground: A History of Poland, in Two Volumes, p. 110. [1]
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- Museum of Sanok (Polish)


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Im feeling the need to defend these tweezers because I feel they are a product definitely worth the hype. Tweezerman tweezers were the first tweezers I ever bought many a year ago, and every other tweezer I bought since then has been absolute crap in comparison and ends up at the bottom of a drawer for mundane tasks such as pulling out splinters or yanking ticks out of my cat. Yes theyre sharp so just be careful, steady your grip, and make sure you have the hair by the root. I only ever buy the slant tip...and I actually prefer the mini version of these, cheaper, comes in cute colors/patterns, and really allows for good control. Other tweezers always seem to slip, yank, or leaves my skin all red after tweezing. These...are most definitely...the HOLY GRAIL of tweezers!!!
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I'm so disappointed with these overhyped and expensive tweezers! Sure if you've only ever used crappy flat tipped tweezers that cost a dollar or two these will seem amazing by comparison but if you've had a $15-$20 pair before then don't pay double for these! As soon as I eagerly extracted them from their packaging I was disappointed by how light and flimsy they felt in my hand when I clicked the ends together. They have a tendency to break off the hair rather than pull it out (esp true of very fine hairs) though they are good at gripping onto short, course hairs. I found these to be very meh and worse than other tweezers I've had.
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I used to buy the cheap 1 dollar tweezers thinking "they're just tweezers... all the same anyway." I was so wrong. So wrong.
I finally caved into buying my first tweezers at a whopping 21 bucks at CVS. It's expensive for a piece of metal that plucks out hair. I know. But was it worth every penny? Yes.
These tweezers have such a great grip, it grabs onto any hair like every dress grabs onto Kim K's body/butt. I've never had a problem with pulling a hair out. It's made grooming my eyebrows so easy and quick.
I bought the slanted ones and it's really made a difference with my precision. Initially they're super sharp (almost like scissors) but they dull slightly overtime. I've had mine for two years but they're still pretty sharp and not rusted. Just make sure you don't lose it's small clear cap. Cleaning your tweezers and putting the cap on will really make it last.
There's a reason why these tweezers cost a lot, they're good quality. If you're really not ready to buy one pair, I've found a smaller version of the tweezers at a TJ Maxx with a pocket mirror for 7 bucks. Try looking at a Ross/Marshalls/whatever to see if they might sell a mini tweezerman. If you do, you've found a treasure.
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I don't understand the good review. These tweezers cut the hair rather than pluck it. The price is really high too. Thumbs down.
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on 4/30/2015 1:44:00 AM
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I bought one of the mini tweezermans after my long time love, my Revlon tweezers, finally got lost. I gave these tweezers 4 stars because I honestly have found nothing that compares to those old tweezers but these come pretty close (I don't know the exact model name, it was passed down to me). These are a great replacement! They feel nice in my hand and they pluck every single hair completely from the root and do not just break the hairs like cheap tweezers do. They get every hair no matter if it's long or tiny. They are sharp (but not too sharp) and reliable. I didn't want to give in to the hype considering how expensive these are but they are well worth the money. I also love how it comes with a little tube for me to store the tweezers in once I'm finished.
on 4/23/2015 1:39:00 PM
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You won't find tweezers better than these IMO. Buy them once and you're set. I've had my pair for 5 years and they work as well as they did day 1.
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HG tweezers. Worth the price and you can get them sharpened for free (send through mail.) I have one in pocketbook at all times- that's how great and useful these are. I can get the most fine hairs with these. It grabs everything. I'll never use another brand. I gave these as stocking stuffers and my sister and mother loved them.
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My absolute fave tweezers. Love so much! Lost a pair and had to immediatey buy a new pair. Cant live without and wish I invested in them sooner. Offer lifetime sharpening which I havent taken advantage yet, but have felt the need to. Best tweezers.
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I got a mint green one and I was in LOVE immediately. It works so well, made me regret why I didn't invest in one earlier. i got mine about a year and a half ago, it's still going strong
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The World Health Organisation has given warning that a new strain of the coronavirus could be passed on between people in close contact.
The warning on Sunday came after authorities confirmed that a man who had shared a hospital ward with France's first victim had been infected. The second patient's condition has deteriorated, requiring treatment in intensive care, Health Minister Marisol Touraine said at a news conference.
The minister added that the first patient was "in a stable but worrisome situation".
The novel coronavirus has killed 18 people since being identified last year, out of more than 30 confirmed cases reported to the World Health Organisation since September 2012.
The first France patient had just returned from vacationing in the United Arab Emirates when he fell ill.
He shared a room with the second patient for a few days in late April at a hospital in Valenciennes. Now both are being treated at the Lille Hospital in northern France.
The coronavirus, known as nCoV-EMC, is a cousin of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which killed nearly 800 people in the East Asia in 2002-03.
Most of those infected since the virus was identified had travelled to Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan or Pakistan. There also have been cases in Britain and Germany.
Al Jazeera's Jamal Elshayyal said that the biggest cluster has been found in Saudi Arabia. He said for now the coronavirus is nowhere near as widespread as SARS was 10 years ago.
'Need for awareness'
WHO Assistant Director-General Keiji Fukuda told reporters in Saudi Arabia, the site of the largest cluster of infections, there was no evidence so far the virus was able to sustain "generalised transmission in communities" - a scenario that would raise the spectre of a pandemic.
But he added: "Of most concern ... is the fact that the different clusters seen in multiple countries ... increasingly support the hypothesis that when there is close contact, this novel coronavirus can transmit from person to person.
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Benoit Guery, head of the Lille hospital's infectious diseases unit, said the transmission between patients should not be taken as an indication that the virus was more contagious than previously thought.
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"It has been circulating for a little less than a year, and we're at 34 reported cases, whereas with SARS it only took a few months to get to 8,000 cases."
Saudi Deputy Health Minister for Public Health Ziad Memish told reporters that, of 15 confirmed cases in the most recent outbreak, in al-Ahsa district of Eastern Province, nine had died, two more than previously reported.
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Fukuda said that as far as he knew all cases in the latest outbreak in al-Ahsa district were directly or indirectly linked to one hospital.
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Tube units useful for a variety of application are provided. Preferably, individual laminated tubes are joined to each other by intermediate pieces to produce a wide ribbon of parallel tubes. The tubes are porous to certain substances, allowing them to serve as an apparatus to exchange material between two or more fluid streams. The tubes are particularly useful as membrane modules for exchange of material between two fluids. Continuous and discontinuous methods for constructing such tube units are also taught.
1. A continuous method for production of a tube unit that comprises:
(a) joining together of two flat bands in a gap between two shaping members;
(b) pressing together of the flat bands in the gap between the members, during which
(c) wires parallel to each other and spaced at a distance are arranged in the gap, engaging with corresponding grooves cut into the surface of the member;
(d) removing the laminated flat bands from the wires to provide laminated flat bands.
2. Method of claim 1, that further comprises conducting a fluid or solid between the bands while they are being joined together.
3. Method of claim 1, that further comprises cutting the tube unit into individual tubes modules.
4. Method of claim 1 that further comprises providing as the flat bands an oriented, microporous PTFE membrane.
5. Method of claim 1, that further comprises providing several adjacent layers of flat bands laminated together.
6. The method of claim 1 that further comprises winding laminated flat bands following removal from the wires.
7. A discontinuous method for production of a tube unit that comprises:
a) inserting a first flat band into a first, substantially planar tool having at least one semicircular recess;
b) inserting wires into hollows created on the flat band by the semicircular recess;
c) emplacing a second flat band and a second corresponding tool;
d) applying pressure and temperature over a period sufficient for the areas of the flat bands lying between the recesses to join together to form a laminate; and
e) removing the wires from the laminate.
The invention concerns a tube unit as well as a method of production of same.
It is known how to employ liquid/liquid or liquid/gaseous membrane modules for material exchange systems, and tube modules which work with hollow fibers or capillary tubes have proven to be especially good. The tubes in this case are secured in liquid and gas-tight manner, preferably cast, in two face plates of a housing. A fluid involved in the material exchange, for example a gas, flows through the tubes. A bundle of fibers is arranged in a housing through which another fluid flows, for example a liquid. The efficiency of the material exchange is influenced by the flow relations, among other things. The flow can approach the tubes in the axial or radial direction.
Such modules are used, for example, for ultra-filtration and microfiltration, as well as for degasification, e.g., of organic liquids, and, more recently, for cleaning of exhaust gas. In exhaust gas cleaning and similar applications, the gas being cleaned flows through the tube membranes, for example, and a liquid flows around the outside of the tubes, said liquid having absorptive properties and being able to bind pollutants.
To improve the efficiency of the material exchange it has proven to be advantageous to employ tube membranes of PTFE, since these possess both good chemical and thermal stability and, in particular, a low surface tension and, accordingly, very good hydrophobic properties.
Known PTFE tubes are made by paste extrusion. The wall thicknesses achievable are limited by this method. It is only possible to orient the material in the lengthwise direction. Furthermore, the method is expensive and the tubes are therefore costly.
A method is known from U.S. Pat. No. 4,791,966 for production of tubes, in which a flat band of microporous, oriented PTFE, thickened in the middle in cross section, is wound in a spiral about a wire, sintered, and then pulled away from the wire. This method has a number of advantages over the first-mentioned technique. In particular, the wall thickness of the tube membranes can be varied in broad limits. Also, a material with a particular microporosity can be used from the very beginning. The drawback is, in particular, the awkward handling of the tubes when putting together the module, as well as the still quite expensive and costly fabrication of the tubes.
Given this state of the art, the purpose of the invention is to indicate a new, cost-favorable tube membrane, as well as a method for production of tube membranes in which the handling of the tubes in particular is improved and the putting together of the corresponding modules is simplified.
According to the invention, the purpose is accomplished by the features of the present invention as claimed. An important fact was the recognition of how to put together individual tube membranes into a unit which roughly corresponds to a multiple-row ribbon cable. The pieces connecting the individual tubes can be preferably pierced so that a flow is provided around the tubes in the membrane modules. Further advantageous formations of the inventive tube unit are the subject of the preferred embodiments of the present invention as claimed.
Particularly preferred is the construction of the tube unit of the present invention through a continuous process. For instance, a continuous process may be provided with the following steps:
a) joining together of two flat bands (18) in a gap between two shaping rollers (20);
b) pressing together of the flat bands (18) in the roller gap, possibly with addition of heat, during which
c) wire (24) parallel to each other and spaced apart are arranged stationary in the roller gap, engaging with corresponding grooves (22) cut into the surface of the roller;
d) pulling of the laminated flat bands out of the roller gap and passage through a sinter bath or a hot air unit (26);
e) pulling of the laminated flat bands from the stationary wires (24);
f) winding or folding of the endless tube unit (10) consisting of flat bands laminated together.
The invention is explained more closely by means of the enclosed drawing, which shows:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a piece of the tube unit of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic representation of a device for implementing the production method of the present invention; and
FIG. 3 is a cross-section view through a gap between two shaping rollers of the device per FIG. 2.
According to FIG. 1, the tube unit 10 of the present invention comprises of several tubes 12, arranged alongside each other in one plane, being joined together by the pieces 14. These pieces can have openings 16. Such tube units are much easier to handle than individual tubes, and they can be easily wound or folded. It is easy to assemble them into membrane modules, since several tubes can always be put in position at the same time. The pieces 14, furthermore, act as spacers, so that the tubes cannot be forced together when the module is operating.
The tube membranes comprise of two laminated layers of a microporous, oriented PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) membrane. A method for production of such membranes is described in, for example, U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,953,566 and 4,187,390. Thanks to the inert nature of the material and the hydrophobic surface, this material is exceptionally suitable for a number of material exchange systems. Preferably, the material is stretched along one or two axes prior to the production of the tubes, so that it becomes permeable to gas from the resulting microporosity, yet remains liquid-tight. In order to seal up possible flaws of the membrane, the tubes can also include several membrane layers, laminated one on top of the other. One or more of the membrane layers can be coated either with a gas-selective coating, for example, or by one or more layers of another material, for example, a reinforcement in the form of a fiberglass wool or a textile, or filled with inorganic or organic materials like activated charcoal. A gas-selective coating may consist, for example, of massive FEP (fluoroethylenepropylene), PFA, or NAFION�: ##STR1## where x=SO3 H or COOH.
The membrane layers can also exhibit varying pore structures, such as (for example) a large-pore outer layer, with preferably 0.1-10 μm, and a small-pore inner layer, with preferably 0.01-0.1 μm pore diameter. The inner diameter of the tubes is preferably 0.1-2 mm.
The tube unit shown in FIG. 1 can be produced in a device that is shown schematically in FIG. 2. Two flat bands 18 of a microporous, oriented PTFE membrane are introduced into the gap between two shaping rollers 20. Grooves 22 (shown in FIG. 3) are cut into the surface of the shaping rollers 20, lying opposite each other, so that cavities with round cross section are formed, in which wires or mandrels 24 are arranged in stationary manner. The wires 24 have an outer diameter that is slightly smaller than the inner diameter of the cavity formed by the grooves 22.
The two flat bands 18 are drawn through the roller gap, becoming laminated together and laid around the wires 24 arranged in the region of the grooves 22, so that the tubes 12 are formed. The bands are joined by means of the pressure produced by the shaping rollers 20. The rollers are tightened with the torque wrench so that the space remaining between the rollers corresponds to the wall thickness of the tube membranes. In addition, one or more familiar bonding technologies, such as gluing, heat or laser radiation, can be used. Thus, for example, glue applicator rolls can be placed in front of the shaping rollers 20. The bands 18 can be heated either during their stay in the roller gap or after exiting from it. For this, either the shaping rollers, and/or the wires 24 can be heated or the bands can be conducted through a sintering bath or a hot air unit 26. In this unit, the surface of the laminated membranes is melted and secured in this way. A dwell time of 2-3 seconds at a temperature of 350�-400� C. in the sintering bath is preferable.
The stripping off of the laminated flat bands from the wires 24 is done either upstream or downstream of the sintering station 26. The latter has the advantage of reliably preventing a collapsing of the tubes during the heat treatment.
The tube unit in the form of an endless band can then be wound in a spiral or folded and is available for further processing in the manufacture of the corresponding membrane modules.
However, the band can also be cut into pieces and the individual end segments arranged in parallel and at a spacing from each other in the module.
A fluid or solid can be conducted between the bands as the two flat bands are joined together. Thus, it is possible to produce a tube unit in a simple and economical way, in which the tubes are immediately filled and do not have to be filled later on.
Of course, the invention is not confined to the PTFE membranes, mentioned here as being preferable, but rather other microporous polymer materials such as polyethylene and polypropylene can be used. It is not absolutely necessary that the polymer materials be porous. For example, polycarbonate and polyethylene exist in both porous and nonporous form, while FEP is generally not porous. However, all these materials can be used in connection with the invention.
The size relationships of the tubes mentioned here are only one particular embodiment of the inventive tube unit. Of course, the tubes can also have a larger or smaller diameter, depending on their intended use. If it should be needed for a different application, it is also possible to again cut up the tube unit into individual membrane tubes.
Besides the continuous method described, the inventive tube unit can also be produced discontinuously, by placing a flat band in an essentially flat tool, provided with several parallel semicircular recesses with a spacing between them, and furthermore wires are placed in the hollows created in this way on the flat band, and finally a second flat band and a second correspondingly shaped element of the tool are placed on this arrangement. By applying pressure (5-500 N/cm2, preferably 10-100 N/cm2) and temperature (300�-400� C.) over a period of 2-100 seconds (depending on the material and temperature), the bands are pressed together at the pieces lying between the recesses and joined in this way. The bands are then sliced and the wires removed, producing a tube unit in flat form. The tool would basically correspond to that in FIG. 3.
The inventive tube unit can be used advantageously for supplying gas to sludge ponds, swimming pools or fermenters in biochemistry by the use of one or more such tube unit. In this case, the tube units are placed on the bottom of the basin. Gas (e.g., air, oxygen, or ozone) is blown through the tubes with such pressure that the gas is blown into the sludge in the form of extremely tiny bubbles. In the basin, aerobic microorganisms are usually employed, which require oxygen in order to live. Therefore, the more finely the air (for example) is distributed, the more effective the oxygen supply. At present, rubber tubes are still being used and the air bubbles produced by them are relatively large. Furthermore, the tubes must be water-tight, for otherwise check valves would be necessary. It is also conceivable to design the tubes so that the lower layer consists of rubber or thermoplastic (such as polypropylene or PVC) and only the upper layer consists of microporous or other porous material. The two layers are joined by glue or move across a heated roller, which melts the surface of the thermoplastic.
As an alternative, it is possible to install modules with a high packing density of tube units in a container filled with liquid. The gas is then conducted through the tubes with such pressure that the gas diffuses through the walls of the tubes (i.e., no bubbles are formed). This is then taken up from the liquid, e.g., by physical absorption.
A further use of the tube unit produced by the method lies in the field of chemical reactors. Thus, for example, it is possible to conduct a solution inside the tubes, which takes up a substance, for example, in gas form in a first module and surrenders, for example, a gaseous reaction product to a fluid in a second, subsequent module. In a third, subsequent module, another substance is taken up, and so on. Since the modules are connected one after the other, a continuous reaction occurs. Each module can be controlled separately and thus is used only when necessary.
It is also possible to employ the tube unit for concentration of, for example, flushing solutions from a galvanic process. The solution being concentrated is conducted through the tubes, while a gas is conducted past the tube membranes. The solvent evaporates completely or partially and the concentrated substances remaining in the tubes can be again supplied to the reaction process.
Finally, the inventive tube unit can also be used advantageously in articles of clothing, either individually or in layers. It would serve as a kind of spacer and improve the water vapor permeability of the garment. The water vapor would diffuse from the body side through the walls of the tubes into their interior (partial pressure gradient caused by differences in concentration, pressure or temperature). From there, the water vapor would be pulled by convection through the walls of the tubes to the outside of the garment. This would have the advantage of transporting the water vapor away from the body.
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