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How to flash your device for changing splash screen won't hard-reset your device. But you should still make a backup .
i. Create the wallpaper 480x640
Advice : when the Raphael starts, you can see 3 red lines (R, G, D number versions) : the 100 low pixel are black, whatever your wallpaper... that's why, I suppose, every splash screen I saw are always black
And you should take care of that (just use the 540 high pixel, and leave the 100 low black)
ii. If not already done, convert the image to a .bmp (just use paint and save as a 24 bit bmp)
iii. Run rsbbmp.exe, the RSB<->BMP converter, to convert your .bmp to a .rsb
Just clic on "Add files", select your .bmp files, and then, "convert all"
This will create a .rsb file in the same folder as your .bmp file
iv. Run Splash-RSB Converter.exe, the RSB<->NB converter.
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vi. Copy/paste this file in the same folder as RaphaelCustomRUU.exe, run it & follow instructions as usual for a flash of your Raphael.
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Pizza party for 35. Fire/pizza management and statistics
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Pizza party: Oven, dough and pizza management
Last weekend, on Saturday night, there was a pizza party in home.
I had a lot of parties with around 20 invitees.
Never complained and with great feedback each time.
This one, with a crew of 35, showed several challenges and a loooot of fun.
Due to lack of time there were three dough batches.
The first one was prepared with 48 hours of antecedence. TLNY style with preferment, 1400 g of flour (49.4 oz), 63% hydration, 1% oil, 1.75% salt, 20% preferment (50/50 ratio).
75% of flour in 75% of water with the preferment, hand kneaded (mixed), 30 min autolyse, a little knead, then the rest of flour and water were kneaded in. Followed by salt, brief hand knead and finally the oil. Brief knead again. Five minutes of rest. Divided and shaped in 8 balls of 300/310 grams (10.9 oz) and two individual pizza dough.
Each ball was airtight closed in an oiled Ziplog type bag (a little pressure was applied over the balls resulting in flat circles instead).
The batch was placed in the refrigerator to rest.
The second batch, prepared with 24 hours in antecedence, was TLNY style, hand kneaded too, with 1600 g (56.5 oz), 63% water, 0.8% oil, 1.75% salt, 10% preferment (50/50) and 0.15% IDY.
The process was like as the previous one, with the IDY been added after autolyse, combined with the left of the flour and water.
This batch gives 9 310/320g (11 oz) dough balls.
The third one was not really a batch, just one big foccacia dough.
In the night before the party, using preferment and flour, a little -almost solid (80/20) piece of dough (may be 80/100g -3.5 oz) was prepared as a biga.
In Saturday morning, this biga was divided in little pieces and mixed with 350g (12.4 oz) of flour and 200g (7 oz) of preferment, slightly hand kneaded, this pastry was incorporated with 150g (5.3 oz) of water, 1 Tsp honey, 2 tsp salt and 10 Tsp Evoo until a oiled (and very wet) dough ball was obtained.
The dough fermented at room temperature by nearly two hours, almost doubling in size. Deflated, stretched and gently folded three times in three hours. Since the dough seems to be ready to bake, it rested into the refrigerator to slow down the fermentation.
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Fire management
Normally I use to use some newspaper and several branches or light pieces of wood to begin the fire, increased with three or four eucalyptus stems with 60/80 cm (2.5 ft) and 10/15 cm (four/five) inches in diameter when the fire is on. When the path of the flames is stabilized these embers are pushed to the rear of the oven and new similar stems are added, increasing the flames and the temperature rating.
In the average fires, the hearth reach the 400°C (750°F) and the ceiling of the dome goes to 600°C (1100°F) in an hour and half.
After that, the flamed embers are arranged on the right side of the dome (I prefer those there, to have a lot of space to bake two pizzas maintaining an eye on them), the coals are retired and the hearth (just the free space without embers) is brushed and cleaned with a wet cloth.
This arrangement lets the hearth temperature go a little high (the ambient temperature is around the 1000°C (1800°F)).
For me, the range of hearth temperature between 410/450°C (770/840°F) is the best to bake without spend a lot more of wood or time.
This Saturday night was a rainy one.
The oven is protected in the barbecue area, however the courtyard (or Cuisiner playground if you like) is divided by a big open space.
I need to confess that I was a little worried because the quantity of invitees, the space to share with them, the tables, chairs, dough, pizzas, sauce, beer, more beer and then the rain being the night star. It was party time minus 1 hour. Uauhhh. Let the fire begin and go to install something to protect the people from rain!!! I had asked to crew to do not be delayed!!!
The oven was full charged with big stems, the fire creak in heavy flames. I was sure that this hell in the hole was going to melt the hearth. I was not worried with it. I let it going and went to install a big truck canvas closing the open ceiling.
Ok, first visitor arriving, thin rain over the canvas, big fire in hole, fist four dough out of the refrigerator, already at ambient temperature, all under control...
Surprisingly, the ambient temperature in the oven was around the 1000°C (1800°F), the dome temperature was 650°C (1200°F) and the temperature of the hearth was 75°C (170°F)! What? 75°C means that the increasing rate of the hearth was 10°C (18°F) by hour? I feel myself a dead man!
The crew was increasing. Let think, let think. Beer, please, beer to all
Ok. This was the mistake. The 4/5 inches stems were arranged by themselves, one sided the other on the hearth, this arrangement created a bed of wood over the hearth, this bed acted as a heat shield to the hearth. The big hot flames heated the entire dome, however the hearth was protected from heat!.
Several embers were removed, the others were moved to the dome side, the hearth was brushed and cleaned.
Thirty/forty minutes and 8 beers after, the hearth was at 450°C (850°F), the ceiling bricks at 650°C (1200°F) and the ambient temperature around the 900/1000°C (1800°F).
All the invitees were there.
The party was extended by more than 4 hours and little pieces of wood were added to the sided fire, just to maintain the flames going.
From time to time, the hearth was brushed and cleaned.
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Pizza baking
Ah, Gosh! The oven is ready, there are a hungry feel in the air, even my dog is looking at me.
The first pizza will be the one that always had delighted the invitees, my always first choice, the Marguerita. It is ok Shaping the dough, sauce, muzz, basil, hot oven
This dough was out of the refrigerator almost two hours, near of the oven ambient. It was shaped a little thinner too. The peel was retired in only one movement. Figure that?
This only movement stretch out the delicate dough, the center collapses, bonding in the hearth. Oh, I am a dead man again
May I have another beer, please?
Disposed the first pizza, mind refreshed, the second one (Marguerita too) was a winner. And so, the 18 that follow those (wisely removed from the refrigerator!)
The foccacia made furor.
The last three, brigadeiro (regional sweet dessert) and granulated chocolate, condensed milk and banana and ice cream pizza were devoured by people with space to nothing more.
I was, then, a living and smiling man.
Party and pizza management
Three or four friendly invitees were instructed where the beer and refreshment were.
All the invitees were asked to take the drinks by themselves.
The first half dozen pizzas were baked almost without interval between each other. May be were spend 15 minutes to serve all the six.
Remember that the invitees were waiting there by one hour!
There were several wood pizza forms waiting for each pizza and so to many assistant to slice it.
Each pizza was sliced in little pieces, like a third of a normal slice. Everyone serves himself either using plates and plastic cutlery or hands and napkins.
I had a list with the pizzas type and order to bake.
A big bols with sauce (one day old), another with muzz and lots of little vessels with individual toppings were on the big table (half a tennis table).
A live branch of basil (what a smell ) gave the natural touch to this table.
A lot of tables and chairs were distributed all along.
The remainder pizzas were baked as necessary. Several of those were topped as asked by the invitees. The rate of pizza baking returns to expected as normal.
The teenagers topped theirs individual pizzas and loved the challenge.
Other ones helping me with the pizza work.
Some one was in charged to draw out the water from the canvas Rainy night!
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In this party, where 35 persons eating and drinking (and thanks God, smiling) during more than four hours, were consumed
Eighteen 35 cm (14) pizzas plus a 50x37x4 cm (20x15x11/2) foccacia (nearly, a half pizza/invitee)
Three kilograms (106 oz) of mozzarella (200g 7oz /pizza)
5 kg (176 oz) of flour (250g 8.8 oz/pizza)
2 lt of sauce (110g 4oz/pizza)
700 ml of beer/invitee (quantity of beer divided by quantity of invitees, no division)
400 ml of soda/invitee (quantity of beer divided by quantity of invitees, no division), meaning 1100 ml of liquid by invitee (was a rainy night with 22°C 71°F)
4 lt of ice cream (220 ml/invitee)
10/12 eucalyptus stems with 60/80 cm (2.5 ft) and 10/15 cm (four/five) inches in diameter
The pizzas were baked at 410/450°C (770/840°F) by something around 1 ½ minutes.
Normal time to reach this temperature in this oven 11/2, 2 hours (did not happen this time)
Lessons learned
Always be positive (truly positive and do not so far optimistic).
Be prepared to little plan deviations.
Anticipate your needs and prepare your equipment (clean the oven, verify the firewood, take a look at your fire tools)
Prepare the dough as normal. Calculate the necessary quantity. Go to the safe side.
Divide and organize the toppings.
All the toppings will be at ambient temperature when being used.
Prepare something special or any activity to the children.
Know your oven.
Prepare and maintain the fire going on. Do not over charge it. Give space to the flux/flow follow the natural path.
A lot of little embers will do a better job than few coarse ones.
Have something/same place to discard the unnecessary coals.
Take out the dough from the refrigerator just when necessary to slightly reach the ambient temperature.
Have a list with the pizza type, topping and order to be baked.
The peel/peels will be clean and maintained in place.
Verify that the semolina/cornmeal/flour or any that you will use to slip the pizza on the peel is near of this last.
Be sure that the unbaked pizza runs free on the peel (by shaking the peel)
Transfer the pizza from peel to the oven hearth with little movements of the peel to front and rear (this will maintain the pizza shape).
Know where the baked pizza is going when coming out of the oven.
Prepare several wood/cardboard pizza containers.
Identify who, when and where is going to slice/serve the pizza.
Show your invitees where the drinks are. Or ask to somebody to serve them.
Somebody will need open the main door to receipt the invitees, specially the last ones.
Remember that will be not easy to have a pair of seconds to eat some slice. May be you could give a bit at your wife´s slice.
Will be easy to spend a second drinking some beer. Beer is never too much or too cold.
Many single seconds without none pair of seconds equal oven movement and pizza dropping. Be carefully.
Do not worry, be happy
hip hip hooray
great photos - yummumm cold pizza in the morning
Excellent post!
I love the pictures showing the flame licking up into the flue. That is when I start to get nervous...
Way to go! That is just what we all hope for. Man, that was one hot oven.
SOunds like you did a great job of managing it all I can hardly wait till mine is up and runnng.
Thnaks for all the helpful tips and the great pictures.
Thanks for all the detail on this. You spent an enormous amount of time making pizzas for 35 people, and I'm suspecting almost as much in sharing it with the forum. Well documented, well done, and completely appreciated. One question: why no division on the beer per person. Very odd.
True!. Worst if considering that children below 10 are in this mathematics! LOL
Thanks all for kind comments!
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Polymer materials such as film and fabrics, woven, non-woven and meltblown, may be non-destructively surface treated to improve water wettability, wickability, and other characteristics by exposure to a glow discharge plasma sustained at substantially atmospheric pressure in air or modified gas atmospheres comprising helium or argon.
1. A method for improving the surface characteristics of a web comprising the steps of generating in a gas maintained at about atmospheric pressure a sustained, uniform glow discharge plasma having active species between a pair of spaced electrodes, wherein said generating step includes energizing said electrodes at a voltage of at least about 1 kV rms at frequencies of about 1 to 100 kHz, and positioning said web between said electrodes and within said plasma for a period of time and pressure differentially driving the active species through said web.
2. A method as described by claim 1 wherein a volume defined by the space between said electrodes is charged with said gas.
3. A method as described by claim 2 wherein said gas is helium.
4. A method as described by claim 2 wherein said gas is a mixture of helium and air.
5. A method as described by claim 2 wherein said gas is argon.
6. A method as described by claim 2 wherein said gas is a mixture of argon and air.
7. A method as described by claim 2 wherein said gas is a mixture of argon and helium.
8. A method as described by claim 2 wherein said gas is atmospheric air.
9. A method as described by claim 2 wherein said gas is nitrous oxide.
10. The method of claim 1 wherein said voltage is in the range of about 1 kV to 5 kV rms.
11. The method of claim 1 wherein said voltage is in the range of about 1.5 kv to 9.5 kV
12. The method of claim 2 wherein said gas is a noble gas.
This invention was made with government support under Contract No. AFOSR-89-0319 awarded by the U.S. Air Force. The government has certain rights in this invention.
This application is a Continuation-In-Part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/068,739, filed May 28, 1993.
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for modifying the surface properties of organic and inorganic polymer materials such as film and fabric, woven and non-woven.
One of the many utilities for meltblown polymer web is as a wet cell battery plate separator. The base polymer compound is impervious to the electrolyte. The meltblown, non-woven fabric structure is ion permeable if the surface thereof is thoroughly wetted by the electrolyte. Unfortunately, this latter requirement of wettability is not an inherent characteristic of most commercial polymers such as nylon, polypropylene, polyethylene and poly(ethylene terephthalate).
Although meltblown webs of these polymers are currently used as battery plate separators, wettability is achieved chemically by means of surfactants. This process not only generates hazardous industrial waste but produces a product of limited utility life.
Wettability is also a desirable property for tissue and cloth used to wipe or clean the body, for surgical sponges, wound dressings, feminine hygiene products and reuseable woven knit fabrics. Similarly, wettability is an important material surface property for printing and laminating.
Some success has been recently achieved by a glow discharge plasma treatment of polymer webs. The term "plasma" usually describes a partially ionized gas composed of ions, electrons and neutral species. This state of matter may be produced by the action of either very high temperatures, or strong direct current (DC) or radio frequency (RF) electric fields. High temperature or "hot" plasmas are represented by celestial light bodies, nuclear explosions and electric arcs. Glow discharge plasmas are produced by free electrons which are energized by an imposed DC or RF electric field and then collide with neutral molecules. These neutral molecule collisions transfer energy to the molecules and form a variety of active species which may include photons, metastables, individual atoms, free radicals, molecular fragments, monomers, electrons and ions. These active species are chemically active and/or capable of physically modifying the surface and may therefore serve as the basis of new surface properties of chemical compounds and property modifications of existing compounds.
Low power plasmas known as dark discharge coronas have been widely used in the surface treatment of thermally sensitive materials such as paper, wool and synthetic polymers such as polyethylene, polypropylene, polyolefin, nylon and poly(ethylene terephthalate). Because of their relatively low energy content, corona discharge plasmas can alter the properties of a material surface without damaging the surface.
Glow discharge plasmas represent another type of relatively low power density plasma useful for non-destructive material surface modification. These glow discharge plasmas can produce useful amounts of visible ultraviolet radiation. Glow discharge plasmas have the additional advantage therefore of producing visible and UV radiation in the simultaneous presence of active species. However, glow discharge plasmas have heretofore been successfully generated typically in low pressure or partial vacuum environments below 10 torr. Several polymer species exposed to low pressure glow discharge plasmas respond with enhanced surface wettability characteristics. However, the chemical/physical mechanisms are not understood and the characteristic is lost upon drying. Rewettability remains elusive.
The generation of low power density plasmas at one atmosphere is not new. Filamentary discharges between parallel plates in air at one atmosphere have been used in Europe to generate ozone in large quantities for the treatment of public water supplies since the late 19th century. Such filamentary discharges, while useful for ozone production, are of limited utility for the surface treatment of materials, since the plasma filaments tend to puncture or treat the surface unevenly.
It is an object of the present invention, therefore, to provide a non-byproduct producing process for enhancing the wettability of meltblown polymer webs and other types of polymeric substrates.
Another object of the invention is to teach a glow discharge plasma process for treating polymer web or film that provides a stable, rewettable product.
Another object of the invention is to provide a method and apparatus for continuously processing a polymer web or film of indefinite length through a glow discharge plasma at atmospheric pressure and standard temperature.
A still further object of the present invention to teach the construction and operating parameters of a glow discharge plasma having operability in an environmental pressure of about one atmosphere or slightly greater.
These and other objects of the invention to be subsequently explained or made apparent are accomplished with an apparatus based upon a pair of electrically insulated metallic plate electrodes which may or may not have a median plate or screen between them. These plates are mounted in face-to-face parallel or uniformly spaced alignment with means for reciprocatory position adjustment up to about 5 cm of separation. Preferably, the plates are water cooled and covered with a dielectric insulation.
A radio frequency power amplifier connected to both plates delivers at least 180 watts of reactive and plasma power at a working voltage of 1 to at least 5 KV rms and at 1 to 100 KHz.
An electric field established between the metallic plate electrodes must be strong enough to electrically break down the gas used, and is much lower for helium and argon than for atmospheric air. The RF frequency must be in the right range, discussed below, since if it is too low, the discharge will not initiate, and if it is too high, the plasma forms filamentary discharges between the plates. Only in a relatively limited frequency band will the atmospheric glow discharge plasma reactor form a uniform plasma without filamentary discharges.
At least in the volume between the plates wherein the plasma is established, a one atmosphere charge of air, nitrous oxide, helium or argon is established and maintained for processing material such as polymer film and web to produce desired surface characteristics such as wettability and re-wettability.
Relative to the drawings wherein like reference characters designate like or similar elements throughout the several figures of the drawings:
FIG. 1 is a schematic of the present invention component assembly.
FIG. 2 is an impedance matching network distinctively suitable for powering the present invention.
FIG. 3, 4 and 5 are representative alternative power supply output stage circuits.
FIG. 6 schematically represents an alternative embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 7 schematically represents the upper chamber of a one atmosphere glow discharge plasma reactor having a median grid plate.
FIG. 8 represents a graph of voltage, current and power waveforms for a uniform glow discharge plasma.
FIG. 9 represents a graph of voltage, current and power waveforms for a filamentary discharge plasma.
FIG. 10 is a log-log graph of total and plasma power density in milliwatts per cubic centimeter, as functions of RMS voltage applied to the electrodes.
FIG. 11 is a log-log graph of total and plasma power density in milliwatts per cubic centimeter, as functions of R. F. frequency.
FIG. 12 is a graph of amplifier frequency and corresponding breakdown current phase angles respective to a particular operating example of the invention.
FIG. 13 is a graph of amplifier frequency and corresponding power consumption respective to a particular operating example of the invention.
Referring to the invention schematic illustrated by FIG. 1, the electrodes 10 are fabricated of copper plate having a representative square plan dimension of 21.6 cm�21.6 cm. Silver soldered to the plates 10 are closed loops 11 of 0.95 cm copper tubing having hose nipples 12 and 13 connected therewith on opposite sides of the closed tubing loop. Not shown are fluid flow conduits connected to the inlet nipples 12 for delivering coolant fluid to the loop 11 and to the outlet nipples 13 for recovering such coolant fluid.
The integral metallic units comprising plates 10 and tubing 11 are covered with a high dielectric insulation material 14.
Preferably, some mechanism should be provided for adjusting the distance s between plates 10 up to about 5 cm separation while maintaining relative parallelism. Such a mechanism is represented schematically in FIG. 1 by the rod adjusters 15 secured to the upper and lower plates 10. This arrangement anticipates a positionally fixed median plate 30.
Although parallelism is used in the context of parallel planes, it should be understood that the terms also comprises non-planar surfaces that are substantially equidistant. Also included are the geometry characteristics of a cylinder having an axis parallel to another cylinder or to a plate.
Energizing the plates 10 is a low impedance, high voltage, R. F. power amplifier 20 having independently variable voltage and frequency capacities over the respective ranges of 1 to at least 5 KV and 1 to 100 KHz. Between the RF power supply 20 and the plates 10 may be an impedance matching network 31, described in greater detail relative to FIG. 2.
Surrounding the plate assembly is an environmental isolation barrier 21 such as a structural enclosure suitable for maintaining a controlled gas atmosphere in the projected plan volume between the plates 10. Inlet port 22 is provided to receive an appropriate gas such as air, helium or argon, mixtures of helium or argon with oxygen or air or a mixture of argon with helium. In any case, gas pressure within the isolation barrier 21 is substantially ambient thereby obviating or reducing the need for gas tight seals. Normally, it is sufficient to maintain a low flow rate of the modified atmospheric pressure gas through the inlet port 22 that is sufficient to equal the leakage rate. Since the pressure within the isolation barrier 21 is essentially the same as that outside the barrier, no great pressure differential drives the leakage rate. A vent conduit 28 controlled by valve 29 is provided as an air escape channel during initial flushing of the enclosure. Thereafter, the valve 29 may be closed for normal operation.
Narrow material flow slits 23 are provided in the isolation barrier 21 to accommodate passage of a material web W between the plates 10 as drawn from a supply reel 24 onto a rewind reel 25. Drive for the reels 24 and 25 is controlled to provide a predetermined residence time between the plates 10 and within the plasma for any given web element.
To broaden the range of operating frequency and other parameters over which the desirable uniform (as opposed to filamentary) glow discharge occurs, an impedence matching network, one embodiment of which is illustrated schematically by FIG. 2, is added to the power circuit for charging the electrodes 10. The parameters of this matching network are adjusted for the most stable, uniform operation of the glow discharge. This condition can occur when the reactive power of the plasma reactor is minimized.
FIGS. 3 through 5 represent alternative power supply options having respective attractions. FIGS. 3 corresponds to a configuration wherein the bottom electrode terminal T1 is connected to ground potential and the top terminal T2 is charged at the full working potential. FIGS. 4 and 5 are electrical equivalents wherein the T1 and T2 voltages are 180� out of phase but at only half the maximum potential. FIG. 4 represents a grounded center tap transformer whereas FIG. 5 represents a solid state power circuit embodiment.
Shown in FIG. 6 are two optional embodiments, the functions of which are to drive a reciprocating gas flow containing active species from the plasma back and forth through the web W. This can be accomplished either by a bellows 35 actuated by a reciprocating shaft 33, or by a piston 36 activated by a reciprocating shaft 32. The change in volume of the upper chamber will give rise to a periodic reversal of the pressure differential across the web W, hence, a periodic reversal of the gas flow. As an alternative embodiment, a passageway from behind the piston can be connected to the lower chamber as shown in the dashed line piping 34.
The FIG. 6 embodiment of the invention provides an electrically grounded screen 30 to support the web W as it is drawn between the opposite material flow slits 23. This configuration attenuates an accumulated electrical charge on the web and also structurally supports the traveling fabric web as a pressure differential membrane between an upper, gas inlet chamber and a lower, vent chamber. This swept flow differential assures an internal saturation of the web W by the gas containing active species from the plasma.
Electric fields employed in a one atmosphere, uniform glow discharge plasma reactor are only a few kilovolts per centimeter, values which, if D. C., would usually be too low to electrically break down the background gas. Gases such as helium and air will break down under such low electric fields, however, if the positive ion population is trapped between the two parallel or uniformly spaced electrodes, this greatly increasing their lifetime in the plasma, while at the same time the electrons are free to travel to the insulated electrode plates where they recombine or build up a surface charge. The most desirable uniform one atmosphere glow discharge plasma is therefore created when the applied frequency of the RF electric field is high enough to trap the ions between the median screen and an electrode plate, but not so high that the electrons are also trapped during a half cycle of the R. F. voltage. The electrons may be trapped by bipolar electrostatic forces.
If the RF frequency is so low that both the ions and the electrons can reach the boundaries and recombine, the particle lifetimes will be short and the plasma will either not initiate or form a few coarse filamentary discharges between the plates. If the applied frequency is in a narrow band in which the ions oscillate between the median screen and an electrode plate, they do not have time to reach either boundary during a half period of oscillation and be carried for long times. If the more mobile electrons are still able to leave the plasma volume and impinge on the boundary surfaces, then the desirable uniform plasma is produced. If the applied RF frequency is still higher so that both electrons and ions are trapped in the discharge, then the discharge forms a filamentary plasma.
Without limiting our invention to any particular theory, we are disposed to a relationship between the electrode spacing, the RMS electrode voltage, and the applied frequency which results in trapping ions but not electrons between the two plates, and produces the desired uniform one atmosphere glow discharge plasma. On FIG. 7 is a schematic of the upper chamber of the one atmosphere glow discharge plasma reactor. The lower boundary of this space is the midplane screen or base, the floating potential of which should remain near ground if the RF power supply output is connected as a push-pull circuit to the two electrodes with a grounded center tap. In the data reported herein, the median screen was grounded through an inductive current choke. In the configuration of FIG. 7, a Cartesian coordinate system is applied as shown, with the applied electric field in the x-direction. The maximum amplitude of the electric field between the grounded median screen and the upper electrode is Eo, and the separation of the screen from the electrodes is the distance d. The median screen, with an exposed sample on it, is assumed not to allow ions through the median plane from the upper chamber to the lower, or vice-versa.
The electric field between the electrodes shown on FIG. 7 is given by
E=(Eo sin ωt,O,O). (1)
It is assumed that the one atmosphere glow discharge operates in a magnetic field free plasma. The equation of motion for the ions or electrons between the two plates is given by a Lorentzian model, in which the electrons and ions collide only with the neutral background gas and, on each collision, give up all the energy they acquired from the RF electric field since the last collision with the neutral gas. The equation of motion for the ions or electrons in the Lorentzian model is given by
F=ms=-mvc v-eE, (2)
where the first term on the right hand side is the Lorentzian collision term, according to which the momentum mv is lost with each collision that occurs with a collision frequency vc. The x component of Eq. 2 is given by ##EQU1## where the electric field E from Eq. 1 has been substituted into the right hand side of Eq. 2. The general solution to Eq. 3 is
x=C1 sin ωt=C2 cos ωt, (4)
where the constants C1 and C2 are given by ##EQU2##
The one atmosphere helium glow discharge is operated at frequencies between ω/2π=1 and 30 KHz, where, for helium at one atmosphere,
vci ≈6.8�109 ion collisions/sec., (7a)
vce ≈1.8�1012 electron coll./sec. (7b)
The collision frequency for ions and electrons given by Eqs. 7a and 7b is much greater than the RF frequency, Vc >>ω. The relation vc >>ω for ions and electrons, implies that C2 is much greater than the constant C1, or ##EQU3## The time dependent position of an ion or an electron in the electric field between the plates is given by substituting Eq. 8 into Eq. 4, to obtain ##EQU4## The RMS displacement of the ion or electron during a half cycle is given by ##EQU5## If Vo is the driving frequency, in Hertz, then the radian RF frequency is given by
ω=2πvo, (11)
and the maximum electric field between the plates can be approximated by the maximum voltage Vo appearing between them, ##EQU6## If the charge in question moves across the discharge width from the median plane to one of the electrode plates during one full cycle, then we may write ##EQU7## Equation 13 states that the RMS displacement of the particle has to be less than half the clear spacing in order to have a buildup of positive charge between the plates. In the geometry shown in FIG. 7, the distance d is identified with the distance between the grounded median screen and the energized electrode. Substituting Eqs. 11 to 13 into Eq. 10 yields the relationship ##EQU8## If we now solve for the critical frequency vo above which charge buildup should occur in the plasma volume, we have ##EQU9## In Eq. 15, the collision frequency va is given by Eqs. 7a or 7b for ions or electrons, respectively, at one atmosphere, and the RMS voltage is that which bounds the upper and lower limit of the uniform discharge regime.
The range of parameters over which we have operated a one atmosphere, uniform glow discharge plasma reactor is given in Table I. The nominal pressure at which this discharge has been operated is one atmosphere. The variation of several torr shown in Table I is not intended to represent the day-to-day fluctuations of barometric pressure, but the pressure differential across the midplane screen which is intended to drive active species from the upper plasma through the fabric being exposed. The RMS power shown in Table I is the net power delivered to the plasma, less the reactive power which does not appear in the plasma. The total volume of plasma between the two electrode plates is given by
S=0.93 d(cm) liters, (16)
where d is the separation of a plate from the median screen in centimeters.
The power densities shown in Table I are far below those of electrical arcs or plasma torches, but also are several orders of magnitude higher than the power densities associated with some other forms of plasma treatment such as corona discharges. The power densities of the one atmosphere glow discharge plasma are generally low enough not to damage exposed fabrics, but are also enough higher than coronal plasmas used for surface treatment that they should provide far more active species than the latter. The plasma parameters, such as electron kinetic temperature and number density are somewhat speculative at this early stage in the development of our invention. A few results from probing the plasma midplane with a floating Langmuir probe indicates that the plasma, without grounding the midplane screen, will float to positive potentials of several hundred volts. The ion kinetic temperatures are very likely close to that of the room temperature atoms with which they frequently collide at these high pressures; the electrons apparently remain numerous and energetic enough to excite the neutral background atoms, hence making this a glow discharge. The existence of excited states which emit visible photons implies that the electron population has a kinetic temperature of at least an electron volt. The diagnostic difficulties of measuring plasma parameters at this high pressure are very severe, since ordinary Langmuir probing technique cannot be applied due to the short mean free paths of the electrons compared to a Debye distance. Electron number densities, however, may be measured by microwave interferometric techniques.
TABLE I______________________________________OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ONEATMOSPHERE GLOW DISCHARGE PLASMA REACTOR______________________________________working gas = He, He + 1-7% O2, Ar, Ar + He, Ar +1-7% O2, and atmospheric airfrequency = 1 KHz to 100 KHzvoltage = 1.5-9.5 kVrms plate to plateelectrode gap d = 0.8-3.2 cmpressure = 760 +15, -5 torrRMS power = 10 watts to 150 wattspower density = 4-120 mW/cm3plasma volume = 0.7-3.1 liters______________________________________
On FIGS. 8 and 9 are shown two waveforms of voltage and current taken in helium at the same electrode separation and gas flow conditions, but at two different frequencies. FIG. 8 was taken in the uniform glow discharge regime at a frequency of 2.0 kHz, and FIG. 9 was taken in the filamentary discharge regime at a frequency above the uniform plasma operating band at 8.0 kHz. The high output impedance of our RF power supply results in a voltage waveform (trace B) that is very close to sinusoidal. The reactive current waveform (trace C) is interrupted by a breakdown of the plasma twice each cycle, once when the voltage is positive, and once when the voltage is negative. Trace A shows the reactive current waveform at the same voltage and operating conditions, but in air, rather than helium. There was no perceptible plasma present in air under these conditions, and the power is completely reactive. This purely reactive current of trace A was subtracted from the total plasma current in trace C, to yield trace D. The instantaneous power deposited in the plasma (trace E) is found by multiplying the excess plasma current above the reactive current (trace D) by the voltage at that point (trace B). The average power is found by integrating over the duration of the pulses shown, and dividing by this duration. It is in this manner that the power and power density into the plasma were calculated for these highly nonsinusoidal current waveforms. FIGS. 8 for the uniform discharge and 9 for the filamentary discharge show characteristically different power waveforms in trace E; this is a method of distinguishing the uniform from the filamentary discharge.
The plasma power is of interest because it is proportional to the production rate of active species in the plasma; the reactive power is significant because it determines the required power handling rating of the plasma power supply and associated equipment. The total power is the sum of plasma and reactive power. On FIG. 10 is shown a log-log plot of the plasma and total power density in milliwatts per cubic centimeter, as functions of the RMS voltage applied to the parallel plates. The active plasma volume in FIG. 10 was 1.63 liters, with a separation between -the median screen and each plate of d=1.75 centimeters in a plasma of helium gas. On FIG. 11 is a similar presentation of the power density plotted on log-log coordinates as a function of the frequency. The approximate bound of the uniform plasma discharge regime is shown by the arrow. These data were taken in helium gas for the same plasma volume and electrode separation as FIG. 10.
In a first operational example of the invention, the FIG. 1 described physical apparatus sustained a glow discharge plasma in one atmosphere of helium at standard temperature with a separation distance s of 3.0 cm between plates 10. The plates were energized with a 4.4 KV rms working potential. Holding these parameters constant, R. F. frequency was increased as an independent variable. As the dependent variable, FIG. 12 charts the corresponding breakdown current phase angle as determined relative to the voltage waveform node. Similarly, FIG. 13 charts the total power, including reactive and plasma input power required to sustain the plasma at the respective R. F. frequencies.
In a second operational example of the invention, the FIG. 1 described physical apparatus is used to sustain a glow discharge plasma in one atmosphere of helium at standard temperature with a separation distance s of 1.0 cm between plates 10. In this example, the R. F. frequency was held constant at 30 KHz while plate potential was manipulated as the independent variable and current breakdown phase angle, Θ, (Table 2) and total power, P, (Table 3) measured as dependent variables.
TABLE 2______________________________________V(KV) 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5θ(deg) 28 40 61 46 65 76.5______________________________________
A third operational example of the invention included a one atmosphere environment of helium between a 1 cm separation distance s between plate electrodes 10 charged at 1.5 KV rms potential. The R. F. frequency was manipulated as the independent variable. As a measured dependent variable, Table 4 reports the corresponding phase angle Θ of breakdown current. The measured dependent variable of Table 5 reports the corresponding total power consumption data.
TABLE 4______________________________________f(KHz) 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100θ(deg) 43 32 43 52 54 61 60 56 45 22.5______________________________________
TABLE 5______________________________________f(KHz) 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100P(W) 5 8 11 19 35 43 47 57 89 124______________________________________
The largest volume helium plasma of 3.1 liters was achieved with the above described apparatus at a 3.7 cm plate separation having a 5 KV rms potential at an R. F. frequency of 4 KHz.
Meltblown webs formed from nylon, poly(ethylene terephthalate), polypropylene and polyethylene have been processed by exposure to the glow discharge plasma described herein to produce desired material characteristics, increased wettability and re-wettability.
Wettability of a material is objectively measured by either or both of two tests including (a) the angle of a water bead supported on the material surface and (b) the time required to wick along a predetermined material length.
By such tests, it was determined that polypropylene, nylon, polyester and polyethylene film experienced a significant wettability and re-wettability improvement after a 2.5 minute plasma exposure as evidenced by a greatly reduced bead angle.
A poly(ethylene terephthalate) web, after 2.5 minutes of glow discharge plasma exposure to a 5 KV, 4 KHz across a 4.5 cm plate separation, experienced a 0� surface bead angle and a 37.37 second wicking rate determined by the INDA standard absorption test. Prior to plasma exposure, the web had a large surface bead angle and no wicking capacity.
Similarly, after only 60 seconds of exposure to the same plasma, a nylon web, having a high surface bead angle and no wicking capacity enjoyed a 0� surface bead angle and a 16.61 second wicking rate (INDA standard test) upon wetting and re-wetting.
In another test set, two different meltblown webs Poly(ethylene terephthalate) and polypropylene (PET and PP), were treated by the one atmosphere glow discharge plasma with helium or helium plus active gases as the working gas for a treating time period from half minute to two minutes. The power supply voltage was from 1,000 Vrms to 4,000 Vrms and the frequency was from 1 kHz to 100 kHz. The webs had a fiber size of 2 to 2.5 microns, a pore size of 20-25 microns, and a porosity of 90%. Table 6 lists some initial results from these treatments.
Wettability was justified by contact angle, wickability, and wetout of the liquid through web thickness and on the web surface. Wickability was measured according to INDA standard (1st 10.1-92), in which time was measured for the liquid (double D's water) to rise 2.4 cm high. Physical fiber surface change was analyzed by photomicrographs taken using the ETEC Auto Scan electron microscope for a magnification of 2,000� to 4,000�.
TABLE 6__________________________________________________________________________ WettabilityTreating Conditions Contact Wicking Thickness SurfaceSample Time(s) gases kVrms Angle Rate(s) Wettability Wettability__________________________________________________________________________PP 0.35 oz 60 He, O2 3.5 reduced not sig. 90% goodPP 0.35 oz 60 He, O2 3.0 unchanged no 75% increasedPET 1 oz 90 He 2.3 0 31.74 good good__________________________________________________________________________
Although expansive data is not presently available, it is to be noted that a uniform glow discharge plasma has been sustained by the FIG. 1 apparatus with a one atmosphere ambient air environment and an 8 kV/cm electric field.
Having fully disclosed our invention and the presently preferred embodiments and best modes of practice,
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Every day I pass a large mural on a dilapidated building on Albert Road in Woodstock. It is a painting of two Zimbabwean men, Juma and Willard, with the quote, "Inspire ourselves to inspire each other." I read this message every day and in return, it inspires me. Street art is for everyone without the pretence of a gallery – it belongs to everyone and no one.


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Methodist Ladies College board member Belinda Probert responded to a class of 2010 alumna who wrote to her expressing concern over the dismissal of principal Rosa Storelli. Her response is reproduced here as an open letter to students and families. Minor editing changes have been made.
THANK you for taking the time to write such a considered and powerful letter and for allowing that there is more than one plausible version of events.
Our initial communications with the school community were very much shaped by the desire not to say anything more critical of Rosa than necessary - knowing how much public interest, not all of it well-meaning, the announcement would generate. And we have continued to try to avoid responding in the public media to her attacks on our integrity and good faith precisely because of our desire to minimise the damage to her reputation and that of the college.
First, I want to acknowledge the very strong emotional connection that you and many students and their families feel with Rosa. I know that Rosa has suggested a clash between herself, the ethos and values of the school community and that of a ''corporate'' board operating in a different kind of world. But the vast majority of the board members are current or past parents, - three of them entrusting all three of their daughters to the college.
Individual directors also bring with them the very specific skills and experience needed by any board - in governance, legal and ethical responsibilities as well as financial oversight. Two of us have spent our entire working lives as educationalists.
For myself, my daughter attended MLC from year 5 to year 12, leaving in 2001. The reason I accepted an invitation to join the board two years ago was because while my daughter was there I came to value the college for many different things - in particular its inclusiveness, its ambitions for girls and the sense that it was already a big world in which to learn some hard knocks. I did not want her to be schooled in a cocoon of privilege, or with a group of girls with similar world-views and social experiences.
The school she attended was still very much the product of the previous principal, David Loader, and his visionary leadership. So I know it as a school that has had more than one fine principal, which perhaps makes me feel confident it will survive and prosper for future generations.
And I also know that the college has many fine teachers who are still focused on their students despite these stressful developments. I do not say this in any way to demean your particular experience, but to explain my own experience of the college.
The second point I want to emphasise is that a board - even the unpaid board of a not-for-profit organisation - has very specific and serious duties. Rosa describes herself often as more of a chief executive officer than a principal, because she is indeed responsible not only for educational leadership but for the integrity of the college's management. And we, the board, must hold her accountable for this.
When a normal process of due diligence on our behalf leads to the discovery by a completely independent and highly regarded firm such as Deloitte that the principal appears to have been paid more than the amount to which she was entitled, then this is not something the board can ignore. The board's initial reaction was simply to discuss the Deloitte review with Rosa. Rosa was invited to attend a meeting at Deloitte, with her solicitor and accountant, so that she could interrogate their report and help us understand how this had occurred. Rosa attended this meeting about the process Deloitte had followed and how it had calculated the overpayments. Rosa refused to hear from Deloitte at that meeting. In addition, the information that the board had received from Deloitte was sent to Rosa.
Since that time we have in good faith made strenuous attempts to resolve this issue with Rosa. The college pursues individual staff members who are accidentally overpaid with quite a ruthless approach, and we could not possibly behave differently where the sums are so much larger and where the CEO has personally benefited. Given our fundamental obligations as directors, we cannot simply forgive the overpayments.
We do indeed understand that many students, parents and potential benefactors feel angry and upset. But perhaps you can imagine the feelings experienced by one of the current directors, who has not only made very major personal donations to the school, but who volunteers his time to lead the College Foundation in fund-raising for MLC. He feels unable to ask potential benefactors to make serious contributions while he cannot, hand on heart, say that the board holds the college accountable for the integrity of its financial management.
You are right to tell us that we, as directors of MLC, have a responsibility not just to a business but to a school. This is why we could not possibly run away at this point. Our priorities are first to work with the skilled and dedicated MLC staff to support current students through this difficult period, and second to ensure that the next principal of the college is an educational leader of vision and wisdom, to whom the school community will become as deeply attached.


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