A sterilized-liquefied gas apparatus of the invention includes: a liquefied gas reservoir; a source-gas supplier that supplies a source gas to the liquefied gas reservoir; a cooler that cools down an inside of the liquefied gas reservoir and thereby liquefies the source gas; a supply pipe that connects the source gas supplier and the liquefied gas reservoir; a sterilization filter provided in the supply pipe; a sterilizer that sterilizes, by a sterilizing gas, a sterilization region that is located further downstream than the sterilization filter; and a sterilizing-gas remover that removes the sterilizing gas after sterilization.

A machine and method for charging culinary cream whippers, by automatically injecting nitrous oxide, which makes it possible to optimise the charging time of culinary whippers and the availability of nitrous oxide for culinary whippers is disclosed, which has: a cabinet, wherein a first compartment is defined with its front portion open, at the base of which a nitrous oxide intake unit is arranged, external to this first compartment. The intake unit in the first compartment connects with a charging spout of the culinary whipper; inside the cabinet, in a second compartment, with a door, are provided at least one high-pressure nitrous oxide cylinder and the corresponding pneumatic, electric and electronic connections; and in the front of the machine is defined a control panel that makes it possible to operate the machine.

A monitoring apparatus is provided for a pressure tank, in particular in a motor vehicle. The monitoring apparatus is designed to determine current operating parameters of the pressure tank and, on the basis of the operating parameters, to calculate and preferably to display a maximum possible filling level for the pressure tank under the current operating parameters.

A hydrogen storage tank for a hydrogen fueled aircraft. The tank has a wall made of layers of aerogel sections around a hard shell layer, sealed within a flexible outer layer, and having the air removed to form a vacuum. The periphery of each layer section abuts other sections of that layer, but only overlies the periphery of the sections of other layers at individual points. The wall is characterized by a thermal conductivity that is lower near its gravitational top than its gravitational bottom. The tank has two exit passageways, one being direct, and the other passing through a vapor shield that extends through the wall between two layers of aerogel. A control system controls the relative flow through the two passages to regulate the boil-off rate of the tank.

A hydrogen storage tank for a hydrogen fueled aircraft. The tank has a wall made of layers of aerogel sections around a hard shell layer, sealed within a flexible outer layer, and having the air removed to form a vacuum. The periphery of each layer section abuts other sections of that layer, but only overlies the periphery of the sections of other layers at individual points. The wall is characterized by a thermal conductivity that is lower near its gravitational top than its gravitational bottom. The tank has two exit passageways, one being direct, and the other passing through a vapor shield that extends through the wall between two layers of aerogel. A control system controls the relative flow through the two passages to regulate the boil-off rate of the tank.

Provided is a portable gas cylinder including a gas tank having an upper portion, a lower portion, and a collar, the collar including a base secured to the lower portion, a flange extending around and radially outwardly from the base, and a plurality of notches circumferentially spaced around the flange, and a foot ring configured to be attached to the gas tank, the foot ring including a base having an inner surface, an outer surface, a central portion, and a ledge extending around and inward from the central portion, a plurality of circumferentially spaced deflectable longitudinal lock tabs radially outwardly spaced from the central portion for securing the foot ring to the tank, and a plurality of circumferentially spaced rotational lock tabs radially outwardly spaced from the central portion.

Some embodiments of the presently disclosed subject matter relate to a method and system for the real-time calculation of the amount of residual chemical energy in a non-refrigerated, pressurised tank containing liquefied natural gas, without a composition of the liquefied natural gas having to be determined.

A sensor device, system, and method for monitoring the internal pressure and temperature of a refrigerant tank during a recovery operation to control a purge operation of the tank based on the conditions thereof during the recovery operation. The sensor device, system, and method further utilize an external temperature sensor, the external temperature sensor operable to indicate that it is properly positioned on the surface of the tank.

An exemplary flight storage system for storing a cryogenic fluid and then discharging it as a vapor. The flight storage system includes an inner tank, a heat exchanger that is in fluid communication with the inner tank, an outer jacket assembly, and a cooling assembly. The storage system is configured to store high specific energy fuel such as liquid hydrogen, or other cryogenic fluids, for energy for propulsion use. The cooling assembly is configured to use the flow of the liquid hydrogen for cooling critical sensor packages The outer jacket assembly includes a first jacket cylinder and a second jacket cylinder. The outer jacket assembly further includes a first connector body 30 and a second connector body.

The invention relates to a method (300) of estimation of a probability of damage caused by sloshing of a liquid load during an operation to transfer said liquid load from a first floating structure (1) to a second floating structure (40), the first floating structure (1) and the second floating structure (40) being associated with one another during said transfer operation so that the first floating structure (1) and the second floating structure (40) are oriented with a common bearing (99). The method includes steps (307) of estimating a probability of damage to at least one tank of at least one of said first and second floating structures (1, 40) and (308) of supplying information to a user as a function of the probability of damage estimated in this way.