A method and apparatus for supplying insulating liquid to form an insulating coating layer on an electrode is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a storage tank for storing an insulating liquid; a coating die for coating the insulating liquid on an electrode; a supply line which supplies the insulating liquid from the storage tank to the coating die; a pump connected to the supply line; a defoaming tank connected to the storage tank and supplies defoamed insulating liquid to the storage tank; a vacuum pump which defoams bubbles of the insulating liquid by applying vacuum to the defoaming tank; a bubble sensor connected to the supply line, wherein the bubble sensor senses generation of bubbles in the supply line in real time; and a controller for adjusting an operating condition of the apparatus based on an amount of bubbles sensed by the bubble sensor.

Systems and methods for separation of hydrocarbon containing fluids are provided. More particularly, the disclosure is relevant to separating fluids having a gas phase, a hydrocarbon liquid phase, and an aqueous liquid phase using indirect heating. In general, the system uses a first gas separation followed by pressure reduction and then a second gas separation. Indirect follows the second gas separation and then three-phase separation.

In some examples a printing system includes purging manifolds. The printing system includes a fluid ejection device to dispense a fluid and a first reservoir to house a fluid. The system further includes a purging manifold to fluidically couple to the fluid ejection device, and the purging manifold to fluidically couple to the first reservoir. The purging manifold includes a second reservoir. The purging manifold further includes a supply port; a fluid inlet port; and a purging outlet port. The purging outlet port is disposed above the supply port to convey fluid to the first reservoir. The printing system also includes a fluid interface connector to fluidically connect to the supply port and fluidically connect to the fluid ejection device.

A separation assembly for the flow measurement of a gas flow and a liquid flow of a multiphase fluid includes separator with a housing and a separation element inside the housing. The separation element provides the fluid to rotate at high-speed causing strong centrifugal forces on the multiphase fluid. The housing has an inlet for a multiphase mixture and two outlets, one primarily for pre-separated gas and the second primarily for pre-separated liquid. These outlets lead to a regulator. The regulator is part of the separation assembly and includes at least two outlets, one for gas and one for liquid. The regulator ensures the proportional regulation and the final separation of gas and liquid phases over an entire flow rate to provide monophase liquid and gas at the outlets of the regulator.

A solenoid based air ventilation valve (24) comprises of a housing (1), a solenoid coil (2), a flexible diaphragm (6), a plunger (8), a filter inlet (28) and a filter outlet assembly (100). The flexible diaphragm (6) is over molded with the plunger (8) to seal the flexible diaphragm (6) against the high pressure during closed position and has an incorporated O-ring (102) with flexible diaphragm (6) to stop the leakage from the valve (24). The filter outer assembly (100) is fixed to the inlet (25) and outlet port (26) to prevent suspended contamination particles in the valve (24). The valve (24) has a press fitted metal insert/flow controller (55) to achieve a low flow rate. Further, the air ventilation valve (24) allows a low leakage limit, low flow rate to serve high opening and working pressure to work in both over pressure and under pressure (vacuum) conditions.

Systems and methods for non-contact sensing of the level of process fluid within a hygienic bubble trap are contemplated. In particular, it is contemplated that through the use of one or more capacitance probes having their sensor tips placed adjacent to the vessel wall of a hygienic bubble trap, ideally perpendicularly thereto, the fluid level of the process fluid within the hygienic bubble trap may be measured via the circuit of the capacitance probe detecting variances in the electrical field which extends through the vessel wall, as a result of changes in the dielectric as the process fluid rises and falls. In this fashion, the probe is not wetted and is never placed into physical contact with the process fluid, and thus does not need to undergo any clean-in-place or sterilize-in-place processes, greatly simplifying ease of use.

A process for the reduction of flaring/venting gases during completions operations on an oil/gas well, said process comprising providing a well in need of completion; providing a system to capture oil and gas generated by the well; the system including a primary separator to separate an incoming well stream into a plurality of streams wherein a first stream is sent to a pipeline and a second stream is sent for further processing. The process further includes flowing and collecting a third stream of gas in a gas pressure vessel; compressing the collected gas in the vessel until parameters of compressed gas are compressed to provide a constant feed to the pipeline; and transferring the compressed gas to the gas pipeline wherein the process reduces the amount of gas flared and/or vented during operation by over 80%.

A method for recovering a distillable, anhydrous methane-sulfonic acid (MSA) liquid phase from an anhydrous 2-phase gas-liquid mixture wherein the anhydrous 2-phase gas-liquid mixture is generated by sulfonating methane (CH.sub.4) with sulfur trioxide (SO.sub.3) in an MSA-forming reactor, or reactor system, according to a radical chain reaction wherein the method comprises (i) separating the gas phase from the liquid phase, (ii) passing the separated liquid phase into a stripping column, and (iii) recovering the stripped anhydrous liquid phase.

The degassing device includes a degassing flow path, a vacuum chamber, a vacuum pump, an inlet flow path, an outlet flow path, a drain flow path, a downstream side switching unit, and a controller. The degassing flow path is made of a gas-permeable, liquid-impermeable tube, and is accommodated in the vacuum chamber. The inlet flow path is for introducing a mobile phase to the degassing flow path, and the outlet flow path is for causing a mobile phase which has passed through the degassing flow path to flow out. The drain flow path is provided separately from the outlet flow path and is configured to drain the mobile phase in the degassing flow path from the degassing flow path. The downstream side switching unit is configured to switch the downstream end of the degassing flow path so as to be connected to either the outlet flow path or the drain flow path. The controller controls the operation of the downstream side switching unit, and is configured to connect the downstream end of the degassing flow path to the drain flow path at a predetermined timing when feeding of the mobile phase by the liquid feeding pump is stopped to drain the mobile phase in the degassing flow path through the drain flow path.

Air elimination assemblies are described herein. An air elimination assembly for eliminating air from a flow of infusate includes a housing and a hydrophobic filter. The housing defines an infusate flow path having an inlet and an outlet, and an air flow path in fluid communication with the infusate flow path and disposed between the inlet and the outlet of the infusate flow path. The hydrophobic filter is disposed in fluid communication with the air flow path, wherein the hydrophobic filter is configured to permit air from the flow of infusate through a hydrophobic filter media and prevent the flow of infusate through the hydrophobic filter media.