Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided for implementing a system for providing a breather for a reservoir. The system includes a breather including a housing a dehumidifying element therein. The system further includes an operational sensor positioned within the housing, the operational sensor configured to output a sensor signal indicative of a measured operational parameter of the breather, and an expansion pack coupleable to the housing, the expansion pack is configured to receive the sensor signal indicative of the measured operational parameter and to transmit at least one of the measured operational parameter or a representation thereof. The system includes a control unit communicatively coupleable to the expansion pack having a processor, a display unit, and a storage. The processor executes a control application configured to receive the at least one of the measured operational parameter or representation thereof.

A system of generating an aerosol, by: (a) placing a liquid into a liquid chamber in an ultrasonic nebulization system having a cylindrical aerosol production chamber received within a cylindrical master chamber, and having top and bottom ultrasonic transducers; (b) passing air up through the aerosol production chamber; and (c) producing acoustic standing waves above the surface of the liquid with the top and bottom ultrasonic transducers, thereby generating an aerosol of the liquid by action of the standing waves.

Some embodiments include a method of producing metal diboride nanomaterials having thickness down to the atomic scale and lateral areas from 10 nm to over 1 m by preparing a mixture of a metal diboride and a suspending solution. The suspending solution can be an organic solvent or a solution containing water, and optionally can include a dispersion agent, such as a surfactant, a polymer, small molecule, or biopolymer. Further, the method includes exfoliating the metal diboride by exposing the mixture to ultrasonic energy, centrifuging the mixture forming supernatant that includes a dispersion of exfoliated metal diborides, and extracting the dispersion from the supernatant. Some embodiments include extracting the supernatant and casting the solution by diluting the dispersion with a second suspending solution that includes dissolved polymer. This can result in a composite film includes a dispersion of the exfoliated metal diborides and provides improved mechanical properties.

Various methods and systems are provided for removing liquid from a sample containing both liquid component and gaseous component. In particular, the liquid component may be separated from the sample by flowing the gaseous component of the sample from a lower chamber to an upper chamber through a membrane. The liquid portion of the sample may be drain from the lower chamber via a drainage channel within the bottom wall of the lower chamber. The liquid portion of the sample flows horizontally outward in the drainage channel through capillary action induced by a capillary part positioned within the drainage channel.

The present invention relates to a dehydration composition and method of use thereof for drying gas streams, in particular natural gas streams, wherein the dehydration composition comprises a (a) glycol and (b) an additive selected so as to increase the viscosity, surface tension, and/or specific gravity of the dehydration composition. Said dehydration composition and method results in the reduction of solvent loss during the dehydration step in a gas dehydration unit.

An altitude simulation assembly for an environmental chamber includes: at least one ambient air inlet; an air compressor downstream of said ambient air inlet for compressing the ambient air; at least one gas separation means downstream of the air compressor for separating the compressed air into hypoxic gas and hyperoxic gas; and, at least one fluid flow control means in fluid communication with the at least one gas separation means, for controlling the flow of hypoxic gas and hyperoxic gas to the environmental chamber. The at least one fluid flow control means is in fluid communication with at least one outlet port for supplying hypoxic gas from the gas separation means to the at least one outlet port, and hyperoxic gas from the gas separation means to the at least one outlet port. The fluid flow control means controls the oxygen concentration of gas to the environmental chamber.

The multi-tube parallel free rotary thread demisting device includes a soot pit, a side liquid guide plate, liquid accumulation units, free rotary thread units, a fixing support, a flue gas inlet, motor connecting shafts, motors, a casing, a flue gas outlet, and a base support. A main body of the device includes a plurality of free rotary thread units and a plurality of liquid accumulation units that are mounted in parallel. The motors are mounted on an outer wall of the casing. The free rotary thread units are connected to the motors via the motor connecting shafts respectively. The motor connecting shafts are fixed via the fixing support. The device has low resistance, high efficiency, and high flue gas treatment throughput, and can avoid scaling and jamming.

An apparatus, method and system remove contaminants from a vapor. In an embodiment, a contaminant removal apparatus includes a vacuum box. The vacuum box is a vessel. The apparatus also includes a demister pad disposed in the vacuum box. A vapor is introduced to the vacuum box on an opposing side of the demister pad from a vapor exit from the vacuum box.

An effluent processing apparatus is provided for a vehicle air brake charging system. The effluent processing apparatus comprises an inlet port through which effluent from a purge valve of an air dryer can be received and an outlet port. The effluent processing apparatus also comprises a spiral-shaped effluent channel having a portion of decreasing channel width disposed between the inlet port and the outlet port. The spiral-shaped effluent channel is provided for increasing velocity of an effluent stream as the effluent stream flows through the decreasing channel width portion of the spiral-shaped effluent channel.

An apparatus, method and system remove contaminants from a vapor. In an embodiment, a contaminant removal apparatus includes a vacuum box. The vacuum box is a vessel. The apparatus also includes a demister pad disposed in the vacuum box. A vapor is introduced to the vacuum box on an opposing side of the demister pad from a vapor exit from the vacuum box.