A neon recovering/purifying system including: a recovery vessel that is arranged on an exhaust gas route and stores exhaust gas, the exhaust gas route being branched and extending from a discharge line; a compressor that increases a pressure of the exhaust gas sent out from the recovery vessel, to a third pressure; an exhaust gas flow rate regulating unit that regulates a flow rate of the exhaust gas whose pressure has been increased by the compressor; a first impurity removing unit that removes a first impurity from the exhaust gas; a second impurity removing unit that removes a second impurity from the exhaust gas from which the first impurity has been removed; a pressure increasing vessel that stores purified gas that has been processed by the first impurity removing unit and the second impurity removing unit; a pressure reducing valve that reduces a pressure of the purified gas sent out from the pressure increasing vessel, to the first pressure; and a purified gas flow rate regulating unit that regulates a flow rate of the purified gas supplied to a supply line of a manufacturing system.

A fluid system includes an inlet conduit disposed in a fluid flow path between a fluid source and a fluid destination. The fluid conduit includes a fluid mixing portion. The fluid system includes a fluid separation module disposed in the flow path downstream of the constriction between the source and the destination. The fluid separation module includes a first fluid separator. The fluid system includes a second fluid separator disposed in the flow path upstream of the first fluid separator. The fluid system includes a feedback conduit that may provide fluid communication between an outlet of the fluid separation module and the fluid mixing portion.

A dip-conduit purification apparatus (102) comprises a purification line comprising a plurality of serially coupled purification conduits (124, 126, 128), each of the plurality of purification conduits (124, 126, 128) having an inlet at a first distal end thereof in fluid communication with an outlet at a second distal end thereof.

The present disclosure provides a method for generating higher hydrocarbon(s) from a stream comprising compounds with two or more carbon atoms (C.sub.2+), comprising introducing methane and an oxidant (e.g., O.sub.2) into an oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) reactor. The OCM reactor reacts the methane with the oxidant to generate a first product stream comprising the C.sub.2+ compounds. The first product stream can then be directed to a separations unit that recovers at least a portion of the C.sub.2+ compounds from the first product stream to yield a second product stream comprising the at least the portion of the C.sub.2+ compounds.

The present invention relates to a novel integrated system for providing nitrogen (N2) to a variety of industrial service applications such as, for example, process unit drying, pipeline purging, reactor cooling, vessel inerting, pipeline displacement.

In a method for separating argon by cryogenic distillation, in which a flow containing argon, oxygen and nitrogen and being more rich in argon than the air is sent to a distillation column, and an argon-rich gas flow is withdrawn at the top of the column, a portion of the argon-rich gas flow is mixed with beads to form a gas mixture containing beads, the beads being capable of adsorbing oxygen in the presence of argon at the column operating temperatures; the portion of the argon-rich gas flow mixed with the beads is condensed and then sent to the top of the column; and a bottom liquid containing beads is withdrawn from the column and treated to remove the beads, the beads removed being regenerated to remove the adsorbed oxygen and being again mixed with the argon-rich gas flow.

A mechanism is provided in a data processing system comprising a processor and a memory, the memory comprising instructions that are executed by the processor to specifically configure the processor to implement a repetitive portion identification and weighting engine. A machine learning model is trained for weighting repetitive portions of patient electronic medical records (EMRs). A repetitive portion identification component applies a plurality of templates to clinical notes of a patient EMR to identify one or more candidate portions that match at least one of the plurality of templates. A content analysis component performs content analysis on the one or more candidate portions to determine whether each given candidate portion is relevant. A weighting component assigns a relative weight to each given candidate portion based on relevance. A cognitive summary graphical user interface (GUI) generation component generates cognitive summary reflecting at least a subset of the one or more candidate portions of the patient EMR. The mechanism outputs the cognitive summary in a GUI to a user.

A method of producing an oxide of manganese including reacting, in a first aqueous solution, a manganese salt and an alkali agent to form manganese hydroxide; separating the manganese hydroxide from the first solution; mixing the manganese hydroxide into an aqueous medium to form a manganese hydroxide suspension; mixing the manganese hydroxide suspension with alkali metal hydroxide to form a second aqueous solution; and oxidizing the manganese hydroxide in the second aqueous solution to form an oxide of manganese. The dried oxide of manganese includes birnessite, a maximum of 20% hausmannite, and a maximum of 10% feitknechtite, may further include a maximum of 400 ppm of anions, may have a specific surface area of at least 25 m.sup.2/g, and may have an average oxidation state of greater than 3.5.

Disclosed herein are new processes for adsorbing oxygen using adsorbent compositions comprising RHO zeolites kinetically selective for oxygen. The RHO zeolites can be used in pressure swing adsorption processes for separating oxygen from oxygen containing streams, such as for, but not limited to, purifying a crude argon feed stream or separating oxygen from an air feed stream.

A method for producing a hydrogen-enriched gas, the method including: (A) generating a mixed gas containing hydrogen and oxygen in a reactor that decomposes water into hydrogen and oxygen using sunlight in the presence of a photocatalyst; (B) collecting the mixed gas in a storage tank; (C) supplying the mixed gas in the storage tank to a gas separation device that includes a membrane having an ability to separate hydrogen and oxygen; and (D) separating a hydrogen-enriched gas from the mixed gas in the gas separation device.