Extended reach sluicer systems, devices, and methods for breaking up and retrieving chemical, radioactive, hazardous materials and/or other waste and/or other material from storage tanks with mechanical arms and nozzles to break up and transfer tank material. And this invention can work with tanks having high temperature or low temperature conditions.

An aquarium cleaning device for cleaning an inner surface of an aquarium wall includes a flexible cleaning body and a flexible handle member. The cleaning body and the handle member are magnetically attracted to each other. The flexibility in the cleaning body and the handle member allows the cleaning device to contour and conform to curved surfaces in the aquarium tank. The flexibility of the cleaning body and handle member are achieved by areas of flexibility having alternating recesses and fins.

Provided is an apparatus for treating a substrate. The apparatus for treating a substrate may include: a liquid treating chamber configured to liquid-treat a substrate; and a controller configured to control the liquid treating chamber, and the liquid treating chamber may include a treating container having a treating space therein; a support unit configured to support and rotate the substrate in the treating space; a liquid supply unit configured to supply a liquid onto the substrate; and an elevation unit configured to adjust a relative height between the treating container and the support unit, and the controller may control the elevation unit so as to adjust the relative height between the treating container and the support unit according to a warpage state of the substrate supported on the support unit when conducting substrate treating by supplying the liquid onto the substrate while rotating the substrate.

The invention proposes a system and a method for the selective extraction of viscous hydrocarbons from tanks and other containers. The system comprises the following components for heating the hydrocarbons: a steam ejector -3-, in which there takes place an eddy diffusion of its drive steam with the gases it aspirates by means of the Venturi effect, and a perimetric heating conduit -5- externally attached to the tank or container. The method comprises the following operations: heating a surface layer of hydrocarbons by means of the gases injected by the steam ejector, causing a selective flow of hot hydrocarbons to the perimetric conduit; localized heating of the hydrocarbons with the perimetric conduit, causing the precipitation of water and a selective flow of the hottest hydrocarbons to an extraction pump; and extracting the precipitated water and the hydrocarbons flowing selectively from the perimetric conduit by means of two pumps.

Provided is a production line for treatments of container products having an upstream conveyor loaded with products into a multi-lane flow, moving the products along a stream direction through successive treatment workstations with one comprising a multi-lane treatment module along the upstream conveyor, a distribution surface located at an end of the upstream conveyor feeding the distribution surface with a multi-lane flow of products, a downstream conveyor located at an output of the distribution surface, transversally moving the products along a single-lane flow, a transfer means longitudinally transferring relative a row of the products from the distribution surface to the transversal downstream conveyor, wherein the distribution surface is orientated longitudinally along the stream direction and is aligned with the upstream conveyor. Also provided is a conveying device, a production method, and use of a distribution surface for converting a multi-lane flow of products into at a single-lane flow of products.

A system which can be manually/automatically activated to ensure instant cleaning of decontamination liquid and gas placed into cylindrical pressure tubes against CBRN threats, wherein the system includes: a decontamination liquid/gas used for cleaning chemical, biologic, radiological and nuclear threats and minimizing effects thereof, a decontamination tube used for discharging decontamination liquid/gas placed therein, a decontamination pyrotechnic igniter-based on pyrotechnic used for ignition of the decontamination tube, a control unit providing manual or automatic operation of the system, and at the same time communication thereof with the hardware units in the system, and a control card located on the control unit, having printed circuit boards with embedded software developed for enabling the control.

A hose conducts high-temperature steam combined with cleaning solution in a cleaning operation. The hose comprises an external liner, an intermediate conduit, and an internal liner. The external liner comprises first braiding and is disposed along a longitudinal length of the hose. The intermediate conduit is disposed in the external liner along the longitudinal length of the hose. The intermediate conduit has a plurality of corrugations disposed laterally in the tubular wall of the intermediate conduit. The internal liner comprises second braiding and is disposed in the intermediate conduit along the longitudinal length of the hose. The internal liner provided a full bore for the hose configured to conduct the high temperature steam combined with the cleaning solution in a volatilized mixture.

The present invention refers to the heterologous production in microorganisms of modified versions of a predicted isoform of the surfactant protein Lv-ranaspumin-1 (Lv-Rsn-1), whose sequence was inferred from analyzes of the protein extract of the nest foam from the Northeastern Pepper Frog (Leptodactylus vastus). More specifically, it refers to two surfactant proteins that consist of modified versions of the predicted isoform of Lv-Rsn-1; to two synthetic genes each encoding one of these modified versions of the predicted isoform of Lv-Rsn-1; to two expression cassettes each containing one of the synthetic genes encoding one of the modified versions of the predicted isoform of Lv-Rsn-1; to two expression vectors each containing one of the synthetic genes encoding modified versions of the predicted isoform of Lv-Rsn-1; and to two transgenic microorganisms, a bacterium and a yeast, each transformed with one of these synthetic genes and heterologously producing one of the modified versions of the predicted isoform of Lv-Rsn-1. Lv-Rsn-1 has surfactancy, emulsification and dispersancy properties, among others, and its heterologous production allows it to be used in various applications and industrial products, without the need to extract it from the frog nest foam.

A machine, a filtration system and a method for disinfection and purification in fuel tanks located in places with high humidity or high relative humidity, having a machine (1) with an inlet for the fuel from the tank, a filtration system of a coarse-grain filter (2) and a fine-grain filter (2′); a radiation chamber (3) configurable for the application of radiation to the filtered fuel; a pump (4); a flowmeter (5) with at least two electrovalves (17); a centrifuge (6) with a turbine filter (6′) and control via an electrical panel (7); a cleaning machine (1); a suction hose (8) with an extendable suction lance (9); a high-pressure discharge hose (11); a return hose (12); a system for the opening and sealing of the tank (25); and an automatic filter self-cleaning system which reverses the flow, sending the fouled fuel to an additional tank (14) where it is drained.

A vessel cleaning device and method includes an armored chassis with track members operable independently by first and second pneumatic drive systems, and a remotely controllable arm. A plurality of nozzles disposed on the arm are configured to rotate while spraying high pressure liquid in mutually opposed directions when the arm is extended. The device is sized and shaped to pass through a 24-inch opening in the vessel when the arm is collapsed, and the track members and the arm are controllable remotely by an operator external to the vessel. Once the device has passed through the 24-inch opening into the vessel, the arm is movable into the extended position, and the device is movable within the vessel while the nozzles spray liquid along a notional circumference to remove waste materials from an interior surface of the vessel.