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2012
Machinery & Equipment

Self-Adjusting Bushing Bearing

Bushing bearings are used as a cost effective alternative to much more expensive ball or roller bearings. The main drawback, however, is the radial clearance between the bearing and the shaft that continues to increase as the bearing wears. In addition to the noise generated, especially in a reciprocating motion application,

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Douglas Larson
Sycamore, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 12833
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 30, 2012

Self-Locking Actuator

In most gear drives, due to inertial motion the driven output shaft becomes the driving one and the driving input shaft becomes the driven one. This condition is known as back-driving. In order to prevent this condition, different types of brake or clutch devices are used. However,

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Elias Taye
Chicago, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 14139
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 8, 2012

Self-Protective Alloy Treatment for Extreme Environments

Many alloys have rare earth additions to improve their surface properties at high temperatures. A new product, Minimox® Nanocrystalline Alloy Treatment, exploits this fact to protect a variety of alloys in extreme environmental conditions of elevated temperature and/or corrosive atmospheres.

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Susan Kerber
Sussex, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 7050
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 28, 2012

SGA

Steam Generating Apparatus (SGA) is a small, compact hot water or steam generator using a small motor to spin up to speed for whatever you require.

The SGA device is only 4" in diameter using an AC drive to control a 1HP motor. The system would include a micro processor to set up and tweak your specific application.

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William Green
Bakersfield, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 4161
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 18, 2012

Simultaneous Production of Nanocarbon, Hydrogen, and Energy

Simultaneous Production of Nano Carbon, Hydrogen and Energy

ABSTRACT:

This process is based on compression of acetylene. When acetylene is compressed it explodes, generating thermal and mechanical energy and decomposes to its original constituents; carbon (finely divided) and hydrogen.

PROJECT NARRATIVE:

The scope of work includes full process and mechanical design for a system that can produce nano carbon,

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Mohamed Elgafi
Cerritos, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 3874
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 29, 2012

Single-Axis Scanning Telescope

This telescope design consists of a primary mirror shaped to a parabola along a single axis. Whereas a conventional telescope focuses light to a single point, the Single-Axis Telescope spreads its focus along a sensor the same width as the mirror.

I call this a scanning telescope because it is designed to be stationary,

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Scott Jordan
Fayetteville, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 7717
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 13, 2012

Smartphone Attachment for In-Field Spectroscopy

Chemical classification is an important operation for many industries. Typically, this is done with portable spectrometers that cost on the order of $5000. The data from portable spectrometers must be transported back to the lab to have post processing determine what the contents of the measurement were. The complexity of these spectrometers is often excessive;

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Gabriel Birch
Tucson, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 6206
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 26, 2012

Space Debris Management System

The need to clean up space debris is urgent. We propose a comprehensive, self-sufficient and robotically enabled system, avoiding multiple launch support platforms once deployed. The main outlines comprise an initial vehicle together with a related debris processing plant.

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Charles Radley
Orlando, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 4477
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 1, 2012

Speed of Temperature Changes in Equipment

Start up of energy equipment is guided by some restrictions of acceptable temperature changes with the aim to avoid higher stress conditions in construction materials.

These restrictions lie in a range of several [K/minute] to avoid higher stresses in construction during start up processes.

If these loadings, temperature changes in working fluid or steam in steam boilers and turbines,

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Goce Vasilevski
Skopje, Macedonia
Votes: 0
Views: 4050
Machinery & Equipment
May 26, 2012

Study to Improve the Target Rock Relief Valve Using CFD

(Study to Improve the Target Rock Relief Valve Using CFD-ANSYS Software Package)

Introduction:

Nuclear power plant emergency cooling systems serve the essential purpose of providing cooling for the reactor core in the event of failure of normal cooling systems.

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Ahmad Jasim
Hawali, Kuwait
Votes: 12
Views: 7274
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 4, 2012

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