Advanced Fluids Technology

Advanced Fluid Technologies, Inc., Dynalene Ideal Transfer Fluids, Whitehall, Pennsylvania, US.A. 

Carlson, T., Finding a Suitable Replacement for Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Oil Muds, SPE paper 23062, 1992 American Assn, of Drilling Engineers New Advancements in Drilling Fluids Technology Conference, Houston, TX, 1992. 

Grant, A. A. and Phillips, L., The Application of Advanced Materials Technology in Fluid Engineering, I. Mech. E., London, Feb. (1990)... 

Many of the new plastics, blends, and material systems require special, enhanced processing features or techniques to be successfully injection molded. The associated materials evolution has resulted in new plastics or grades, many of which are more viscoelastic. That is, they exhibit greater melt elasticity. The advanced molding technology has started to address the coupling of viscoelastic material responses with the process parameters. This requires an understanding of plastics as viscoelastic fluids, rather than as purely viscous liquids, as is commonly held... 

Due to limited space, reports pertaining to rather futuristic technologies, such as, supercritical fluid extraction (481-484) and biphasic aqueous extraction (485, 486), were not referred to here (see Chapter 11). Nevertheless, these lead to new and very different avenues for future progress in developing advanced reprocessing technologies. 

Hutchinson KW, Foster NR (eds) (1995) Innovations in supercritical fluids science and technology, ACS Symposium Series 608, American Chemical Society, Washington (for recent advances in technological processes involving supercritical fluids)... 

In the future, small tabletop cyclotrons will be in every hospital or research laboratory together with kit-based microchemistry that allows rapid production of single doses of F- and C-radiotracers. Single dose production systems are based on microlluidic chemistry, which enables tiny drops of fluids to be manipulated on a sihcon chip. A polytetrafluoroethylene matrix provides the basic element. Doses can be synthesized in one chemical step in 5-10 minutes in platforms producing a single tracer (Ron Nutt, Advanced Biomarker Technologies). We live in the Age of Simplification. Unfortunately, today the cost of development of a new radiotracer is close to 20 million each. In-house... 

Advances in technology have enabled microlenses to be designed and fabricated by a variety of methods. Biebuyck et al. introduced a method to form microlenses, also by utilizing surface tensions [8]. Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) are used to pattern hydrophobic and hydrophilic regions. Water and immiscible hydrocarbon fluids (oils) exhibit different wettability characteristics in these two regions. Water droplets are segregated from hydrocarbon fluid at the surface of the SAM and thus form lenses. 

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