Support technology

Further development of compact support systems with high surface area to volume ratios is very important. This should be done in combination with the requirement of low flow resistance. 

Development of membranes built up of densely packed flat membranes (flat stacks) of a type as used in solid oxygen fuel cells (SOFC) seems to be an interesting option. Some results with a rather simple structure obtained with tapecasting are reported by Simon et al. [19]. 

For some applications non-oxide, stainless steel supports appear interesting. This support does not suffer from the brittleness of ceramic supports and can be quite easily connected to other module components, but does not allow strongly oxidising conditions or high temperatures. 

For further considerations it is useful to distinguish between systems with (a) small micropores (pore diameter dp 0.5 nm) and (b) wide micropores (dp = 1.0-2.0 nm) with a transition region in between for intermediate pore diameters. 

The theory of transport in multicomponent gas mixtures in micropore systems should be further developed and more data on competitive adsorption of multicomponent gas mixtures on the membrane material should become available together with adequate characterisation methods of porosity and pore size of supported systems. 

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A thematic network on climbing and walking robots including the support technologies for mobile robotic machines ... 

Solid-supported technologies are already well established methods in medicinal chemistry and automated synthesis. Over the last couple of years new trends have evolved in this field which are of utmost importance as they have the potential to revolutionize the way chemical synthesis especially for library production is performed. Microchip-based synthesis technologies and multistep sequences with solid-supported catalysts or reagents in flow-through systems are only two spectacular examples. A new approach is the use of solid-supported systems for the scale-up of chemical reactions thereby enabling the rapid and smooth transition from discovery to development units. 

Yarmush, M., Dunn, J., and Tompkins, R. Assessment of artificial liver support technology. Cell Transplant. 1,323,1992. 

FIGURE 7.1 The Industrial Research Institute s Technology Value Pyramid shows the value of maintaining supporting technology platforms. Reprinted by permission of the Industrial Research Institute, Inc., from Technology Value Program, 1996, www.iriinc.org/tvp.html. 

Nurcombe, C. (2005) Airbus cabin air quality-still the best Airbus Technical Magazine FAST-Flight, Airworthiness, Support, Technology 37, pp. 7-10. 

We have our work divided into process engineering, process chemistry, catalysis, and support technology. As an example, one of the indirect liquefaction projects, tube wall reactor, deals with the design and operation of high thermal efficiency catalytic reactors for syn-gas conversion. Other activities are coal liquefaction properties of coal minerals, the role of catalysts, coal liquid product stability, and environmental impact—to name a few. 

Polymer-supported technologies have been widely used in peptide and protein chemistry. Especially in automated solid-phase synthesis, there is a need to separate products from side products deficient in one or several units. In particular, the (n-1) products are notoriously difficult to separate from the end products. As fluorous... 

This chapter will briefly describe the supporting technologies and processes used in lead evaluation and lead profiling. In addition, the rationale behind particular assay designs used to construct selectivity panels for common target families will be discussed in detail. 

Lack of User Input Poor Project Management Changing Requirements Lack of Executive Support Technological Incompetence Lack of Resources Unrealistic Schedule Pressure... 

Poku, J.A., and J.E. Plunkeu, 1989, Assessment of membrane gas separation applications to METC supported technologies, U.S. Department of Energy Final Report under Contract No. DE-AC21-85MC21353. 

The operational answers that the Navy needs can only be found in that part of the Navy devoted to doctrinal questions—the Navy Warfare Development Command. This command appears to be proactive and innovative in analyzing what the Navy should be doing in the near term as well as the long term with respect to both fleet operational procedures and priorities for headquarters actions and acquisition. Reportedly, NWDC seeks to stimulate parallel development of warfare concepts, supporting technology, and the requisite doctrine to effectively employ any new operational capability inherent in the concept. 

An elegant synthesis that combined advantages of the polymer-supported technology and convergent building-block strategy was applied to the synthesis of a hex-asaccharide 274 (Scheme 55).247 The key feature of this assembly is the use of an anomerically connected spacer-linker that can be removed under unique reaction conditions. This approach also allows flexible manipulation with the remaining... 

Chapter 4 covers technologies for representing and processing chemical information in a computer as well as a summary of supporting technologies that typically appear in expert systems. 

With these initial thoughts, we are prepared to go now into some details of the theory of expert systems. For an expert systans to handle real-world problems, we need to incorporate a series of supporting technologies, in particular to deal with the following ... 

A typical application area of expert systems and their supporting technologies is spectroscopy. Since spectra require interpretation, they are ideally suited for automated analysis with or without the aid of a spectroscopist. Particularly vibrational spectra, like infrared spectra, are subject to interpretation with rules and experience. A series of monographs and correlation tables exist for the interpretation of vibrational spectra [7-10]. The relationship between frequency characteristics and structural features is rather complicated, and the number of known correlations between... 

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