SYSTEMS AND REACTORS FOR STORAGE OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY

    公开(公告)号:US20220149415A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-12

    申请号:US17433355

    申请日:2020-02-25

    申请人: ETH Zürich

    IPC分类号: H01M8/18 H01M8/0656 H01M8/22

    摘要: The present invention relates to energy storage systems and reactors useful in such systems. Inventive reactors comprise a reaction vessel defining an inner volume and a compensation element, whereby said inner volume is filled with a fixed bed that is free of cavities and that comprises particles of formula (I), FeOx (I), where 0≤x≤1.5; said compensation element is adapted to adjust said inner volume. The reactors are inherently explosion proof and thus suited for domestic use. The systems are useful for compensating long-term fluctuations observed in production of renewable energy.

    Automated Annotation Of Heterogeneous Content

    公开(公告)号:US20210326720A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-21

    申请号:US16852003

    申请日:2020-04-17

    IPC分类号: G06N5/04 G06F16/245 G06N20/00

    摘要: A system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor, and a system memory storing a software code and a content labeling predictive model. The hardware processor is configured to execute the software code to scan a database to identify content assets stored in the database, parse metadata stored in the database to identify labels associated with the content assets, and generate a graph by creating multiple first links linking each of the content assets to its corresponding label or labels. The hardware processor is configured to further execute the software code to train, using the graph, the content labeling predictive model, to identify, using the trained content labeling predictive model, multiple second links among the content assets and the labels, and to annotate the content assets based on the second links.

    ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING USING THERMOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALLINE POLYMER

    公开(公告)号:US20210323219A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-21

    申请号:US17253389

    申请日:2019-06-21

    申请人: ETH Zürich

    摘要: An additive manufacturing process for the manufacture of an object in an additive manufacturing apparatus, wherein the object is formed by one or several individual solid filamentous units, said additive manufacturing process comprises the steps of, discharging a polymer composition in a molten state from a nozzle of a print head, thereby imparting an orienting flow on the polymer composition in a molten state being discharged from the nozzle of the print head and depositing said discharged polymer composition in a molten state along at least one predefined, preferably horizontal, path and allowing the thus formed one or several filamentous units to solidify such as to form one or several solid filamentous units of the object to be manufactured; optionally repeating the previous step until the object is formed; wherein said polymer composition comprises a thermotropic liquid crystal polymer as a polymer component of the polymer composition and the solid filamentous units are characterized in that the smallest thickness of the one or several filamentous units is equal or less than 0.2 mm, preferably to 0.15 mm and more preferably to 0.10 mm and most preferably is between 0.1 and 0.01 mm.

    THERMOCLINE CONTROL METHOD
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20210310747A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-07

    申请号:US17263031

    申请日:2019-07-25

    申请人: ETH Zürich

    IPC分类号: F28D20/00

    摘要: The present invention to provide a method of operating a thermal energy storage device comprising a body of heat transfer fluid, said body of heat transfer fluid comprising an upper temperature region comprising heat transfer fluid having a temperature above a upper threshold temperature, a lower temperature region comprising heat transfer fluid having a temperature below a lower threshold temperature and a thermocline region separating the upper and lower temperature regions and comprising heat transfer fluid having a temperature above a lower threshold temperature and below an upper threshold temperature, wherein during charging of the thermal energy storage device, heat transfer fluid is removed from the thermocline region of the body of heat transfer fluid and when the temperature of the heat transfer fluid being removed from the thermocline region of the body of heat transfer fluid rises above a maximum temperature, said heat transfer fluid being removed is brought to a temperature equal to or below said maximum temperature, wherein the maximum temperature is above the lower threshold temperature and/or wherein during discharging of the thermal energy storage device, heat transfer fluid is removed from the thermocline region of the body of heat transfer fluid and when the temperature of the heat transfer fluid being removed from the thermocline region of the body of heat transfer fluid falls below a minimum temperature, said heat transfer fluid being removed is brought to a temperature equal to or above said minimum temperature, wherein said minimum temperature is below the upper threshold temperature.

    IMPROVED FLAME RETARDANCY OF WOOD AND OTHER CELLULOSE-BASED MATERIALS BY IN-SITU MINERALIZATION

    公开(公告)号:US20210187782A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-24

    申请号:US16757396

    申请日:2018-10-18

    申请人: ETH ZÜRICH

    IPC分类号: B27K3/32 B27K3/20 B27K3/02

    摘要: The invention relates to a method for the treatment of cellulosic material. The method is comprising the steps of impregnation of the cellulosic material and treatment of the impregnated cellulosic material by a fumigation step or an evaporation step. Impregnation is performed with a metal ion M and at least one ion precursor Z yielding an impregnated cellulosic material. The at least one ion precursor Z provides an anion A or an anion A and a cation Y comprised within at least one metal salt solution I or with a metal salt solution II comprising a metal ion M. The fumigation or evaporation step is yielding a cellulosic composite material comprising a compound M(NH4)A, MYA or M(OH)x, wherein M is a metal.

    Image Compression Using Normalizing Flows

    公开(公告)号:US20210142524A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-13

    申请号:US16811219

    申请日:2020-03-06

    摘要: According to one implementation, an image compression system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a software code. The hardware processor executes the software code to receive an input image, transform the input image to a latent space representation of the input image, and quantize the latent space representation of the input image to produce multiple quantized latents. The hardware processor further executes the software code to encode the quantized latents using a probability density function of the latent space representation of the input image, to generate a bitstream, and convert the bitstream into an output image corresponding to the input image. The probability density function of the latent space representation of the input image is obtained based on a normalizing flow mapping of one of the input image or the latent space representation of the input image.