Abstract:
A system is provided that prevents inhibition of adsorption of Hg and other heavy metals by activated carbon or other heavy metal adsorbent due to prior adsorption of sulfur trioxide (SO3) in an exhaust gas containing SO3. As it has been found that while SO3 is adsorbed, the adsorption of SO3 precedes the adsorption of Hg and other heavy metals onto activated carbon, a basic substance injection system is disposed along an exhaust gas flow channel at an upstream side of an activated carbon injection system, thereby attaining effective removal of Hg and other heavy metals from the exhaust gas by adsorption thereof onto surface pores of the activated carbon. The SO3 concentration after removal by basic substance conversion is computed from the SO3 concentration before removal, and the activated carbon injection rate can be controlled based on the concentration after removal.
Abstract:
A method for preparing a lithographic printing plate includes treating a lithographic printing plate precursor including a hydrophilic support and an image-forming layer containing the following (i) to (iii) with an aqueous solution having a buffering ability: (i) a binder polymer comprising a repeating unit having a structure represented by the following formula (1); (ii) an ethylenically unsaturated compound; and (iii) a polymerization initiator, P-L-(CO2H)n (1) wherein P represents a part constituting a main chain skeleton of the polymer, L represents an (n+1) valent connecting group, and n represents an integer of 1 or more.
Abstract:
A throttle valve controller includes a motor, a throttle valve driven by the motor, an accelerator sensor for setting a target position of the throttle valve, a throttle sensor for detecting the actual position of the throttle valve, a position control circuit for controlling the motor in accordance with a difference between the target position and the actual position of the throttle valve, a friction compensating circuit for compensating a positional error due to friction force affecting the throttle valve, and a driver for driving the motor with repetition of a control period in accordance with the position control circuit and the friction compensating circuit. The friction compensating circuit may compensate the positional error due to friction force during a control period together with the position control circuit. The motor may generate compensated torque in accordance with the friction force that affects the throttle valve. By doing this, the throttle valve may be controlled more accurately as if the resolution of the controller was increased.
Abstract:
A throttle control apparatus includes an accelerator operation mechanism, a throttle shaft, a driving source, an electromagnetic clutch mechanism, driving control means, accelerator operational amount detecting means, accelerator abnormality detecting means, throttle valve opening amount detecting means, throttle abnormality detecting means, valve abnormality detecting means and clutch control means. The accelerator abnormality detecting means judge the abnormality of the accelerator operational amount detecting means and the throttle abnormality detecting means judge the abnormality of the throttle valve opening amount detecting means. Furthermore, the valve abnormality detecting means judge the operation of the throttle control as abnormality when the amount of the throttle valve opening is more than a prescribed value under the condition which the operational amount of the accelerator operation amount is less than a prescribed value. As a result of abnormality judgments of these three kinds, when at least one of them is judged as abnormality, the electromagnetic clutch mechanism is driven by the clutch control means so as to separate the driving source from the throttle shaft.
Abstract:
A position detecting device includes a magnetic member composite which is integrally composed of a pair of insulating substrates with a plurality of long magnetic members sandwiched therebetween and arranged substantially parallel to each other and two conductive member composites, each of which is composed of a plurality of conductive members arranged substantially parallel to each other.
Abstract:
The invention provides an infrared-sensitive positive-working image forming material which provides excellent development latitude, image formability and image region strength, and in which decrease in development property is prevented even when a certain time has passed after pattern exposure until development treatment; an infrared-sensitive positive-working planographic printing plate precursor which is formed from the image forming material and has excellent image formability and image region printing durability; and a method for manufacturing a planographic printing plate using the planographic printing plate precursor. The image forming material includes; on a support, a lower layer containing a polymer having carboxylic acid groups at side chains thereof, at least a part of the carboxylic acid groups forming a salt structure with a monovalent basic compound, and an infrared absorbing agent; and an upper layer whose solubility to aqueous alkaline solution is increased by heat, in this order.
Abstract:
A positive-working lithographic printing plate precursor for infrared laser is provided that includes, layered sequentially above a support, a lower layer and an upper layer, the lower layer and/or the upper layer including an infrared absorbing agent, either the lower layer comprising an alkali-soluble group-containing graft copolymer or the upper layer comprising a sulfonamide group-, active imide group-, and/or amide group-containing graft copolymer, and the graft copolymer being a polyurethane resin having as a graft chain an ethylenically unsaturated monomer-derived constitutional unit. There is also provided a process for making a lithographic printing plate, the process including in sequence an exposure step of imagewise exposing by means of an infrared laser the positive-working lithographic printing plate precursor for infrared laser and a development step of developing using an aqueous alkali solution with a pH of 8.5 to 10.8.
Abstract:
A processing method of a lithographic printing plate precursor includes: exposing imagewise a lithographic printing plate precursor comprising a support on a surface of which at least one of: a hydrophilizing treatment; and an undercoat layer has been provided and an image-recording layer, to cure an exposed area of the image-recording layer; and undergoing developing processing with an aqueous solution having pH of from 2 to 10, wherein the aqueous solution comprises an amphoteric surfactant and an anionic surfactant selected from an anionic surfactant having an aliphatic chain and a total number of carbon atoms included in the aliphatic chain of 6 or more and an anionic surfactant having an aromatic ring and a total number of carbon atoms of 12 or more, and a content of the anionic surfactant is from 0.1 to 3.3% by weight of the aqueous solution.
Abstract:
A cylinder-shaped flow passage in which a first fluid flows includes an internal cylinder which is smaller in diameter than the flow passage. A swirl-generating stator having four vanes is radially fixed in the internal cylinder. A header space for supplying a second fluid is provided to the outer circumference of a wall surface of the internal cylinder in contact with flow separation areas which are formed along downstream surfaces of the swirl-generating stator as the first fluid runs into the swirl-generating stator. The wall surface of the internal cylinder is formed with openings through which the flow separation areas communicate with the header space. The second fluid supplied into the header space flows through the openings into the flow separation areas, and is diffused along the vanes of the swirl-generating stator to be swirled and mixed into the first fluid applied with swirling force by the swirl-generating stator.
Abstract:
Provided are, as a lithographic printing plate precursor that enables good development with a developer having a pH from 2 to 10 and is excellent in runlength and stain resistance and a production process of a lithographic printing plate using the precursor, a lithographic printing plate precursor whose photosensitive layer contains the following components (A), (B), and (C): (A) a copolymer having a repeating unit of the formula (1) and at least one of a repeating unit of the formula (2) and a repeating unit of the formula (3): wherein each of A and B independently represents a hetero atom, each of R and R1 to R9 represents a monovalent substituent, L represents a divalent linking group, X represents a hydroxyl group, a monovalent group containing an acid group, an alkyleneoxy group, an amide group, or an ether group, an amino group, an ammonium group, or a salt obtained by neutralizing an acid group, and L0 represents a single bond or divalent hydrocarbon group, (B) a compound having an ethylenically unsaturated bond, and (c) a polymerization initiator; and a production process of a lithographic printing plate by using the precursor.