Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited

International Business Machines Corporation

Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation

Kao Corporation

Toshiba Electron Tubes & Devices Co., Ltd.

Shiseido Company, Limited

Hitachi-High-Technologies Corporation

Canon Electron Tubes & Devices Co., Ltd.

Akiko Suzuki

Akinobu Sato

Shinji Murai

Shinetsu Fujieda

Tatsuoki Kohno

Nobuyuki Ashikaga

Toshihiro Imada

Hideyuki Tsuji

Kenji Sano

Mitsuru Udatsu

Emmanuel Bourelle

Takashi Kuboki

Reiko Yoshimura

Taro Fukaya

Yoshihiko Nakano

Jiro Matsuo

Takeshi Kawano

Tatsuoki Kono

Toshio Seki

Katsuya Yamamoto

Asato Kondo

Satoshi Haraguchi

Katsuhisa Homma

Toshihide Takahashi

Hidetake Shiire

Michiaki Tatsubori

Hiroki Yanagisawa

Toyotaro Suzumura

Yohei Ikawa

Kazuhiko Yamada

Miki M Enoki

Kazuhiko Noda

Arisa Yamada

Aoshi Kudo

Hitomi Saito

Masahiko Tsutsumi

Shinobu Moniwa

Satomi Ebihara

Raymond Harry Putra Rudy

Tokusuke Hayami

Takaaki Aoki

Hiroaki Nakamura

Robert G Farrell

Yasuhiro Kato

Hideo Tamura

Yuan-Chi Chang

Mustafa Canim

Yasushi Shinjo

Issei Yoshida

Satoshi Masuda

Sharon Mary Trewin

Hidetaka Iwai

Hirohisa Miyamoto

Takeshi Morita

Toshiro Takase

Hiroaki Oshio

Maira Athanazio De Cerqueira Gatti

Mitsuhiro Oki

Hitoshi Chiyoma

Yukihiro Yada

Miki Ishikawa

Kazuaki Ootsuka

Tomohiko Sano

Tetsuyoshi Ono

Sonia Mariette Embid Droz

Atsushi Kishioka

Akira Shigeta

Yusuke Handa

Toshio Uesaka

Hiroko Watando

Ruben Rodriguez Torrado

Yoshinao Nagashima

Takahide Minami

Ichiro Tai

Ichiro Sugai

Giorgio De Paola

Keiko Sakai

Tomohito Ide

Izumi Kataoka

Hidenobu Koyanagi

Kazuhiro Kaizu

Mari Iwashita

Masakuni Ikagawa

Lucas C Villa Real

Akira Fuji

Cristina Ibanez-Llano

Hidetaki Shiire

According to one embodiment, a carbon dioxide adsorption-desorption device including an electrode that includes a porous composite is provided. The porous composite includes an electro-conductive component and a porous material on the electro-conductive component. The porous material has pores of an angstrom size or a nanometer size, and includes a moiety exhibiting redox activity according to electrical response.

Carbon dioxide adsorption-desorption device

The present invention provides a contact member that strikes a balance between low electrical resistance and sliding durability under the condition of load as low as aboutN. A contact member of the invention has a metal base and a coating disposed on at least part of the metal base. The coating contains fluorinated oil having a polar group, and metal particles surface-treated with a fluorine-based compound having a polar group.

Contact member, connector, composition, and method for producing contact member

The present invention provides a contact member that strikes a balance between low electrical resistance and sliding durability. A contact member of the invention has a metal base and a coating disposed on at least part of the metal base. The coating contains fluorinated oil having a polar group, and metal particles surface-treated with a fluorine-based compound having a polar group.

The embodiments provide an acidic gas absorbent having low diffusibility, an acidic gas removal method employing the acidic gas absorbent, and also an acidic gas removal apparatus employing the absorbent. The acidic gas absorbent according to the embodiment comprises: a particular tertiary amine compound, such as, an alkyl dialkanol amine or a hydroxyalkyl piperazine; a halogen-free ionic surfactant; and an aqueous solvent. The embodiments provide not only the acidic gas absorbent but also an acidic gas removal method and apparatus employing the acidic gas absorbent.

Acidic gas absorbent, acidic gas removal method and acidic gas removal apparatus

According to one embodiment, an amine-containing water concentration system includes an osmotic pressure generator and a carbon dioxide introducing unit. The osmotic pressure generator includes a treatment vessel, a first chamber to which the water to be treated is supplied, a second chamber capable of storing a working medium, and a semipermeable membrane that partitions the first chamber and the second chamber, which are located in the treatment vessel. The carbon dioxide introducing unit is capable of introducing carbon dioxide into the water to be treated.

Amine-containing water concentration system and apparatus, and carbon dioxide recovery system

The embodiments provide an acidic gas absorbent kept from deterioration, an acidic gas removal method using the absorbent, and an acidic gas removal apparatus using the same. The acidic gas absorbent contains an amine compound and water, and further contains superfine bubble containing inert gas wherein an average diameter of said superfine bubble is 150 nm or less. The acidic gas removal method provided here employs that absorbent. The acidic gas removal apparatus is equipped with a unit for introducing the superfine bubbles into the absorbent.

A working medium includes a first amine compound and a second amine compound. The first amine compound is a heterocyclic tertiary amine compound including a carbon atom, a nitrogen atom and a hydrogen atom, and in which a ratio (C/N ratio) of a carbon atom number to a nitrogen atom number included in one molecule is from 7 to 9. The second amine compound is a heterocyclic tertiary amine compound including a carbon atom, a nitrogen atom and a hydrogen atom. and in which a ratio (C/N ratio) of a carbon atom number to a nitrogen atom number included in one molecule is in a range of 5 or more to less than 7.

Working medium and water treatment system

The embodiments provide an acidic gas absorbent having low diffusibility, an acidic gas removal method, and an acidic gas removal apparatus. The acidic gas absorbent according to the embodiment comprises: an amine compound having a vapor pressure of 0.001 to 10 Pa at 20&#xb0; C.; a water-soluble polymer compound having a mass-average molecular weight of 900 to 200000 and not containing a functional group having a pKa value greater than 7 except for hydroxy; and water.

The embodiment provides a composite that allows the release of acid gas, even the continuous release of acid gas, at low temperature and with a high acid-gas release rate in a regeneration tower of an acid gas removal apparatus, and a regenerator and an acid gas removal apparatus, in both of which the composite is used, and a method of acid gas removal. The composite according to the embodiment is capable of separating an acid gas from an acid gas absorbent, which has absorbed the acid gas, to regenerate the acid gas absorbent, wherein the composite contains an inorganic layered compound and an aluminum-containing oxide. Also provided are a regenerator using the composite to regenerate an acid gas absorbent that has absorbed an acid gas by allowing the acid gas absorbent to release the acid gas, and an acid gas removal apparatus equipped with the regenerator.

Acid gas removal apparatus and method

A resource exploitation management system, method and a computer program product therefor. A description of new geological evidence for a geological resource is received, e.g., as one or more triples describing the evidence. Keywords in the description are matched against keywords in representations in a geological resource database. Geological relations are inferred from the descriptions and matched against predefined geological relations from the geological resource database. Consistent triple matches are merged with the geological resource database. The confidence level for merged matches is updated in the geological resource database.

Resource exploitation management system, method and program product

The embodiments provide an acidic gas absorbent, an acidic gas removal method using the absorbent, and an acidic gas removal apparatus using the absorbent. The absorbent absorbs an acidic gas in a large amount and is hardly diffused. The acidic gas absorbent according to the embodiment comprises an amine compound represented by the following formula (1): 

A carbon dioxide absorbent of an embodiment includes a heterocyclic amine expressed by Formula (1), and the heterocyclic amine having a pKa of any one amino group included in a heterocyclic ring in Formula (1) in a range of 7.0 or more to 8.6 or less and an organic solvent having a boiling point of 150&#xb0; C. or more at 1 atm. A total mass of the heterocyclic amine and the organic solvent is 70 mass % or more to 100 mass % or less of the carbon dioxide absorbent. Each of Rto Rin Formula (1) is H, oxygen double-bonded with carbon of the heterocyclic ring, CH, OH, or an alkyl chain optionally including a functional group. Xin Formula (1) is H, CH, CO, C(O)OCH, C(O)OCH, C(O)OCH(CH), C(O)OC(CH), C(O)OCH, C(O)CH, or C(O)CH.

Carbon dioxide absorbent and apparatus of separating and recovering carbon dioxide

An acidic gas absorbent contains an amine compound of formula (1) and a cyclic amino compound of formula (2) or (3):   where in the formulas, each Ris independently a straight-chain hydroxyalkyl having a hydroxy at the terminal, Ris a branched-chain secondary alkyl group, Rand Rare hydrogen, hydroxy, a hydroxyalkyl or aminoalkyl, provided that at least one of Rand Rs is a hydroxyalkyl or aminoalkyl, each p is independently an integer of 2 to 4, each Ris independently hydrogen, hydroxy, or a hydroxyalkyl or aminoalkyl, provided that at least one of Rs is a hydroxyalkyl or aminoalkyl, and q is an integer of 3 to 8.

The embodiments provide an acidic gas absorbent, an acidic gas removal method, and an acidic gas removal apparatus. The absorbent absorbs an acidic gas in a large amount and hardly diffuses in air. The acidic gas absorbent according to the embodiment comprises an amine compound having a sulfonyl group and two or more amino groups.

A carbon dioxide absorbent of an embodiment includes a solid resin compound containing a structural unit expressed by the following formula (1). X in the formula (1) is a halogen element.

Carbon dioxide absorbent and carbon dioxide separation and recovery system

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