Dow Global Technolgoies LLC

Dow Agrosciences LLC

Ecolab USA Inc.

Corteva Agriscience LLC

Andrey N Soukhojak

David H Bank

Kalyan Sehanobish

Ravi B Shankar

Sukrit Mukhopadhyay

Natalie Christine Giampietro

Phillip J Howard

Thomas G Patterson

William L Winniford

Andrew J Pasztor, Jr

Ronda L Hamm

Neil A Spomer

Mary D Evenson

Bruce A Jacobs

Jeremy Chris P Reyes

Shane L Mangold

David G McLeod

Mark William Beach

Aleksander Jozef Pyzik

Jun Jason Cai

Robert Alan Newman

Mark W Beach

Jeremey Chris P Reyes

Jun Cai

A chemical agent useful for controlling pests is disclosed. The agent can be a thiol, such as a cyclic thiol according to Formula I. The agent can be used to react with a targeted biochemical analyte secreted by pests, such as bed bugs, to provide an adduct. The agent can be useful in a pest control device, system, or method for detecting pests, which can involve use of a controller and a sensor cell coated with composition containing the agent. The disclosure also describes the adduct obtained from the agent and the analyte, as well as a composition containing the agent or adduct.

Selective detection of bed bugs

A device, system, and method of controlling pests are disclosed. A pest control device includes a sensor having a sensor cell and a controller. A surface of the sensor cell is coated with an agent that reacts with a targeted biochemical analyte secreted by pests. The controller is coupled to the sensor and is configured to receive sensor data from the sensor cell indicative of a rate of change in sensor mass detected on the surface of the sensor cell, determine whether the rate of change in the sensor mass based on the received sensor data exceeds a predefined threshold rate, and transmit a pest detection alert notification to a server in response to a determination that the rate of change exceeds the predetermined threshold rate.

Selective detection of bed bugs pheromones

Improved thermal energy storage materials, devices and systems employing the same and related methods. The thermal energy storage material may be employed in a heater module capable of generating and storing heat. The thermal energy storage materials may include a phase change material that includes a metal-containing compound. The thermal energy storage materials may be encapsulated. Preferably the heater module includes an electric heater and/or a fan.

Heater module including thermal energy storage material

A porous discriminating layer is formed on a ceramic support having at least one porous wall by (a) establishing a flow of a gas stream containing highly porous particles through the support to deposit a layer of the highly porous particles of a ceramic or ceramic precursor onto wall(s) of the support and (b) calcining said deposited layer to form the discriminating layer. This method is an inexpensive and effective route to forming a discriminating layer onto the porous wall.

Method for applying discriminating layer onto porous ceramic filters via gas-borne prefabricated porous assemblies

The invention is directed at devices, systems, and processes for managing the temperature of an electrochemical call including a devicecomprising an inlet for receiving a heat transfer fluid; one or more electrochemical cell compartmentsfor receiving one or more electrochemical calls; one or more thermal energy storage material compartmentscontaining one or more thermal energy storage materials; and one or more heat transfer fluid compartmentsfor flowing the heat transfer fluid through the device; wherein the space between the one or more heat transfer fluid compartmentsand the one or more electrochemical cell compartmentspreferably includes one or more first regions(i.e. portion) that are substantially free of the thermal energy storage material; and the space between the one or more heat transfer fluid compartmentsand the one or more thermal energy storage material compartmentspreferably includes one or more second regions(i.e. portion) that are substantially free of an electrochemical cell; so that the heat transfer fluid compartmentis in direct thermal communication with both the thermal energy storage material compartmentand the electrochemical cell compartment

Thermal management of an electrochemical cell by a combination of heat transfer fluid and phase change material

The thermal energy storage material (TESM) system includes a container having a wall surface, and a TESM in at least partial contact with the wall surface. The TESM may include, consist essentially of, or consist of a metal containing compound comprising lithium, one or more different metal cations (i.e., different from lithium) and one or more polyatomic anions. The TESM may have a liquidus temperature, T, from about 100&#xb0; C. to about 250&#xb0; C. The TESM may exhibits a heat storage density from 1 MJ/l to 1.84 MJ/l, as measured from 300&#xb0; C. to 80&#xb0; C. The TESM system may be free of water. If any water is present in the TESM system, the water concentration preferably is less than 10 wt. %. Preferably, the TESM system is generally resistant to corrosion at temperatures of about 300&#xb0; C.

Thermal energy storage materials

Thermal shock resistance of a ceramic honeycomb structure is increased through modifications of the cell wall joints. Wall joints can be modified such that a longitudinally-extending opening is created, putting two or more cells that meet at the wall joint in fluid communication through such opening. In such a case, all walls that meet at such a modified joint must join at least one other wall at that joint. Alternatively, wall joints can be modified by providing stress concentrating notches which extend into the joint from two or more cells that share the joint.

Ceramic honeycomb filter with enhanced thermal shock resistance

The invention is directed at systems and process for reducing or eliminating the emissions of one or more undesirable substances. The systems include a heat storage device an emission reduction device, one or more valves, and one or more exit points.

Devices, systems and methods for reducing an emission from a combustion reaction

The device for storing and discharging heat which includes a housing; a first blister pack and a second blister pack each having a plurality of capsules; a thermal energy storage material contained in the capsules; and an evacuated space capable of insulating the housing. The blister packs include a first ply and a second ply that are joined together. The housing includes openings for flowing a heat transfer fluid through the device. The device includes a flow path for a heat transfer fluid that includes a volume between the first and second blister packs. The separation between the first and second blister packs is less than 5 mm.

Devices for storing and discharging heat and methods thereof

The invention relates to systems and methods for heating a solid or liquid reducing material such as an urea-containing material for NOselective catalytic reduction ('SCR') using a heat stored in a thermal energy storage material, such as a phase change material. The stored heat may be heat from an exhaust waste, such as from an exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine. The reducing material may be a solid reducing material. Other reducing materials include aqueous solutions such as an aqueous solution containing, consisting essentially of, or consisting of urea and water. In one aspect, the process may include a step of evaporating an aqueous solution of urea for immediate urea hydrolysis.

Method and devices for heating urea-containing materials in vehicle emission control system

A device for storing and discharging heat that employs thermal energy storage materials (TESM) and related methods of manufacturing the device. The device includes a housing, an array of capsules within the housing, and TESM contained in the capsules. The device exhibits a high initial power density. The TESM is encapsulated between metal plies. The metal plies may have a thickness on the order of 10to 10&#x3bc;m. The capsules may have a thickness from 0.5 mm to 20 mm. The volume fraction of TESM in the housing may be 0.5 or more. The housing includes an inlet, an outlet, and one or more flow paths for flowing a heat transfer fluid through the housing. The flow paths and the capsules are arranged so that the device has the required average initial power density.

Heat storage devices

The present invention relates to a thermal energy storage material (TESM) system (and associated methods) that reproducibly stores and recovers latent heat. The Thermal energy storage material system comprises i) at least one first metal containing material including at least one first metal compound that includes a nitrate ion, a nitrite ion, or both; and ii) at least one second metal containing material including at least one second metal compound. The thermal energy storage material system may water. If any water is present in the thermal energy storage material system, the water concentration should be less than about 10 wt. %. The thermal energy storage material has a liquidus temperature, T, from about 100&#xb0; C. to about 250&#xb0; C. and exhibits a heat storage density from 300&#xb0; C. to 80&#xb0; C. of at least about 1 MJ/l, so that upon being used in a system that generates heat, at least a portion of the heat is captured and stored by the thermal energy storage material and subsequently released for use. The thermal energy storage material system is generally resistant to corrosion at temperatures of about 300&#xb0; C. Exemplary metal compounds include one or more cations selected from the group consisting of Li, Na, K, Be, Mg, Ca, Al, and Ga.

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Midland, MI, United States of America

Andrey N Soukhojak