Carrier Corporation

Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation

United Technologies Corporation

Raytheon Technologies Corporation

Rtx Corporation

Bart Antonie Van Hassel

Georgios S Zafiris

Blair A Smith

Zhongfen Ding

Weilong Zhang

Michael A Kryzman

Mark R Jaworowski

Parmesh Verma

Thomas D Radcliff

Frederick James Cogswell

Michael L Perry

Robert Mason Darling

Catherine Thibaud

Zissis A Dardas

Wei Huang

Wenping Zhao

Sergei F Burlatsky

Vijay V Pujar

Tobias H Sienel

Peter R Bushnell

Abdelrahman ElSherbini

Robert A Chopko

Yu Chen

Promila Bhaatia

Catalin G Fotache

Mark W Makwinski

Sean C Emerson

Ellen Y Sun

Arindom Joardar

Weina Li

Zidu Ma

Rajiv Ranjan

Eric C Peterson

Subramanyaravi Annapragada

Xu She

Kenneth David Smith

Tianli Zhu

Treese Hugener-Campbell

Abdelrahman I Elsherbini

Sherif Kandil

Robert R Hebert

Mark A Brege

Shaahin Amini

Eric Peterson

Michael Lines

Matthew Nigro

Disclosed is a transportation refrigeration system including a transportation refrigeration unit configured to maintain a temperature in a refrigerated cargo space and comprising a refrigerant expansion device, a refrigerant heat absorption heat exchanger, a refrigerant compression device, and a refrigerant heat rejection heat exchanger; and a refrigeration augmentation unit comprising a water tank having an outlet, and a water droplet generator in fluid communication with a water tank outlet and configured to disperse water droplets into an air stream flowing to the refrigerant heat rejection heat exchanger. Also disclosed are methods of using the transportation refrigeration system.

Transport refrigeration unit with heat island mitigation

A transport refrigeration system including: a transport refrigeration unit configured to provide conditioned air to a refrigerated cargo space of a transport container; a fuel cell configured to provide electricity to the transport refrigeration unit; one or more supplemental power sources configured to provide supplemental electricity to the transport refrigeration unit; and a power management module configured to manage the electricity and the supplemental electricity provided to the transport refrigeration unit, wherein the power management module is configured to detect a condition of the transport refrigeration unit that requires supplemental electricity and provide the supplemental electricity to the transport refrigeration unit from the one or more supplemental power sources.

Hybridized fuel cell transport refrigeration units

A method for forming an ultra-high temperature (UHT) composite structure includes dispensing a first polymeric precursor with a spinneret; forming a first plurality of nanofibers from the first polymeric precursor; depositing the first plurality of nanofibers with a collector; and applying a fluid, with a nozzle, onto the first plurality of nanofibers disposed on the collector. The fluid includes a second polymeric precursor.

System and method for forming an ultra-high temperature composite structure

A sealing process includes applying a first reactant to a substrate having a porous structure, the first reactant comprising a chromium (III) precursor and a transition metal precursor and applying a second reactant to the first reactant, the second reactant comprising a rare earth element precursor and an alkaline earth element precursor to form reservoirs of trivalent chromium in pore space of the porous structure, and a physical barrier over the substrate and the reservoirs.

Sealing process for an anodized aluminum-alloy surface

A fuel tank inerting system is disclosed, comprising a fuel tank and an electrochemical cell comprising a cathode and an anode separated by a separator comprising an anion transfer medium. A cathode fluid flow path is in operative fluid communication with a catalyst at the cathode between a cathode fluid flow path inlet and a cathode fluid flow path outlet. An anode fluid flow path is in operative fluid communication with a catalyst at the anode, and includes an anode fluid flow path outlet. An electrical connected to a power source is arranged to provide a voltage difference between the anode and the cathode. An air source is in operative fluid communication with either or both of the cathode flow path inlet and the anode flow path inlet. An inert gas flow path is in operative fluid communication with the cathode flow path outlet and the fuel tank.

Fuel tank inerting system

A method of applying a trivalent chromium or chromium-free conversion coating to a metallic substrate including mixing a dye compound that interacts with electromagnetic radiation outside the human visual spectrum but not electromagnetic radiation that is within the human visual spectrum to produce an observable emission into the trivalent chromium or chromium-free conversion coating mixture to allow for inspection of the coating after applied with a correlating electromagnetic radiation source.

Additive for quality determination of conversion coatings

A method of making cerium citrate includes combining cerium carbonate and citric acid to produce cerium citrate and carbon dioxide. The cerium citrate is substantially free of negative ions other than citrate. The cerium citrate can be used in a corrosion inhibitor composition.

Cerium citrate, method of making and corrosion inhibitor comprising cerium citrate

An additive processing method includes providing a cover gas in a chamber in connection with additive fabrication of an article in the chamber, the cover gas entraining impurities during the additive fabrication, circulating the cover gas with entrained impurities from the chamber into a gas recirculation loop, removing the entrained impurities from the cover gas in the gas recirculation loop to generate a clean cover gas, circulating the clean cover gas into the chamber during the additive fabrication, and metering an amount of new cover gas provided into the chamber from a cover gas source connected to the chamber, the amount being metered with respect to an amount of the clean cover gas circulated into the chamber from the gas recirculation loop.

Additive processing apparatus and method

Disclosed is a corrosion inhibition coating, comprising: a base comprising a matrix and a metal within the matrix; and an inhibitor comprising: zinc molybdate, cerium citrate, magnesium metasilicate, a metal phosphate silicate, or a combination thereof, wherein the metal within the matrix comprises aluminum, an aluminum alloy, zinc, a zinc alloy, magnesium, a magnesium alloy, or a combination thereof. Also disclosed is a substrate coated with the corrosion inhibition coating.

Chromium-free corrosion inhibition coating

A method of coating a metal article is disclosed that includes immersing a metal article having an exterior anodized layer in a bath containing a chemically active corrosion inhibitor, and applying a voltage to the article during the immersing, the voltage driving the chemically active corrosion inhibitor from the bath into the exterior anodized layer. An article is also disclosed that has a substrate comprising a metal, and a porous anodized layer formed on an exterior surface of the substrate that is infiltrated with a chemically active corrosion inhibitor, the anodized layer having an inward-facing region and an outward-facing region, the anodized layer having a greater concentration of chemically active corrosion inhibitors in the inward-facing region than in the outward-facing region.

Method of sealing an anodized metal article

An additive processing apparatus includes a chamber and an irradiation device that together are operable to additively fabricate an article from a powder layer-by-layer in a work space in the chamber. A gas recirculation loop is connected at a first end thereof to an outlet of the chamber and at a second end thereof to an inlet of the chamber. The gas recirculation loop includes at least one purification device that is configured to remove impurities from a cover gas and generate a clean cover gas.

A heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC/R) system includes a sorption circuit including a heat absorption heat exchanger in fluid communication with a primary fluid flow source such that a primary fluid flow from is directed therethrough. The heat absorption heat exchanger is configured to exchange thermal energy between the primary fluid flow and a secondary fluid flow. A sorption heat exchanger includes a sorbent material to adsorb or absorb the primary fluid flow, generating thermal energy. The sorption heat exchanger is configured to transfer the generated thermal energy to a tertiary fluid flow. A heat exchange circuit is in fluid communication with the sorption circuit and includes a control valves connected to both the secondary fluid flow and the tertiary fluid flow configured to selectably direct the secondary fluid flow and/or the tertiary fluid flow to a conditioning heat exchanger or an ambient heat exchanger.

Heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration system

In one aspect, a refrigeration system is provided. The refrigeration system includes a refrigeration circuit configured to condition an air supply, a subcooling circuit configured to cool the refrigeration circuit, the subcooling circuit including a subcooling condenser, a subcooling heat exchanger, and at least one adsorption bed, and a heat generation system thermally coupled to the subcooling circuit.

Refrigeration system

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Bart Antonie Van Hassel