Johns Hopkins University

Benjamin B Alvarez

Plamen A Demirev

Frederick Warren LeBlanc

Daniel H Simon

Brian Eduardo Damit

Kelly A Van Houten

Felix C Sage

Todd M Gustafson

Elizabeth C Corson

Charles A Fancher

Abraham Rajan

Christopher J Rosenker

William A Irizarry-Cruz

Warren E Zander

A cyclone includes a hollow cylindrical upper portion and a hollow conical lower portion having an inclined wall and a base wall. The base wall and the inclined wall are continuous contact with each other, and the inclined wall of the hollow conical lower portion is in continuous contact with an outer wall of the hollow cylindrical upper portion. A total cyclone height is from about 10 to about 30 millimeters, and a ratio of the total cyclone height to an inner diameter of the hollow cylindrical upper portion is from about 0.7 to about 1.3. An angle between an inner surface of the base wall and an inner surface of the inclined wall is from about 110 to about 130 degrees.

Cyclone and methods of manufacture thereof

A deployable vehicle for an instrumented rail system includes a first locomotion module having a first mobility assembly configured to engage a first rail, a second locomotion module having a second mobility assembly configured to engage a second rail, an adjustable frame extendable between the first and second locomotion modules by a distance corresponding to the distance between the first and second rails, and a sensor module removably attachable to the frame. The sensor module includes a sensor suite having a plurality of sensors for gathering data while the vehicle is deployed. The sensor module includes a communications module having a first radio configured to enable the vehicle to establish at least a first communication link with a remotely located mobile base station, and a second radio configured to establish a second communication link with the remotely located mobile base station.

Instrumented rail system

Growing community of inventors

Hanover, MD, United States of America

Benjamin B Alvarez