New Gas-Machine Retort

The Retort Courteous

Assessment of Control Strategy for 500W Retort

A retort is a steam operated “pressure cooker” which is used in the food industry for sterilization. The 500W retort is a lab-size unit donated to the California State University, Fresno Food Processing Laboratory by the FMC Corporation in the summer of 1998. This retort was developed two decades ago and intended for small batches and versatile food containers such as jars, pouches, cans, and b...

A Study of the Concentrations of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Gas Works Retort Houses.

Measurements of the concentration of 3:4-benzpyrene and other polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons have been made in gas works retort houses of several types. The tarry fumes which escaped from retorts contained extremely high concentrations of polycyclic hydrocarbons, but in general men were only exposed to these very briefly. The mean concentration of 3 :4-benzpyrene determined from long-period s...

Gas Detection via Machine Learning

We present an Electronic Nose (ENose), which is aimed at identifying the presence of one out of two gases, possibly detecting the presence of a mixture of the two. Estimation of the concentrations of the components is also performed for a volatile organic compound (VOC) constituted by methanol and acetone, for the ranges 40-400 and 22-220 ppm (parts-per-million), respectively. Our system contai...

The Controlled Rotary Vane Gas- Handling Machine

The CONTROLLED ROTARY VANE GAS-HANDLING MACHINE Thomas Edwards. Ph.D. The ROVAC Corporation Product Design Office Rockledge, Florida 32955 The de~ign, development, test and application of a n advanced rotary gas-handling device, termed a controlled Rotary Vane (CRV) mac hine is reported. This machine is related to conventional sliding vane compressors @Xcept that the motion of the vanes of the ...