1-15. (canceled)
16. A process for fibrillating lignocellulosic material, characterized in that said process comprises
a) treating lignocellulosic material with ionic liquid selected from a list consisting of
and
b) recovering basically intact fibres of said lignocellulosic material.
17. The process according to claim 16 wherein said treating is performed by heating.
18. The process according to claim 17 wherein said heating is performed at temperatures between 20\xb0 C. and 150\xb0 C.
19. The process according to claim 16 further comprising c) physical or chemical modification of the basically intact fibres.
20. The process according to claim 16 characterized in that the average 2D aspect ratio of said basically intact fibre is at least 5.
21. The process according to claim 20, wherein the average 2D aspect ratio of said basically intact fibre is at least 20.
22. The process according to claim 20, wherein the average 2D aspect ratio of said basically intact fibre is at least 50.
23. A basically intact fibre obtained by the process according to claim 16.
24. The basically intact fibre of claim 23 characterized in that the surface area of the fibre is increased.
25. The basically intact fibre of claim 23 characterized in that the average 2D aspect ratio of said basically intact fibre is at least 5.
26. The basically intact fibre of claim 25, wherein the average 2D aspect ratio of said basically intact fibre is at least 20.
27. The basically intact fibre of claim 25, wherein the average 2D aspect ratio of said basically intact fibre is at least 50.
28. The basically intact fibre of claim 23 characterized in that said lignocellulosic material is activated during the ionic liquid treatment andor modified after recovery of the fibre from the ionic liquid.
29. A method of producing paper, board, pulp or the like or in the production of bio-based materials, preferably bio-plastics, more preferably conductive polymers, stimuli-responsive polymers, bio-based polymer composites, ceramics, fabrics, or elastomers comprising the process of claim 16.
30. A method of treating lignocellulosic material comprising the step of contacting lignocellulosic material with
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method for replacing a plurality of ballasts in a lighting control system, the method comprising:
storing in a bus supply that is electronically connected to the plurality of ballasts by a communication bus, configuration information regarding respective configuration settings for each of a first plurality of ballasts;
replacing the first plurality of ballasts with a second plurality of ballasts;
transmitting an instruction to the bus supply to configure each of the second plurality of ballasts with the respective configuration settings of each of the first plurality of ballasts;
and configuring each of the second plurality of ballasts with the respective configuration settings of a respective one of the first plurality of ballasts with the configuration information stored in the bus supply.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of transmitting an instruction comprises transmitting unique identifiers for each of the first plurality of ballasts and the second plurality of ballasts.
3. A system for replacement of a plurality of ballasts in a lighting control system, the system comprising:
a bus supply that is electronically connected to the lighting control system by a communication bus and that stores configuration information regarding respective configuration settings for each of a first plurality of ballasts;
the first plurality of ballasts replaced with a second plurality of ballasts; and
a handheld programming device operable to transmit wirelessly an instruction to the bus supply to configure each of the second plurality of ballasts with the respective configurations of each of the first plurality of ballasts, wherein the bus supply is operable to use the configuration information to configure each of the second plurality of ballasts with the respective configurations of each of the first plurality of ballasts.
4. A system for maintaining information representing devices installed in a lighting control system, the system comprising:
a plurality of ballasts, wherein each of the plurality of ballasts has configuration information stored therein, wherein the respective configuration information represents a respective configuration setting of the respective ballast;
a bus supply that stores the respective configuration information for all of the ballasts; and
a communication bus interconnecting the plurality of ballasts and the bus supply.
5. The system of claim 4, further comprising:
information representing a correlation of at least one sensor device with at least one ballast;
information representing a correlation of at least one wall control with at least one communications receiver; and
information representing ballast intensity levels configured in association with each respective ballast’s location in the room.
6. The system of claim 5, wherein the information is stored in the bus supply, a respective ballast, or both.
7. The system of claim 4, wherein the configuration setting represents at least one of a high end trim, a low end trim, a fade time, a ballast burn-in state, an emergency level intensity setting, an intensity level to operate a ballast at in response to a photosensor registering a light input, an intensity level to operate a ballast at in response to an occupancy sensor registering an occupied or an unoccupied status, a time-out value, and an intensity level to operate a ballast at in response to a contact closure input registering a closed status or an open status.