1. An electrostatic coalescing devices comprising:
at least one pair of sheet-shaped electrodes arranged at a distance from each other side-by-side so as to form a flow passage between them, each one of said electrodes comprising a sheet-shaped conductive member of electrically conductive material, wherein the conductive member of at least one of said electrodes is at least partially enclosed by an insulation of electrically non-conductive material;
a power supply configured to apply mutually different electric potentials to the conductive members of the electrodes of said pair so as to form an electric field between the electrodes; and
at least one of a layer of semiconducting material is arranged between said insulation and the associated conductive member on at least one side of the conductive member, preferably on both sides thereof, surface-to-surface with the conductive member; andor
a layer of semiconducting material at least partially covering said insulation, wherein the semiconducting material is arranged surface-to-surface with the insulation in order to smooth the electric field on the outwardly facing surface of the insulation.
2. The electrostatic coalescing device according to claim 1, wherein said layer of semiconducting material arranged between said insulation and the associated conductive member overlaps one or several edges of the conductive member so as to smooth the electric field at said edge or edges.
3. The electrostatic coalescing device according to claim 1, wherein said layer of semiconducting material arranged between said insulation and the associated conductive member completely covers the associated side of the conductive member.
4. The electrostatic coalescing device according to claim 1, wherein said layer of semiconducting material arranged between said insulation and the associated conductive member is arranged surface-to-surface with the conductive member and surface-to-surface with the insulation in order to prevent partial discharges in the associated area between the conductive member and the insulation.
5. The electrostatic coalescing device according to claim 1, wherein said layer of semiconducting material comprises a base material or matrix at least partially formed of the same material as the insulation.
6. The electrostatic coalescing device according to claim 1, wherein the coalescing device comprises several electrodes arranged side-by-side so as to form a set of electrodes with several intermediate flow passages.
7. The electrostatic coalescing device according to claim 6, wherein the coalescing device comprises several sets of electrodes, and wherein two or more of the sets are arranged at the side of each other so as to form a row of two or more sets of electrodes.
8. The electrostatic coalescing device according to claim 6, wherein the coalescing device comprises several sets of electrodes, and wherein two or more of these sets are arranged above each other so as to form a column of two or more sets of electrodes.
9. The electrostatic coalescing device according to claim 7, wherein the electrodes of each set are assembled to form a separate module.
10. The electrostatic coalescing device according to claim 1, wherein each one of said electrodes extends essentially vertically.
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 computer device having a system for simulating tactile control over a document, comprising
a processor, memory, and a touch-sensitive display,
system code stored within the memory and adapted to be executed by the processor to provide a digital representation of a document including data content and a page structure representative of a page layout of the document,
an engine for rendering an image of at least a portion of the page layout of the digital representation on the touch-sensitive display,
a display monitor in communication with the touch-sensitive display screen for detecting motion of a pointer across the touch-sensitive display,
a velocity detector for determining a velocity vector based on a velocity of the detected motion,
an interface process in communication with the display monitor for processing the motion detected by the display monitor to detect one of a plurality of commands, wherein the plurality of commands includes a pan command,
wherein, in response to the command detected by the interface process being the pan command, the engine pans the displayed document on the display at a rate based on the determined velocity vector.
2. The computing device of claim 1, wherein panning the displayed document comprises rendering different views of the document on the touch-sensitive display at a rate based on the determined velocity vector and a page inertia.
3. A computer device having a system for simulating tactile control over a document, comprising
a processor, memory, and a touch-sensitive display,
system code stored within the memory and adapted to be executed by the processor to provide a digital representation of a document including data content and a page structure representative of a page layout of the document,
an engine for rendering an image of at least a portion of the page layout of the digital representation on the touch-sensitive display,
a display monitor in communication with the touch-sensitive display screen for detecting motion of a pointer across the touch-sensitive display,
a velocity detector for determining a velocity vector associated with the detected motion,
an interface process in communication with the display monitor for processing the motion detected by the display monitor to detect one of a plurality of commands, wherein the plurality of commands includes a pan command,
wherein, in response to the command detected by the interface process being the pan command, the engine renders a series of pages of the document on the touch-sensitive display at a rate based on the determined velocity vector and a page inertia.
4. A computing device according to claim 3, wherein the rate at which the engine renders the series of pages of the document decreases over time based on the page inertia.
5. A computing device according to claim 3, wherein in response to the interface process detecting a subsequent pan command based on a subsequent motion of a pointer across the display, the engine alters the rate at which it renders the series of pages based on a velocity vector the velocity detector determines in relation to the subsequent motion.