Author: claimsbot

1. A glassmelting method which reduces alkali corrosion in a glassmelting furnace with oxy-fuel burners comprising:
(A) providing glassmaking materials including alkali species into the glassmelting furnace;
(B) providing fuel and oxidant into the furnace through the oxy-fuel burners wherein the atomic ratio of hydrogen to carbon in the fuel provided through one or more of the oxy-fuel burners is less than 0.9; and
(C) combusting the fuel and oxidant therein to provide heat to the glassmaking materials to form molten glass.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the atomic ratio of hydrogen to carbon in the fuel provided through one or more of the oxy-fuel burners is less than 0.6.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein the atomic ratio of hydrogen to carbon in the fuel provided through one or more of the oxy-fuel burners is less than 0.4.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein said fuel comprises carbon monoxide.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein said fuel comprises petroleum coke.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein said fuel is solid.
7. The method of claim 6 wherein said fuel is injected into the furnace in mixture with transport gas which contains less than 10% nitrogen in volume.
8. The method of claim 6 wherein said fuel is injected into the furnace with transport gas at least a portion of which is cooled flue gas from said glassmelting furnace.
9. The method of claim 1 wherein the atomic ratio of hydrogen to carbon in the fuel provided through all of the oxy-fuel burners is less than 0.9.
10. The method of claim 1 wherein said oxy-fuel burners provided with said fuel with the atomic ratio of hydrogen to carbon of less than 0.9 are placed in the hotter area of the furnace and other oxy-fuel burners in said glassmelting furnace are fired with a fuel with the atomic ratio of hydrogen to carbon of greater than 0.9.
11. The method of claim 1 wherein said oxy-fuel burners provided with said fuel with an atomic ratio of hydrogen to carbon of less than 0.9 are placed in the charge end of the furnace and other oxy-fuel burners in said glassmelting furnace are fired with a fuel with an atomic ratio of hydrogen to carbon of greater than 0.9.
12. The method of claim 1 wherein said fuel is provided into the furnace in mixture with transport gas at least a portion of which is combustible, and the atomic ratio of hydrogen to carbon in the mixture of fuel and transport gas is less than 0.9.

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1-10. (canceled)
11. A method for purifying carbon nanotubes, the method comprising:
immersing carbon nanotubes into a solution in which a template compound consisting of a plurality of receptor regions each including a conjugated ring structure and a spacer region that fixes the receptor regions is dissolved, and extracting specific carbon nanotubes into the solution; and
recovering the extracted carbon nanotubes.
12. The method according to claim 11, further comprising:
immersing the carbon nanotubes into the solution in which the template compound including an oleophilic substituent in at least one of each of the receptor regions and the spacer region is dissolved, and extracting the specific carbon nanotubes into the solution; and
recovering the extracted carbon nanotubes.
13. The method according to claim 11, wherein
the extracting includes performing ultrasonic irradiation.
14. The method according to claim 11, wherein the recovering includes centrifuging.
15. The method according to claim 11, wherein the extracting includes using tetrahydrofuran as a solvent.
16. The method according to claim 11, wherein each of the receptor regions includes a porphyrin or pyrene skeleton.
17. The method according to claim 16, wherein metal elements are coordinated on the porphyrin skeleton.
18. A carbon nanotube, wherein metal elements that can be coordinated on a porphyrin skeleton is carried on a surface.
19. The carbon nanotube obtained by the purifying method according to claim 11.
20. A carbon nanotube, wherein
a half width of a peak appearing near a spectrum of 200 cm\u22121 obtained by a Raman scattering measurement is equal to or smaller than 20 cm\u22121.

1. Method for forwarding packets of a plurality of multimedia streams, said packets of said plurality of multimedia streams being forwarded from a multimedia source towards a plurality of multimedia endpoints over a communications network, wherein said method comprises a step of classifying said packets of said plurality of multimedia streams based on the usage of each of said multimedia streams.
2. Method for forwarding packets according to claim 1, wherein each multimedia stream of said plurality of multimedia streams comprises a base multimedia stream and at least one enhancement multimedia stream and in that said step of classifying additionally is based on the importance of each of said multimedia streams.
3. Method for forwarding packets according to claim 1, wherein said usage is determined through monitoring the overall use at each client of said plurality of clients.
4. Method for packet classifying according to claim 1, wherein said usage is determined based on statistics retrieved at an access network element.
5. Method for classifying packets according to claim 1, wherein said method additionally includes discarding said packets of said of plurality of multimedia streams based on said classifying.
6. Packet forwarding system for forwarding packets of a plurality of Multimedia streams, said system comprising a multimedia source adapted to forward said plurality of multimedia streams towards a plurality of multimedia endpoints over a communications network coupling said multimedia source and said plurality of multimedia endpoints, wherein said system comprises a classification part, adapted to classify said packets of said plurality of multimedia streams based on the usage of each of said multimedia streams.
7. Packet forwarding system according to claim 6, wherein each multimedia stream of said plurality of multimedia streams comprises a multimedia base stream and at least one enhancement stream and in that said classification part is additionally is adapted to classify said packets based on the importance of each of said multimedia streams.
8. Classification device (CD) for use in a system for forwarding packets of a plurality of Multimedia streams, said system comprising a multimedia source adapted to forward said plurality of multimedia streams towards a plurality of multimedia endpoints over a communications network coupling said multimedia source and said plurality of multimedia endpoints, wherein said classification device (CD) comprises a classification part (CP), adapted to Classify said packets of said plurality of multimedia streams based on the usage of each of said multimedia streams.
9. Classification device (CD) according to claim 8, wherein each said multimedia stream of said plurality of multimedia streams comprises a base multimedia stream and at least one enhancement multimedia stream; and in that said classification part (CP), is additionally adapted to classify said packets of said plurality of streams based on the importance of each of said multimedia streams.
10. Popularity monitoring device (PMD) for use in a system for forwarding packets of a plurality of Multimedia streams, said system comprising a multimedia source (MMS) adapted to forward said plurality of multimedia streams towards a plurality of multimedia endpoints (STB1 . . . STBX) over a communications network (CN) coupling said multimedia source (MMS) and said plurality of multimedia endpoints (STB1 . . . STB23) where said popularity monitoring device (PMD) comprises a monitoring part (MP), adapted to determine the usage of each of said multimedia streams.
11. Popularity monitoring device (PMD) according to claim 10, wherein said monitoring part (MP) is adapted to monitor the overall use at each multimedia endpoint of said plurality of multimedia endpoints (STB1, . . . STB23).
12. Popularity monitoring device (PMD) according to claim 10, wherein said monitoring part (MP) is adapted to determine said usage is based on statistics retrieved at an access network element (ANE1, ANE2).

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1. A method for manufacturing an activated carbon for use in an electric double-layer capacitor electrode, comprising the steps of:
grinding a carbon raw material to adjust an average particle diameter of the carbon raw material into a range of 1 \u03bcm to 15 \u03bcm;
mixing the carbon raw material whose average particle diameter has been adjusted, with an alkali activator to obtain a mixture; and
an activation treatment comprising heating the mixture under an atmosphere of an inert gas and then under an atmosphere of a mixed gas of the inert gas and water vapor.
2. The method for manufacturing the activated carbon for use in the electric double-layer capacitor electrode according to claim 1,
wherein the heating of the mixture comprises subjecting the mixture to temperature increase up to a temperature of 700\xb0 C. to 900\xb0 C. and then keeping the mixture at the temperature.
3. The method for manufacturing the activated carbon for use in the electric double-layer capacitor electrode according to claim 1,
wherein the water vapor is mixed into the inert gas under which the mixture has a temperature of 500\xb0 C. to 900\xb0 C.
4. The method for manufacturing the activated carbon for use in the electric double-layer capacitor electrode according to claim 1,
wherein the carbon raw material is a graphitizable carbon material.
5. The method for manufacturing the activated carbon for use in the electric double-layer capacitor electrode according to claim 1,
wherein the carbon raw material is a sintered material produced by sintering a graphitizable carbon material.
6. Activated carbon for use in an electric double-layer capacitor electrode, the carbon comprising:
a ratio \u03b1 of adsorption amounts in a range of 0.10\u2266\u03b1\u22660.22, in a nitrogen gas adsorption isotherm obtained by nitrogen gas adsorption at a liquid nitrogen temperature, the ratio \u03b1 being represented by the following equation (1):
\u03b1=(Va(0.385)\u2212Va(0.273))(Va(0.273)\u2212Va(0.01))\u2003\u2003(1),
wherein Va (0.01) represents a nitrogen gas adsorption amount at a relative pressure (pp0) of 0.01, Va (0.273) represents a nitrogen gas adsorption amount at a relative pressure (pp0) of 0.273, and Va (0.385) represents a nitrogen gas adsorption amount at a relative pressure (pp0) of 0.385, wherein p represents an adsorption equilibrium pressure and p0 represents a saturated vapor pressure;
an area \u03b2 of adsorptiondesorption hysteresis in a range of 1.5 cm3 (STP)g\u2266\u03b2\u22665.0 cm3 (STP)g, where STP means standard temperature and pressure, and wherein the area is obtained by a difference between the adsorption amount indicated by a nitrogen gas adsorption isotherm and a desorption amount indicated by a nitrogen gas desorption isotherm in a range of 0.273\u2266pp0\u22660.900; and
a specific surface area by a BET method of from 1500 m2g to 2300 m2g.