Abstract:
A method of preparing a substrate for the VLS preparation of inorganic fibers, which comprises applying to at least one surface of a substrate, a fiber growth promoter material precursor; characterised in that the fiber growth promoter material precursor is applied to the surface in the form of a sol capable of wetting the surface, which is thereafter dried. The substrate may be used to prepare inorganic fibres by a VLS process, which comprises contacting the substrate with gaseous components of said fibres at VLS reaction temperatures.
Abstract:
A process for forming a stable and processable polymer comprised of methacrylonitrile (10 to 80 percent) and acrylonitrile (20 to 90 percent) by controlling the ratio of the monomers in the reaction mixture.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a process for making an activated antimony and vanadium-containing catalyst in oxide form having an atomic ratio of Sb:V in the range from 0.8-4, which comprises calcining such an oxidic vanadium and antimony-containing composition at a temperature of over 750 ° C, and thereafter contacting said calcined catalyst with a hydroxy compound in liquid form selected from (1) cyclohexanol, (2) cyclopentanol, (3) a monohydroxy, acyclic hydrocarbon having 1-8 C atoms, and (4) a dihydroxy, acyclic hydrocarbon having 2-4 carbon atoms, and separating as a liquid said compound from said catalyst insofar as it is present beyond the amount wetting said catalyst, and thereafter drying said catalyst.
Abstract:
Apparatus and process useful in the separation of undesirable organics from various types of compositions including sludge. The apparatus comprises a contactor vessel, a sludge conduit for conveying sludge to the contactor vessel, and a sludge cutter for reducing the sludge conveyed by the conduit to reduced cross-section extrudates for deposition in the contactor vessel. The sludge cutter includes a foraminous member and can operate to roughen the surface of the extrudates to provide increased surface area for contacting with solvent. The sludge cutter is arranged to effect free fall of the reduced cross-section extrudates from the sludge cutter for initiating breakup of the extrudates into reduced length segments. A deflector preferably is positioned in the path of the free-falling extrudates to promote further breakup of the extrudates into relatively short segments or pellets. Provision is made for reversing the sludge cutter for flow of sludge through the sludge cutter in opposite directions, thereby to enable self-cleaning of the sludge cutter. The process comprises the steps of: forming a porous fixed bed of the composition in a contactor vessel, contacting the composition in the bed with at least one organic solvent capable of dissolving the extractable material to form an effluent containing the solvent and extractable material, and admitting water into the contactor vessel for flow through the bed to displace residual effluent remaining in the vessel and at least partially filling the vessel with water. A one-way drive arrangement is provided to enable operation of a first rotatable operator independently of a second rotatable operator while using only a single drive shaft to rotate both operators.
Abstract:
A reinforced metal composite comprises a mixture of fused yttria and a metal matrix selected from the group consisting of Ti, Nb, Fe, Co, Ni, Ti alloys, Co based alloys aluminides of Ti, aluminides of Ni, aluminides of Nb and their mixtures. Preferably, the metal matrix is Ti or a Ti alloy which has a low Cl content, e.g. less than .15 wt% Cl. The metal composite is prepared by mixing particles of the metal matrix with particulate fused yttria to form a mixture and heating the mixture at elevated temperature and pressure to consolidate the particles and form a metal reinforced composite.
Abstract:
A process which comprises contacting and catalytically reacting under essentially anhydrous conditions in the liquid phase an amide with a nitrile according to the equation: RCONH₂ + R¹CN → RCN + R¹CONH₂ where R and R₁ are not the same and are each selected from (1) H, hydrocarbyl, a hydrocarbyl group substituted with: one or more of F, Cl, Br, I, amido, cyano, formyl, hydrocarbylcarbonyl, hydrocarbyloxy, hydrocarbyloxycarbonyl, hydrocarbylcarbonyloxy and dihydrocarbylamino, and (2) any of group (1) where one or more H atoms are substituted by a deuterium atom.
Abstract:
A process for the selective separation of at least one component eg propylene of a gaseous feedstream comprises passing the feedstream containing the component through a separation unit (50), the separation unit (50) containing a porous membrane (53), eg in the form of a hollow fiber, the membrane (53) having a feed side and a permeate side, and a pore size of from about 10 Angstroms to about 200 Angstroms. Disposed in the pores of the porous membrane (53) is a facilitator liquid comprising a carrier eg silver nitrate dissolved in a suitable solvent. The process includes the steps of
(a) dissolving the component in the facilitator liquid on the feed side of the porous membrane (53) at the feed gas/membrane interface; (b) forming a component-carrier complex; (c) diffusing the complex to the permeate side of the porous membrane (53): and (d) releasing the component from the carrier.