Abstract:
Active Rhodium catalyst and impurities are separated from a hydroformylation process stream containing both active and inactive organo-rhodium catalyst by binding active catalyst and impurities to an acidic ion exchange resin containing an acidic group. The purified hydroformylation stream can be returned to the hydroformylation reactor. All or a portion of inactive rhodium can be reactivated before recycling purified hydroformylation process stream to the reactor. During regeneration of the resin, a neutral solvent is used first to remove impurities which are discarded, then an acidic solvent is used to remove active organic rhodium catalyst from the resin. Such active catalyst can be rehydrided and returned to the hydroformylation reactor. An ion exchange resin having at least one acid group disposed on a silica backbone and an active organo-rhodium complex from a hydroformylation process stream bound to the resin can be produced.
Abstract:
A substrate is provided with a resistant coating by the chemical-vapor deposition of hard material, by passing a gaseous mixture of a precursor of the material, an accelerant, an oxidant, and a carrier gas over the substrate surface, and then removing the by-products and unreacted materials; mixtures of hard materials are obtained by using a co-reagent in the gaseous mixture. The substrate is preferably heated. The figure shows a schematic of the apparatus which includes the precursor (102), the accelerant (104) which are vaporized and transferred to a reactor (120). A mixture of chromium oxide and tin oxide is the preferred coating material, obtained by decomposition of chromyl chloride and monobutyltintrichloride on the substrate surface in the presence of methylisobutylketone and air. Other metal mixtures can also be used.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a process for electroplating chromium using lead anodes while achieving the advantages of using methanesulfonic acid without suffering the excessive anode-corrosion characteristics associated with that acid. Accordingly, chromium is electrodeposited from a bath containing chromic acid, sulfate and an alkylpolysulfonic acid containing from one to about three carbon atoms. The invention also provides a plating process for chromium electrodeposition, a plating bath for use in the inventive process, and a replenishment composition for existing plating baths.
Abstract:
The invention concerns a composition of organotin maleates of high molecular weight resulting from reacting an alcohol or an epoxyalkane of high molecular weight with maleic anhydride, then in contacting the resulting medium with a dialkyltin oxide. The invention also concerns the polyvinyl chloride (PVC) stabilised with said composition with base of organotin maleates of high molecular weight and the rigid extruded objects formed from said PVC compositions.
Abstract:
A method is described for strengthening or restoring strength to a brittle oxide substrate which includes the steps of coating the brittle oxide substrate with an aqueous solution containing a silane-based composition, and curing the coating to form a transparent layer on the brittle oxide substrate. Also disclosed are novel compositions used to coat brittle oxide substrates, and silane-coated brittle oxide containers.
Abstract:
A coated-glass article is prepared by the chemical-vapor deposition of a mixture of a tin oxide precursor, a silicon dioxide precursor and an accelerant such as triethyl phosphite at deposition rates higher than 350 ANGSTROM /sec. onto glass having a temperature from 450 to 650 DEG C. The layer of material deposited can be combined with other layers to produce an article with specific properties such as controlled emissivity, refractive index, abrasion resistance, or appearance.
Abstract:
A stabilized article of a resinous body that has incorporated into the surface region of at least one surface of the body (i) a stabilizing amount of a surface modifier ingredient in a concentration decreasing from the surface and (ii) a solvent in a concentration of less than 0.7 wt.% of the weight of the resinous body.
Abstract:
Fire resistant hydraulic fluid compositions comprising (a) one or more esters of polyhaloaromatic acids per se or in combination with (b) one or more hydraulic fluids independently selected from mineral oil, poly- alpha -olefins, alkylated aromatics, cycloaliphatics, esters of dibasic acids, polyol esters, polyglycols, silicones, silicate esters, phosphate esters, and halogenated compositions other than (a), and (c) one or more shear-stable polymers; a method for imparting fire resistant properties to known hydraulic fluids by adding one or more esters of polyhaloaromatic acids and one or more shear-stable polymers; and the use of the inventive compositions as fire resistant hydraulic fluids.
Abstract:
An electrochromic element (10) useful in an electrochromic glass or mirror device and a process for making such element. The element is a five-layered structure including an electrolyte ion conducting layer (20) interposed between first and second inorganic electrochromic layers (16, 18) which are interposed between a pair of conductive electrodes (12, 14). The second inorganic electrochromic layer (18) is amorphous. The first and second inorganic electrochromic layers are different and are capable of exhibiting color-forming properties complementary to one another upon the incorporation of at least one H, Li, Na, K, Ag, Cu or Tl ion. The electrolyte ion conducting layer may be a copolymer of ethylene oxide, butylene oxide or methyl glycidyl ether, and optionally a small amount of allyl glycidyl ether, along with an ionizable salt, or may be a polyurethane gel formed by reacting the copolymer with triisocyanate, along with an ionizable salt. The second inorganic electrochromic layer comprises a transition element chalconide or halide. The electrochromic element may also comprise a plurality of five-layer structures in tandem, each pair separated by a substrate.