Abstract:
An agitated autoclave comprises an autoclave vessel, an agitator, and a mechanical seal. The autoclave vessel can be adapted to receive and polymerize a polyamide salt composition to form a polyamide polymer. The agitator includes a shaft, an auger portion, and a drive portion. The mechanical seal forms a pressure boundary about the shaft at or adjacent to a wall of the autoclave vessel. The mechanical seal includes a pressurized water chamber pressurized with seal water in contact with the shaft and is held at a seal pressure greater a vessel pressure within the autoclave vessel. The seal water in the pressurized water chamber has a calcium content of less than 3 ppm and an iron content of less than 0.3 ppm.
Abstract:
This document describes biochemical pathways for producing 1,3-butanediol using a polypetide having β- ketothiolase activity to form a 3-oxo-5-hydroxypentanoyl-CoA intermediate that can be enzymatically converted to 1,3-butanediol, as well as recombinant hosts producing 1,3-butanediol.
Abstract:
Synthetic fibers with enhanced stain resistance, yarns and carpets prepared from these fibers and compounds and methods for their production are provided.
Abstract:
Polyamide resins with mineral additives which accelerate crystallization without adversely affecting mechanical properties of articles molded therefrom, methods for their production and articles of manufacture prepared from these polyamide resins are provided.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an improved process for manufacturing polytetramethylene ether glycol. The process involves controlling the number average molecular weight of the diacetate of polytetramethylene ether glycol intermediate produced by tetrahydrofuran polymerization before methanolysis thereof to desired polytetramethylene ether glycol product.
Abstract:
A continuous process for the manufacture of a polyamide, the process comprising the steps of: (i) flowing a stream A comprising a moltendicarboxylic acid, or a molten dicarboxylic acid-rich mixture comprising a dicarboxylic acid and a diamine, through a first stage and at least one more reaction stage of a vertical multistage reactor, wherein the first stage is at the top of the reactor; (ii) counter-currently flowing a stream B comprising a diamine as either a vapor or a diamine-rich liquid through at least one of the stages below the first reaction stage of said vertical multistage reactor; (iii) accumulating a liquid phase material P comprising polyamide at and/or below the final stage of said reactor; wherein said reactor is equipped with internal features suitable for effecting contact between counter-currently flowing streams A and B; and wherein the process further comprises controlling the viscosity of said liquid phase material P by directly controlling the chemical equilibrium of the polyamidation reaction or by controlling stream B so that the amounts of diamine and dicarboxylic acid introduced into the reactor during the process are stoichiometrically imbalanced. The invention further provides a vertical multistage reactor configured to implement said process.