Abstract:
Microspheroidal particles, suitable as fluidized bed catalyst supports, are prepared by incorporating a portion of small, preferably recycled, particles into a slurry of inorganic oxide sol and inorganic particles which is spray dried to form microspheroidal particles.
Abstract:
A process is provided for the production of superconducting wires (10), ribbons, tapes, fibers and the like including the steps of forming an amorphous metal alloy containing at least one of scandium, yttrium or the rare earths; copper; and at least one alkaline earth as an elongated body, and reacting the amorphous metal alloy with oxygen at a temperature below the crystallization temperature of the alloy to form a sheath (11) of superconducting oxide exterior to a core (12) of amorphous metal alloy. Included in the invention are the elongated bodies thus produced and superconductor devices fabricated from said bodies.
Abstract:
A sensor and method for measuring the concentration of alcohol in an alcohol-hydrocarbon mixture for use with flexible fuel vehicles. The sensor and method are characterized by a pair of detectors or sensing elements (27, 28) which detect absorbance of two different wavelength bands of energy transmitted through the fuel. The first wavelength band is absorbed by the alcohol and substantially unabsorbed by the hydrocarbons and other non-alcohols in the fuel mixture. The second or reference wavelength band is selected where the absorbance of alcohols and hydrocarbons is essentially the same and preferably essentially zero. The output of the two detectors or sensing elements (27, 28) is ratioed to provide a signal representative of the alcohol content of the fuel mixture. In a preferred embodiment, the sensing elements (27, 28) are included in a differential thermopile (98).
Abstract:
Compositions of matter and catalyst compositions effective for gas-phase conversion of propane to acrylic acid (via oxidation) or to acrylonitrile (via ammoxidation) and isobutane to methacrylic acid (via oxidation) and isobutane to methacrylonitrile (via ammoxidation) are disclosed. Preferred catalyst compositions comprise molybdenum, vanadium, niobium, antimony and germanium and molybdenum, vanadium, tantalum, antimony, and germanium. Methods of preparing such compositions and related compositions, including hydrothermal synthesis methods are also disclosed. The preferred catalysts convert propane to acrylic acid and/or to acrylonitrile and isobutane to methacrylic acid/methacrylonitrile with a yield of at least about 50 %.
Abstract:
A process for the manufacture of acrylic acid comprising reacting propylene and oxygen (preferably in the form of air) in a reaction zone having a catalyst characterized by the following formula: A a B b C c Ca d Fe e Bi f Mo 12 =O x , where A = one or more of Li, Na, K, Rb and Cs; B = one or more of Mg, Sr, Mn, Ni, Co and Zn; C = one or more of Ce, Cr, Al, Sb, P, Ge, Sn, Cu, V and W and; a = 0.01 to 1.0; b and e = 1.0 - 10; c = 0 to 5.0, preferably 0.05 to 5.0, especially preferred being 0.05 to 4.0, and x is a number determined by the valence requirements of the other elements present; at an elevated temperature to produce acrylic acid and acrolein.
Abstract translation:一种制备丙烯酸的方法,包括使丙烯和氧(优选以空气形式)在具有由下式表征的催化剂的反应区中反应:AaBbCcCadFeeBifMo12 = Ox,其中A = Li,Na,K中的一种或多种 ,Rb和Cs; B = Mg,Sr,Mn,Ni,Co和Zn中的一种或多种; C = Ce,Cr,Al,Sb,P,Ge,Sn,Cu,V和W中的一种或多种; a = 0.01〜1.0; b和e = 1.0-10; c = 0〜5.0,优选为0.05〜5.0,特别优选为0.05〜4.0,x为通过其它存在的元素的化合价要求确定的数; 在高温下生产丙烯酸和丙烯醛。
Abstract:
A homogeneous, high nitrile melt processable acrylonitrile olefinically unsaturated multipolymer and a process for making the multipolymer, comprising polymerizing a mixture of acrylonitrile monomer and one or more olefinically unsaturated monomers, in which the rate of addition of the multimonomer mixture is set by the rate of polymerization so that the concentration of unreacted acrylonitrile monomers and unreacted olefinically unsaturated monomer(s) is low and the polymerization process is in a monomer starved condition.
Abstract:
A process for the recovery and purification of olefinically unsaturated nitriles from a process stream produced by the ammoxidation of a hydrocarbon feedstock comprising contacting the process stream comprising olefinically unsaturated nitrile with an aqueous quench liquid in a quench apparatus to produce a gaseous quench effluent comprising olefinically unsaturated nitrile; contacting the gaseous quench effluent with a liquid comprising water in an absorber apparatus to form an aqueous mixture comprising absorbed olefinically unsaturated nitrile; withdrawing from the absorber apparatus a side-draw stream comprising water and a bottoms stream comprising olefinically unsaturated nitrile; introducing the bottoms stream to a first distillation column where the bottoms stream is distilled in an extractive distillation to form a top fraction comprising olefinically unsaturated nitrile, and directing the sidedraw stream comprising water to the upper portion of the first distillation column to assist with the extractive distillation of the olefinically unsaturated nitrile in the first distillation column.
Abstract:
A process for the recovery of acrylonitrile or methacrylonitrile from an aqueous solution comprising subjecting the said solution to a water extractive distillation by feeding the solution to a distillation column and performing said extractive distillation and using solvent water introduced at the top of said column, removing a first overhead vapor stream of acrylonitrile or methacrylonitrile with some water from the top of the column, and a first liquid stream containing water and impurities from the bottom of the column, the contents of said column maintained at a substantially neutral pH by adding a sufficient amount of at least one alkaline compound selected from ammonium carbonate, ammonium bicarbonate, ammonium carbamate, and aikylene diamines to the overhead decanter and/or to the solvent water.
Abstract:
Economical processes are disclosed for recovery and refining of valuable nitrogen-containing organic compounds formed by catalytic oxidation of least one feed compound selected from the group consisting of propane, propylene, isobutane and isobutylene in the presence of ammonia to produce a gaseous. Processes of the invention include quenching the gaseous reactor effluent with an aqueous quench liquid; forming an aqueous solution comprising the corresponding unsaturated mononitrile, hydrogen cyanide and other organic co-products; and using an integrated sequence of distillations and phase separations to recover for recycle of a useful aqueous liquid, and obtain the desired nitrogen-containing products. According to the invention aqueous solutions are fractionated in an integrated system of multi-stage columns while an effective polymerization inhibiting amount of at least one member of a preselected class of p -phenylenediamine compounds is maintained therein.
Abstract:
A process for the manufacture of an improved iron promoted vanadium antimony oxide catalyst useful in the ammoxidation of propane to acrylonitrile wherein the source of iron (i.e. an iron containing compound such as Fe 2 O 3 ) employed in the catalyst preparation has a BET surface area greater than 120 m 2 /gram. Such catalysts are useful in processes for the ammoxidation of a C 3 -C 5 paraffinic hydrocarbon to its corresponding α-β-unsaturated nitrite, the ammoxidation of propylene with NH 3 and oxygen to acrylonitrile, the ammoxidation of methylpyridine with NH 3 and oxygen to make cyanopyridine, the ammoxidation of m-xylene with NH 3 and oxygen to make isophthalonitrile, and the oxidation of o-xylene to make phthalic anhydride.