Abstract:
Un agent de stockage de chaleur latente comprenant de 69,5 à 70,5 % en poids d'hydroxyde de sodium et de 30,5 à 29,5 % en poids d'eau est approprié pour supprimer les phénomènes de sous-refroidissement gênant dans la fusion, spécialement dans des systèmes de stockage de chaleur avec des agents inertes de transfert de chaleur intermédiaires.
Abstract:
Un réfrigérant pour une machine de réfrigération, c'est-à-dire un réfrigérateur ou une pompe de chaleur, comprend un azéotrope d'eau et une amine formant un azéotrope ne contenant pas plus que 18 atomes de carbone. Le réfrigérant est indiqué pour une utilisation dans des machines à compression. Ce produit peut être utilisé dans des machines à absorption lorsqu'il est combiné à une solution aqueuse contenant un sel métallique utilisé généralement dans ce type de machines.
Abstract:
Un réfrigérant pour une machine de réfrigération, c'est-à-dire un réfrigérateur ou une pompe de chaleur, comprend un azéotrope d'eau, un alcool ne contenant pas plus que six atomes de carbone et, de préférence, un éther, de préférence un éther correspondant à l'alcool. Le réfrigérant est indiqué pour une utilisation dans des machines à compression. Ce produit peut être utilisé dans des machines à absorption lorsqu'il est combiné à une solution aqueuse contenant un sel métallique utilisé normalement dans ce type de machine.
Abstract:
An alcohol and/or a carboxylic acid ester is produced from a carboxylic acid or anhydride thereof by reacting the acid or anhydride with hydrogen at elevated temperature in the presence as catalyst of a composition comprising an alloy of (i) at least one noble metal of Group VIII of the Periodic Table and (ii) at least one metal capable of alloying with the Group VIII noble metal, optionally including a support and at least one of the metals rhenium, tungsten or molybdenum. The process is particularly applicable to the hydrogenation of monobasic acids, for example acetic acid, and the hydrogenation of maleic acid or maleic anhydride to gamma-butyrolactone.
Abstract:
An electrolytic cell for the electrolysis of molten salt having rotatable anode and cathode electrodes (20, 23, 28) in a container for the molten electrolyte. The electrodes are conical in shape and have vent holes (22) facilitating removal of evolved gases from the electrode surfaces. The liberated metal is thrown from the electrode and collected. The electrodes may be arranged in a symmetrical stack.
Abstract:
Porous shaped phenolic resin articles are made by partially curing a phenolic resin to a solid, comminuting the resin, forming into a pre-determined shape, and sintering. Porous shaped carbon articles are made by carbonising the sintered material.
Abstract:
Process for separation of a metal or mineral value from a base material in which 30 to 70 % of a particulate hydrophobic material is slurried under conditions of shear with a hydrophobic liquid. After a pre-determined time, the remainder of the particulate hydrophobic material is added to the slurry and further agitated to form agglomerates. A slurry of the base material is then treated with the agglomerates to adsorb the metal or mineral value, the agglomerates being recovered from the slurry. The value may be recovered from the agglomerate by conventional techniques.
Abstract:
A data storage and transfer apparatus comprises at least two addressable memories (1), (2), each having an address bus (5), (6). A data bus (4) links the memories. A data moving means (3) comprises two address generating means for generating source and destination addresses on the respective address buses to cause data to be transferred from one memory to the other.
Abstract:
A computer comprises a computation processor and a controller linked to the computation processor. A compiler converts source code with intermingled control flow and computation instructions into separate computation and control flow programs. The computation program is executed on the computation processor. The control flow program is executed on a control flow processor in the controller. The arrangement is particularly useful for running programs in high level languages on SIMD computers having a plurality of processing elements.
Abstract:
Lignocellulose is decomposed by a cell-free aqueous medium contacting an enzyme derived from an actinomycete bacterium e.g. Streptomyces cyaneus.