Abstract:
A PROCESS FOR CONTINUOUS PRODUCTION OF A SPINNABLE POLYESTER INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF STEPS OF PRECONDENSATION OAND OF PROGRESSIVE CONDENSATION ACCOMPANIED BY REMOVAL OF GASEOUS CO-PRODUCTS. THE INDIVIDUAL STEPS ARE CARRIED ON APPLYING THIN-LAYER TECHNIQUE WITHIN SEPARATE ENVIRONMENTS AT DIFFERING TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURE CONDITIONS AND WHEREIN THE WALLS DEFINING SAID ENVIRONMENTS ARE SO HEATED TO MAINTAIN THE TEMPERATURE GRADIENT AT THE INTERFACE OF WALL AND LIQUID THIN LAYER WITHIN A SMALL VALUE PREFERABLY NOT GREATER THAN 6*C., AND THE SAID LIQUID THINLAYER IN EACH ENVIRONMENT PREVAILINGLY CONSISTS OF PARTIALLY REACTED PRODUCT RECYCLED IN SAME ENVIRONMENT. AN EQUIPMENT COMRPISING A PLURALITY OF REACTION ENVIRONMENTS, RECYCLING MEANS AND SURFACE HEAT-EXCHANGING MEANS FOR CARRYING OUT THE PROCESS.
Abstract:
A device for volumetrically removing liquids from vacuum operating equipments, particularly reaction vessels and equipments for obtaining polymers, comprising a set of mutually engaging pumping screws, a number of which extend to the inside of the vacuum equipment for a given length, while the remaining screw or screws extend only up to the bottom of said vacuum equipment. Said set of screws is rotatably driven within a body tightly enclosing the same.
Abstract:
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF POLYAMIDES FOR INDUSTRIAL USES IN GENERAL, SUCH AS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF FIBERS, YARNS MOULDED ARTICLES AND THE LIKE, THE IMPROVEMENT IS HEREIN DISCLOSED, WHICH CONSISTS IN THE CONCURRENT ADDITION OF A STABILIZING COPPER COMPOUND AND OF AN ALLYL HALIDE, IN WHICH THE HYDROGEN ATOM OF THE DOUBLE-BONDED METHYLENE GROUPING IS POSSIBLY SUBSTITUTED BY AN ALIPHATIC RADICAL. ALLYL CHLORDE HAS PROVEN TO BE THE MOST ADVANTAGEOUS IN ITS CLAS. VERY SUPRISINGLY, THE PRESENCE OF AN ALLYL CHLORIDE AS DEFINED ABOVE HAS EXHIBITED AN UNPREDICTABLE ACTIVITY IN NUETRALIZING THE DISCOLOURATION WHICH WOULD BE OTHERWISE EXPERIENCED SHOULD THE COPPER COMPOUND BE USED ALONE. PRODUCTS HAVING AN OUTSTANDINGLY HIGH WHITENESS RATING HAVE BEEN THUS OBTAINED.
Abstract:
An antistatic additive for polyamide fibres is disclosed, which is a polyoxyethylene having an average molecular weight of 20,000 and a very narrow range of molecular weight, the molecular dispersion index ranging from 1.02 to 1.2. The antistatic mode of action of the additive according to the invention is not completely elucidated, but outstanding and persistent antistatic properties have been experimentally ascertained. The maximum amount to be used is 0.5% by weight with respect to the polymer; higher amounts are in no wise detrimental, but afford no advantage.
Abstract:
Apparatus for continuously performing chemical processes and reactions which require heat administration from the outside and are conducive to the evolution of volatile by-products, such as the processes leading to the production of spinnable polyesters, comprising a reactor having substantially vertical metal walls, means for introducing the reactant and, if desired, a recycled reacted product at the reactor top, centrifuging means for hurling the material or materials introduced at the top of said walls so that it or they descend in the form of a liquid film therealong, and means for recycling a fraction of the product, which has been collected at the base of the reactor, towards the top thereof.
Abstract:
Method for the preparation of finely and evenly divided elemental antimony for use as catalyst in polyester manufacturing, wherein powdered antimony is subjected to mechanical size reduction operations, and then is dispersed in a liquid medium.
Abstract:
A device for sampling liquids from reaction equipments and particularly from vacuum operating reaction equipments, comprising a body fixedly secured to the bottom of the equipment and having an outlet duct fitting with a check valve, which movable component is kept closed by the atmospheric pressure. A movable assembly, comprising a sampling container and a feeding duct therefor, may be sealingly connected with said body in such a manner as to mechanically control the engagement of said check valve movable component with a related seat, means being provided to reach a given vacuum value in said container and said feeding duct.
Abstract:
A method is disclosed for the production of peroxide-like derivatives of ozonides by ozonization of the correspoding olefins, comprising the step of placing an olefin in the presence of ozone in solution in a solvent mixture which comprises at least a nonpolar solvent (inert with respect to the olefin concerned) and at least a polar solvent, in which the as formed ozonide is reactively dissolved, a heavy weight phase being formed which contains the peroxide-like derivative. The derivative in question is removed from the reaction environment so as to substract it from superoxidation and polymerization effects.