Abstract:
An autoclave heating jacket including a heating fluid collar (200), a fluid inlet (120), a fluid outlet (122), and a plurality of fluid flow baffles (202, 204, 206) is claimed. The heating fluid collar (200) can have an outer wall (208) which includes an upper contact surface (210) and a lower contact surface (212) forming an enclosed chamber when engaged with an outer surface of an autoclave. The fluid inlet (120) can be oriented through the outer wall and is capable of directing a heating fluid into the enclosed chamber. The fluid outlet (122) can be oriented through the outer wall but is capable of directing the heating fluid out of the enclosed chamber. The plurality of fluid flow baffles (202, 204, 206) can be oriented within the enclosed chamber so as to direct the heating fluid along a predetermined pathway within the enclosed chamber. Also claimed is a polymerization autoclave comprising said heating jacket and a heating conduit, as well as a method of repairing such an autoclave by replacing some of the weakened or leaking coil segments with said heating jacket.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to methods, systems, and apparatus for synthesizing a polyamide and including multiple back-ends. The method can be a method of synthesizing a polyamide, including evaporating a mixture comprising an oligomer formed from a linear dicarboxylic acid and a linear diamine sufficient to remove at least some water from the mixture, to provide a pre-finished mixture. The method can include splitting the pre-finished mixture into at least a first pre-finished mixture and a second pre-finished mixture. The method can include finishing the first pre-finished mixture in a first finisher, to provide a first finished mixture comprising a first polyamide. The method can include finishing the second pre-finished mixture in a second finisher, to provide a second finished mixture comprising a second polyamide.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to methods, systems, and apparatus for making polyamides having at least two heat-transfer media. The method includes heating a first flowable heat-transfer medium, to provide a heated first flowable heat-transfer medium. The method includes transferring heat from the heated first flowable heat-transfer medium to a second flowable heat-transfer medium, to provide a heated second flowable heat-transfer medium. The method also includes transferring heat from the heated second flowable heat- transfer medium to at least one polyamide-containing component of a polyamide synthesis system.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein are methods for recovering diphosphite-containing compounds from mixtures comprising organic mononitriles and organic dinitriles, using liquid-liquid extraction. Also disclosed are treatments to enhance extractability of the diphosphite-containing compounds.
Abstract:
This document describes biochemical pathways for producing adipic acid, 6-aminohexanoic acid, 6-hydroxhexanoic acid, hexamethylenediamine, caprolactam, or 1,6-hexanediol by forming one or two terminal functional groups, comprised of carboxyl, amine or hydroxyl group, in a C6 aliphatic backbone substrate. These pathways, metabolic engineering and cultivation strategies described herein rely on the enzymes or homologs accepting methyl ester shielded dicarboxylic acid substrates.
Abstract:
This document describes biochemical pathways for producing pimelic acid, 7-aminoheptanoic acid, 7-hydroxyheptanoic acid, heptamethylenediamine or 1,7-heptanediol by forming one or two terminal functional groups, each comprised of carboxyl, amine or hydroxyl group, in a C7 aliphatic backbone substrate. These pathways, metabolic engineering and cultivation strategies described herein rely on the C1 elongation enzymes or homolog associated with coenzyme B biosynthesis.
Abstract:
This document describes biochemical pathways for producing pimelic acid, 7-aminoheptanoic acid, 7-hydroxyheptanoic acid, heptamethylenediamine or 1,7-heptanediol by forming two terminal functional groups, comprised of carboxyl, amine or hydroxyl group, in a C7 aliphatic backbone substrate. These pathways, metabolic engineering and cultivation strategies described herein rely on the carbon chain elongation enzymes or homologs thereof associated with the cyclohexane carboxylate biosynthesis from Syntrophus aciditrophicus or 2-aminoadipate lysine biosynthesis.
Abstract:
Pentenenitrile oligomers formed in a process for isomerizing cis-2-pentenenitrile to 3-pentenenitrile are minimized in the presence of an aluminium oxide catalyst. The process comprises providing an aluminium oxide catalyst having an alkali metal and/or alkaline earth metal and/or iron content, measured in the form of alkali metal oxide and/or alkaline earth metal oxide and/or iron oxide, respectively of less than 5000 ppm by weight.
Abstract:
The document provides methods for biosynthesizing isobutene using one or more isolated enzymes such as one or more of an enoyl-CoA dehydratase, a 2-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydratase , an isovaleryl-CoA / acyl-CoA dehydrogenase and a mevalonate diphosphate decarboxylase, or using recombinant host cells expressing one or more such enzymes.
Abstract:
A novel mixture composition comprising various aliphatic dicarboxylic acids is provided. Further, a composition comprising the aliphatic dicarboxylic acid mixture composition, water and at least one water-soluble organic amine is provided. Further, a method for inhibiting corrosion of metal surfaces comprising contacting the metal with the composition comprising the aliphatic dicarboxylic acid mixture composition as above, water and at least one water-soluble organic amine is provided.