Abstract:
Apparatus for altering the physical properties of particles while the particles are suspended in a circulating stream of air or other fluid. The apparatus includes a mechanism for mechanically forming a vortex in a volume of gas, a mechanism for introducing particles into the vortex, and, particle treatment apparatus generally adjacent the vortex for altering at least one of the physical properties of the particles in the vortex.
Abstract:
In a process for quench-cooled, vapor-phase polymerization of olefin monomer comprising (a) contacting an olefin monomer, or mixture of olefin monomers, with a polymerization catalyst in the presence of hydrogen in a reactor vessel to form polymer product, and (b) removing, condensing and recycling off-gas from such reactor, an improvement comprises separating entrained polymerizing solid fines from said off-gas and recycling such solids directly to the reactor without substantial continued polymerization of such solids while in the presence of a substantially different concentration of hydrogen than in the reactor.
Abstract:
A fluid bed reactor system for olefin polymerization composed of a cylindrical reaction vessel equipped with a distribution plate and an agitator, characterized in that the distribution plate satisfies the following conditions,(i) each of many passage holes provided in the distribution plate for passage of the fluidizing gas medium is covered with a cap having an opening,(ii) the opening in said cap is provided only on one side of the cap, and the direction (A) of the opening is not opposite to the direction (B) of the rotational flow,(iii) the direction (A) of the opening varies with the distance (d) from the center (X) of the plate to the center (Y) of the hole,(iv) the opening direction (A) of a cap or caps at a hole or holes whose distance (d) is minimum is directed nearer to the center (X) than is the tangential direction of a circle having the center (X) as a center and the distance (d.sub.min.) to the hole or holes as a radius,(v) the opening direction (A) of a cap or caps at a hole or holes whose distance (d) is maximum is directed farther from the center (X) than is the tangential direction of a circle having the center (X) as a center and the distance (d.sub.max.) to the hole or holes as a radius, and(vi) the opening directions (A) of caps at holes other than the hole or holes specified in (iv) and (v) are displaced from the direction specified in (iv) to the direction specified in (v) according to the distance (d) to these holes.
Abstract:
Fluid bed processing of products not having suitable properties for fluidization, where gas expansion is not successful. The combined influence of gas expansion and mechanical mixing in the geometry of a horizontally located cylindrical grate enables more economical treating and use of lower gas velocity. The close control of particle residence time gives high quality of final products and extremely homogeneous results. The concentration of more processes into one apparatus is the further advantage of the invention.
Abstract:
PCT No. PCT/US79/00929 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 1, 1979 Sec. 102(e) date Nov. 1, 1979 PCT Filed Nov. 1, 1979 PCT Pub. No. WO81/01295 PCT Pub. Date May 14, 1981A rotating fluidized bed gasifier system especially useful in compound engines comprising an annular fluidization chamber containing a bed of carbon containing pulverulent solid materials. The chamber, which is defined by inner and outer spaced apart coaxial, cylindrical, perforated walls, rotates about the longitudinal axis of the cylinders. Steam enters the bed, which is maintained at about 1800.degree. F., through the outer perforated wall and fluidizes the particles. The steam reacts endothermically with the carbon to produce reaction product gas which exits the bed, together with unreacted steam, through the inner perforated wall. In a preferred form of the invention the bed is maintained at approximately 1800.degree. F. by combining a rotating fluidized bed combustor with the gasifier. In this embodiment compressed air and powdered coal enter the bed with the steam through the outer perforated wall. The air reacts exothermically with the fuel within the bed to generate heat for the endothermic steam-carbon reaction and to produce hot combustion gas which exit the bed, together with the reaction product gas, unreacted steam and compressed air, through the inner perforated wall.
Abstract:
Vapor phase polymerization of an olefin which comprises conveying inactive high yield titanium catalyst component to a vapor phase polymerization reactor with a liquid comprising recycled quench liquid, reactivating said inactive high yield titanium catalyst component inside the reactor with a metal alkyl reducing agent and polymerizing olefin under gas phase polymerization conditions with reactivated high yield catalyst to form a resinous polymer of an olefin having a low level of catalyst residues.
Abstract:
Halogenated aryl compounds having the formula ##STR1## WHEREIN Z is bromine or chlorine, m and m' are integers having a value of 1-5, i and i' are integers having a value of 0-2, R is herein defined, M and M' are each independent and are from the group oxygen, nitrogen or sulfur with the proviso that M and M' cannot concurrently be oxygen in both cases, and A is chlorine, cyano, nitro, lower alkoxy, lower alkyl, fluorine, dialkylamino, phenyl, halo-phenyl, benzyl, or halo-benzyl, and which compounds are found useful as flame retardants for various polymeric systems.
Abstract:
Apparatus for carrying out a reaction in a fluidized bed comprises a rotatable drum with a circumferential wall which is permeable to gases. A bed of particles is supported on the circumferential wall of the rotating drum during operation and the reactants are fed into the bed, at least a fluidizing gas through the circumferential wall. A receiver is provided to retain during operation small particles carried from the bed by the fluidizing gas. The small particles are returned to the bed when operation ceases. A reservoir for discharging larger particles into the bed after operation has commenced may be provided.
Abstract:
Plastic compositions containing poly(phenylene oxide) and bis-phenoxy compounds having the formula ##SPC1##Wherein Z is bromine or chlorine, m and m' are integers having a value of 1-5, i and i' are integers having a value of 0-2, HBCA is a halo-branched chain alkylene group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms and A is cyano, nitro, lower alkoxy, lower alkyl, fluorine, dialkylamino, phenyl, halo-phenyl, benzyl or halo-benzyl.
Abstract:
A process for the continuous drying of chemical products by milling fluidization, in which a fluidized bed of particles of an inert carrier, e.g., quartz sand having a particle diameter of 0.5-1.0 mm., is maintained and the chemical product to be dried is introduced in a wet state, e.g., wet solid or paste or suspension, into the fluidized carrier bed. The chemical product dries on the surface of the inert carrier particles and dry particles of the chemical product leave the relatively large and heavy carrier particles and are carried off in the exit gas. The carrier particles, however, are too large and heavy to leave in the exit gas and so remain in the fluidized bed. If desired, the dried product particles can be further dried, for example by additional drying gas in a cyclone chamber, after which the dried particles are separated from the gas which can be vented and/or recycled.