摘要:
In the method for the production of isocyanates from esters of carbamic acids (urethanes) by thermally decomposing said ester while said ester is dissolved in a suitable inert reaction medium solvent to produce the isocyanate and alcohol and removing the isocyanate and alcohol and a carrier agent and separately recovering the isocyanate, alcohol and carrier, the improvement which comprises recovering said reaction medium solvent together with any isocyanate and urethane values contained therein by stripping said solvent and the isocyanate/urethane values from the reactor bottoms away from any heavy by-product residues present in the reactor bottoms effluent. Inert stripping solvents or inert gases or mixtures of gas and solvent are used as the stripping medium and include the solvents, gases or mixtures thereof employed as carrier agents and are preferably the same recovered carrier agents employed during the thermal decomposition reaction.
摘要:
A subterranean ore deposit, such as oil shale, is undercut to form a cavity of predetermined void volume. A specific block of the deposit overlaying this cavity is designated together with an intermediate level thereof. From a suitable working space, explosively charged primary blasting holes are drilled substantially horizontally into the block so as to provide a uniform explosive charge distribution therein below the intermediate level. At least one secondary blasting hole is driven downwardly into the block from the surface of the earth or from an upper mining level and explosively charged above the intermediate level. The primary and secondary explosives are detonated in upwardly progressing timed sequence. This results in expansion of the overlaying block into the cavity and fragmentation thereof in a cone-shaped configuration above the intermediate level.
摘要:
A system for in situ retorting and recovery of carbonaceous values from underground formations of oil shale. A plurality of parallel access entries communicating with the surface extend horizontally at a level beneath the formation. Upright retort chambers are arranged at spaced intervals on opposite sides of each access entry. The bottom of each chamber is interconnected with one such access entry by means of a sealed transverse tunnel. The retort chambers are ignited from the top and the carbonaceous values released from the shale by a downwardly progressing heat front are collected at the bottom. Oil recovery conduits extend from the surface through vertically directed bore holes opening into the access entry, each such conduit branching at that point to interconnect with opposite pairs of retort chambers through the sealed tunnels. Further conduit means are provided for scavenging gaseous retort products through an annular space surrounding each of the oil recovery conduits so as to apply constant heat to the shale oil while it is being conducted to the surface. Means are also provided for insuring that a positive pressure is maintained in the access entries with respect to the bottom of the retort chambers.
摘要:
Method of producing gas from subterranean formations characterized by the steps of drilling and completing a plurality of at least two wells in a subterranean formation that contains at least some of the gas in the form of hydrate; melting the hydrates in the subterranean formation to free natural gas in situ; and producing to the surface natural gas freed by melting the hydrates. Melting of the hydrates includes the step of heating the subterranean formation and the hydrates by passage of a predetermined electrical current from one of the wells to the other. Preferably, the melting of the hydrates also includes the step of simultaneously producing gas to lower the pressure in the subterranean formation below what it would otherwise be and consequently lower the equilibrium temperature at which the hydrates can be melted. Also disclosed are specific apparatus elements and method steps employed in performing this invention in a hydrate-containing subterranean formation.
摘要:
Method for the catalytic oxidation of methyl-substituted aromatic hydrocarbons using an organic hydroperoxide as the oxidizing agent in the presence of a metal salt catalyst, the metal being selected from the group consisting of vanadium, chromium, manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel and copper. The products of the reaction are principally carboxylic acids and the corresponding unsymmetrical peroxides which can be hydrogenated to alcohols.
摘要:
A dosimeter and method for use by personnel working in an area of mixed ionizing radiation fields for measuring and/or determining the effective energy of X- and gamma radiation; beta, X-, and gamma radiation dose equivalent to the surface of the body; beta, X-, and gamma radiation dose equivalent at a depth in the body; the presence of slow neutron, fast neutron dose equivalent; and orientation of the person wearing the dosimeter to the source of radiation is disclosed. Optionally integrated into this device and method are improved means for determining neutron energy spectrum and absorbed dose from fission gamma and neutron radiation resulting from accidental criticality.
摘要:
Method for the recovery of an aluminum chloride-palladium chloride catalyst mixture or complex used to hydrocrack high molecular weight hydrocarbons containing sulfur and nitrogen compounds at elevated temperatures and hydrogen pressures, the catalyst being soluble in such hydrocarbons at the hydrocracking temperatures. The recovered catalyst is in the form of a bottoms fraction concentrate resulting from the hydrocracking process and may be reused without any pre-treatment.
摘要:
Method for the production of alpha-hydroxyisobutyric acid by the catalytic oxidation of isobutylene glycol with molecular oxygen, such as air or pure oxygen in neutral or acidic aqueous solution. The process gives a high yield (80 - 90 per cent) of alphahydroxyisobutyric acid which can be recovered readily. The compound is a useful intermediate for the preparation of methacrylic acid and esters of methacrylic acid by conventional techniques.
摘要:
A method of forming an improved material having a matrix of oxidized, high surface area, uniformly dispersed active and carrier materials that is useful, not only as a catalyst, but also as an adsorbent for adsorbing a high concentration of contaminants, such as arsenic and selenium, deeply within its matrix and still retain its structural integrity characterized by the steps of preparing a single solution containing uniformly distributed water-soluble salts of the active and carrier cations; reacting them with a basic solution, such as ammonium hydroxide, to form insoluble and uniformly dispersed coprecipitates; drying the co-precipitates; removing the undesirable by-product; comminuting dried co-precipitates; forming the comminuted co-precipitates into an aqueous slurry; forming the slurry into particles of the desired size and shape; drying the particles; and calcining in an oxidizing atmosphere the dried particles to incorporate oxygen atoms into the matrix to achieve the requisite co-precipitated material, hardness and surface area. Also disclosed are preferred additional method steps, compositions and uses.
摘要:
A process for the manufacture of urethanes and the optional coproduction of amines by reacting at elevated temperatures and pressures an organic compound containing at least one hydroxyl group with carbon monoxide and a nitrogenous organic compound containing at least one non-cyclic group, in which a nitrogen atom is directly attached to a single carbon atom and is also attached through a double bond to an oxygen or another nitrogen atom, in the presence of an active amount of a catalyst selected from the group consisting of selenium, sulfur, compounds containing selenium, sulfur compounds and mixtures thereof and a base and/or water.