Abstract:
A machine applies screwing and unscrewing torque between successive drill pipes with an essentially vertical axis extending through a tapered opening in a turntable for a well bore. The machine includes a mechanism for applying a high initial unthreading torque and a high final threading torque between successive drill pipes and a mechanism for rapid screwing and unscrewing of successive drill pipes. The machine also includes a clamping mechanism having a bolster and a plurality of shims. The shims have outer portions tapered to fit into the opening of the turntable and have inner portions with a shape corresponding to the shape of the drill pipes. Each shim is supported individually on the bolster by a device that moves the shim into engagement with a drill pipe to grip the same and with sufficient freedom to permit the shims to center the pipe between them automatically. The bolster is lowered to cause the shims to enter the opening in the turntable.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an antimicrobial composition of monoanhydro-hexitol monoalkyl ether isomers bearing an alkyl ether radical (OR) at C-3, C-5 or C-6 of the monoanhydro-hexitol, in which the alkyl group (R) is a linear or branched, cyclic or noncyclic hydrocarbon-based group comprising between 4 to 18 carbon atoms. The invention also relates to a method for disinfecting a surface and/or equipment contaminated by bacteria, said method comprising applying to said surface or equipment to be disinfected, a composition according to the invention.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method for preparing, by transcarbonation, a compound of formula (I), including reacting a polyol of formula (II) with an alkyl carbonate or an alkylene carbonate in the presence of a catalytic system consisting of a catalytic entity selected from among the rare earth oxides or the mixtures thereof, and optionally an inert substrate.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a liquid formulation including a liquid solution and at least one gas selected from xenon, argon, hydrogen, H2S, helium, krypton, neon, radon or CO, said gas being dissolved in said liquid solution, for the use thereof as a preservative solution for preserving biological material, in particular cells, tissue and biological organs, in particular an organ selected from the heart, the kidney, the liver, the pancreas and the intestines. The gas is preferably argon.
Abstract:
A novel method of reducing a functional group in an oxidised form. The invention relates more particularly to the reduction of aldehyde, ketone, ester, lactone, nitrile or phosphine oxide groups. The reduction method according to the invention is characterised in that it comprises exposing the substrate including the functional group to be reduced to the presence of a siloxane-type compound of the following formula (I), combined with a Lewis acid-type catalyst. In said formula (I):—R1 and R2, which are the same or different, are an alkyl, cycloalkyle or aryl group, —X is a digit from 0 to 50.
Abstract:
A medicinal composition and method to treat or minimize post-ischemic brain cell deterioration that comprises nitrous oxide or a nitrous oxide donor and xenon or a xenon donor. The medicinal composition may be administered prior to or subsequent to a stroke.
Abstract:
A process in which isotopes of the same element belonging to the alkaline earth metals, transition elements and heavy metals having an atomic mass of less than 209, in particular lanthanide metals, are separated in an aqueous medium by treating an aqueous medium.
Abstract:
The invention concerns novel diphosphines of formula (I) useful in particular, in their optically active form, as ligands in metal complexes. The invention also concerns their uses an intermediates in the preparation of polymeric insoluble ligands. The invention further concerns the use of said insoluble ligands in the preparation of metal complexes for asymmetric. catalysis.
Abstract:
The invention relates to the separation of lanthanides and actinides by nanofiltration complexation. The object of the invention is to satisfy the existing need for a simple, efficient and economical technique for separating lanthanides and actinides. This object is achieved by a process consisting of using ligands of the polyamino acid type, such as EDTA or DTPA, for complexing lanthanides and/or actinides before separating them by nanofiltration. The invention further relates to novel polyamino acid ligands incorporating ligand structures additional to EDTA and DTPA. Application to the production of rare earths or nuclear waste processing, especially to recycling operations carried out on spent nuclear fuels is also discussed.