FORECASTING INDUSTRIAL AGING PROCESSES WITH MACHINE LEARNING METHODS

    公开(公告)号:US20230028276A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-26

    申请号:US17779737

    申请日:2020-11-25

    Applicant: BASF SE

    Abstract: By accurately predicting industrial aging processes (IAP), such as the slow deactivation of a catalyst in a chemical plant, it is possible to schedule maintenance events further in advance, thereby ensuring a cost-efficient and reliable operation of the plant. So far, these degradation processes were usually described by mechanistic models or simple empirical prediction models. In order to accurately predict IAP, data-driven models are proposed, comparing some traditional stateless models (linear and kernel ridge regression, as well as feed-forward neural networks) to more complex stateful recurrent neural networks (echo state networks and long short-term memory networks). Additionally, variations of the stateful models are discussed. In particular, stateful models using mechanistical pre-knowledge about the degradation dynamics (hybrid models). Stateful models and their variations may be more suitable for generating near perfect predictions when they are trained on a large enough dataset, while hybrid models may be more suitable for generalizing better given smaller datasets with changing conditions.

    METHOD OF INCREASING RESISTANCE AGAINST SOYBEAN RUST IN TRANSGENIC PLANTS BY INCREASING THE SCOPARONE

    公开(公告)号:US20230022475A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-26

    申请号:US17413037

    申请日:2019-12-13

    Applicant: BASF SE

    Abstract: The present invention pertains to the field of imparting or increasing resistance against fungal pathogens, in particular soy-beanrust, in plants, plant parts, and/or plant cells. This is achieved by increasing the content of scopoletin, scopolin and/or, most preferably, scoparone (6,7-di-methoxycoumarin) in a plant, plant part and/or plant cell. This can in particular be achieved by establishing and/or increasing the expression of an OMT3 enzyme and an F6H1 protein in the respective plant, plant part and/or plant cell; a further way would be to apply a formulation or solution containing scopoletin and/or, most preferably, scoparone to the plant, plant part and/or plant cell. The invention correspondingly also provides proteins, enzymes, expression constructs, plants, plant parts and/or plant cells. In this respect the invention also provides variants of the OMT3 enzyme.

    ASSEMBLY OF METAL PIPES WITH TWO-COMPONENT POLYURETHANE ADHESIVE

    公开(公告)号:US20230021128A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-19

    申请号:US17782898

    申请日:2020-12-09

    Applicant: BASF SE

    Abstract: Described herein is a method for joining a first metal pipe with a second metal pipe, the pipes being joined together in an overlapping area by use of a two-component polyurethane adhesive that encapsulates the overlapping area, where the method includes the steps of:
    (1) applying the two-component polyurethane adhesive onto an inner surface of a fixture; (2) inserting one end of the first metal pipe into one end of the second metal pipe so as to form a pipe assembly having the overlapping area between the two ends, and putting the overlapping area of the pipe assembly into the fixture; (3) closing the fixture such that the overlapping area of the pipe assembly is fixed in the fixture, and such that the adhesive therein encapsulates the overlapping area of the pipe assembly; (4) curing the two-component polyurethane adhesive; and (5) optionally, removing the fixture from the pipe assembly.

    COMBINATION OF CROSSLINKERS TO IMPROVE COATING PROPERTIES

    公开(公告)号:US20230012924A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-19

    申请号:US17785889

    申请日:2020-12-14

    Applicant: BASF SE

    Abstract: Multiphase polymers comprising crosslinking monomers and polyfunctional amine are disclosed. The multiphase polymer comprises a first phase polymer having a Tg from 60° C. to 240° C., a second phase polymer having a Tg from 40° C. to 240° C., and a soft phase polymer having a Tg from -25° C. to 30° C. The crosslinking monomers include a triacrylate such as trimethylol propane triacrylate, an unsaturated alkoxysilane, and an unsaturated keto monomer reactive with the polyfunctional amine. In contrast to conventional knowledge, incorporation of trimethylolpropane triacrylate reduces the minimum film forming temperature of multiphase polymers. This unusual reduction in MFFT helps to reduce the VOC requirement to form a good film at low VOC. The other crosslinking monomers including unsaturated alkoxy silane and unsaturated keto monomer which react with the polyfunctional amine improve print resistance, block resistance and lower the tackiness of paint films. The multiphase polymer is particularly suitable for use in deep base paints.

    Optimization of Geometry of Shaped Body and Manufacturing Tools

    公开(公告)号:US20230004686A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-05

    申请号:US17779780

    申请日:2020-11-26

    Applicant: BASF SE

    Abstract: A computer-implemented method (110) for designing at least one shaped body (112), a computer-implemented method (138) for designing a manufacturing process for manufacturing at least one shaped body (112), a designing system (152) for designing at least one shaped body (112) and a manufacture-designing system for designing a manufacturing process for manufacturing at least one shaped body (112). The computer-implemented method (110) for designing at least one shaped body (112) comprises: a) retrieving, by using at least one interface (154), at least one set of target criteria for the shaped body (112); b) defining, by using at least one geometry defining unit (156), at least one seed geometry for the shaped body (112); c) generating, by using at least one parameter generating unit (158), a set of parameters comprising at least one geometry parameter of the seed geometry; d) simulating, by using at least one simulation unit (160), the shaped body by varying values of the set of parameters and by corn-paring simulated criteria for these values with the set of target criteria, thereby generating at least one adapted set of parameters for which the target criteria are fulfilled at least within predetermined tolerances; and e) determining, by using at least one lead candidate geometry defining unit (162), at least one lead candidate geometry of the at least one shaped body (112) from the adapted set of parameters.

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