Abstract:
New catalysts for isocyanurate foams are those comprising aminomethacrylate salts. The foams are obtained by the polymerization of an aromatic polyisocyanate, and a polyether or polyester polyol in the presence of a blowing agent and said amino methacrylate salts falling within the following structural formula: ##STR1## where the radicals represented by R when taken singly are lower alkyl, and hydroxy lower alkyl, and when taken together with the adjacent nitrogen atom are selected from the group consisting of morpholino, C-substituted morpholino, N-alkylpiperazino and C-substituted N-alkylpiperazino, and M is selected from the group consisting of sodium, potassium, cesium, lithium and rubidium. The novel foams are useful in preparing rigid, flexible, semi-rigid, or semi-flexible materials such as panels, slabs or sprayed foam surfaces.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a novel infused polymer containing polyol composition useful in producing improved urethane products. The novel composition is characterized as a polymer containing polyol wherein the polymeric moiety is chemically attached or "infused" into the unsaturation sites of an oxyalkadienyl moiety which is covalently bonded to an acyclic polyhydric compound.
Abstract:
A process for recovering particulate carbon from the effluent gas stream from a partial oxidation synthesis gas generator by scrubbing the effluent gas with water in a scrubbing zone to form a carbon-water dispersion, by mixing said dispersion in a mixing zone with liquid organic extractant comprising a mixture of the liquid organic by-products from the oxo or oxyl process, optionally in admixture with a light liquid-hydrocarbon fuel fraction, to produce a clarified water layer and a carbon-extractant dispersion, by separating and recycling said clarified water to said scrubbing zone, by separating said carbon-extractant dispersion and introducing same into a fractional-distillation zone in admixture with fresh liquid-hydrocarbon fuel feedstock, by recycling a light fraction from said distillation zone to said mixing zone as said liquid organic extractant, and by introducing a pumpable bottoms carbon slurry from said distillation zone into said synthesis-gas generator as at least a portion of the fuel.
Abstract:
Novel compounds, N-acetyl-polychlorobenzamides, are prepared by treating corresponding polychlorobenzonitrile compounds with acetic acid in a closed reactor at an elevated temperature above the boiling point of the acetic acid. These new compounds have been found to be useful biological chemicals, particularly in controlling undesirable vegetation, and also useful as chemical intermediates.
Abstract:
A competent permeable communication zone connecting injection and production wells completed in a tar sand which communication zone will be rigid and will not tend to slump or heal may be developed by injecting a fluid in the injection well under such pressure so as to fracture the tar sand formation between the injection well and the production well and circulating a fluid between the injection and production wells which is at a temperature sufficiently low to freeze the water in tar sands. The fluid may contain propping agents to hold the fracture surfaces apart. This procedure will rigidify the hydrocarbon portion of the tar sand formation in the vicinity of the fracture zone as well as freeze the water in the tar sand formation. Once the fracture is established a solvent for the hydrocarbon in the tar sands may be circulated preferably at a temperature below the freezing point of the water in the tar sands to extract the bitumen therefrom.
Abstract:
A novel method for preparing pentachloronitrobenzene directly from the corresponding pentachlorobenzonitrile compound is disclosed. Pentachlorobenzonitrile is heated in the presence of an excess of sulfuric acid and a nitrating agent, e.g., nitric acid at elevated temperatures of from about 100.degree.C to about 160.degree.C for a time sufficient to convert the pentachlorobenzonitrile to a pentachloronitrobenzene.In one embodiment the pentachlorobenzonitrile compound is first heated in the presence of an excess of concentrated sulfuric acid at temperatures in excess of 180.degree.C to activate the pentachlorobenzonitrile and the activated material is then heated at lower temperatures of about 100.degree. to 120.degree.C in the presence of a nitrating agent to convert the activated pentachlorobenzonitrile to the corresponding pentachloronitrobenzene.
Abstract:
A process for recovering particulate carbon from the effluent gas stream from a partial oxidation synthesis-gas generator by scrubbing the effluent gas with water in a scrubbing zone to form a carbon-water dispersion, by mixing said dispersion with a liquid organic extractant comprising a mixture of the liquid organic by-products from the oxo or oxyl process so as to produce a clarified water layer and a carbon-extractant dispersion, by separating and recycling said clarified water to said scrubbing zone, and by introducing part or all of said carbon-extractant dispersion to said gas generator as at least a portion of the generator feedstock.
Abstract:
Polyphenyls including biphenyl and terphenyl, are prepared by hydroalkylation of a charge benzene, dehydrogenation of hydroalkylate, and separation of desired product polyphenyls.
Abstract:
Hydrocarbon-soluble molybdenum catalysts are prepared by reacting an ammonia-containing molybdate with a hydroxy compound, for example, an organic primary or secondary alcohol, a glycol or a phenol. The hydrocarbon-soluble molybdenum solutions are useful as homogeneous oxidation catalysts, particularly for the oxidation of olefins to olefin oxides. Olefin oxides are useful in the manufacture of non-toxic antifreeze, urethane-grade polyols and many other applications. The catalysts of the invention may also be used as metal-plating solutions, lubricant additives, pigments, ammoxidation catalysts, printing inks, or solution components for organic laser devices. They may also be used as catalysts or co-catalysts for various polymerization processes, such as homopolymerization of isocyanates, isocyanate-polyol reactions, or olefin oxide polymerization reactions.
Abstract:
A partial oxidation burner and process for the manufacture of synthesis gas, reducing gas and other gas mixtures substantially comprising H.sub.2 and CO. A hydrocarbon, oxygen-rich gas and, optionally, H.sub.2 O or some other temperature moderator are introduced into the reaction zone of a synthesis gas generator in which, by partial oxidation at an autogenous temperature in the range of about 1700.degree. to 3500.degree.F. and a pressure in the range of about 1 to 250 atmospheres, said synthesis, fuel, or reducing gas is produced. For example, a hydrocarbon is introduced into the reaction zone by way of the inner assembly of a novel multitube burner, and a mixture of oxygen-rich gas and steam is passed through a coaxial conduit disposed about the outside of said inner assembly. Said inner assembly comprises a central conduit of circular cross-section, having a plurality of parallel open-ended tubes extending downstream from the exit end of said central conduit and in communication therewith. The tubes terminate in a surrounding nozzle, which is the exit end of the coaxial outer conduit.