Abstract:
A methanol/water scrubbing solution containing colloidal metal sulfides formed from metal carbonyls and resulting from the scrubbing of industrial gases, such as synthesis gas, is subjected to agglomeration of the metal sulfides before the scrubbing solution to be separated enters the separating column. The agglomeration is carried out in a precipitation vessel and the scrubbing liquid is diluted before it enters the precipitation vessel. The result is less than practically 0 encrustation of the trays or other parts of the cleaning plant for the scrubbing solution.
Abstract:
A colloidal suspension comprising metal chalcogenide nanoparticles and a volatile capping agent. The colloidal suspension is made by reacting a metal salt with a chalcogenide salt in an organic solvent to precipitate a metal chalcogenide, recovering the metal chalcogenide, and admixing the metal chalcogenide with a volatile capping agent. The colloidal suspension is spray deposited onto a substrate to produce a semiconductor precursor film which is substantially free of impurities.
Abstract:
A system and method for injecting a gaseous contaminant absorbent through at least one spray nozzle into a pipe transporting gas to a contacting vessel wherein the gas is contacted with a liquid absorbent to remove at least one gaseous contaminant from the gas is provided. The injection of the absorbent through the spray nozzles augments the efficiency of the contacting vessel by removal of a quantity of the gaseous contaminant from the gas prior to charging the gas to the contacting vessel. Water vapor is removed using a glycol absorbent and acidic gases are removed using an amine solution as an absorbent. A system and method for the removal of both water vapor and acidic gases is provided.
Abstract:
A process for removing SO.sub.2 from a gas mixture including SO.sub.3 and SO.sub.2 having a volume ratio of SO.sub.3 to SO.sub.2 greater than 1. The process includes intimately contacting the gas mixture in a contacting zone, removing a stream of purified gas containing less SO.sub.2 than the gas mixture from an upper portion of the contacting zone, and removing a stream of sulfuric acid from a lower portion of the contacting zone. Also provided are processes for manufacturing sulfuric acid utilizing the process for removing SO.sub.2 which allow increasing the production of concentrated sulfuric acid solutions by producing more sulfur trioxide without an increase of sulfur dioxide emissions.
Abstract:
The material of the present invention is a mixture of catalytically active material and carrier materials, which may be catalytically active themselves. Hence, the material of the present invention provides a catalyst particle that has catalytically active material throughout its bulk volume as well as on its surface. The presence of the catalytically active material throughout the bulk volume is achieved by chemical combination of catalytically active materials with carrier materials prior to or simultaneously with crystallite formation.
Abstract:
A method of treating a metal alkoxide solution to form metal oxide prepolymer molecules therein is characterized by irradiating the solution with light energy having a wavelength selected to break the metal-alkoxy group bond in said metal alkoxide, thereby to form the metal oxide prepolymer molecules in the solution. The prepolymer is converted into polymeric metal oxide gel. The stoichiometry of the oxide is high. A gel of carbon content below 4 atomic % can be achieved by the step of decarbonizing the gel, preferably using light to produce ozone.
Abstract:
A new ternary sulfide alloy exhibits a metal-semiconductor phase transition with hysteresis as a function of temperature. One embodiment of the bistable material includes barium, cobalt, nickel and sulfur in amounts in accordance with the formula Ba(Co.sub.1-x Ni.sub.x)S.sub.2-y, and x is between 0 and 1 and y varies from 0 to 2.
Abstract:
Binary rare earth/sulfur or transition metal/sulfur compounds, e.g., the higher sulfides or sesquisulfides of the rare earths, are prepared by confinedly reacting either a rare earth compound, e.g., an oxide, carbonate or hydroxide, or a transition metal oxide, with a carbon compound of sulfur in gaseous state, e.g., CS.sub.2, within a sealed enclosure.
Abstract:
Processes for the removal of sulfur dioxide from gas streams, e.g., stack gases, are disclosed wherein the absorption occurs in the presence of a diamine. The first amine group, i.e., stronger amine group, of the diamine is in salt form, having sulfite anions associated therewith, and absorbs by a sulfite/bisulfite absorption mechanism. The second amine groups absorbs sulfur dioxide in free base form. The sulfite salt on the first amine group is maintained by controlling the level of heat stable salts in the absorbent. Both the first and second amine groups can be conveniently regenerated together, e.g., by steam stripping.
Abstract:
This invention relates to the manufacture of Chevrel compounds by sintering a mixture of metal sulfides, metallic molybdenum and molybdenum sulfides under reduced pressure or in a stream of an inert gas containing a reductive gas, and by sintering a mixture of metal sulfides and molybdenum sulfides in a stream of an inert gas containing a reductive gas. This process does not meet any complicated procedure as in prior art and enables one to use a reaction container a desired number of times and to prepare Chevrel compounds inexpensively in large amounts.