Abstract:
The present invention relates to an improved catalyst delivery method for introducing a supported bulky ligand metallocene-type catalyst system to a reactor for polymerizing one or more olefin(s). In particular, the invention provides for a method of introducing a supported metallocene-type catalyst system into a polymerization reactor by and in the presence of a carrier solution of an antistatic agent and a liquid diluent. Also, the invention is directed toward a catalyst feeder for use in a polymerization process.
Abstract:
Apparatus and method for separation, recovery, and recycling municipal solid waste and the like by introducing solid waste materials into a pressure vessel having a rotatable section. The vessel is disposed for subjecting the waste material to heat and pressure while simultaneously applying an extruding action to the solid waste material. The extruding action is achieved by a rotatable extruder mechanism carried in the pressure vessel and rotated in response to the rotating section thereof. The rotation forces the processed solid waste material through a pair of constricted areas before the waste material is expelled from the pressure vessel by rotation of the extruder mechanism.
Abstract:
Apparatus and method for separation, recovery, and recycling municipal solid waste and the like by introducing solid waste materials into a rotatable pressure vessel, rotating, pressurizing, and heating the pressure vessel and thus the waste material while simultaneously applying an extruding action to the solid waste material. The extruding action is achieved by a rotatable extruder mechanism carried in the pressure vessel which forces the processed solid waste material through a constricted area adjacent the exit of the pressure vessel.
Abstract:
A monolithic catalyst bed for use in a catalytic gas generator includes catalytically-active metal screens having central openings and being composed of fine particles of catalyst supported by wires arranged in grid-like fashion. The bed also includes an injector tube having an end portion disposed through the central openings of the metal screens for mounting the metal screens in closely spaced side-by-side, stack-like relation extending outwardly from and radially about the tube end portion. The injector tube end portion is closed at its outer end and defines a passage for receiving an axial inflow of liquid propellant. The bed also includes an injector body supporting the injector tube and disposed at one end of the stack of metal screens, and a base plate mounted about the injector tube end portion adjacent to the closed outer end thereof and disposed at an opposite end of the stack of metal screens so as to define an annular space therebetween and about the injector tube end portion. The stack of metal screens are confined in the space between the injector body and base plate. The injector tube end portion has openings defined therethrough adjacent the metal screens for routing outflow of liquid from the tube passage through the openings and radially outwardly between the metal screens where the liquid propellant is catalytically decomposed into a gas which exits from about the periphery of the stack of metal screens.
Abstract:
The speed of chemical reaction between liquid and solid particle reactants is materially increased by a process wherein the reactants are charged to a rotating chamber provided with perforated sidewalls, the size of the perforations being less than the size of the particles. The particles are propelled against the walls of the chamber under the action of a centrifugal force created by the rotation of the chamber and are caused to form a continuous layer of particles on the walls of the chamber. The liquid reactant under the action of the same centrifugal force is caused to be propelled into contact with the particle layer and move radially therethrough to react chemically with the particles. The reaction products are then discharged from the chamber through the perforations in the sidewalls. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, spent iron electrolyte solutions withdrawn from iron plating baths are regenerated by centrifugally contacting the electrolyte with a bed of iron particles centrifugally fixed on the perforated sidewalls of a rotating reaction chamber.