Abstract:
A process for the preparation of a carbon-substituted piperidine by the hydrogenation of a N-substituted gamma -cyanoketoimine in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst, is disclosed. A primary amine having the same substituent as the nitrogen atom of the starting gamma -cyanoketoimine is receovered in high yield from the reaction mixture. The carbon substituted piperidines thus produced are useful as starting materials for the production of herbicides or pharmaceuticals.
Abstract:
For controlling the amplitude of pulsations of liquid in a column partly filled with the liquid and having a pulsing chamber which communicates with a gas cushion alternately compressed and expanded at a constant amplitude and frequency comprising: increasing and decreasing the amount of gas in the gas cushion. In the installation according to the invention the space behind the piston in the cylinder is connected with a buffer space, the volume of which is at least as large as that of the gas cushion, while the spaces in front of and behind the piston in the cylinder are connected by means providing a restricted communication.
Abstract:
A process is described for enhancing the corrosion resistance of austenitic stainless steels which are exposed to solutions containing ammonium carbamate. The process involves exposing the surfaces of such stainless steel equipment, which are exposed to ammonium carbamate solutions during, e.g., the commercial manufacture of urea and melamine, to the corrosive effects of such solutions for a period of time to induce significant corrosion of such surfaces, followed by contacting said surfaces at a temperature of at least about 100* C for a period of time with an oxidizing agent.
Abstract:
Process and apparatus for the preparation of a plastics fiber fleece, wherein filaments are moved towards a conveying plane and, prior to their lying down on the conveying plane, are zigzagged by means of air flows slanting upwards which are effected by simultaneously injecting air on one side of a free space and suctioning off air on the opposite side of the space whereby the air flows hit the filaments in the free space.
Abstract:
A thermogravimetric balance comprising a vertically disposed load carrying arm connected at each end through tension wires to first and second horizontally disposed balance arms connected at their mid-points to tension strips or wires. The other ends of the balance arms are linked through tension wires to a connecting element so that the balance arms, load carrying arm and connecting element comprise a vertically disposed parallelogram. Rotation of said first balance arm out of its equilibrium position will actuate a control circuit which will effect the application of a restoring movement to the balance arm, the amount of current required to restore the balance arm being used as a measure of the weight value. Dimensional variations due to temperature changes in the load carrying arm are compensated for by effecting compensating movement in the parallelogram structure.
Abstract:
1 PROCESS IS DISCLOSED FOR THE CONVERSION OF AN ACETALDIMINE AND ACRYLONITRILE IN A MOLAR RATIO OF AT LEAST 0.8 TO 1, RESPECTIVELY, AND AT A TEMPERATURE OF 70*C. TO 130*C. TO THE CORRESPONDING Y-CYANOBUTYRALDIMINE, THE UNCONVERTED REACTANTS BEING RECOVERED FROM THE REACTION MIXTURE AND RE-CYCLED. THE RESULTING Y-CYANOBUTYRALDIMINE PRODUCT CAN THEN BE HYDROLIZED TO THE CORRESPONDING Y-CYANOBUTYRALDEHYDE.
Abstract:
A process for the preparation of amorphous copolymers of ethylene, one or more other Alpha -alkenes, and optionally one or more compounds containing more than one C=C bond, using a catalyst comprising an aluminum dihalide, a vanadium compound and an organo metal compound, the catalyst being dispersed in a liquid dispersing agent.
Abstract:
A CYCLIC PROCESS IN WHICH AN AQUEOUS ACID REACTION MIXTURE IS KEPT IN CIRCULATION BETWEEN A ZONE FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF HYDROXYLAMINE AND A ZONE FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF OXIME. NITRIC ACID IS CONTINUOUSLY ADDED TO THE CIRCULATING LIQUID, THE NITRATE IONS BEING CATALYTICALLY REDUCED WITH H2 TO FORM NH2OH AND SOME NH3 AS BY-PRODUCT. THE NH2OH IS CONSUMED IN OXIME SYNTHESIS ZONE AND THE NH3 BY-PRODCUT IS CONTINUOUSLY REMOVED BY CONTACTING THE CIRCULATING LIQUID WITH A MIXTURE CONTAINING NO AND NO2 UNDER SUCH CONDITIONS THAT N2 AND H2O RESULT.
Abstract:
A process and apparatus for the recovery of ammonia and carbon dioxide from urea synthesis tail gas is disclosed, wherein the tail gas is intensively contacted with an aqueous media in at least one absorption zone, as is known to the art, and thereafter the gas mixture leaving such absorption zone is immediately mixed with a gas which is inert to the constituents of the tail gas. The apparatus involves a gas bubble washer and an intensive gasliquid contactor, with means for supplying inert gas overlying such contactor. By the use of the present invention the possibility of forming an explosive mixture of the gases leaving the absorption zone is eliminated, or at least minimized.
Abstract:
A process for preparing optically active methionine, methionine nitrile, and methionine amide is disclosed. A mixture of L- and D-methionine nitrile is at least partially converted to a salt of optically active Alpha -phenoxypropionic acid, and the resulting salt is subjected to optical separation by crystallization. The resultant optically active methionine nitrile may be converted into methionine or methionine amide. Optically active methionine or methionine amide is useful as a food and feed supplement.