Abstract:
A lotion composition containing a microcrystalline wax, a fibrous structure containing such lotion composition and a method for making such fibrous structure and/or lotion composition are provided.
Abstract:
In solvent deoiling of slack waxes utilizing conventional multi-stage, scraped chillers, solvent is injected into conduits transporting slack wax slurry from one scraped chiller to the next through high velocity jet nozzles.
Abstract:
The deoiling of slack wax or similar wax composition is accomplished while the wax is confined in cells provided by a series of plates which are spaced apart by only 1/16 to 1/2 inch and which are vertically or otherwise disposed for drainage along the surfaces thereof from an upper margin to a lower margin. The plates are traversed by a multiplicity of conduits for a temperature-controlling fluid such as water. During the treatment the lower melting point constituents of the confined wax composition become progressively melted responsive to gradual increments of temperature increase and drain transversely along the plates through a distance which is from about 4 to 24 inches and preferably is of the order of 6 to 12 inches so as to become separated from the residual end product wax. The deoiling thus accomplished is much more effective and more rapid as compared with sweating procedures. It compares favorably in these respects to deoiling by solvent extraction. The installation cost of this process is a fraction of the cost of conventional solvent deoiling.
Abstract:
IN THE FIRST STAGE OF A CONTINUOUS PROCESS OILY SLUDGES ARE MIXED WITH LIGHT HYDROCARBONS DIFFERING SUBSTANTIALLY IN SPECIFIC GRAVITY THEREFROM TO SEPARATE THE SLUDGES INTO AN OIL-HYDROCARBON PHASE A WATER-WAXY SOLIDS PHASE. THE OIL-HYDROCARBON PHASE IS HEATED TO A TEMPERATURE ABOVE THE CRITICAL TEMPERATURE OF THE LIGHY HYDROCARBONS TO REMOVE THE LIGHT HYDROCARBONS WHICH ARE THEN RECYCLED FOR FURTHER USE. THE WATER-WAXY SOLIDS PHASE IS TREATED TO OBTAIN WATER REDUCED CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND WHICH CAN BE DISCHARGED IN RECEIVING BODIES OF WATER WITHOUT POLLUTING THE SAME. THE WAXY SOLIDS-WATER SLURRY WHICH REMAINS IS, IN THE SECOND STAGE OF THE PROCESS OF THIS INVENTION, DIRED AD THE RESULTING DRY WAXY SOLIDS ARE TREATED WITH A LIGHT ORAMITIC SOLVENT SUCH AS BENZENE, TO YIELD A SOLUTION OF WAX AND THE AROMATIC SOLVENT AND WAX-FREE SOLIDS. AFTER THE AROMATIC SOLVENT WAX SOULTION IS STRIPPED TO REMOVE THE AROMATIC SOLVENT, A VALUABLE WAX PRODUCT REMAINS. IN A FINAL STEP, THE WAX-FREE SOLIDS ARE HAETED TO REMOVE THE LAST TRACES OF THE AROMATIC SOLVENT THEREFROM YIELDING DRY, HYDROCARBON-FREE, SOLIDS WHICH ARE SUITABLE FOR A WIDE VARIETY OF USES, SUCH AS, FOR EXAMPLE, FOR LAND FILL.