Abstract:
A PROCESS IS PROVIDED FOR THE HYDROGENATION OF AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS HAVING A NAPHTHALENE NUCLEUS, USING METALLIC SODIUM AND A LOWER ALIPHATIC ALCOHOL AS THE SOURCE OF HYDROGEN, EMPLOYING SODIUM WITH AN AVERAGE PARTICLE SIZE WITHIN THE RANGE FROM ABOUT 0.5 TO ABOUT 50 MICRONS, DISPERSED IN AN INERT DILUENT. A PROCESS IS ALSO PROVIDED FOR THE PREPARATION OF ALFIN POLYMERS BY POLYMERIZATION OF AN UNSATURATED ORGANIC COMPOUND IN THE PRESENCE OF AN ALFIN CATALYST, EMPLOYING AS THE MOLECULAR WEIGHT MODIFIER THE CRUDE DIHYDRONAPHTHALENE DISSOLVED IN AN INERT DILUENT THAT IS OBTAINED IN THIS BY HYDROGENATION.
Abstract:
Apparatus for preparing dispersions of finely divided alkali metal substantially uniform in alkali metal concentration and having a narrow particle size below a predetermined median, said apparatus comprising a mixing tank divided by a vertically disposed baffle into a mixing zone and a substantially smaller quiescent, settling zone. Molten sodium feed and a dispersing aid mixture is agitated within said mixing zone in an inert gas blanket and alkali metal particles gravitate through the settling zone to the bottom of the mixing tank at which point the mixture containing said particles is drawn off in a continuous operation and passed to an homogenizer providing a high shear dispersion zone wherein the metallic particles are reduced in size and the mixture is returned to the mixing tank. Through repeated recirculation, such metallic particles as become reduced in size to the predetermined median size desired rise to the top of the quiescent, settling zone at which point the desired uniform dispersion containing only fine metallic particles within a closely controlled range is withdrawn.
Abstract:
A PROCESS IS PROVIDED FOR THE HYDROGENATION OF AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS HAVING A NAPHTHALENE NUCLEUS, USING METALLIC SODIUM AND A LOWER ALIPHATIC ALCOHOL AS THE SOURCE OF HYDROGEN, EMPLOYING SODIUM WITH AN AVERAGE PARTICLE SIZE WITHIN THE RANGE FROM ABOUT 0.5 TO ABOUT 50 MICRONS, DISPERSED IN AN INERT DILUENT. A PROCESS IS ALSO PROVIDED FOR THE PREPARATION OF ALFIN POLYMERS BY POLYMERIZATION OF AN UNSATURATED ORGANIC COMPOUND IN THE PRESENCE OF AN ALFIN CATALYST, EMPOLYING AS THE MOLECULAR WEIGHT MODIFIER THE CRUDE DIHYDRONAPHTHALENE DISSOLVED IN AN INERT DILUENT THAT IS OBTAINED IN THIS BY HYDROGENATION.
Abstract:
IN THE POLYMERIZATION OF BUTADIENE TO BUTADIENE HOMOPOLYMER A HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT GEL-LIKE POLYBUTADIENE IS PRODUCED WHICH FOULS THE EQUIPMENT. THE INSTANT INVENTION PROVIDES A PROCESS FOR REDUCING IF NOT SUBSTANTIALLY ELIMINATING THE BULID-UP OF THE GEL-LIKE MATERIAL ON THE EQUIPMENT BY INCORPORATING IN THE POLYMERIZATION REACTION MIXTURE FROM ABUT 1 TO ABOUT 5% BY WEIGHT ISPORENE OR STYRENE. THIS IMPROVED PROCESS IS ESPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO THE POLYMERIZATION OF BUTADIENE WITH ALFIN CATALYSTS.
Abstract:
A PROCESS FOR PREPARING CONTINUOUSLY A DISPERSION IN AN INERT ORGANIC DILUENT OF A FINELY-DIVIDED ALKALI METAL, SUCH AS SODIUM, SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORM IN PARTICLE SIZE AND ALKALI METAL CONCENTRATION IS PROVIDED WHEREIN A MOLTEN ALKALI METAL IS DISPERSED IN AN INERT ORGANIC DILUENT WITH A DISPERSING AID WHICH IS SOLUBLE IN THE INERT DILUENT, AND IF NECESSARY, A STABILIZING AGENT, BY SUBJECTING THE MOLTEN ALKALI METAL TO HIGH SHEAR FORCES, AND FORMING ALKALI METAL PARTICLES LESS THAN AND GREATER THAN A PREDETERMINED MEDIAN. THE COARSE PARTICLES OF MOLTEN ALKALI METAL AT OR ABOVE THE MEDIAN SIZE ARE ALLOWED TO SETTLE OUT, AND THE SUPERNATANT FINE PARTICLES OF MOLTEN ALKALI METAL AT OR BELOW THE MEDIAN SIZE ARE DRAWN OFF. THE COARSE PARTICLES ARE CONTINUOUSLY RETURNED TO THE ZONE OF HIGH SHEAR TO FURTHER REDUCE THEIR SIZE, AND ALKALI METAL IS CONTINUOUSLY ADDED TO THE ZONE, WHILE THE DISPERSION OF FINE PARTICLES OF ALKALI METAL HAVING A SIZE AT OR BELOW THE MEDIAN, AND SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORM IN ALKALI METAL CONCENTRATION IS CONTINUOUSLY WITHDRAWN.