Abstract:
A process for producing nano sized boehmite aluminas which are stable at alkaline pH values wherein an aqueous medium of a peptized boehmite alumina is treated with a water dispersible polycarboxylic acid polymer and optionally with an organic water dispersible base having a molecular weight ranging from 500 to 3000 and having no more than three basic groupings to produce a treated boehmite alumina which forms a stable sol at a pH of greater than 6, the treated boehmite alumina having a dispersed particle size of less than 500 nm in the sol.
Abstract:
A composition comprising an aqueous dispersion containing from 25 to 40% by wt. of a solid particulate boehmite alumina which has a surface area of from 100 to 160 m 2 /g and a crystallite size (120 plane) of from 140 to 350 Angstroms, the dispersion having a pH in the range of 3-5.
Abstract:
A process for preparing an alkoxylation catalyst wherein a catalyst precursor which is formed from an alkoxylated alcohol and an alkaline earth metal compound to form a dispersion of an alkaline earth metal species is reacted with propylene oxide to propoxylate at least a portion of the ethoxylated alcohol.
Abstract:
A process for producing nano sized boehmite aluminas which are stable at alkaline pH values wherein an aqueous medium of a peptized boehmite alumina is treated with a water dispersible polycarboxylic acid polymer and optionally with an organic water dispersible base having a molecular weight ranging from 500 to 3000 and having no more than three basic groupings to produce a treated boehmite alumina which forms a stable sol at a pH of greater than 6, the treated boehmite alumina having a dispersed particle size of less than 500 nm in the sol.
Abstract:
A process for producing esters wherein a carboxylic acid is reacted with an alcohol in the presence of a hydrolyzable catalyst in an aqueous medium under mixing to produce a reaction mixture comprising an organic phase containing ester and an aqueous phase.
Abstract:
A method of preparing a metal oxide which is dispersible in organic matrices such as apolar organic liquid wherein a product mixture is formed by adding sol of the metal oxide to an aqueous suspension of a sulfonic acid modifier, the modified metal oxide being recovered from the product mixture.
Abstract:
An extended anionic surfactant having the general formula: RO—(PO)n—YZ wherein R is a linear alkyl chain ranging from C6 to C36, a branched alkyl chain ranging from C6 to C36, or a mixture thereof; PO is a propyleneoxy group; Y is -SO 3 , -CH 2 CH 2 CH 2 -SO 3 , -CH2CH(CH 3 )-SO 3 , or -CH 2 COO; Z is a cation; and n is 1 to 50.
Abstract:
A process for preparing an alkoxylation catalyst wherein a catalyst precursor which is formed from an alkoxylated alcohol and an alkaline earth metal compound to form a dispersion of an alkaline earth metal species is reacted with at least one alkylene oxide to alkoxylate at least a portion of the alkoxylated alcohol and forms a block alkoxylated alcohol.
Abstract:
A composition comprising an aqueous dispersion containing from 25 to 40% by wt. of a solid particulate boehmite alumina which has a surface area of from 100 to 160 m 2 /g and a crystallite size (120 plane) of from 140 to 350 Angstroms, the dispersion having a pH in the range of 3-5.