Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for the recovery of a lower aliphatic acid, such as formic acid, from chemical pulp. A pulp which contains formic acid is first vacuum evaporated at 70-100 °C, and ultimately the vacuum-evaporated pulp is washed with hot water or stripped with steam at 100-140 °C.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process to a process for the recovery of lower aliphatic acids, such as formic acid, and sugars from the spent cooking liquor from a pulping process carried out with these same acids, lignin having been removed from the spent liquor. According to the invention, spent liquor is evaporated indirectly in a plurality of steps (1, 2, 3) by heating a preceding step (1, 2) with an acid-containing vapor (9, 13) obtained from the subsequent step (2, 3) and by diluting (4, 5) with the obtained condensate (11) the concentrated spent liquor (12) from the preceding step (2), water or a very dilute aqueous solution (14) being used in the last dilution step (3).
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for preparing oxamide by a reaction taking place in a methanol solution between dimethyl oxalate and ammonia. The formed oxamide is separated out from the solution by crystallization, and the formed methanol is recovered from the solution by evaporation. According to the invention the preparation is carried out as a continuous process in which a portion of the mother liquor from the oxamide crystallization step is directed to an evaporator for methanol separation and in which the evaporation residue is combined with the balance of the mother liquor, which is recycled to the reaction step as the solvent into which the dimethyl oxalate and gaseous ammonia are fed. It is possible to use in the process one or more cooled reaction vessels, connected in series, in which the temperature is preferably adjusted to the range 15-45 DEG C, and one or more mixing vessels subsequent in the series to the reaction vessels, the oxamide separating out from the solution by crystallization in these mixing vessels. The feeding in of the ammonia required in the reaction may be suitably divided among the various reaction vessels in order to even out the heat amounts released in the various vessels.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for preparing oxalic acid from dialkyl oxalate. The preparation is carried out by hydrolyzing a dialkyl oxalate in such a manner that there are formed alcohol, which is removed from the solution obtained as the result of hydrolysis, and oxalic acid, which is separated by crystallization from the obtained solution. The essential idea in the process according to the invention is that a dialkyl oxalate soluble in the mixture to be hydrolyzed is used in such a manner that as the result of the hydrolysis there is obtained a substantially homogenous aqueous solution, the alcohol released from the solution being removed by evaporation or distillation, whereafter the solution is transferred to a crystallizer. Most preferably, dimethyl oxalate is used in the invention, in which case methanol is obtained as a product in addition to oxalic acid. The preparation can be carried out as a continuous process in which the mother liquor left from the crystallization step is recycled into the hydrolysis step as the aqueous liquid phase.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for the preparation of melamine from urea by feeding molten urea and hot ammonia gas into a reactor having a pressure within the range 50-150 bar and a temperature within the range 360-430 DEG C, whereby a reaction product is obtained which contains a liquid melamine melt and a gas mixture. This gas mixture is separated from the liquid melamine melt, and the liquid melamine melt thus obtained is directed to a vaporizer and is vaporized therein, and the melamine-containing gas obtained from the vaporizer is cooled in a quencher, in which case the melamine crystallizes in a very pure state, the purity being typically at minimum 99.9 %.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a liquid preservative composition which is suited for the preservation of green forage or the like and which contains as its active ingredient benzoic acid or its derivative. Benzoic acid or its derivative specifically promotes useful microbial activity in green forage. In the present invention their action is enhanced by adding to the composition propionic acid, which dissolves them, or a mixture of the same, together with formic acid and/or acetic acid. These acids also as such promote the said useful microbial activity. Other constituents which improve solubility and conventional agents promoting lactic acid fermentation can also be added to the composition.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a support for a three-way catalyst and to a method of producing the support, the support containing cerium. In order to promote the catalytic performance of the cerium in the support, at least one of the following elements of the lanthanide group is added to the support: europium, terbium, ytterbium, samarium, or praseodymium.
Abstract:
Method and apparatus for improving the grinding result of a pressure chamber grinder. Finely divided material is fed into a pressurized equalizing tank (2) by a mechanical feeder device (1). The fed material is then transferred into a pre-grinder (3) where the material is fluidized by grinding-gas jets. The fluidized material-gas flow is divided by a bisecting device (6) into two component flows and accelerated through two accelerating nozzles (8) directed towards the centre point of the main grinding chamber (9). The invention is characterized in that the outlet end of main grinding-chamber (9), via an acceleration tube (10), is connected to a free-flow grinder (11) provided with tangentially directed grinding-gas nozzles (12) and wherefrom the ready-ground final product is being removed constantly through a centrally located exhaust pipe (13).
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for the preparation of a pure and solid, sulfate- and hydroxide-based ferric compound such as ferric hydroxysulfate or sodium jarosite, the process comprising the following procedures: a) a sulfate- and/or chloride-based ferric salt is prepared, b) an acidic aqueous solution is prepared which comprises either sulfate ions and ferric ions or sulfate, chloride and ferric ions, c) the acidic aqueous solution is maintained for 2-12 h at a temperature of 60-220 DEG C for the production of a solid, sulfate- and hydroxide-based ferric compound, such as ferric hydroxysulfate or sodium jarosite, by hydrolysis, and d) the pure and solid sulfate- and hydroxide-based ferric compound, such as ferric hydroxysulfate or sodium jarosite, is separated from the acidic aqueous solution. The processes for the preparation of ferric hydroxysulfate and sodium jarosite differ substantially only in that in the preparation of sodium jarosite an acid aqueous solution is prepared which, in addition to the either sulfate and ferric ions or sulfate, chloride and ferric ions, also contains a water-soluble sodium compound, in which case sodium jarosite is formed instead of ferric hydroxysulfate in the hydrolysis of point c) of the process.
Abstract:
A herbicide composition comprising one or more active ingredients, known per se, such as benzofuran, bipyridine, hydroxybenzonitrile, carbamoyl phenyl carbamate, pyridazine, quinoline, sulphonyl urea or triazine herbicide, and one or more activity-promoting agents for improving the efficacy of the active ingredient/ingredients. According to the invention, the herbicide comprises at least one activity-promoting agent which is tetraalkoxylated alkyl diamine with general formula (I) in which R1, R2, R3 and R are groups which, independent of each other, conform to formula (II), in which one of groups A and B is hydrogen and the other a lower alkyl group, and p+q = 5-150, and n = 1-6, whereby the molecular weight of the compound according to formula (I) is in the range of about 1 000-40 000.