The Dow Chemical Company

Dow Global Technolgoies LLC

The Cynara Co.

George J Quarderer, Jr

Norman G Moll

Ritchie A Wessling

Stephen E Bales

Henry N Beck

Thomas O Jeanes

Thomas Caldwell Young

David J Moll

Kent B McReynolds

Danil Tirtowidjojo

David L Trent

Alan F Burmester

Charles Z Hotz

Bethanne L Smith

Ronald M Lacher

James E Clark

Eugene R Moore

Chieh-Chun Chau

Yoshihiko Teramoto

Gene A Cochran

Timothy L Faley

Myrna Serrano

Clark J Cummings

Masaru Nakagawa

Cheryl A Tirtowidjojo

Mark J Beitz

Patrick M O'Donnell

Fred C Stone

Curtis N Swisher

Erik J Stewart

Zenon Lysenko

Michael E Mills

Rex R Stevens

Craig B Murchison

Thomas D Gregory

Steven Rosenberg

Gary R Strickler

Douglas C Greminger

Ashish Sen

Dan Tirtowidjojo

Timothy J Rehg

Kim G Bargeron

David J Koranek

Ravi B Shanker

Joerg P Lindner

Anil J Mehta

Sanjeev Katti

Richard Stringfield

A process of preparing an olefin oxide, preferably propylene oxide, and an alcohol, such as &#x3b1;-ethylphenyl alcohol, the process involving contacting an olefin, such as propylene, and an organic hydroperoxide, such as ethylbenzene hydroperoxide, in the presence of an epoxidation catalyst, preferably, a homogeneous molybdenum catalyst, in a single reactor system or in a multi-reactor system containing a plurality of sequentially interconnected reactors. Each reactor in the single or multi-reactor system is preferably divided into a plurality of reaction zones designed to facilitate plug flow behavior. The olefin is fed to a first reaction zone in the single reactor system or to a first reactor in the multi-reactor system. The organic hydroperoxide feed is split into a plurality of split organic hydroperoxide feedstreams, and the split feedstreams are distributed throughout the reaction zones, or the reactors, or both.

Process of preparing an olefin oxide from olefin and organic hydroperoxide

A solid bed adsorptive process for separating a seed oil into two substantially pure triglyceride fractions. The process involves contacting a seed oil, such as castor oil, preferably as a concentrate, with an adsorbent in a bed, the adsorbent having a particle size greater than about 40 microns, and thereafter contacting the adsorbent with a desorbent material, preferably under minimal flow conditions, to obtain a raffinate output stream containing predominantly a second triglyceride and an extract output stream containing predominantly a first triglyceride. Purified fatty acid triglyceride esters obtainable from castor, vernonia, and lesquerella plant oils provide renewable, non-petroleum-based sources of chemical feedstocks.

Separation of plant oil triglyceride mixtures by solid bed adsorption

The present invention is directed to a process for producing a high molecular weight condensation polymer by removing unwanted by-product(s) from a polycondensation equilibrium reaction mixture using a centrifugal force device equipped with a vacuum.

Process for producing a high molecular weight condensation polymer

A method for devolatilization of a thermoplastic polymer containing at least one volatile component which includes the following three steps: heating the thermoplastic polymer so that the thermoplastic polymer is a heated liquid or molten thermoplastic polymer, flowing the heated liquid thermoplastic polymer through a packed bed liquid-gas contactor by centrifugal force, and flowing a stripping gas through the packed bed countercurrent to the flow of the heated liquid thermoplastic polymer so that the volatile component volatilizes into the stripping gas from the heated liquid thermoplastic polymer by gas-liquid contacting in the packed bed; and an apparatus therefor.

Centrifugal method and apparatus for devolatilizing polymers

This invention is a method for forming hypohalous acid in a mass transfer device. The method comprises: (1) feeding into the device a stream of caustic solution comprising at least one alkali or alkaline earth metal of a hydroxide, oxide, hypohalite, bicarbonate, or carbonate; (2) feeding a stream comprising halogen gas into the device; (3) reacting at least some of the halogen gas with the caustic solution to form a solution containing hypohalous acid; (4) desorbing the hypohalous acid from the solution and into the stream of halogen gas; and (5) removing the stream of halogen gas from the device. In this method, the mass transfer device comprises a porous rotor which is permeable to the streams, and is rotated about an axis such that the streams flow through the rotor and the stream of caustic solution flows radially outward from the axis.

Method for synthesis of hypohalous acid

Gas separations utilizing glassy polymer membranes at sub-ambient

This invention relates to a method of and apparatus for separating component gases in a gas mixture employing a glassy polymer membrane at temperatures of 5.degree. C. or less so as to achieve superior separation of gas components.

A process of preparing alkylene oxides comprises steps of: (1) optionally forming a hypochlorite solution; (2) contacting chlorine with a solution of a hypochlorite below about 60.degree. C., and a pH of less than about 5.5, with sufficient micromixing to achieve a product hypochlorous acid in a yield of at least about 80 percent; (3) separating at least a portion the hypochlorous acid from an aqueous metal chloride solution wherein the solution is sprayed as droplets; (4) distilling the remaining liquid phase; (5) absorbing the hypochlorous acid and dichlorine monoxide in low-chlorides water to produce a low-chlorides aqueous hypochlorous acid solution; (6) contacting the low-chlorides aqueous hypochlorous acid solution with an olefin in a continuous process to form a olefin chlorohydrin; (7) optionally contacting the olefin chlorohydrin with a base to form a alkylene oxide and a salt solution; and (8) optionally separating the alkylene oxide from the salt solution. (9) optionally removing chlorates from the chloride brine by contacting the chlorates with acid to convert the chlorates to chlorine; and (10) optionally recycling the chlorine. The process yields particularly high yields of the alkylene oxide without substantial production of by-products.

Process for preparing alkylene oxides

Described herein is a method for producing epoxides which is continuous, inhibits formation of chlorinated byproducts, and eliminates or substantially reduces waste water discharge. The method includes:

Method for producing epoxides

Polybenzazole polymer dopes are spun into fibers at high speed by passing through a spinneret with proper selection of hole geometry, followed by spin-drawing to a spin-draw ratio of at least 20, washing, taking up and drying. The take up speed is at least about 150 meters per minute, and the fibers are spun in at least 10 km lengths without a break.

Method for spinning a polybenzazole fiber

Polybenzazole polymer dopes are spun through a spinneret having more than 2 per cm.sup.2, of orifices in relatively close proximity. The dope filaments formed, then pass through an air gap which has a temperature of 50.degree. to 100.degree. C. and a gas flow sufficient to uniformly reduce the temperature of the dope filaments. The filaments cool in the air gap and are then coagulated.

Method for rapid spinning of a polybenzazole fiber

Cyclobutarenes are prepared by pyrolyzing a suitable benzene, naphthalene, or pyridine derivative in the presence of an amount of steam effective to substantially reduce the partial pressure of the pyrolyzing compound.

Preparation of cyclobutarenes via the steam pyrolysis of aromatic

Cyclobutarenes are prepared by pyrolyzing a suitable benzene, naphthalene, or pyridine derivative in the presence of an amount steam effective to substantially reduce the partial pressure of the pyrolyzing compound.

A process for forming an alcohol fraction boiling in the range of motor gasoline that is enriched in higher alcohols, comprises contacting a mixture of hydrogen, carbon monoxide and a lower alkanol with a catalyst comprising:

Preparation of ethanol and higher alcohols from lower carbon number

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George J Quarderer, Jr