Battelle Memorial Institute

Petroliam Nasional Berhad

The Vinoxen Company

Cardinal Health 414, LLC

Biopak Technology, Ltd.

Idemitsu Petrochemical Co., Ltd.

Owens Corning Fiberglas Technology, Inc.

Chronopol, Inc.

Herman P Benecke

Daniel B Garbark

Bhima Rao Vijayendran

Jeffrey T Cafmeyer

Alex Walter Kawczak

Richard A Markle

Richard G Sinclair

Michael Clingerman

Bob E Sherwood

Chad Edward Bouton

James A Prescott

Joel D Elhard

Thomas Alan Klausing

Scott Nicholas Danhof

Mark J Perry

David Arthur Holley

Eric Hassenpflug

Brian Charles Kelley

Megan Moore

Joseph Edward Zambanini

Mehmet Husnu

James B Gleeson

Jerry L King, Ii

Jeffrey Taylor Stroup

Dennis Eshima

Derrick Alcaide

Donald W Zehnder, Ii

James Stone

Erica E Hirschl

Henry Padgett

Satya P Chauhan

David Charles Trumbore

Emanuel Revici

Edward S Lipinsky

Jorge A Marzari

Timothy J Eggeman

Michael R Franzen

Kevin B Spahr

George E Cremeans

Alex Cheung

H Nicholas Conkle

J David Robbins

Sylvester Sowell

Timothy Thomas Picman

Katherine Elizabeth Poterek

Melville E Hillman

John M Rice

Elizabeth Drotleff

Joan T Muellerleile

Richard W Geisler

Joan Muellerleile

Systems, methods, and devices for generating radionuclides for use in production of radiopharmaceuticals; synthesizing the radionuclides generated and removing any unwanted products; measuring the quantity and activity level of the synthesized radionuclides; distributively delivering the radionuclides in appropriate quantities to modular cassette synthesis units in a modular cassette subsystem for contemporaneous/parallel production of radiopharmaceutical output and that allow reuse and/or quick, safe, and disposable replacement of portions of the subsystem; delivering non-radionuclide components to the modular cassette synthesis units as part of production of radiopharmaceutical output; measuring the quantity and activity level of each stream of radiopharmaceutical output; purifying the radiopharmaceutical output; dispensing individual doses in sterile vial(s); automatically producing labeling and dose related information; performing automated quality control on extracted samples of produced radiopharmaceutical output; and providing software and hardware controls for overall and sub-portion operation for optional remote data collection, communication, and/or control.

Systems, methods and devices for producing, manufacturing and control of radiopharmaceuticals

A process of producing a distillate fuel from coal includes: preparing a biomass-derived coal solvent; dissolving the coal in the biomass-derived solvent; and separating undissolved coal and mineral matter to produce a syncrude. In certain embodiments, the process further includes subjecting the syncrude to a hydrotreatment/hydrogenation process to produce a distillate fuel. In certain embodiments, the biomass-derived solvent is a hydrogen-donor solvent. A method to improve direct coal liquefaction includes: using a non-hydrogenated lipid in a direct coal liquefaction process to facilitate coal depolymerization. In certain embodiments, the lipid is a polyunsaturated biobased oil. A method for using a biomass-derived feedstock as a hydrogen donor includes: providing a biomass-derived feedstock; modifying the feedstock to improve its usefulness as a hydrogen donor; and conducting a transfer hydrogenation process using the modified feedstock as a hydrogen donor. In certain embodiments, the transfer hydrogenation process is a direct coal liquefaction process.

Process of producing liquid fuels from coal using biomass-derived solvents

Methods are provided for producing bio-oil polyols, alkoxylating bio-oil polyols to provide polyols, and for employing the alkoxylated bio-oil polyols for making polymers or copolymers of polyesters or polyurethanes.

Alkoxylated bio-oil polyol compositions

A method for producing a triglyceride including fatty acids with vicinal diesters: (a) providing a triglyceride including fatty acids with epoxide groups; (b) reacting the epoxide groups with carboxylic acid salts under basic conditions to produce a triglyceride including fatty acids with vicinal ester/alkoxides; (c) protonating the vicinal ester/alkoxides to produce a triglyceride including fatty acids with vicinal ester/alcohols; and (d) reacting the vicinal ester/alcohols with carboxylic acids under acidic conditions to produce a triglyceride including fatty acids with vicinal diesters.

Methods and compositions for preparing triglycerides containing fatty acid vicinal diester functionality

There are provided ester polyols prepared from the esterification of ozone acids and branched primary polyols. There are also provided ester polyol esters prepared from an ester polyol of the invention and further esterifying the ester polyol with at least one carboxylic acid to produce at least one ester polyol ester. There are also provided rigid or flexible foams prepared using the ester polyols and/or ester polyol esters of the invention. There is also provided a coating prepared from the ester polyols and/or ester polyols esters of the invention.

Composition of matter polyols for polyurethane applications

Ester polyol esters are a unique class of lubricants that have adjustable molecular weights, viscosities, and pour points based on the character of their reaction materials and relative ratios. There is provided a method for preparing at least one ester polyol ester, the method comprising esterifying an ester polyol reaction mixture to produce ester polyol, the reaction mixture comprising an ozone acid mixture and at least one primary polyol, wherein the ozone acid mixture comprises at least one dicarboxylic acid and at least one monocarboxylic acid; and capping the ester polyol with at least one capping carboxylic acid to produce ester polyol ester.

Lubricant composition of matter and methods of preparation

Unique methods have been developed to convert polysaccharides into value-added products, such as levulinic acid and alkyl levulinates. The polysaccharides are heated in the presence of water, an alcohol, and an acid to cleave the polysaccharide, and the resulting monosacchrides or monosaccharide acetals or both are contacted with an acid in the presence of an alcohol at a higher temperature. Useful acids include Br&#xf8;nsted acid catalysts and Lewis acid catalysts including mineral acids, metal halides, immobilized heterogeneous catalysts functionalized with a Br&#xf8;nsted acid group or a Lewis acid group, or combinations thereof.

Methods of making levulinic acid and alkyl levulinates from saccharides

Alkyl esters (butyl, hexyl, or other) of full composition palm fatty acids, palm fatty acid distillates (PFAD), and palm kernel fatty acid distillates (PKFAD) can be used to generate polyurethane and lubricant products. The alkyl esters of the present invention can be produced via ozonolysis. The improved method for producing alkyl esters includes reacting at least one substance having at least one carbon-to-carbon double bond with ozone in the presence of least one monoalcohol that azeotropes with water. In particular, the method may comprise reacting with at least one first mole of ozone and at least one second mole of ozone, and further comprises refluxing before addition of the second mole of ozone.

Method for the production of esters and uses thereof

Lubricants based on renewable feedstocks and methods of making them. 

Modified vegetable oil lubricants

A method for producing an ester polyol, comprising transesterifying a first ester polyol with a primary polyol to produce a second ester polyol, wherein the second ester polyol has a higher hydroxyl value than the first ester polyol.

Bio-polyols for bio-lubricant and bio-polymer and methods for the preparation thereof

The invention provides for new flame retardant non-furan dicarboxylic acid (FDCA) based polyols; oligomers and polymers made from these new polyols with flame retardation properties; and methods of using them as a part or all of the flame retardation composition/material, such as foams and binders.

Biobased polyols for potential use as flame retardants in polyurethane and polyester applications

The present invention provides a pretreatment method to reduce saturated fatty acids of fatty acids used as feedstock when preparing ester polyols. The range of feedstock includes non-fractionated to fully fractionated feedstock. Performing some fractionation by distillation of the fatty acids derived from feedstock eliminates the need to fractionate the various ozone esters from each other before esterification. Further, the approach of the present invention is more economical and efficient than the conventional method of fractionation by crystallization.

Method for the production of polyols and uses thereof

Disclosed are compositions and methods for the production of mono-esters and di-esters from the reaction of HMF and a reactant selected from a diacid or a diacid derivative; typical reactants are PAN, phthaloyl dichloride, dimethyl phthalate, maleic acid, and maleic anhydride or mono-esters that can be prepared from HMF and MAN.

Esters of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural and methods for their preparation

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Upper Arlington, OH, United States of America

Herman P Benecke