Chevron Research Company

Chevron Research

James L Platt

John R Ellis

William L Schinski

An apparatus and method for reducing the water content of honey is disclosed. The apparatus includes a housing for the honey, a rotatable high surface area body upon which the honey forms a thin film and means for supplying a nonturbulent stream of ambient pressure 40.degree. C. to 75.degree. C. air to said housing so as to reduce the water content of the thin film of honey. The method involves rotating the rotatable body so as to form a thin film of honey and passing a nonturbulent stream of ambient pressure 40.degree. C. to 75.degree. C. air over said honey to reduce its water content.

Removing water from honey at ambient pressure

A method for reducing the water content of honey is disclosed. The method involves rotating a thin film of honey and passing a nonturbulent stream of ambient pressure 40.degree. C. to 75.degree. C. air over said honey to reduce its water content.

A beehive for use in tropical environments is disclosed to be fabricated from plastic such as plastic foam and to have an elongated horizontal shape with a plurality of removable top cover/access plates and a bee entrance portal placed at a bottom corner of one of its elongated sides.

Beehive for improved beekeeping in tropical countries

This invention relates to a process for producing 2-alkoxyacrylate by heating an alkyl 2,2-dialkoxypropionate with a molar amount each of a heterocyclic amine and an organic carboxylic acid halide in the presence of a catalytic amount of an inorganic base.

2-Alkoxyacrylate process

As new products, poly-(alpha-alkoxy)acrylamides containing 1 to 12, preferably 1 to 5 carbon atoms in the alkoxy group. The foregoing polymeric materials are readily complexed with water or low molecular weight hydroxy- or thiol-containing organic compounds. The polymers are useful as oil recovery agents.

Poly-(alpha-alkoxy)acrylamide and poly-(alpha-alkoxy)acrylamide complexes

Compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are alkyl and R.sup.4 is alkyl, haloalkyl or aryl.

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Novato, CA, United States of America

James L Platt