Union Carbide Corporation

Joseph E Sokolik, Jr

Gilbert R Atwood

Alexander J Kosseim

Robert J Blake

David Arthur Dunnery

Samuel Sterman

This invention is directed to the reduction of the strength of ice in association with solid particulate materials, such as, for example, coal, by applying to the solid particulate material, prior to exposure to water freezing conditions, a composition comprising a mixture of a glycol derived from ethylene oxide and containing from 1 to 4 oxyethylene units and an alkyl and/or an aryl ether of a glycol derived from ethylene oxide and/or propylene oxide and containing from 1 to 9 oxyalkylene units.

Method and composition for reducing the strength of ice

A regenerable process for scrubbing SO.sub.2 from effluent gases using an aqueous alkanolamine and the corresponding sulfite as the solvent, such amine having a boiling point below about 250.degree. C. at one atmosphere pressure and wherein the alkanolamine solutions containing heat stable salts (HSS) is regenerated by alkali addition, crystallization and vacuum distillation of the amine.

Regenerable process for the selective removal of sulfur dioxide from

This invention is directed to a method for reducing the strength of adhesion of solid particulate materials to metal surfaces as occurs under water freezing conditions by coating the metal surface with a mixture comprising a hydrocarbon liquid which has a solidification or pour point not greater than 0.degree. F. and a saturated or unsaturated fatty acid having from about 10 to about 18 carbon atoms.

Method of reducing the strength of adhesion of solid particulate

Method for scrubbing SO.sub.2 from effluent gases using aqueous monoethanolamine and the corresponding sulfite as the solvent. The method is especially useful where the effluent gases contain an abundance of CO.sub.2 relative to SO.sub.2.

Process for the selective removal of sulfur dioxide from effluent gases

Improvement in processes for the selective removal of sulfur dioxide with respect to carbon dioxide from a gas mixture containing same wherein the gas mixture is contacted with an aqueous absorbent solution, such as an alkanolamine, an alkali metal or ammonium hydroxide, or sulfites thereof, to remove sulfur dioxide from the gas mixture and form a SO.sub.2 -rich aqueous absorbent solution which is moved to a stripping zone where sulfur dioxide is driven off to form a SO.sub.2 -depleted aqueous absorbent solution which is recycled and re-contacted with the gas mixture, the improvement comprising removing sulfur oxyanions of heat stable salts which accumulate in the aqueous absorbent solution by contacting it with an anion exchange resin having bisulfite anions displaceable by the heat stable sulfur oxyanions whereby the bisulfite anions of the resin are replaced by the heat stable divalent sulfur oxyanions which are thus taken out of the solution. The anion exchange resin preferably is a weak base anion exchange resin which can be regenerated by contacting it with aqueous ammonium hydroxide to replace the heat stable sulfur oxyanions on said resin with hydroxyl anions and thereafter contacting the resin with aqueous-sulfur dioxide to replace the hydroxyl anions with bisulfite anions.

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Carmel, NY, United States of America

Joseph E Sokolik, Jr