Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology Corporation

E.i. Dupont De Nemours and Company

Corteva Agriscience LLC

Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

Cummins Inc.

Marios Avgousti

Robert Ray Burch

Suh Joon Han

Alex Kharazi

Wei-Kuo Lee

Jihua Zhang

Rajeev L Gorowara

Keith Ward Hutchenson

Gary Delmar Jaycox

John D Everard

Larry Ray Marshall

Larry D Wierschke

Tao Huang

Timothy Allan Bell

Jack Eugene Armantrout

Ning Wang

Scott A Adler

Oliver Walter Gutsche

Mark David Wetzel

Robert D Orlandi

Richard Edmond Bockrath

Edward Allen Leach

Shu-Chien Liang

James M Oconnor

Charles A Sample

Robert Alan Lewis

Jacy Cameron Macchia

Shane Francis Kendra

Scott Yembrick

William H Dunn

Tim Mueller

Richard E Bockrath

Larry R Marshall

James M O'Connor

James M O'CONNOR

Carriers are disclosed for supporting a plurality of agricultural cores on a plurality of core supports for coating by a flexible film. The plurality of core supports may include a pedestal for supporting a respective agricultural core and a core periphery region having a plurality of bridge elements which couple the pedestal to the connecting structure between the plurality of core supports. The carriers may include a vacuum system that independently communicates a partial vacuum to an aperture in each respective pedestal and a plurality of apertures in the core periphery region of a respective core support between the bridge elements.

Systems and methods for manufacture of controlled release of agricultural cores

The disclosure relates to systems, compositions and methods for providing nutrients, root proliferants, crop protection agents and other crop inputs for a plant. The disclosure also relates to methods for increasing the uptake of a crop active compound into a growing plant.

Soil application of crop protection agents

Methods are provided for pelletizing a microbial biomass, extracting a refined lipid composition from the pelletized biomass under supercritical conditions and distilling the refined lipid composition, at least once under short path distillation conditions, to obtain a lipid-containing fraction. Also disclosed are methods of making lipid-containing oil concentrates therefrom, by transesterifying and enriching the lipid-containing fraction.

Method for obtaining a lipid-containing composition from microbial biomass

A process and apparatus for forming nanofibers from a spinning melt utilizing a high speed rotating distribution disc. The fibers can be collected into a uniform web for selective barrier end uses. Fibers with an average fiber diameter of less that 1,000 nm can be produced.

Production of nanofibers by melt spinning

A cable comprising one or more electrical conductors or communications media or a core of two or more electrical conductors or communications media, each electrical conductor, communications medium, or core being surrounded by a layer comprising:

Cable semiconducting shield

Disclosed is a process for pelletizing high melt flow crystalline polymers to produce crystalline pellet products. The process includes feeding a polyolefin granular or pelleted polymer into a melting/mixing mechanism to provide a molten polymer material. The molten polymer material is optionally passed through a melt pump and through a die to form a plurality of molten polymer strands. The plurality of molten polymer strands then are passed through or along a water trough declined with respect to the direction of the horizontal arrays where they are sprayed with cool liquid a plurality of times in such a manner that the sprayed cool liquid creates turbulent flow and disturbs a thin film of hot water and/or steam that forms around each molten polymer strand as it is cooled without undesirable axial acceleration of the polymer strands. Subjecting the molten polymer strands to such a cooling procedure produces cooled polymer strands, which then are fed to a cutting mechanism and cut into pellets. The process produces ultra high melt flow crystalline polymer pellets which are uniformly compounded.

Process for pelletizing ultra-high melt flow polymers

Disclosed is a process making polyolefin pellet products that contain at least one unreacted free radical generator which, when heated, undergo chemical degradation producing a low viscosity polymer. The process includes contacting the polyolefin pellet with the at least one free radical generator to coat the pellet, and contacting the coated pellets and at least one unreacted free radical generator at an elevated temperature and for a period of time sufficient for the free radical initiator to soak into the interior of the pellets. The process of the invention enables the production of polyolefin pellets having any desired amount of free radical generator and therefore, production of a desired viscosity, and improves the processability of the polyolefin pellet at customer fabrication facilities to thereby provide superior quality final articles.

Process for producing high melt flow polymers

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