Shell Oil Comapny

Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology Corporation

Mossi & Ghisolfi Overseas S.a.

Michael Wayne Potter

Raymond Lawrence June

Robert Stephen Tomaskovic

William Charles Malven

Carl Lesley Willis

Robert Charles Bening

Zaida Diaz

Thomas F Brownscombe

Brendan Dermot Murray

Herbert E Fried

Robert Lawrence Blackbourn

Charles Lee Edwards

Thomas Carl Semple

Ye-Mon Chen

Donn Anthony Dubois

Daniel Earl Goodwin

Daniel C Baker

Howard Lam-Ho Fong

James Laurel Buechele

Keith Michael Kreitman

John Bernard Rodden

Cary Alan Veith

Grant W Haddix

David Karl Schisla

Peter Anthony Kilty

David Stephen Brown

Edward James Simpson

Stephen W Cowan

Steve Edward Brewer

Michael Philip Zum-Mallen

Ring opening cross metathesis of secondary non-cyclic hydrocarbons with cyclic unsaturated hydrocarbons having 8 carbon atoms or more to produce corresponding unsaturated product hydrocarbons having more than 8 carbon atoms.

Linear and branched olefin production from cyclic olefin feedstocks

Disclosed is an integrated process for producing 2,6-naphthalene dicarboxylicacid comprising oxidizing a methylnaphthalene feedstock, hydrodebrominating the crude naphthoic acid product under conditions different from any work known in the art, forming a potassium salt of the acid; disproportionating the potassium salt to produce 2,6 potassium salts of NDA; selectively precipitating K NDA; selectively precipitating the monopotassium salt of 2,6 NDA(KHNDA); disproportionating the KHNDA into 2,6 NDA and K2NDA; further reacting the 2,6 NDA in a pipe reactor; and drying the product 2,6 NDA by conventional means or directly slurrying directly into a PEN process. The process can tolerate impurities in the economical methylnaphthalene feed and the resulting 2,6 NDA is of high quality with <50 ppm potassium.

Integrated process for the production of 2, 6-naphthalene dicarboxylic acid

A process to produce terephthalic acid is provided, the process including the steps of: providing a feed stream comprising a dialkyl substituted aromatic and in an organic acid solvent: contacting the feed stream with an oxidant, the oxidant containing at least 50% by volume oxygen and at an oxygen partial pressure of at least 1 psia, at a temperature between about 80.degree. C. and about 130.degree. C., in the presence of a catalyst system comprising zirconium and cobalt, wherein the contacting is done in a stirred tank reactor; removing from the stirred tank reactor a vapor stream comprising the organic acid, water vapor and unreacted oxidant; condensing at least a portion of the organic acid and water from the vapor stream; separating at least a portion of the water from the organic acid back to the stirred tank reactor; returning at least a portion of the condensed organic acid back to the stirred tank reactor; continuously recovering from the stirred tank reactor a product comprising a diacid substituted aromatic; isolating solid crystals of diacid substituted aromatic from the reactor product; and recovering from the solid crystals a diacid substituted aromatic having a purity of preferably at least 97% by weight.

Method to produce aromatic dicarboxylic acids using cobalt and zirconium

The preparation of di- or polyfunctional polymers by anionic polymerization using functionalized initiators having the structure R.sup.1 R.sup.2 R.sup.3 Si--A--B, wherein each R is methyl and A is a hydrocarbon bridging group containing from 1 to 25 carbon atoms, and B is an alkali metal, is improved when polymerization occurs in the presence of a polymerization termination inhibitor which is a metal alkyl which has been added at a concentration to afford a molar ratio of the termination inhibitor to living polymer chain ends of about 0.1:1 to about 10:1.

Process for making anionic polymeric di-and polyfunctional polymers

A process for the separation of a mixture of a titanium tetrahalide, a reaction diluent of an intermediate boiling point and at least one of a titanium alkoxide, ester or complex thereof without the aid of a distinct separation solvent by subjecting the mixture to a first distillation step to separate the titanium tetrahalide as the lights component and subjecting the heavies product to a second distillation step to recover a portion of the reaction diluent as the lights component.

Titanium separation process

A method for recovering titanium and vanadium compounds, such as alkoxides, from a liquid hydrocarbon mixture by hydrolyzing the mixture with a base or acid wash having a sufficiently different density so that two liquid phases form, and separating the two liquid phases.

Method for removal of metal alkoxide compounds from liquid hydrocarbon

A process for the preparation of polymeric alpha,omega-dialdehydes, diacids and mixtures thereof, which process comprises reacting a corresponding polymeric aliphatic alkanediol with a stable free radical nitroxide in the presence of a NO.sub.x -generating compound, an oxidant and, optionally, a solvent and/or a bromide-containing compound, and thereafter separating out the polymeric alpha,omega-dialdehyde and/or diacid.

Process for the preparation of polymeric alpha, omega-dialdehydes and

Protected functional initiator initiated elastomer solutions are deprotected and optionally ionic impurities removed by contact with a molten component such as sodium bisulphate monohydrate. This allows deprotection and removal of metal contaminants such as the initiator or residue from hydrogenation catalysts without the introduction of significant amounts of additional water which cause emulsion formation. In accordance with this invention, better metal removal is achieved and the process of metal removal operates more smoothly because of the absence of emulsion formation. Separation of the molten component containing the extracted metal contaminants can easily be carried out by simple liquid-liquid phase separation on either a continuous or batch basis.

Deprotection with molten salt

An improved process for separation of valuable components of a waste stream resulting from production of an olefin polymerization procatalyst by the addition to the waste stream of a separation solvent of intermediate boiling point, subjecting the resulting mixture to a first distillation zone to separate the desired waste stream components from the upper portion of the zone and passing the bottoms product to a second distillation zone wherein separation solvent is recovered from the upper portion of the zone for recycle and passing the bottoms product to disposal or further processing.

Distillation separation process of titanium tetrachloride and

A process for the treatment of flyslag from the gasification of coal is described, the process being characterized, in one embodiment, by mixing of the flyslag with a cementitious material and a residual waste stream from a coal gasification process, the waste stream containing particulate flyslag solids. A composition comprising flyslag and a cementitious material, in specified proportions is also disclosed.

Flyslag treatment utilizing a solids-containing concentrated aqueous

A process for the gasification of coal is described which comprises partially combusting particulate coal in a gasification reactor comprising a gasification zone and a water bath and producing a hot gaseous stream containing synthesis gas and flyash, and slag, in the gasification zone. The slag produced is allowed to discharge from the gasification zone into the water bath, the redox potential of the water bath being formulated or maintained at a level sufficient to inhibit sulfide presence or inclusion in the slag.

Inhibition of sulfide inclusion in slag

A process for the treatment of flyslag from the gasification of coal is described, the process being characterized, in one embodiment, by mixing of the flyslag with a cementitious material, a composition capable of converting sulfides in the flyslag at least to sulfur, and an aqueous waste stream from the gasification of coal, in specified proportions. A composition comprising flyslag, a cementitious material, and a composition capable of converting sulfides in the flyslag at least to sulfur, is also disclosed.

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Sugar Land, TX, United States of America

Michael Wayne Potter