Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

Richard Paul Underwood

Mark L Listemann

Richard Van Carr

Ning Chen

Hong-Xin Li

Ann C Savoca

James Stephen Emerick

Gamini Ananda Vedage

Michael E Ford

Michael Francis Carolan

Philip Bruce Henderson

Bernard A Toseland

Richard Van Court Carr

Stephen Clyde Tentarelli

John William Mitchell

Lenore Ann Emig

Alexander Makitka, Iii

Janet F Hugo

Thomas A Dahl

Alexander Makitka Iii

A pressure-swing adsorption process for producing a purified nitrogen trifluoride (NF) product gas from a feed gas contaminated with carbon tetrafluoride (CF) using a column packed with an adsorbent that exhibits selectivity for NFover CF. The process separates the feed gas into a first product gas having a greater concentration of CFthan the feed gas and a second product gas having a lesser concentration of CFwithout the use of an inert carrier gas while recovering essentially all of the NF. The process includes filling the column with the feed gas until the column reaches a first pressure, removing the first product gas, and then removing the second product gas, where after the second product gas is removed the column is at a second pressure. A rinse gas of NFand CFmay be used to remove the first product gas or the second product gas.

Purification of nitrogen trifluoride by pressure swing absorption

A seal between a ceramic conduit and a metal conduit of an ion transport membrane device consisting of a sealing surface of ceramic conduit, a sealing surface of ceramic conduit, a single gasket body, and a single compliant interlayer.

Seal between metal and ceramic conduits

An oxygen ion transport membrane process wherein a heated oxygen-containing gas having one or more contaminants is contacted with a reactive solid material to remove the one or more contaminants. The reactive solid material is provided as a deposit on a support. The one or more contaminant compounds in the heated oxygen-containing gas react with the reactive solid material. The contaminant-depleted oxygen-containing gas is contacted with a membrane, and oxygen is transported through the membrane to provide transported oxygen.

Feed gas contaminant removal in ion transport membrane systems

A method for converting amino ether alcohols to amino ether amines by amination in the vapor phase with a catalyst comprising copper and zinc. The catalyst may also comprise an alkali, alkaline earth, or lanthanide element as a promoter.

N-methylated amines from selective vapor phase amination of amino ether alcohols

Catalyst compositions for the production of polyurethanes

A new method of making phosphate-based catalysts by mixing phosphoric acid with a substantially water insoluble alkaline earth metal salt such that the phosphorus to alkaline earth metal molar ratio is less than 1. The product, containing alkaline earth metal hydrogen phosphate and the starting alkaline earth metal salt, is filtered and dried. The product can be used as a catalyst in the production of triethylenediamine from, for example, mono- and di-substituted piperazines, such as hydroxyethylpiperazine and aminoethylpiperazine, ethanolamines and substituted ethanolamines, and crude hydroxyethylpiperazine containing piperazine, hydroxyethylpiperazine, bis-hydroxyethylpiperazine, and water.

Triethylenediamine production using phosphate catalysts

The use of 3-[3-(dimethylamino)propyl]-propionamide (Formula I) and 3,3'-{[3-(dimethylamino)propyl]imino}bis-propanamide (Formula II) as catalysts in the production of polyurethanes. ##STR1##

Amido functional amine catalysts for the production of polyurethanes

3-{N-[2-(N',N'-dimethylamino ethoxy)ethyl]-N-methylamino}propionamide is a new compound which is useful as a catalyst in the production of polyurethane foams.

3-{N-[2-(N',N'-dimethylamino ethoxy)ethyl]-N-methylamino}propionamide

An improved process for the production of bis (N,N-dialkylaminoalkyl)ether having the formula (R.sub.2 NR').sub.2 O, wherein R is methyl or ethyl and R' is ethyl or propyl, by reacting vaporized N,N-dialkylaminoalkanol of the formula R.sub.2 NR'OH, wherein R and R' are as defined above, in the presence of a heterogeneous solid basic catalyst. The bis (N,N-dialkylaminoalkyl)ether compounds, especially bis (N,N-dimethylamino)ethyl ether, are useful in the production of polyurethane foams.

Process for the production of bis (N,N-dialkylaminoalkyl) ether

A method for preparing a polyurethane foam which comprises reacting an organic polyisocyanate and a polyol in the presence of a blowing agent, a cell stabilizer and a catalyst composition consisting essentially of a compound having the following formula I: ##STR1## where R.sup.1 is hydrogen or a C1-C4 linear or branched alkyl, hydroxyalkyl or aminoalkyl group;

Aminopropylbis(aminoethyl) ether compositions for the production of

Aminopropylbis (aminoethyl) ether compositions for the production of

A method for preparing a polyurethane foam which comprises reacting an organic polyisocyanate and a polyol in the presence of a blowing agent, a cell stabilizer and a catalyst composition comprising a compound having the following formula I: ##STR1## where R.sup.1 is hydrogen or a linear or branched C1-C4 alkyl or a C1-C4 hydroxyalkyl group;

Hydroxyalkylbis(aminoethyl) ether compositions for the production of

A process is set forth for the synthesis of a C.sub.2 + aliphatic alcohol from hydrogen and carbon oxides in the presence of a copper-based catalyst which has been impregnated with an alkali metal compound. The process differs from the prior art in that the catalyst is impregnated with the alkali metal compound in the same slurry reactor which is used for reacting the hydrogen and carbon oxides. By contrast, in the prior art C.sub.2 + aliphatic alcohol synthesis, impregnation of the copper-based catalyst with the alkali metal compound is accomplished by a separate step in a separate vessel. By eliminating this separate step, the present invention realizes a savings in processing and equipment costs.

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