Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

Dow Corning Corporation

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Evonik Operations Gmbh

Robert E Stevens

Michael Allen Stanga

John A Norman

Robert H Whitmarsh

Vicky Sue Cobb

Wanda Wells Rauscher

Kevin Dale Wiese

Paul N Dyer

John Herbert Frey

Robert F Hoffman

Diwakar Garg

David A Roberts

John Anthony Marsella

Jean Louise Vincent

Vincent L Magnotta

Jared Denis Bender

Christopher Ceccarelli

Joel R Rogers

A composition and process to make polyurethane foam using a stable liquid catalyst composition comprising at least one liquid bismuth carboxylate catalyst and at least one liquid dialkyltin dicarboxylate complex are disclosed. The disclosed composition and process yield polyurethane foam having favorable properties, but requiring less metal. The polyurethane foams produced by this catalyst composition and method are useful for laminated boardstock, construction panels, appliance insulation, spray-applied insulation, seat cushions, and mattresses.

Mixed metal catalyst compositions and methods for making polyurethane foam

A prewetted cleaning wipe for cleaning surfaces and having low volatile organic chemical and low nonvolatile residue properties comprising a wipe substrate wetted with an aqueous solution of high purity water and an effective amount of an acetylenic alcohol surface active agent. The surface active agent is preferably an acetylenic diol. Preferred acetylenic diols include dimethyl octynediol and tetramethyl decynediol.

Low VOC cleanroom cleaning wipe

The present invention relates to a siloxane-oxyalkylene copolymer surfactant having the formula MD.sub.x D'.sub.y M wherein M represents (CH.sub.3).sub.3 SiO.sub.1/2 or R(CH.sub.3).sub.2 SiO.sub.1/2, D represents (CH.sub.3).sub.2 SiO.sub.2/2, D' represents (CH.sub.3)RSiO.sub.2/2, and the value of x+y is from 48 and 220, and the ratio x/y is from 5 to 15 inclusive. In the above formulae for M and D', R is a polyether-containing substituent selected from the group consisting of (1)--C.sub.n H.sub.2n O(C.sub.2 H.sub.4 O).sub.a (C.sub.3 H.sub.6 O).sub.b R' moieties having weight average molecular weights of from about 2300-3200 and wherein n is 3-4, the ratio a/b is from 0.5 to 1.3 inclusive, R' represents hydrogen, an alkyl group of 1-4 carbon atoms or --C(O)CH.sub.3 and (2)--C.sub.n' H.sub.2n' O(C.sub.2 H.sub.4 O).sub.a' (C.sub.3 H.sub.6 O).sub.b' R' moieties having weight average molecular weights of from about 1150-1400 and wherein n' is 3-4, a' is a number such that the ethylene oxide residues constitute 30-100% by weight of the alkylene oxide residues of the polyether, b' is a number such that the propylene oxide residues constitute 0-70% by weight of the alkylene oxide residues of the polyether, R' represents hydrogen, an alkyl group of 1-4 carbon atoms or --C(O)CH.sub.3, and the blend average molecular weight of the overall polyether-containing substituents R in the compositions is from about 1500 to 2200 and the overall EO/PO molar ratio is from about 0.65 to 1.2. The siloxane-oxyalkylene copolymer surfactants are useful in producing flexible polyurethane slabstock foams.

Silicone polyether surfactants

The present invention relates to a siloxane-oxyalkylene copolymer surfactant having the formula MD.sub.x D'.sub.y M wherein M represents (CH.sub.3).sub.3 SiO.sub.1/2, or R(CH.sub.3).sub.2 SiO.sub.1/2, D represents (CH.sub.3).sub.2 SiO.sub.2/2, D' represents (CH.sub.3)RSiO.sub.2/2, and the value of x+y is from 48 and 220, and the ratio x/y is from 5 to 15 inclusive. In the above formulae for M and D', R is a polyether-containing substituent selected from the group consisting of

This invention relates to a method for preparing a flexible polyurethane slabstock foam by reacting a polyol, an organic diisocyanate, and water in the presence of at least one urethane catalyst, a siloxane-oxyalkylene copolymer surfactant and, optionally another blowing agent, where the surfactant has the average formula MD.sub.x D'.sub.y M where M is (CH.sub.3).sub.3 SiO.sub.1/2 or R(CH.sub.3).sub.2 SiO.sub.1/2, D is (CH.sub.3).sub.2 SiO.sub.2/2, D' is (CH.sub.3)RSiO.sub.2/2, and the value of x+y is 48 to 220, the ratio x/y is 5 to 15 inclusive, R is a polyether-containing substituent selected from the group consisting of (1) --C.sub.n H.sub.2n O(C.sub.2 H.sub.4 O).sub.a (C.sub.3 H.sub.6 O).sub.b R' group having weight average molecular weights in the range 2300-3400 and wherein n is 3-4, the ratio a/b is from 0.5 to 1.3 inclusive, R' represents hydrogen, an alkyl group of 1-4 carbon atoms or --C(O)CH.sub.3 and (2) --C.sub.n' H.sub.2n' O(C.sub.2 H.sub.4 O).sub.a' (C.sub.3 H.sub.6 O).sub.b' R' group having weight average molecular weights in the range 750-1400 and wherein n' is 3-4, a' is a number such that the ethylene oxide residues constitute 30-100% by weight of the alkylene oxide residues of the polyether, b' is a number such that the propylene oxide residues constitute 0-70% by weight of the alkylene oxide residues of the polyether, R' represents hydrogen, an alkyl group of 1-4 carbon atoms or --C(O)CH.sub.3, and the blend average molecular weight of the overall polyether-containing substituents R in the surfactant is in the range from 1500 to 2200 and the EO/PO molar ratio ranges from 0.65 to 1.2.

Method for preparing flexible polyurethane foams

Silicone surfactants having a siloxane backbone and polyether pendants having average atomic masses of 2250. The surfactants of the invention operate in polyurethane foam compositions to provide stable foams over a range of surfactant concentrations while still producing product foams without splits. Also disclosed and claimed are polyurethane foam compositions which include the surfactants, a method of making polyurethane foam using the surfactants, and polyurethane foam made by the method.

Polyether silicone surfactants for the manufacture of urethane foams

A method for producing a protective coating on the surface of a carbonaceous substrate is described. A substantially uniform coating of a liquid or solid precursor material is provided on the surface of the substrate. The precursor material is one which has boron-oxygen bonds and is substantially non-reactive with the substrate at a first relatively low temperature and is capable of reacting with the substrate at a second temperature which is substantially higher than the first temperature. The substrate is then raised to the second temperature to react the coating with the substrate to form a porous region of substantially uniform depth in the substrate surface. This region contains interconnecting interstices and boron carbide. The interconnecting interstices are then at least partially filled with a glass forming material such as boron, boron oxide, boron carbide, silicon, silicon alloy, silicon dioxide, silicon nitride, silicon oxynitride, germania, and mixtures thereof. A refractory coating may then be deposited on the filled layer. Also described is a coated article produced in accordance with the described method.

Coated carbonaceous articles and method for making same

An extremely hard, fine grained tungsten carbide produced by thermochemical deposition is described. The tungsten carbide consists primarily of substantially pure tungsten carbide wherein the tungsten carbide consists of WC.sub.1-x, where x is 0 to about 0.4. The disclosed tungsten carbide is free of columnar grains and consists essentially of extremely fine, equiaxial crystals. Also disclosed is a method of producing the disclosed material.

High hardness fine grained beta tungsten carbide

A feed magazine for feeding items for an envelope insertion apparatus is adjustable along three axes and includes a resiliently mounted adjustable floor plate which permits tilting adjustment about a lateral axis, and includes a jam detector for signaling misfeeds.

Vertically adjustable stack feed mechanism

A process for absorbing olefinically-unsaturated hydrocarbon compounds from feedstreams containing such compounds by contacting said feed streams with metal-diketone absorbents of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is trichloroemthyl or R.sub.F ; R.sub.F is C.sub.n F.sub.2n+1 and n is 1-8; R.sub.2 is H or hydrocarbyl of 2-20 carbon atoms having at least one olefinic unsaturated bond; M.sup.I is Cu.sup.I or Ag.sup.I and R.sub.3 is hydrocarbyl of 2-20 carbon atoms having at least one olefinic unsaturated bond.

Novel metal-diketone absorbents for olefins

A process for absorbing carbon monoxide and/or olefinically-unsaturated compounds from feedstreams containing such compounds by contacting the feed streams with metal-diketone absorbents of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is trichloromethyl or R.sub.F ; R.sub.F is C.sub.n F.sub.2n+1 and n is 1-8; R.sub.2 is H or hydrocarbyl of 2-20 carbon atoms having at least one olefinic unsaturated bond; M.sup.I is Cu.sup.I or Ag.sup.I and R.sub.3 is hydrocarbyl of 2-20 carbon atoms having at least one olefinic unsaturated bond.

Novel metal-diketone absorbents for carbon monoxide

Novel compounds for absorbing carbon monoxide and olefinically-unsaturated compounds from feedstreams are of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is trichloromethyl or R.sub.F ; R.sub.F is C.sub.n F.sub.2n+1 and n is 1-8; R.sub.2 is H or hydrocarbyl of 2-20 carbon atoms having at least one olefinic unsaturated bond; M.sup.I is Cu.sup.I or Ag.sup.I and R.sub.3 is hydrocarbyl of 2-20 carbon atoms having at least one olefinic unsaturated bond.

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Emmaus, PA, United States of America

Robert E Stevens