Ciba-geigy Corporation

Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation

Vladimir Arnold

Bernhard Rumo

Manfred Rembold

Alois Puntener

Albert Stehlin

Rainer Hans Traber

Werner Schreiber

Rudiger Oxenius

Rolf Kuratli

Helena Dbaly

Ferenc Rakoczi

Gisbert Leuschner

Franz Wyss

Ernst Burgi

Multifunctional textile auxiliary formulations

Water-emulsifiable or -dispersible physical forms of sterically hindered mines, UV absorbers and antioxidants and their use for thermal and photochemical stabilization of materials of plastics, textile coatings, imitation leather and leather are described. The physical forms comprise

Stabilizing leather against thermal and photochemical decomposition

Amines which are sparingly soluble in water are diazotised by first preparing a melt or solution of said amines and then precipitating them from the melt or a solution in an organic solvent by adding water, and then diazotising the resultant suspension. In this procedure, the reaction times are appreciably shorter than those of conventional processes.

Process for the diazotisation of primary aromatic amines which are

A method of using a tubular reactor for accelerating heterogeneous reactions and affording an increased yield rate per unit of time and space wherein the cylindrical reactor tube contains in its interior a piston having relatively flat profiling in its skirt in the form of annular ribs and grooves therebetween, inlet conduits leading into the interior of the reaction tube through the bottom closure thereof, which may also be introduced from above and extend axially through the piston an outlet tube is provided in the region of the top closure of the reaction tube, the piston being connected via a piston rod with a vibrator imparting axial oscillatory movement of the piston, these oscillations generating turbulences in the annular piston grooves which effect a thorough mixing of the reaction participants without causing any noteworthy re-mixing of the resulting reaction products with the starting components; the process involving simultaneous and continuous introduction of a suspension of an insoluble reactant and a solution of a soluble reactant and thorough upward mixing thereof without remixing of volume units have different sojourn times in the tube.

Tubular reactor method for conducting heterogeneous reactions

A reactor for accelerating heterogeneous reactions and affording an increased yield rate per unit of time and space comprises a cylindrical reactor tube containing in its interior a piston having relatively flat profiling in its skirt in the form of annular ribs and grooves therebetween, inlet conduits leading into the interior of the reaction tube through the bottom clousre thereof, which may also be introduced from above and extend axially through the piston, an outlet tube is provided in the region of the top closure of the reaction tube, the piston is being connected via a piston rod with a vibrator imparting axial oscillatory movement of the piston, these oscillations generating turbulences in the annular piston grooves which effect a thorough mixing of the reaction participants without causing any noteworthy re-mixing of the resulting reaction products with the starting components.

Tubular reactor for heterogeneous reactions

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Basel, Switzerland

Vladimir Arnold