Abstract: A system for measuring loss of hydrocarbons to the atmosphere during delivery to a tank truck wherein the improvement involves using an integrated electronic system for collection of analytical data.

Abstract: A clarified slurry oil coker feedstock is subjected to absorption chromatography and ultraviolet light adsorptivity and the results are correlated to determine the suitability of the feedstock for electrode grade coke.

Abstract: A continuous method for destroying polyhalogenated biphenyls by reacting a solution of the biphenyls in an inert liquid at a concentration of from about 1% to about 5% by weight with a dispersion of sodium in a hydrocarbon oil.

Abstract: A field method for removing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB's) and similar halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons from silicone based oils and hydrocarbon fluids such as transformer oils contaminated with them by contacting the contaminated oil with a hydrocarbon dispersion of sodium, reacting the mixture of oil and sodium dispersion at a temperature above about 75.degree. C., and passing the treated oil through a filter medium or other separating means to remove particulate and other contaminating material.

Abstract: A process for converting Udex raffinate to a high octane fuel component by mild, liquid phase oxidation to a product of moderate to low acidity, distilling off a neutral oxidate, esterifying the acidic residue to a neutral product and combining the neutral oxidate and the esterified portion.

Abstract: A method for remote analysis of a mixture of materials where one of the components has thermal characteristics different from the other components. In a preferred embodiment, tar sands on a moving belt or dropping into a hopper are irradiated with infrared radiation and the radiant thermal flux of the heated tar sands is remotely detected and measured to determine bitumen content.

Abstract: A process for converting the raffinate from an HCl-treated shale oil to a suitable feedstock for a hydrocracking reactor for making fuels from the raffinate by hydrotreating the raffinate and thereafter water quenching the hydrotreated product.

Abstract: Sand containing bitumen and like materials containing organic matter is analyzed quantitatively for its hydrocarbon content by use of a remote infrared sensor. In a preferred embodiment the bitumen is on a conveyor to further processing and if found unacceptable for processing by the method of the invention, the sand is automatically diverted. The invention also embodies the apparatus used for the analysis.

Abstract: Hydrolyzed wheat, corn, and potato starches are effective flocculants in destabilizing dilute as well as thick sludge suspensions. These starches are equal to, or better than, the synthetic polyacrylamide flocculants in destabilizing sludge suspensions, particularly when used in the treatment of bituminous tar sands tailings.The hydrolyzed wheat starch is especially effective when first contacted with metal salts such as salts containing calcium, aluminum and phosphate ions, and most particularly when first treated with a combination of such salt, formed in situ, and a lower aliphatic alcohol.Among the potato starch flocculants which were found to be generally better than the corn starch flocculants, those containing AlPO.sub.4 were the best. Potato starch flocculants are equally effective on oil-removed and no-oil-removed sludge suspensions.

Abstract: In the process of plasticizing polyvinylchloride, the improvement of using dicyclohexylbiphenyl as a secondary plasticizer.

Abstract: Process of sulfurizing a blend of 90 to 50 and preferably 88 to 70 parts by volume of triglyceride such as lard oil and 10 to 50 and preferably 12 to 30 parts by volume of an ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon containing 2 to 24 carbon atoms. The sulfurization is carried out using elemental sulfur. Simultaneous sulfurization and chlorination may be effected by reacting with sulfur monochloride. Phosphosulfurization may also be carried out by addition of small amounts of a phosphorus sulfide to the sulfurized blend followed by heating at 180.degree. F. to 250.degree. F. for from 30 minutes to 10 hours to effect phosphosulfurization. The sulfurization or phosphosulfurization involves reacting at from 330.degree. F. to 445.degree. F. for 20 minutes to 10 hours followed by blowing with a gas at from 125.degree. F. to 250.degree. F. for 30 minutes to 20 hours to remove hydrogen sulfide. The simultaneous sulfurization and chlorination reaction is carried out at from 90.degree. F. to 280.degree. F.

Abstract: In the process of hydrogenating an aromatic dinitrile to the corresponding di-primary amine in the presence of a catalyst, the improvement of using as catalyst a cobalt catalyst promoted with rhodium where the weight ratio of rhodium to cobalt is 1.0 or less.

Abstract: A rolling amusement device powered by light falling on solar cells wherein the solar cells constantly face the light source.

Abstract: A liquid composition suitable as a high performance fuel and having improved rheological and stability properties comprising a liquid hydrocarbon having carbon particles dispersed therein of at least two disparate particle sizes, said two carbon particles being (1) a semi-reinforcing black having an average particle diameter of about 60 to about 100 mu and (2) a high abrasion furnace black having an average particle diameter of about 20 to about 50 mu.

Abstract: A liquid composition suitable as a high performance fuel and having improved rheological and stability properties comprising a liquid hydrocarbon having carbon particles dispersed therein of at least two disparate particle sizes, one of said carbon particles having an average particle diameter of from about 300 to about 350 mu and the other particle having an average particle diameter of about 60 to about 80 mu.

Abstract: A liquid composition suitable as a high performance fuel and having improved rheological and stability properties comprising a liquid hydrocarbon having carbon particles dispersed therein of at least two disparate particle sizes, one of said carbon particles having an average particle diameter of from about 300 to about 350 mu and the other particle having an average particle diameter of about 20 to about 50 mu, the carbon particles of the smaller size black being present in an amount between about 20 and about 25 weight percent of the total black percent.

Abstract: A method of high sensitivity for measuring leakage of liquid from a storage tank which comprises introducing a sensor into the liquid in the tank, the sensor being coupled to means for sensing displacement of mass, measuring the displacement over a known period of time and calculating the leakage rate. The sensor is designed to compensate for evaporative losses and temperature changes.

Abstract: A process for plasticizing vinyl resins such as polyvinylchloride (PVC) wherein the plasticizer is a linear alkyl substituted biphenyl having from about six to about twelve carbon atoms in the alkyl group. The invention also embodies PVC containing the plasticizer.

Abstract: Hydrolyzed wheat, corn, and potato starches are effective flocculants in destabilizing dilute as well as thick sludge suspensions. These starches are equal to, or better than, the synthetic polyacrylamide flocculants in destabilizing sludge suspensions, particularly when used in the treatment of bituminous tar sands tailings.The hydrolyzed wheat starch is especially effective when first contacted with metal salts such as salts containing calcium, aluminum and phosphate ions and most particularly when first treated with a combination of such salts formed in situ, and a lower aliphatic alcohol.Among the potato starch flocculants which were found to be generally better than the corn starch flocculants, those containing AlPO.sub.4 were the best. Potato starch flocculants are equally effective on oil-removed and no-oil-removed sludge suspensions.

Abstract: A process for the separation and recovery of substantially pure ammonia from its admixture with gases, particularly with gases containing carbon dioxide and gases obtained from the catalytic ammoxidation of hydrocarbons to the corresponding nitriles, by scrubbing the ammonia containing gases with an aqueous solution containing a mixture of salts having different cations and the anions of one or more inorganic acids capable of absorbing and liberating ammonia; e.g., mixtures of different alkali metal salts of phosphoric, telluric, boric, vanadic, chromic, selenic, germanic, silicic and similar acids. Preferably the anion component will be at least one of phosphoric, chromic, or boric acids.