Patents by Inventor Erwin Thomas

Erwin Thomas has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4645579
    Abstract: Aqueous solutions of hydroxylamine are prepared from aqueous hydroxylammonium salt solutions by electrodialysis by a method in which the aqueous hydroxylammonium salt solution is fed into the middle zone of an electrolysis cell, which is divided into a cathode zone, an anode zone and a middle zone by means of semipermeable membranes, and is electrolyzed, and the catholyte used is an alkali metal hydroxide solution containing ammonia and/or amines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1987
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengsellschaft
    Inventors: Franz-Josef Weiss, Wolfgang Habermann, Peter Hammes, Elmar Frommer, Erwin Thomas, Peter Thoma
  • Patent number: 4634584
    Abstract: Stabilized solutions of hydroxylamine or its salts in water or alcohols, containing the lactone of the formula ##STR1## and their preparation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1987
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Otto-Alfred Grosskinsky, Elmar Frommer, Josef Ritz, Erwin Thomas, Franz-Josef Weiss
  • Patent number: 4629613
    Abstract: Stabilized solutions of hydroxylamine or its salts in water or alcohols, containing 8-hydroxyquinaldines, and their preparation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1986
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Otto-Alfred Grosskinsky, Elmar Frommer, Josef Ritz, Erwin Thomas, Franz-Josef Weiss
  • Patent number: 4601800
    Abstract: Aqueous solutions of hydroxylammonium carbonate are prepared from aqueous hydroxylammonium salt solutions by electrodialysis by a method in which the aqueous hydroxylammonium salt solution is fed into the middle zone of an electrolysis cell, which is divided into a cathode zone, an anode zone and a middle zone by means of semipermeable membranes, and is electrolyzed, and the catholyte used is an aqueous solution of an ammonium carbonate or an alkali metal carbonate or of one of the corresponding bicarbonates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1986
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Franz-Josef Weiss, Wolfgang Habermann, Peter Hammes, Josef Ritz, Erwin Thomas, Peter Thoma
  • Patent number: 4576804
    Abstract: Stabilized solutions of hydroxylamine or its salts in water or alcohols, containing hydroxyanthraquinones, and their preparation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1986
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Otto-Alfred Grosskinsky, Elmar Frommer, Josef Ritz, Erwin Thomas, Franz-Josef Weiss
  • Patent number: 4551318
    Abstract: Stabilized solutions of hydroxylamine or its salts, containing anthocyans of the formula ##STR1## where R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are each hydrogen, hydroxyl or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxy and X is an anion of a strong mineral acid, and their preparation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1985
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Otto-Alfred Grosskinsky, Elmar Frommer, Josef Ritz, Erwin Thomas, Franz-Josef Weiss
  • Patent number: 4507271
    Abstract: Nitrous oxide is removed from gases containing hydrogen, nitric oxide and nitrous oxide by a process in which the gases are treated with molecular sieves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1985
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Frans Van Deyck, Franz-Josef Weiss, Roger Verberckt, Erwin Thomas, Benedikt Mangelschots, Paul Pijl
  • Patent number: 4491567
    Abstract: Hydroxylammonium salts are manufactured by a process comprising the catalytic reduction of nitric oxide with hydrogen in a dilute aqueous mineral acid in the presence of a suspended platinum catalyst at an elevated temperature, wherein the reaction is carried out in vessels of which the walls consist of conventional copper-containing austenitic chromium-nickel steels which contain from 16 to 28% by weight of chromium, from 32 to 50% by weight of nickel, from 1 to 4% by weight of molybdenum, up to 4% by weight of copper and at most 0.1% by weight of carbon and which in addition contain an amount of titanium which is at least 5 times the amount of carbon but is not more than 1% by weight, or an amount of niobium or tantalum which is at least 8 times the amount of carbon but is not more than 1.5% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1985
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gunther Rapp, Erwin Thomas, Rolf Muenster, Brodus E. Caffall, Philip A. Cyr, Thomas M. Jones
  • Patent number: 4477424
    Abstract: An improved process for the continuous preparation of hydroxylammonium salts by catalytic reduction of nitric oxide with hydrogen in a dilute aqueous solution of a mineral acid in the presence of a suspended noble metal catalyst at an elevated temperature in several reaction zones connected in series, wherein the improvement comprises maintaining a pH of <2.0 in the last reaction zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 16, 1984
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Otto-Alfred Grosskinsky, Elmar Frommer, Gunther Rapp, deceased, Erwin Thomas
  • Patent number: 4457906
    Abstract: Hydroxylammonium salts are prepared by an improved process, wherein nitric oxide is reduced catalytically with hydrogen in a dilute aqueous solution of a mineral acid in the presence of a suspended supported platinum catalyst and at elevated temperatures, and wherein the improvement comprises avoiding the formation of foam at the surface of the reaction mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1984
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Otto-Alfred Grosskinsky, Elmar Frommer, Guenther Rapp, Erwin Thomas
  • Patent number: 4438084
    Abstract: Hydroxylammonium salts are manufactured by a process comprising the catalytic reduction of nitric oxide with hydrogen in a dilute aqueous mineral acid in the presence of a suspended platinum catalyst at an elevated temperature, wherein the reaction is carried out in vessels of which the walls consist essentially of conventional copper-free molybdenum-containing austenitic chromium-nickel steels which contain from 16 to 28% by weight of chromium, from 10 to 50% by weight of nickel, from 1 to 4% by weight of molybdenum and at most 0.05% by weight of carbon, together with at least 0.05% by weight of nitrogen up to 0.5% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1984
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Guenther Rapp, Erwin Thomas, Rolf Muenster
  • Patent number: 4404176
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of hydroxylammonium salts by catalytic reduction of nitric oxide with hydrogen in a dilute aqueous solution of a mineral acid, in the presence of a suspended supported platinum catalyst, at elevated temperatures, wherein the reaction is carried out in a conventional manner, in one or more reaction zones, under superatmospheric pressure, and the exit gases produced are let down to a lower pressure, and are reacted, in a downstream reaction zone, with the reaction mixture, containing hydroxylammonium salt, the ammonium salt, the supported platinum catalyst and residual mineral acid, from the upstream reaction zone or zones, or with a fresh aqueous solution of the mineral acid, which contains the supported platinum catalyst in suspension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1983
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Otto-Alfred Grosskinsky, Elmar Frommer, Gunther Rapp, deceased, Erwin Thomas
  • Patent number: 4387082
    Abstract: A process for removing nitrous oxide from exit gases which contain this compound and have been obtained in the preparation of hydroxylammonium salts by catalytic reduction of nitric oxide with hydrogen in an aqueous solution of a mineral acid, in the presence of a suspended noble metal catalyst, wherein the exit gases are washed with water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1983
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alfred-Otto Grosskinsky, Elmar Frommer, Guenther Rapp, deceased, Erwin Thomas, Ruediger Schmitz
  • Patent number: 4340575
    Abstract: Hydroxylammonium salts are manufactured by a process comprising the catalytic reduction of nitric oxide with hydrogen in a dilute aqueous mineral acid in the presence of a suspended platinum catalyst at an elevated temperature, wherein the reaction is carried out in vessels of which the walls consist of conventional copper-free molybdenum-containing austenitic chromium-nickel steels which contain from 16 to 28% by weight of chromium, from 20 to 50% by weight of nickel, from 1 to 4% by weight of molybdenum and at most 0.1% by weight of carbon and which in addition contain an amount of titanium which is at least 5 times the amount of carbon but is not more than 1.0% by weight, or an amount of niobium or tantalum which is at least 8 times the amount of carbon but is not more than 1.5% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1982
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Guenther Rapp, Kurt Jockers, Erwin Thomas
  • Patent number: 4192856
    Abstract: Hydroxylammonium salts are manufactured by a process comprising the catalytic reduction of nitric oxide with hydrogen in a dilute aqueous solution of a mineral acid in the presence of a suspended platinum catalyst at an elevated temperature, wherein the reaction mixture is recycled and the gas mixture, containing nitric oxide and hydrogen, present in the gas space above the reaction zone, is introduced, by means of one or more downwardly directed jets of liquid, consisting of the recycled reaction mixture and issuing from a nozzle orifice, into one or more circulation zones which are present in the reaction zone, are open at both sides, extend in the direction of the entering jet of liquid and are completely covered by the reaction mixture, the reaction mixture leaving the bottom of the circulation zone and containing unconverted gases is deflected, passed upwards in the annular zone externally surrounding the circulation zone, and at the same time reaction mixture of low gas content is recycled from a separa
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1980
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Guenther Rapp, Erwin Thomas, Dieter Wolf, Kuerten, Heribert, Peter Zehner
  • Patent number: 4031139
    Abstract: An improved process for the manufacture of cyclohexanone oxime by reacting cyclohexanone with an aqueous hydroxylammonium-ammonium sulfate solution at temperatures above the melting point of cyclohexanone oxime by the countercurrent process, the improvement consisting in that the reaction is carried out in the absence of solvents and neutralizing and/or buffer salts at pHs of up to 0.5 until equilibrium is reached, the oximes resulting during the reaction being separated from the aqueous phase and the aqueous phase being extracted with cyclohexanone and then subjected to steam distillation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1977
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Guenther Rapp, Hugo Fuchs, Erwin Thomas