Abstract: A pipe connection for conducting a fluid that is under pressure is provided, having two tubular connection parts for a conical clamping connection, which are screwed together by a union nut while one is inserted in the other, wherein each connection part has a conical sealing surface that contacts the other in a sealing manner and wherein an annular groove is provided in one of the sealing surfaces. In order to enable the pipe connection also to conduct a fluid having cycling or varying temperature, the inner of the two connection parts has thermal insulation on the inside of the pipe at least in the axial segment of the sealing surface of the connection part, wherein the thermal insulation tube has a cam or a collar on the outer surface, which engages in a recess, which is axially bounded by the two connection parts.

Abstract: A stationary gas turbine having at least one at least partially annular gas supply line, which is supported by a retainer, wherein the gas turbine has in the interior thereof a main flow direction of the working fluids, and wherein the retainer has at least one floor retainer supported against the floor and a face retainer attached to the housing of the gas turbine on the side opposite the floor retainer, and wherein both the floor retainer and the face retainer support the gas supply line against motion both in the main flow direction and perpendicularly thereto, wherein the face retainer has a spring system, which in particular compensates the change in the extent of the housing during operation of the gas turbine.

Abstract: A pipe connection arrangement in a high-pressure fluid line system of a dual fuel engine, having first pipe element with outer sealing cone and conical shoulder adjoining the cone, having further pipe element with inner sealing cone and external thread, having a screw nut element with clamping sleeve region having inner clamping cone and threaded sleeve region having internal thread. The outer sealing cone of the first pipe element is arranged in the inner sealing cone of the further pipe element and the internal thread of the screw nut element is screwed on the external thread of the further pipe element. The inner clamping cone of the screw nut element is pulled against the conical shoulder of the first pipe element such that the outer and inner sealing cones are clamped with one another in a sealing manner, wherein the threaded sleeve region of the screw nut element is conical.

Abstract: A fuel line of a turbo-machine having a conical screw connection, wherein the conical screw connection has at least one screw socket into which a sealing cone having a sealing cone surface and a sealing cone face of a screw connection body connected thereto is interlockingly inserted, and screw socket and screw connection body are directly or indirectly screwed to each other, wherein the sealing cone has a metallic, flat sealing element which is received in a receptacle of the sealing cone surface, wherein the flat sealing element is a metal which is softer than the material of the sealing cone.

Abstract: A fuel line of a turbo-machine having a conical screw connection, wherein the conical screw connection has at least one screw socket into which a sealing cone having a sealing cone surface and a sealing cone face of a screw connection body connected thereto is interlockingly inserted, and screw socket and screw connection body are directly or indirectly screwed to each other, wherein the sealing cone has a metallic, flat sealing element which is received in a receptacle of the sealing cone surface, wherein the flat sealing element is a metal which is softer than the material of the sealing cone.

Abstract: A stationary gas turbine having at least one at least partially annular gas supply line, which is supported by a retainer, wherein the gas turbine has in the interior thereof a main flow direction of the working fluids, and wherein the retainer has at least one floor retainer supported against the floor and a face retainer attached to the housing of the gas turbine on the side opposite the floor retainer, and wherein both the floor retainer and the face retainer support the gas supply line against motion both in the main flow direction and perpendicularly thereto, wherein the face retainer has a spring system, which in particular compensates the change in the extent of the housing during operation of the gas turbine.

Abstract: A pipe connection arrangement in a high-pressure fluid line system of a dual fuel engine, having first pipe element with outer sealing cone and conical shoulder adjoining the cone, having further pipe element with inner sealing cone and external thread, having a screw nut element with clamping sleeve region having inner clamping cone and threaded sleeve region having internal thread. The outer sealing cone of the first pipe element is arranged in the inner sealing cone of the further pipe element and the internal thread of the screw nut element is screwed on the external thread of the further pipe element. The inner clamping cone of the screw nut element is pulled against the conical shoulder of the first pipe element such that the outer and inner sealing cones are clamped with one another in a sealing manner, wherein the threaded sleeve region of the screw nut element is conical.

Abstract: A pipe connection for conducting a fluid that is under pressure is provided, having two tubular connection parts for a conical clamping connection, which are screwed together by a union nut while one is inserted in the other, wherein each connection part has a conical sealing surface that contacts the other in a sealing manner and wherein an annular groove is provided in one of the sealing surfaces. In order to enable the pipe connection also to conduct a fluid having cycling or varying temperature, the inner of the two connection parts has thermal insulation on the inside of the pipe at least in the axial segment of the sealing surface of the connection part, wherein the thermal insulation tube has a cam or a collar on the outer surface, which engages in a recess, which is axially bounded by the two connection parts.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for obtaining gold-colored aluminum oxide layers in which the coloring of the oxidized surface of the aluminum or aluminum alloys is carried out by an electrolytic process in an electrolyte comprising an alkanesulfonic acid and an alkanesulfonate of silver, and to the use of the gold-colored workpieces based on aluminum or aluminum alloys produced by this process for decorative purposes. The invention furthermore relates to an electrolyte solution for coloring the oxidized surface of aluminum or aluminum alloys gold by an electrolytic process, and to the use of an electrolyte comprising an alkanesulfonate of silver for coloring aluminum oxide layers based on aluminum or aluminum alloys gold in an electrolytic process.

Abstract: A process is described for the catalytic removal of H2S gas from a sour gas stream in the presence of a chelate ligand of the formula (I) where: X is hydrogen, an alkali metal or NH4+, n is 1, 2 or 3, and at least one of the radicals R1 to R6 is alkyl, aryl, alkyloxy, aryloxy, carboxyl or hydroxyl, the remaining radicals being hydrogen, and the metal in the metal chelate complex is a polyvalent metal, which can occur in more than one oxidation state. A mixture is also described for removing H2S gas from a sour gas stream, the mixture comprising an aminocarboxylate-containing metal chelate complex, and the use is also described of an aminocarboxylate-containing metal chelate complex for removing H2S gas from a sour gas stream.

Abstract: A composition for the surface treatment of metals and for the deposition of metals or metal alloys and plastics surfaces comprises a) at least one polymer as component A, comprising at least one structural unit of the formula (I) ?where this structural unit may be part of a polymer main chain or may be bound to a polymer main chain via an anchor group, and ?M is hydrogen or an ammonium or metal cation; b) water or another solvent which is suitable for dissolving, dispersing, suspending or emulsifying the polymer (component A), as component B; c) if required, surface-active compounds, dispersants, suspending media and/or emulsifiers as component C; ?either d) if required, a salt, an acid or a base based on transition metal cations, transition metal oxoanions, fluorometallates or lanthanoids as component D, and/or e) at least one acid selected from the group consisting of phosphoric acid, sulfuric acid, sulfonic acid, nitric acid, hydrofluoric acid and hydrochloric acid as component E, or a base and/or f) a

Abstract: A process is described for the catalytic removal of H2S gas from a sour gas stream in the presence of a chelate ligand of the formula (I) 1

Abstract: Matt surfaces are obtained when a metal is coated electrolytically with zinc from an electrolyte solution which contains zinc sulfate or an alkanesulfonate of zinc or mixtures thereof, and optionally further metal salts, sulfuric acid or an alkanesulfonic acid or a mixture thereof, and at least one additive selected from nitrogen-containing surface-active compounds, which may be ionic or nonionic, sulfur-containing anionic surface-active compounds, and surface-active compounds based on multifunctional alcohols having at least three hydroxyl groups.

Abstract: A mixture Ia comprises a mix IIa composed of

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of organic disulfides by oxidation of mercaptans with sulfur dissolved in an organic disulfide using an amine as catalyst, where the mercaptans are used as “crude mercaptan stream” from a reaction of alcohols with hydrogen sulfide over a catalyst suitable for mercaptan synthesis. Furthermore, the invention relates to the use of the organic disulfides for the preparation of alkanesulfonic acids.

Abstract: Aluminum or aluminum alloys are surface-treated by anodic oxidation (anodization) in an electrolyte containing from 3 to 30% by weight of an alkanesulfonic acid. Workpieces based on aluminum or aluminum alloys and produced by this process can be used in building and construction, in automobile or aircraft construction and in the packaging industry.

Abstract: Hard sintered moldings having a nickel- and cobalt-free, nitrogen-containing steel as a binder of the hard phase, processes for the powder metallurgical production of these hard sintered moldings, in particular by powder injection molding, and powder injection molding materials for the production of these hard sintered moldings by powder injection molding.

Abstract: A mixture Ia comprises a mix IIa composed of a) from 1 to 95% by weight of a solid III, preferably a basic solid III, with a primary particle size of from 5 nm to 20 &mgr;m and b) from 5 to 99% by weight of a polymeric composition IV, obtainable by polymerizing b1) from 5 to 100% by weight, based on the composition IV, of a condensation product V of &agr;) at least one compound VI which is capable of reacting with a carboxylic acid or with a sulfonic acid or with a derivative or a iixture of two or more of these, and &bgr;) at least 1 mol per mole of the compound VI of a carboxylic acid or sulfonic acid VII which has at least one functional group capable of free-radical polymerization, or of a derivative thereof or of a mixture of two or more thereof and b2) from 0 to 95% by weight, based on the composition IV, of another compound VIII with an average molecular weight (number average) of at least 5000 having polyether segments in its main or side chain and at least one ester of the formula (E1) to (E5)

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the electrolytic coating of metals with zinc or a zinc alloy in which matt surfaces are obtained, by deposition of zinc from an electrolyte solution comprising a zinc salt selected from zinc sulfate or an alkanesulfonate of zinc or mixtures thereof, and, if desired, further metal salts, an acid selected from sulfuric acid or an alkanesulfonic acid or a mixture of the two acids, and at least one additive for improving the surface roughness and preventing dendritic edge growth, selected from nitrogen-containing surface-active compounds, which may be ionic or nonionic, sulfur-containing anionic surface-active compounds, and surface-active compounds based on multifunctional alcohols having at least three hydroxyl groups.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for obtaining gold-colored aluminum oxide layers in which the coloring of the oxidized surface of the aluminum or aluminum alloys is carried out by an electrolytic process in an electrolyte comprising an alkanesulfonic acid and an alkanesulfonate of silver, and to the use of the gold-colored workpieces based on aluminum or aluminum alloys produced by this process for decorative purposes.