Abstract: Low profile resilient suspension utilizes a pair of horizontally positioned, adjustably tensioned springs to support the weight of a seat occupant. The springs are mounted to one of the movable or fixed seat frame members so as to be completely independent of the linkages, such as scissors links, which guide the movable seat frame member for generally vertical parallel movement relative to the base frame member and floor. The tension of the springs can be adjusted by weight adjustment control members fixed to one of their ends to accommodate occupants of differing weights. The adjustment can be made when the seat is either occupied or unoccupied. The weight adjustment control members remain fixed relative to the seat frame as the suspension oscillates vertically. The opposite ends of the springs are mounted to the ends of the short arms on a pair of connected bellcrank levers which are pivoted to one of the seat frame members.

Abstract: In the manufacture of tubing, and particularly finned tubing, for use by the heat transfer industry in the manufacture of heat exchangers, annealed ends and lands are desirable in certain applications to facilitate the assembly of the tubes to headers and baffles by expanding techniques. Such spot-annealed portions can be produced on a continuous basis by the described apparatus and method in which the moving tube is passed through a heating chamber which reciprocates on a carriage in the direction of tube movement. The heating chamber has a pair of power-actuated, current-carrying clamps which grip spaced portions of the tube so as to resistance-heat the tube portion between the clamps. The heating chamber and carriage move with the tube while it is clamped to provide sufficient heating time. The carriage then returns to its starting position. If desired, an inert gas can be supplied to the heating chamber to prevent oxidation and/or discoloration.

Abstract: Alkali metal salts of C-nitrosoarylamines may be readily reduced in aqueous solution by a reducing sugar. The reaction affords the corresponding aminoarylamine in good yield with little, if any, byproduct formation and affords a method of preparing aminoarylamines without isolation of the C-nitrosoarylamine.

Abstract: A method for the in situ conversion and recovery of heavy hydrocarbonaceous crude oil containing indigenous trace metal from two adjacent non-communicating hydrocarbon reservoirs which are alternately pressured and recovered which method comprises: (a) heating the heavy hydrocarbonaceous crude oil in a first reservoir to a hydrocarbon conversion temperature; (b) contacting the first reservoir with elemental essentially-anhydrous hydrogen at a pressure from about 200 to about 10,000 psig; (c) heating the heavy hydrocarbonaceous crude oil in a second reservoir to a hydrocarbon conversion temperature; (d) depressuring the first reservoir to yield an effluent comprising hydrocarbonaceous crude oil and unreacted elemental hydrogen; (e) separating the effluent from the first reservoir to recover a hydrocarbonaceous crude oil and a gaseous component comprising elemental hydrogen; (f) contacting the second reservoir with elemental essentially-anhydrous hydrogen, a portion of which is recovered in step (e), at a press

Abstract: A method is disclosed for hydrocracking a hydrocarbon feedstock having a propensity to form polynuclear aromatic compounds without excessively fouling the processing unit. The hydrocracking method includes contacting the hydrocarbon feedstock with a crystalline zeolite hydrocracking catalyst, contacting at least a portion of the resulting unconverted hydrocarbon oil containing polynuclear aromatic compounds with an adsorbent which selectively retains polynuclear aromatic compounds and recycling unconverted hydrocarbon oil having a reduced concentration of polynuclear aromatic compounds to the hydrocracking zone.

Abstract: A contaminating metal on a cracking catalyst used for the cracking of hydrocarbons is passivated by contacting the catalyst with a hydrocarbon gas or mixture of gases comprising molecules of three carbon atoms or less at passivation reaction conditions prior to the cycling of the catalyst to the cracking zone. The cracking catalyst comprises crystalline aluminosilicate contained in a substantially alumina-free inorganic oxide matrix.

Abstract: Alkyl phenyl ethers may be induced to undergo thermal rearrangement on an alumina catalyst to afford the isomeric ortho-alkylphenol. Such rearrangement generally occurs under milder conditions than does the alkylation of a phenol with an olefin using the same alumina as an alkylating catalyst. Yields frequently are high with good selectivity.

Abstract: Alkyl aryl ethers may be prepared in good yields by reacting a phenol with an olefin in the presence of an unmodified cationic exchange resin bearing sulfonic acid groups at low temperature. In another variation the ethers may be prepared by using as a catalyst the aforementioned resin where from about 10 to about 90 percent of the sulfonic acid groups are in the form of their alkali metal salts and the reaction temperature is greater than about 75.degree. C.

Abstract: A process for the desalination of water in a continuous cyclical adsorptive operation utilizing a thermally regenerable ion retarding resin. The process employs a simulated moving bed scheme having only an adsorption zone, operated at a relatively low temperature, and desorption zone, operated at a relatively high temperature. Effluent is removed from the adsorption zone in two stages for each step of a cycle, a first stage wherein sufficient water is recovered for use as desorbent in the next step, and a second stage wherein the water product stream is withdrawn. Effluent is removed from the desorption zone also in two stages, a first stage wherein a relatively small portion having the composition of the feedstream is withdrawn, and a second stage where the extract stream having a high salt content is withdrawn.

Abstract: A hydrocarbon conversion catalyst is disclosed which comprises a combination of a carrier material, a Group VIB metal component and Group VIII metal component wherein said group VIB metal component and said Group VIII metal component are incorporated in said catalytic composite by means of a non-aqueous organic solution of a Group VIB metal compound and a Group VIII metal compound, wherein said non-aqueous organic solution comprises dimethylformamide, formamide, diethylformamide, ethylformamide, methylformamide, pyridine, aniline or toluene and wherein said catalytic composite is calcined in a non-oxidizing atmosphere. Other embodiments of the present invention describe the use of the catalyst for hydrocarbon conversion and preferred methods of catalyst manufacture.

Abstract: An improved method is disclosed for regenerating adsorbents used in an integrated process for the production of ethers such as methyl tertiary butyl ether by the reaction of an alcohol with an isoolefin. The sorbents are used to remove such compounds as the product ether and the feed alcohol from a hydrocarbon recycle stream withdrawn from the etherification zone. The regeneration procedure includes contacting the sorbent with a portion of the treated hydrocarbon stream. The resultant contaminated hydrocarbon stream is passed into a stripping column used to remove light ends from the effluent of a dehydrogenation zone in which the isoolefin fed to the etherification zone is produced. The hydrocarbonaceous compounds collected on the sorbent are thus recycled rather than being destroyed or lost in low purity effluent streams. The contaminated hydrocarbon stream may also be passed directly into the etherification zone.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of preparing an alumina hydrosol from an aluminum sulfate solution. The subject method comprises the steps of admixing a stoichiometric amount of a metal selected from the group consisting of calcium, strontium and/or barium in the form of a mixture of a hydrated chloride metal salt and a metal hydroxide with an aqueous aluminum sulfate solution, filtering the resulting metal sulfate precipitate from the above admixture, recovering a substantially sulfur-free aluminum-containing filtrate solution, admixing aluminum metal with the filtrate solution, and digesting the aluminum metal at digestion conditions with the filtrate solution to form an alumina hydrosol possessing the desired Al:Cl weight ratio.

Abstract: Unsaturated carboxylic acids may be reduced to an ester or to a corresponding alcohol by treatment with hydrogen in the presence of a reducing catalyst. The reducing catalyst which is used in the present invention comprises cadmium and ruthenium in a low valence oxidation state composited on a solid support. If so desired, the catalyst may also contain a platinum group metal of Group VIII of the Periodic Tale. By utilizing this catalyst which may be exemplified by cadmium, ruthenium and platinum composited on gamma alumina in a process in which hydrogen is continuously bled from the reaction vessel, it is possible to obtain products in which the carboxyl group of the molecule has been reduced without materially reducing the double bonds of the compound.

Abstract: A process for the in situ conversion of heavy hydrocarbonaceous crude oil containing indigenous trace metal which comprises heating said heavy hydrocarbonaceous oil in situ to a hydrocarbon conversion temperature, contacting the hot hydrocarbonaceous oil with hydrogen at a pressure from about 200 to about 5000 psig, and recovering the resulting converted hydrocarbonaceous oil.

Abstract: A gas treating process for simultaneous solid particle filtering and sulfur oxide removal is described. The feed gas stream is passed horizontally through a first moving bed of treating particles, which trap fine particles entrained in the gas stream. The treating particles of the bed also are effective in removing sulfur oxides by reaction with the sulfur oxides. The effluent of the first moving bed is passed through an upper second moving bed of fresh treating particles. Preferably the concentration of sulfur dioxide in the effluent of the first bed is monitored to control either, and possibly both, the rate at which gas bypasses the second bed or the rate at which the treating particles are transferred from the second to the first beds.

Abstract: A process for separating a glucose from a feed mixture comprising glucose and fructose which process comprises contacting the mixture with an adsorbent comprising an X zeolite containing potassium cations at the exchangeable cationic sites thereby selectively adsorbing glucose from the feed mixture and thereafter recovering the glucose. Preferably the glucose will be recovered by desorption from the adsorbent with a desorbent material.

Abstract: A process for the direct catalytic conversion of hydrocarbon oil is disclosed wherein the hydrocarbon feedstock, hydrogen and hot solid catalyst particles are contacted at a temperature from about 600.degree. F. to about 995.degree. F. to form a suspension in a riser reactor thereby producing lower boiling hydrocarbon components.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method and a control system for synchronizing the frequency of electrical current produced by a generator with the frequency of electrical current in an electric power grid so that the output of the generator can be provided to the grid. The generator is driven by an expansion turbine which utilizes hot pressurized gas from a process in which the pressure must be maintained constant.

Abstract: A process and associated apparatus for the cooling of hot fluidized solid particles. The particles flow from a first dense phase fluidized bed into the shell side of a vertically oriented shell and tube heat exchanger where cooling occurs via indirect heat exchange with a cooling medium circulating in the tubes. The extent of cooling is controlled by the varying of the heat transfer coefficient between the tubes and particles in the heat exchanger which are maintained as a second dense phase fluidized bed. The coefficient is varied by varying the quantity of fluidizing gas to the fluidized bed in the heat exchanger. The particles flow freely to and from the first and second dense phase fluidized beds through which the particles recirculate and are backmixed. The process has particular applicability to a combustive regeneration process and most particular applicability to the FCC process.

Abstract: A process for the recovery of hydrocarbonaceous oil from oil shale is disclosed. The process comprises: (a) heating the shale in the presence of a non-combustion supporting, non oil-miscible gas at subcritical conditions of said gas and at a temperature from about 650.degree. F. to about 825.degree. F. to produce a solvent extractable material and to liberate at least a first portion of the hydrocarbon contained therein; and (b) contacting the resulting solvent extractable material with a normally-liquid solvent at subcritical, reflux conditions of said solvent to liberate at least a second portion of the hydrocarbon contained in said solvent extractable material.