Abstract: Automatic warehouse apparatus is provided according to the present invention wherein a digital remote control system is relied upon to control the operations of a remote stacker adapted to pick-up and deposit loads at a support containing a plurality of discrete storage locations. According to one embodiment of the present invention a support containing a plurality of adjacent columns of storage locations is provided with a plurality of electrical conductors in a manner such that each of the plurality of electrical conductors has a portion from which electrical information applied to that conductor may be derived positioned in relation to an individual one of such plurality of adjacent columns of storage locations whereby one of the plurality of electrical conductors is associated with each column of storage locations.

Abstract: Aromatic mono- and polycarboxylic acids are produced by hydrolyzing the corresponding mono- and polynitriles in aqueous slurry containing a catalyst, removing ammonia from the hydrolysis mixture by countercurrent stripping with steam, and cooling the hydrolysis product to separate the carboxylic acid.

Abstract: Process for recovering hydrogen chloride from an aqueous hydrogen chloride off-gas from an oxychlorination reaction wherein hydrogen chloride is separated from the off-gas as an aqueous solution of hydrogen chloride and employed as feed to an oxychlorination reaction. The process is particularly applicable to the production of vinyl chloride.

Abstract: In the oxidation of a molten salt, such as copper chlorides with the simultaneous recovery of chlorine values, as chlorine and/or hydrogen chloride, oxygen is introduced into a lower bed and chlorine values are introduced into an upper bed for contact with downwardly flowing melt. By reversing the point of introduction of chlorine values and oxygen, the overall bed contact area required is increased.

Abstract: There is described a process and apparatus for treating oleaginous seed materials, such as soybean flakes with an extraction solvent, which includes an extraction zone, a desolventizing zone, and a miscella treating zone. In the extraction zone, the oleaginous seed material is subjected to concurrent contact with a carbohydrate-selective extraction solvent in a plurality of extraction vessels arranged in countercurrent fluid relationship therebetween with the expression of treated solids being effected after each extraction. The expressed solids from the last extracting vessel are passed to a desolventizing zone wherein residual solvent is vaporized by the respective indirect and direct contact with a heat transfer medium, such as steam, to produce a protein concentrate having a concentration (moisture free basis) of proteinaceous matter of at least about 70% by weight (6.25 times the total nitrogen content by the Kjeldahl method).

Abstract: A carbon steel reactor can be used for producing formaldehyde from methanol by passivating the reactor with respect to formic acid production by treatment with either hydrogen sulfide in the absence of oxygen or a mixture of sulfur dioxide and oxygen.

Abstract: All or a portion of chlorinated hydrocarbons convertible to trichloroethylene and/or perchloroethylene by chlorination, dehydrochlorination or dehydrogenation and optionally also dechloroination are recovered from a C.sub.2 chlorinated hydrocarbon waste stream and contacted with a molten mixture of, for example, cuprous chloride, cupric chloride and copper oxychloride and hydrogen chloride and/or chlorine, to produce an effluent which contains as reaction product trichloroethylene and/or perchloroethylene. Chlorinated components in the waste stream not contacted with the molten mixture can be burned and the chlorine values used to enrich the chlorine content of the melt.

Abstract: An effluent from a process for producing vinyl chloride includes 1,2-dichloroethane and heavier components, with the 1,2-dichloroethane being recovered, in a heavy ends stripping column by use of ethane and/or ethylene as stripping gas. The stripping gas is ultimately used for production of vinyl chloride.

Abstract: A supported metal oxide wherein the metal oxide is supported on a support having a surface area greater than 50m.sup.2 /gm and a porosity greater than 0.4cc/gm and is supported in an amount between about 25 and about 75%, by weight, within the pores of the support. The metal oxide is generally a transition metal oxide and the supported metal oxide may be prepared by heating a mixture of the support and metal oxide to a temperature above the fusion temperature of the metal oxide, at which temperature the metal oxide is drawn into the pores of the support by capillary action. The supported metal oxide may be employed for the production of nitriles.

Abstract: Gravity settler comprised of a conical vessel positioned in the lower portion and surrounded by an ellipsoidal (preferably a sphere) housing whereby the settler has a spherically shaped upper portion and conically shaped lower portion. The settler is particularly suited for separating solids from a coal liquefaction product.

Abstract: A dispersant composition comprising (1) a polysiloxane-polyoxyalkylene copolymer; and (2) an oxyalkylene polymer, in which the oxyalkylene of (1) and (2) is oxyethylene and/or oxypropylene. The composition disperses contaminants in aqueous systems without foaming, and also cleanses fouled surfaces.

Abstract: A solid non-foaming dispersing composition of (1) hydrophobic silica; (2) block copolymer of polyoxyethylene and polyoxypropylene wherein the chain is terminated, at both ends, by polyoxypropylene; and (3) an organic spreading liquid. A surfactant may also be employed. A tablet form of the composition is described.

Abstract: A penicillin S-oxide is rearranged into the corresponding desacetoxycephalosporin compound by heating said penicillin S-oxide at a temperature of from 70 to 140.degree.C in the presence of a sulfoxide of formula R.sup.1 -SO-R.sup.2, preferably dimethyl sulfoxide, or a sulfonium or sulfoxonium salt of said sulfoxyde or a mixture of said sulfoxide and said sulfonium or sulfoxonium salt. The sulfoxide may act as reaction medium as well as reactant or an inert organic solvent may be used as a reaction medium.

Abstract: The invention provides compounds of formula: ##SPC1##Wherein each of the groups R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, which may be the same or different, is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms and R.sub.3 is a hydrogen or halogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms or a methoxy, trifluoromethyl or nitro group.The compounds are useful for inducing hypothrombinaemia.

Abstract: Insoluble material is separated from a coal liquefaction product by gravity settling in the presence of a specified promoter liquid. The settling is effected to recover a net underflow having a specified ash content and the underflow is stripped of valuable products. By controlling the ash content of the underflow, loss of valuable product in the underflow can be minimized.

Abstract: There is disclosed a container integrally comprised of a cover member and body member having safety latching means formed on walls thereof and having a compressioned-biased hinge means formed to urge such members in locked interrelationship in a closed position.

Abstract: Derivatives of digoxigenin which are either unlabeled or radioiodinated having the following structural formula: ##SPC1##Wherein R' is hydroxyl or acetoxy; B is succinyl, phthaloyl, maleyl or fumaryl, preferably succinyl, and X is hydroxyl or alkali metal salt thereof; a protein conjugate; a peptide conjugate; or an amino acid or amnio acid ester radical. The radiolabeled compounds are used in the radioimmunological assay of digoxin. The preferred compound is radioiodinated 3-succinyl digoxigenin-L-tyrosine.

Abstract: A chlorinated hydrocarbon stream is cooled to condense water vapor and a major portion of the hydrogen chloride as aqueous hydrogen chloride. The uncondensed portion is further cooled by direct quenching with aqueous quench liquid to condense further water vapor, with the quench circuit being maintained on the alkaline side by the addition of base.

Abstract: Oxidized molten chloride salts are employed for chlorinating and/or oxychlorinating a feed in a first reactor and then passed by gravity to a second reactor situated below the first reactor and operated at a pressure higher than the first reactor wherein the molten salt is oxidized. The oxidized salt is returned to the first reactor. Vinyl chloride or chloromethanes can be produced by the process.

Abstract: A coal liquefaction product is separated into an essentially solid free stream and a solid containing stream including the coal ash. The solid containing stream is hydrotreated, in the absence of added catalyst, and valuable clean fuel components stripped from the hydrotreated stream. The combustibles content of the stripped solid containing stream is reduced by hydrotreatment, prior to stripping.