Patents Assigned to BASF
  • Publication number: 20200290884
    Abstract: A process for the calcination of a zeolitic material, wherein the process contains the steps of (i) providing a zeolitic material containing YO2 and optionally further containing X2O3 in its framework structure in the form of a powder and/or of a suspension of the zeolitic material in a liquid, wherein Y stands for a tetravalent element and X stands for a trivalent element; (ii) atomization of the powder and/or of the suspension of the zeolitic material provided in (i) in a gas stream for obtaining an aerosol; and (iii) calcination of the aerosol obtained in (ii) for obtaining a calcined powder, a zeolitic material obtained by the above process, and its use as a molecular sieve, as an adsorbent for ion-exchange, as a catalyst, and/or as a catalyst support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Benedikt KALO, Thomas GEIGER, Rene KOENIG, Ulrich MUELLER, Stefan MAURER
  • Publication number: 20200290022
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides SCR catalyst compositions, catalyst articles, and catalyst systems, as well as methods of reducing the amount of NOx present in an engine exhaust gas, particularly exhaust from a gasoline engine. The catalyst compositions particularly can comprise a doped ceria substrate, particularly a ceria support doped with at least a niobia component, and optionally further doped with a further material, particularly a base metal oxide (BMO).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Xiaolai ZHENG, Patrick BURK
  • Publication number: 20200292213
    Abstract: The invention relates to a magnetocaloric device, comprising a field generator, arranged to provide a changing external magnetic field and a magnetocaloric regenerator arrangement. The magnetocaloric regenerator arrangement comprises a magnetocaloric element, wherein the magnetocaloric element comprises magnetocaloric material, and wherein the magnetocaloric regenerator arrangement is arranged to be exposed to the changing external magnetic field of the field generator. Furthermore, the invention is characterized in that the magnetocaloric device further comprises an insulating means wherein the insulating means is arranged such that the magnetocaloric regenerator arrangement is hermetically surrounded by the insulating means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Florian SCHARF, Ralf BOEHLING, Markus SCHWIND
  • Publication number: 20200291165
    Abstract: A method for preparing a thermoplastic polyoxazolidone, the method including catalytically reacting one or more aromatic diisocyanates and one or more diepoxides, wherein the one or more diepoxides comprise one or more 2-phenylpropane-1,3-diol diglycidyl ether derivatives. The one or more diepoxides further contain one or more diglycidyl ethers of aromatic diols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Irene GORMAN, Veit STEGMANN, Hans-Josef THOMAS
  • Patent number: 10772322
    Abstract: Polymer particles, comprising a) at least one sparingly soluble insecticide from the group consisting of fipronil, allethrin, alpha-cypermethrin, beta-cyfluthrin, bifenthrin, bioallethrin, 4-chloro-2-(2-chloro-2-methylpropyl)-5-[(6-iodo-3-pyridinyl)methoxy]-3(2H)-pyridazinone (CAS-RN: 120955-77-3), chlorantraniliprole, chlorfenapyr, cyantraniliprole, cyfluthrin, cyhalothrin, cypermethrin, deltamethrin, etofenprox, fenoxycarb, flufenoxuron, hydramethylnon, imidacloprid, indoxacarb, metaflumizone, permethrin, pyriproxifen, tebufenozide and tralomethrin and b) at least one water-insoluble polymer, are suitable for improving the soil mobility of the sparingly soluble insecticide(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Klaus Reinhard, Holger Türk, Peter Hahn, Tina Schröder-Grimonpont, Michael Ishaque, Marc Rudolf Jung
  • Patent number: 10774058
    Abstract: A process for preparing D-glucaro-6,3-lactone from a salt of D-glucaric acid is provided. The process includes: adding a mineral acid to a pre-cooled solution including a salt of D-glucaric acid, water, and acetone to obtain a crude mixture; allowing the crude mixture to rise to a temperature in a range of ?15° C. to ?35° C. and stirring the crude mixture; filtrating the crude mixture and washing with an acetone and water solvent mixture to obtain a filtrate; concentrating the filtrate under vacuum pressure to obtain a concentrated filtrate having a water content in a range of ?20.0 wt. % to ?40.0 wt. %, relative to an overall weight of the concentrated filtrate; storing the concentrated filtrate at a temperature in a range of ?0° C. to ?5° C., and optionally repeating the concentrating and storing steps to obtain a precipitate comprising D-glucaro-6,3-lactone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Abhijeet Roy, Dominik Ohlmann, Rahul Mulay, Priti Kulkarni, Vijay Narayanan Swaminathan
  • Patent number: 10777750
    Abstract: The present invention relates to spiro compounds containing electron-conducting groups and to electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices, comprising these compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Amir Hossain Parham, Elvira Montenegro, Anja Jatsch, Christof Pflumm, Jonas Valentin Kroeber, Tobias Grossmann, Thomas Eberle, Lars Dobelmann
  • Patent number: 10774024
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalytic process for preparing an ?,?-ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid salt, comprising contacting an alkene and carbon dioxide with a carboxylation catalyst being a transition metal complex, an alkoxide, and an organic solvent, to obtain an ?,?-ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid salt, the organic solvent being incompletely miscible with water at a pressure of 1 bar at at least one temperature T and selected from amides and ureas, T being a temperature in the range from 10° C. to 90° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Thomas Schaub, Rocco Paciello, Nuria Huguet Subiela, Oliver Trapp, Simone Manzini
  • Patent number: 10774057
    Abstract: A process for preparing ethene oxide comprising providing a liquid feed stream comprising ethene, hydrogen peroxide, and a solvent; passing the liquid feed stream into an epoxidation zone comprising a catalyst comprising a titanium zeolite comprising zinc and having framework type MWW, and subjecting the liquid feed stream to epoxidation reaction conditions in the epoxidation zone, obtaining a reaction mixture comprising ethene oxide, water, and the solvent; removing an effluent stream from the epoxidation zone, the effluent stream comprising ethene oxide, water and the solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Andrei-Nicolae Parvulescu, Ulrich Mueller, Joaquim Henrique Teles, Dominic Riedel, Markus Weber, Yan Li
  • Patent number: 10772275
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for evaluation of the effect of a treatment on one or more characteristics of a plant. More particularly, the invention relates to a method and apparatus for high throughput analysis of the effect of a treatment on one or more characteristics of a plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBH
    Inventors: Frederik Leyns, Joris Eeckhout
  • Patent number: 10774977
    Abstract: A composite article includes a low surface energy polymer layer, a poly(meth)acrylate layer, an epoxide layer, and a hydrolytically resistant layer. The poly(meth)acrylate layer is disposed on and in direct contact with the low surface energy polymer layer and includes the reaction product of at least one acrylate that is polymerized in the presence of an organoborane initiator, such that the poly(meth)acrylate includes boron. The epoxide layer is disposed on and in direct contact with the poly(meth)acrylate layer. The hydrolytically resistant layer is disposed on and in direct contact with the epoxide and is the reaction product of an isocyanate component and an isocyanate-reactive component reacted in the presence of a curing agent. The isocyanate-reactive component includes a polydiene polyol and the curing agent crosslinks the carbon-carbon double bonds of the polydiene polyol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Dodge, Andre Kamm, Charles E. Jones, Jr., Karl R. Gust
  • Patent number: 10774034
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the conversion of ethylene oxide to 2-aminoethanol and/or ethane-1,2-diamine and/or linear polyethylenimines of the formula H2N—(CH2CH2NH)n—CH2CH2—NH2 wherein n?1 comprising (i) providing a catalyst comprising a zeolitic material comprising YO2 and X2O3, wherein Y is a tetravalent element and X is a trivalent element; (ii) providing a gas stream comprising ethylene oxide and ammonia; (iii) contacting the catalyst provided in (i) with the gas stream provided in (ii) for converting ethylene oxide to 2-aminoethanol and/or ethane-1,2-diamine and/or linear polyethylenimines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Alvaro Gordillo, Andrei-Nicolae Parvulescu, Armin Lange De Oliveira, Andreas Kuschel, Juergen Bechtel, Johannes Lieberknecht, Ulrich Müller, Johann-Peter Melder, Christian Gruenanger
  • Patent number: 10773209
    Abstract: Catalyst articles comprising palladium and related methods of preparation and use are disclosed. Disclosed is a catalyst article comprising a first catalytic layer formed on a substrate, wherein the first catalytic layer comprises palladium impregnated on a ceria-free oxygen storage component and platinum impregnated on a refractory metal oxide, and a second catalytic layer formed on the first catalytic layer comprising platinum impregnated on an oxygen storage component and rhodium impregnated on a zirconia-coated or yttria-coated alumina. The palladium component of the catalyst article is present in a higher proportion relative to the other platinum group metal components. The catalyst articles provide improved reductions in NOx in exhaust gases, particularly after lean-rich aging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Xinsheng Liu, Ye Liu, Pascaline Harrison Tran, Michael P. Galligan, Wenyong Lin, Keshavaraja Alive
  • Publication number: 20200283304
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of a zeolitic material, as well as to a catalyst per se as obtainable or obtained according to said process. Furthermore, the present invention relates to the use of the zeolitic material, in particular as a catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2018
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Christian RIEMANN, Andrei-Nicolae PARVULESCU, Ralf BOEHLING, Ulrich MUELLER, Hans-Juergen LUETZEL, Stefanie CLADE, Christoph SCHAPPERT
  • Publication number: 20200287242
    Abstract: A lithium ion battery comprising (i) at least one anode, (ii) at least one cathode containing a cathode active material selected from lithium ion containing transition metal compounds having a content of Manganese of from 50 to 100 wt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicants: BASF SE, Rhode Island Board of Education, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
    Inventors: Arnd GARSUCH, Frederick Francois CHESNEAU, Itamar Michael MALKOWSKY, Brett LUCHT, Mengqing XU, Dongsheng LU
  • Patent number: 10766840
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing an unsaturated alcohol, preferably 3,7-dimethyl-2,6-octadienal, by contacting an alkene, preferably isobutene, with formaldehyde in the presence a condensation catalyst comprising a zeolitic material comprising the framework structure of which comprises a tetravalent element Y other than Si.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Andrei-Nicolae Parvulescu, Miriam Bru Roig, Albert Werner, Bernhard Brunner, Wolfgang Siegel, Stephan Maurer, Ulrich Mueller, Michael Ludwig Lejkowski
  • Patent number: 10766871
    Abstract: A continuous process for the preparation of propylene oxide, comprising providing a liquid feed stream comprising propene, hydrogen peroxide, methanol, water, at least one dissolved potassium salt of hydroxyethylidenediphosphonic acid, and optionally propane; passing the liquid feed stream provided in (i) into an epoxidation reactor comprising a catalyst comprising a titanium zeolite of structure type MFI, and subjecting the liquid feed stream to epoxidation reaction conditions in the epoxidation reactor, obtaining a reaction mixture comprising propylene oxide, methanol, water, and the at least one dissolved potassium salt of hydroxyethylidenediphosphonic acid, and optionally propane; removing an effluent stream from the epoxidation reactor, the effluent stream comprising propylene oxide, methanol, water, at least a portion of the at least one potassium salt of hydroxyethylidenediphosphonic acid, and optionally propane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignees: BASF SE, Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Edward O. Madenjian, Kenric A. Marshall
  • Patent number: 10767190
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the identification of clubroot resistance genes from Brassica. Clubroot resistant Brassicaceae plants are provided, as well as clubroot resistance genes and methods and means to increase clubroot resistance in Brassicaceae.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: BASF AGRICULTURAL SOLUTIONS SEED, US LLC
    Inventors: Steven Engelen, Michel Van Thournout, Stephen Rae, Kim Crommar, Vanessa Hostyn, Godfrey Chongo
  • Patent number: 10766020
    Abstract: Emissions treatment systems of combustion engines are provided, which comprise a platinum-containing catalyst that is degreened during production, which is before exposure to operating conditions of a vehicle having a diesel engine. The platinum-containing catalyst, in the form of a platinum component on a high surface area refractory metal oxide support, exhibits a vibration frequency of about 2085 to about 2105 cm?1 as measured by CO-DRIFTS. Such catalytic material is essentially-free of platinum oxide species found at greater than about 2110 cm?1 as measured by CO-DRIFTS. Such catalysts can provide excellent and consistent conversion of nitrogen oxide (NO) to nitrogen dioxide (NO2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Xinyi Wei, Stanley A. Roth, Haiyang Zhu
  • Patent number: 10765614
    Abstract: Compositions containing one or more alkyl lactate sulfate (A) of the general formula (I), R1(OCOCH(CH3))nOSO3M1??(I) in which the radical R1 is a linear or branched alkyl or alkenyl radical having 6 to 30 carbon atoms, the index n is a number in the range from 1 to 5, and the radical M1 is selected from H, Li, Na, K, Ca/2, Mg/2, ammonium, and alkanolamine, one or more compound (B) selected from phosphoric acid and the mono-, di- and tri-salts thereof, wherein the cation of these salts is selected from Li, Na, K, Ca, Mg, ammonium, and alkanolamine, one or more compound (C) selected from citric acid and the mono-, di- and tri-salts thereof, wherein the cation of these salts is selected from Li, Na, K, Ca, Mg, ammonium, and alkanolamine, and water where the following provisos apply: the weight ratio of the sum total of the compounds (B) and (C) to the sum total of the compound (A) is in the range from 1:5 to 1:10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ansgar Behler, Frank Clasen, Claudia Brunn, Laurence Pottie, Monika Barbenheim, Daniel Hoff