Abstract: A terpolymer formed from (A) ethylene, (B) (i) C2- to C14-alkenyl esters of one or more aliphatic C1- to C20-monocarboxylic acids or (ii) C1- to C24-alkyl esters of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid and (C) olefinically unsaturated hydrocarbons selected from (iii) five- to seven-membered cycloalkenes and (iv) ?-olefins having 6 to 20 carbon atoms. The terpolymer mentioned is suitable as a cold flow improver in middle distillate fuels. It lowers the lower mixing temperature of cold flow improver additives into middle distillate fuels and improves the filterability of middle distillate fuels comprising cold flow improver additives.

Abstract: This invention relates generally to a plant cell with enhanced nitrogen use efficiency and/or increased biomass production as compared to a corresponding non-transformed wild type plant cell by increasing or generating one or more activities of polypeptides associated with enhanced nitrogen use efficiency in plants.

Abstract: An agent for imparting stain resistance to a top-coat paint film that has (a) from 3 to 10 mass % of a compound represented by Formula (1) or a partial hydrolysis condensate thereof, wherein Formula (1) is R1—(OCH2CH2)n—O—Si(OR2)3 wherein R1 is an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or a hydrogen atom, R2 is the same or different and is an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, and n is an integer value from 2 to 4, (b) from 0.01 to 1 mass % of a catalyst with which the aforementioned (a) component can be hydrolyzed, (c) 0.5 to 3 mass % of an alkylsulfosuccinic acid salt based surfactant, and (d) from 86 to 96.49 mass % of an alcohol based solvent which has not more than 3 carbon atoms. A method for imparting stain resistance to a top-coat paint film employing the disclosed agent is also provided.

Abstract: A process for preparing tolylenediamine by hydrogenating dinitrotoluene with hydrogen in the presence of a suspended catalyst in a vertically upright reactor (1), at the upper end of which is arranged a motive jet nozzle (2) through which the reaction mixture drawn off from the reactor bottom, via an external loop, is sprayed into the upper region of the reactor (1) and then flows into a central inserted tube (4) which is arranged in the longitudinal direction of the reactor, flows through the latter from the top downward and flows upward again outside the inserted tube (4) in an internal loop motion, with a heat exchanger (6) in the interior of the reactor (1), through which cooling water flows, and absorbs some of the heat of reaction as it does so, with a feed for the dinitrotoluene at the upper end of the reactor (1) and a feed for the hydrogen at the lower end of the reactor (1), and wherein, in addition to the heat exchanger (6) arranged in the interior of the reactor (1), a further heat exchanger (W

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for regenerating a hydrogen chloride oxidation catalyst comprising ruthenium oxide on a support material, which comprises the steps a) reduction of the catalyst in a gas stream comprising hydrogen chloride and optionally an inert gas at a temperature of from 100 to 800° C., b) recalcination of the catalyst in an oxygen-comprising gas stream at a temperature of from 150 to 800° C.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing low molecular weight aromatic materials of value from a lignin-comprising starting material produced from biomass.

Abstract: The invention relates to thermoplastic polyurethanes (hereinafter TPUs) suitable for the production of optical conductors, to a process for their production, and also to optical conductors based on TPUs.

Abstract: The invention relates to a component comprising an insert part and plastics jacketing composed of at least two plastics components, where the insert part is enclosed by a first plastics component A1 or by a first plastics component A2, and the first plastics component A1 or the first plastics component A2 is enclosed by a second plastics component B, where the second plastics component B is composed of B1: 10 to 99.99% by weight of at least one thermoplastic polyester, B2: 0.01 to 50% by weight of B21: at least one highly branched or hyperbranched polycarbonate having an OH number of 1 to 600 mg KOH/g polycarbonate (as per DIN 53249, Part 2) or B22: at least one highly branched or hyperbranched polyester of the type AxBy, where x is at least one 1.1 and y is at least 2.1, or mixtures thereof.

Abstract: Coating composition comprising a char forming compound as a first compound capable of forming a coloured substance upon exposition to energy; at least one latent activator selected from the group consisting of ammonium phosphate, ammonium polyphosphate, ammonium sulfite, ammonium thiosulfate, ammonium sulfamate and ammonium sulfate; and a second compound capable of forming a coloured substance upon exposition to energy selected from the group consisting of colour formers, oxygen containing transition metal compounds, and metal-chelate-type colour forming systems; a coating composition comprising a char forming compound as a first compound capable of forming a coloured substance upon exposition to energy, and a second compound capable of forming a coloured substance upon exposition to energy selected from the group consisting of colour formers and metal-chelate-type colour forming systems; a process for the preparation of these compositions, substrates coated with these compositions and a process for their pre

Abstract: The present invention relates to an integrated process for producing pulp and at least one organic liquid or liquefiable material of value, wherein a) a lignocellulose-comprising starting material is provided and subjected to digestion with an aqueous-alkaline treatment medium, b) a cellulose-enriched fraction and a cellulose-depleted black liquor are isolated from the digested material, c) the black liquor is subjected to a treatment to give at least one organic liquid or liquefiable material of value and at least one offgas stream, d) at least one of the offgas streams obtained in step c) is recycled to the process for producing pulp and utilized.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing synthesis gas and at least one organic liquid or liquefiable material of value, wherein a) a biomass starting material is provided, b) the biomass starting material is subjected to a decomposition, c) at least one aromatics-enriched fraction C1) and at least one aromatics-depleted fraction C2) are optionally isolated from the decomposed material obtained in step b), d) the decomposition product from step b) or the aromatics-enriched fraction C1) from step c) is fed into a dealkylation zone and reacted in the presence of hydrogen and/or water vapor, e) a discharge is taken from the dealkylation zone and subjected to a separation to give at least one organic liquid or liquefiable material of value and at least one stream enriched in components which are more volatile than the organic material of value, f) the stream enriched in components which are more volatile than the organic material of value which is obtained in step e) is at least partly used for p

Abstract: Flexible polyurethane foam which can be obtained by mixing a) polyisocyanates with b) at least one relatively high molecular weight compound having at least two reactive hydrogen atoms, c) hyperbranched polyethers, d) if appropriate a low molecular weight chain extender and/or crosslinker, e) a catalyst, f) blowing agents and g) if appropriate other additives.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for storing heat, comprising a heat storage medium which absorbs heat in order to store heat and releases heat in order to use the stored heat, and a container for holding the heat storage medium, the container being closed by a gastight cover, and the device comprising volume compensation means in order to compensate for a volume increase of the heat storage medium (3) due to a temperature rise and a volume decrease due to a temperature reduction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for recovering components from a low boiler mixture which is obtained in the distillation of hydrogenation effluents from the preparation of polymethylols, by multistage distillation of the low boiler mixture comprising a tertiary amine, water, methanol, polymethylol of the formula (I) methylolalkanal of the formula (II) alcohol of the formula (III) and an alkanal with a methylene group in the ? position to the carbonyl group, and in which each R is independently a further methylol group or an alkyl group having 1 to 22 carbon atoms or an aryl or aralkyl group having 6 to 22 carbon atoms, a first distillation stage involving separating the low boiler mixture into a higher-boiling, predominantly water-rich fraction and into a lower-boiling aqueous organic fraction comprising the tertiary amine, and the second distillation stage involving separating the aqueous organic fraction from the first distillation stage into a predominantly amine-containing fract

Abstract: The present invention relates to polynucleotides from Cochliobolus heterostrophus C5, Cyanothece sp. CCY0110, Mycocentrospora acerina and Hyaloperonospora parasitica, which code for desaturases and which can be employed for the recombinant production of polyunsaturated fatty acids. The invention furthermore relates to vectors, host cells and transgenic nonhuman organisms which comprise the polynucleotides according to the invention, and to the polypeptides encoded by the polynucleotides. The invention furthermore relates to antibodies against the polypeptides according to the invention. Finally, the invention also relates to production processes for the polyunsaturated fatty acids and for oil, lipid and fatty acid compositions and to their use as drugs, cosmetics, foodstuffs, feedstuffs, preferably fish food, or food supplements.

Abstract: Catalysts, catalytic articles, and catalyst systems and methods for treating exhaust gas streams utilizing the catalytic articles are described. In one or more embodiments, a catalytic article includes a first SCR catalyst permeating the porous walls of a substrate and a second SCR catalyst coating the walls of the substrate. Methods for treating an exhaust gas stream are also provided. Methods of making and using such catalysts and catalytic articles are also described.

Abstract: Multicoat color and/or effect finishes on substrates, comprising, lying atop one another in this order: (A) at least one pigment-free coating, (B) at least one color and/or effect coating, and (C) at least one transparent coating, processes for producing them, and their use.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for separating an enantiomer mixture of (R)- and (S)-3-amino-1-butanol optionally protected on the oxygen atom, and to a process for preparing essentially enantiomerically pure (R)-3-amino-1-butanol which optionally bears a protecting group on the oxygen atom.

Abstract: The invention provides a thermoplastic polyurethane with at least one plasticizer, where at least one first plasticizer (i) is based on glycerol, and at least one hydroxy group of the glycerol has been esterified with a monocarboxylic acid (ii) which comprises 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 carbon atoms, more preferably 2, 3, or 4 carbon atoms, and very particularly preferably 2 carbon atoms. The invention further comprises a process for producing the thermoplastic polyurethane with the plasticizer (i), a process for coating products with said thermoplastic polyurethane, the use of the thermoplastic polyurethane, and also the use of plasticizers based on glycerol for thermoplastic polyurethane.

Abstract: The present invention relates to branched polymers which contain hydroxyl groups and acrylate groups, to processes for preparing them, and to their use.