Abstract: A process for the preparation of an enzyme-containing granulate is disclosed where an aqueous enzyme-containing liquid is mixed with an edible carbohydrate-based solid carrier, such as starch, mechanically processed into granules, and subsequently dried. This enzyme granulate is suitable for the manufacture of animal feed compositions by mixing feed ingredients with the granulate, treating with steam and pelleting. The compositions optimally show improved enzyme stability during the pelleting process.

Abstract: A process is described for isomerizing pentenenitrile in a reactant stream, wherein the isomerization is effected over a heterogeneous catalyst in a distillation column in such a way that, during the isomerization of the isomerization reactant, it is distillatively depleted in relation to the isomerization product in the reaction column of the distillation column.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a mono- and/or polyallyl-polyether-urethane, to water-soluble or water-dispersible polymers which comprise such a polyether-urethane in copolymerized form, and to cosmetic or pharmaceutical compositions which comprise a water-soluble or water-dispersible polymer based on a mono- and/or polyallyl-polyether-urethane.

Abstract: The present invention describes a process for the preparation of an enzyme-containing granulate wherein an aqueous enzyme-containing liquid is, optionally supplemented with a solid carrier and/or additive ingredients, processed into granules, dried and subsequently coated with a dispersion containing particles of a hydrophobic substance. The hydrophobic substance may be a hydrophobic fat- or wax-like substance or a hydrophobic polymeric compound. Preferably, the hydrophobic polymeric compound is a polyolefin, more preferably polyethylene and/or polypropylene. The thus coated enzyme granulate is suitable for the manufacture of animal feed compositions by mixing the granulate with feed ingredients, treating with steam and pelleting. The coated granulates show high enzyme stability during pelleting conditions and during storage. At the same time, the dissolution time of the granule is very short so that the bioavailability of the enzyme to the animal is improved.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an aqueous coating composition having excellent freeze-thaw stability and a low-VOC content, comprising a multi-stage polymer dispersion comprising (a) an inner phase comprising at least one latex polymer derived from at least one monomer and at least one polymerizable alkoxylated surfactant having the structure: R1—R2 wherein R1 is an allyl group selected from the group consisting of CH3—CH?CH— and CH2?CH—CH2—, or an acrylic group and R2 is a radical comprising at least two carbon atoms and at least one oxyethylene or oxypropylene unit; (b) an outer phase having a glass transition temperature of from 30° C. to 110° C. containing at least one ethylenic unsaturated monomer (c) at least one pigment; (d) water; and (e) less than 3.0% by weight based on the total weight of the aqueous coating composition of anti-freeze agents.

Abstract: Water-soluble, biologically degradable copolymers based on polyamide are described which contain at least one grafted side chain composed of aldehydes and sulfur-containing acids and salts thereof and optionally at least one compound from the series ketones, aromatic alcohols, urea (derivatives) and amino-s-triazines. Natural polyamides such as caseins, gelatins, collagens, bone glues, blood albumins and soya proteins as well as degradation products thereof and synthetic polyamides such as polyaspartic acids and copolymers of aspartic and glutamic acid are used as preferred polyamide components. These copolymers are obtained primarily by graft polymerization at temperatures between ?10 and 250° C., preferably in the presence of a solvent such as water or by thermal drying and they are used in particular as flow agents or water retention agents for inorganic binders and pigments especially in combination with hydraulic binders they only have a very slight setting-retardant effect.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an aqueous coating material comprising (A) at least one polyurethane which is ionically stabilized, nonionically stabilized, or a combination thereof, and which is saturated, unsaturated, grafted with olefinically unsaturated compounds, or a combination thereof, (B) at least one wetting agent or dispersant; and (C) at least one organic solvent selected from the group consisting of dimethyl sulfoxide, sulfolane, 2-methyl-1-butanol, 3-methyl-1-butanol, 2-methyl-1-pentanol, hexyl glycol, 1,6-hexanediol, diethylene glycol, triethylene glycol, glycerol, solutions of trimethylolpropane, solutions of pentaerythritol, solutions of sorbitol, reactive polyether polyols with a number-average molecular weight of 110 to 6000 daltons and a hydroxyl number of 25 to 1000 mg KOH/g, propylene glycol monobutyl ether, dipropylene glycol dimethyl ether, glycerol ethoxylate, ethyl 3-ethoxypropionate, gamma-butyrolactone, N-(2-hydroxyethyl)piperidine, N-methylmorpholine, N-(2-hydroxyethyl)morpholine, N-acetylmor

Abstract: The use of a surfactant mixture comprising at least one surfactant having a hydrocarbon radical composed of from 12 to 30 carbon atoms and at least one cosurfactant having a branched hydrocarbon radical composed of from 6 to 11 carbon atoms for tertiary mineral oil extraction.

Abstract: Disclosed is a heat-curable powder coating composition that allows the formation of a coating film having outstanding long-term corrosion resistance, as well as outstanding chipping resistance, flexibility, and adhesion. The disclosed heat-curable powder coating composition is characterized by a resin having crosslinkable functional groups that are solid at room temperature (A), a curing agent capable of reacting with said crosslinkable functional groups (B), a fibrous filler (C), and heat-expandable resin particles (D).

Abstract: The present invention comprises methods for producing a formulation with controlled active substance release, wherein a Pickering emulsion of the solvent in water type is applied to a solid carrier, and also formulations with controlled active substance release producible by the abovementioned method.

Abstract: A process for preparing chlorine in a fluidized-bed reactor, in which a gaseous reaction mixture comprising hydrogen chloride and oxygen flows from the bottom upward through a heterogeneous particulate catalyst forming a fluidized bed, wherein the fluidized bed is provided with internals which divide the fluidized bed into a plurality of cells arranged horizontally in the fluidized-bed reactor and a plurality of cells arranged vertically in the fluidized-bed reactor, with the cells having cell walls which are permeable to gas and have openings which ensure an exchange number of the heterogeneous, particulate catalyst in the vertical direction in the range from 1 to 100 liters/hour per liter of reactor volume, is proposed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to azolylmethyloxiranes of the general formula I in which A or B is phenyl which is substituted by one CN and optionally by one to three of the following substituents: halogen, NO2, amino, C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-alkoxy, C1-C4-haloalkyl, C1-C4-haloalkoxy, C1-C4-alkylamino, C1-C4-dialkylamino, thio or C1-C4-alkylthio, and the respective other substituent A or B is phenyl or 5-membered or 6-membered heteroaryl, these substituents optionally being substituted by one to three of the following substituents: halogen, CN, NO2, amino, C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-alkoxy, C1-C4-haloalkyl, C1-C4-haloalkoxy, C1-C4-alkylamino, C1-C4-dialkylamino, thio or C1-C4-alkylthio, and to the plant-compatible acid addition salts or metal salts thereof, to the use of the compounds of the formula I for controlling phytopathogenic fungi and to compositions comprising these compounds.

Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive comprising a synthetic polymer binder, wherein the polymer has been synthesized from 10% to 100% by weight of a C10 alkyl (meth)acrylate and the alkyl group of the C10 alkyl (meth)acrylate has a propyl group as substituent (referred to subsequently as C10 alkyl (meth)acrylate).

Abstract: A process for classifying water-absorbing polymer beads, wherein the polymer beads are separated into n particle size fractions by means of at least n screens and n is an integer greater than 1.

Abstract: Processes for preparing ethylene oxide, the process comprising: (a) providing a catalyst-comprising microchannel reactor; (b) feeding (i) an ethylene-comprising stream and (ii) a stream comprising oxygen, an oxygen source or both, into the microchannel reactor; and (c) continuously feeding one or more components selected from the group consisting of alkyl halides, nitrogen-comprising compounds, and mixtures thereof into the microchannel reactor in a concentration of from 0.3 to 50 ppm by volume, each based on the total volume flow of all streams introduced into the reactor.

Abstract: A method checking the authenticity of goods, including marking and identification of the goods. A marking in a form of a patter having a pattern function is applied to the surface of the goods, a local change in physically measurable properties of the surface of the goods in the region of the marking being brought about by the marking; the marking is not perceptible by eye. The identification detects transmission, reflection or scattering of analytical radiation by the surface of the goods as a function of local coordinates and the wavelength of the analytical radiation, and thereby a response function is determined, which reproduces intensity of the transmitted, reflected or scattered analytical radiation as a function of the local coordinates and the wavelength, and by correlation analysis, the correlation of the response function with a known pattern function is determined. The marking is detected by the correlation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a tanning agent in or on filters, in particular natural or synthetic fibrous fabric or foams, for the avoidance of infections, these filters in particular being part of respiratory protection masks or respiratory protection apparatuses.

Abstract: Fungicidal mixtures, comprising (1) epoxiconazole of the formula I or its salts or adducts and (2) triticonazole of the formula II (3) difenconazole of the formula III (4) hexaconazole of the formula IV (5) bromuconazole of the formula V in a synergistically effective amount, methods for controlling harmful fungi using mixtures of a compound I and at least one active compound II and the use of a compound I with active compounds II for preparing such mixtures, and also compositions comprising these mixtures.

Abstract: A process for extractively removing nickel(0) complexes having phosphorus ligands from a reaction effluent of a hydrocyanation of unsaturated mononitriles to dinitriles by extraction by means of a hydrocarbon, a phase separation of the hydrocarbon and of the nitrile-containing solution into two phases being effected, by feeding at least one polar additive to the hydrocyanation effluent (feedstream) and/or to the extraction stage.

Abstract: A process for transferring heat to a liquid F comprising dissolved monomeric acrylic acid, Michael acrylic acid oligomers, and acrylic acid polymer with the aid of an indirect heat exchanger to which are supplied the liquid F with a temperature TF of ?150° C. and a fluid heat carrier W with a temperature of TW>TF, wherein the formation of gas bubbles and/or of thin layers of liquid F adjoining a gas phase is brought about in the liquid F during the flow through the heat exchanger.