Abstract: A liquid mixture comprising at least one readily volatile and at least one sparingly volatile component is separated in a film evaporator by a process in which (i) a continuous stream of a liquid starting material mixture is provided, (ii) a liquid film is produced from the continuous stream and is brought into contact with a heat exchange surface of the Mm evaporator, (ii) the liquid film is partly evaporated, a gas stream enriched with the at least one readily volatile component and a liquid stream enriched with the at least one sparingly volatile component being obtained, wherein (iv) the heat exchange surface is coated with a catalytically active material which (v) catalyzes, in the liquid film, a chemical reaction in which at least one readily volatile component is formed.

Abstract: Semifinished products or leather are or is produced by a process in which pelts, pickled pelts or semifinished products are treated with a) at least one sheet silicate and b) at least one copolymer which is obtainable by copolymerization of at least one ethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic anhydride (A), derived from at least one dicarboxylic acid of 4 to 8 carbon atoms, at least one vinylaromatic compound (B1) or at least one oligomer (B2) of branched or straight-chain C2-C10-alkene, at least one oligomer having an average molecular weight Mn of from 300 to 5 000 g/mol or being obtainable by oligomerization of at least 3 equivalents of C2-C10-alkene, and optionally at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer (C) differing from (A) and having at least one hetero atom, and reaction with at least one compound (D) of the formula I a or I b and optionally hydrolysis with water or aqueous alkaline solution, where, in formula I a and I b, A1 are identical or different and are C2-C6-alkylene R1 is linear

Abstract: Thermoplastic molding compositions, comprising A) a polyamide A1), containing at least one end group derived from a piperidine compound, and B) a copolymer which contains at least one functional group which can react with the end groups of the polyamide present in component A).

Abstract: Swellable hydrogel-forming polymer comprising at least one hydrophilic polymer of dendritic structure, a process for preparing the swellable hydrogel-forming polymer and also its use in hygiene articles.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing chromophore and/or effect giving multilayer lacquers according to the wet-on-wet method. A water base lacquer is applied which contains at least one graft copolymer containing (A) at least one (meth)acrylate copolymer and (B) at least one polyurethane. The graft copolymer can be produced by (1) dispersing at least one hydrophilic or hydrophobic self cross-linking polyurethane (B) with a statistical average of at least one terminal and/or at least one lateral olefinically unsaturated group and at least one blocked isocyanate group per molecule in an aqueous medium. (2) A mixture of a at least one monomer (a1) with at least one isocyanate reactive functional group at last one monomer (a2) that can be copolymerised therewith is subsequently radically copolymerised in an emulsion in the presence of the polyurethane (B) or the polyurethanes (B). A powder slurry transparent lacquer layer is added to the resulting base lacquer layer.

Abstract: A coated catalyst whose coating of active composition is a multimetal oxide comprising the elements Mo, V and Te and/or Sb can be used for the gas-phase catalytic oxidation of propane to acrylic acid.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for hydrogenating carbonyl compounds, in particular C4-dicarboxylic acids to mixtures of tetrahydrofuran and gamma-butyrolactone, over supported rhenium catalysts, wherein rhenium and at least one further metal of groups VIII or Ib of the Periodic Table of the Elements, in particular ruthenium (Ru), rhodium (Rh), palladium (Pd), osmium (Os), iridium (Ir), platinum (Pt), copper (Cu), silver (Ag) or cobalt (Co), is applied to the support in the form of at least one bimetallic precursor compound, and also to these catalysts.

Abstract: Optical display elements comprising a layer made from a deformable material (matrix) and from discrete polymer particles whose distribution in the matrix follows a defined spatial lattice structure.

Abstract: A process is proposed for preparing (meth)acrolein and/or (meth)acrylic acid by partially oxidizing C3 and/or C4 precursor compounds in the gas phase in the presence of a heterogeneous particulate catalyst, in a reactor having two or more thermoplates (1) arranged vertically and parallel to each other while in each case leaving a gap (2), the heterogeneous particulate catalyst being installed in the gaps (2) and the gaseous reaction mixture being passed through the gaps (2), which comprises monitoring, controlling and/or regulating the process by selecting as a monitoring, control and/or regulation parameter one or more temperatures which are measured in one or more gaps (2), at one or more measurement points which are distributed over the height of each gap (2).

Abstract: Olefins are oligomerized by contacting an olefin with a catalyst system that is comprised of a) at least one transition metal complex that is complexed with a polydentate complexing ligand and b) an alkylaluminoxane, each component being present in such amounts that the molar ratio of aluminum transition metal is greater than 10, wherein at least part of the amount of the transition metal complex is added continuously or in portions during the oligomerization.

Abstract: The present invention relates to polyalkene amine formulations comprising at least one polyalkene amine in a solvent, having improved performance properties, especially improved low temperature properties; a process for preparing such formulations and the use of these formulations in fuel and lubricant compositions, in particular fuels, for improving the intake system-cleaning action of such fuels.

Abstract: Process for preparing tricyclodecanedialdehyde by hydroformylation of dicyclopentadiene by means of a CO/H2 mixture at elevated temperature and under superatmospheric pressure in the presence of a rhodium catalyst which has not been modified by means of a ligand and is homogeneously dissolved in the hydroformylation medium, wherein the hydroformylation is carried out at a pressure of from 200 to 350 bar in at least two reaction zones, with a reaction temperature of from 80 to 120° C. being set in a first reaction zone and a reaction temperature of from 120 to 150° C. being set in a reaction zone following this reaction zone, with the proviso that the reaction temperature in the subsequent reaction zone is at least 5° C. higher than in the preceding reaction zone.

Abstract: N2O is removed in nitric acid manufacture by using catalysts comprising three-dimensional structures coated with catalytically active materials.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the distillation of ionic liquids, in which a pressure not higher than ambient pressure is set in a first step and the ionic liquid is heated to a temperature in the range from 60° C. to 350° C. in a second step. The process is employed, in particular, for the purification of ionic liquids.

Abstract: Syntactic polyurethanes are obtainable by reacting a polyisocyanate component a) with a polyol component, the polyol component b) comprising a polyetherpolyol based on a difunctional initiator molecule b1), a polyetherpolyol based on a trifunctional initiator molecule b2) and a chain extender b3), in the presence of hollow microspheres c). Furthermore, the syntactic polyurethanes are used for insulating offshore pipes and other parts and equipment used in the offshore sector, and the insulated offshore pipes as such are described.

Abstract: Preparation of ethyleneamines by reacting monoethanolamine (MEOA) with ammonia in the presence of a catalyst in a reactor (1) and separating the resulting reaction product, where ethylenediamine (EDA) obtained in the separation is reacted in a separate reactor (2) in the presence of a catalyst to give diethylenetriamine (DETA), and the resulting reaction product is passed to the separation of the reaction product resulting from reactor 1.

Abstract: In a spray condensation process for the preparation of dried resins in powder form, the condensation of at least one crosslinkable starting material which is liquid or dissolved in a liquid phase with at least one aldehyde is carried out in a spray reactor.

Abstract: The use is described of polymers which contain, in copolymerized form, an ?-olefin, a vinyl ester and an ester of an ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid as an additive for fuel oils and lubricants and in particular as a cold flow improver in fuel oils. In addition, the fuel oils and lubricants additized with these polymers; and also additive packages comprising such polymers are described.

Abstract: Isolated nucleic acid molecules, designated MCP nucleic acid molecules, which encode novel MCP proteins from Corynebacterium glutamicum are described. The invention also provides antisense nucleic acid molecules, recombinant expression vectors containing MCP nucleic acid molecules, and host cells into which the expression vectors have been introduced. The invention still further provides isolated MCP proteins, mutated MCP proteins, fusion proteins, antigenic peptides and methods for the improvement of production of a desired compound from C. glutamicum based on genetic engineering of MCP genes in this organism.

Abstract: Catalyst supports and catalysts comprising them, having a certain tortuosity, and their use for heterogeneously catalyzed dehydrogenations of hydrocarbons.