Abstract: A method for mounting a ring-shaped construction on a ship stern in front of a propeller which comprises fixing a plurality of pieces at a predetermined distance along a periphery of a ring-shaped construction, marking the points respectively on a plurality of said pieces which are located in a same distance from the center of said ring-shaped construction, and mounting said ring-shaped construction to said ship stern. In this process, centering so that the circular locus of the beam emitted from a projector being rotated around the rotating axis of a propeller passes over said marked points of a plurality of pieces fixed to said ring-shaped construction, the settling position of said ring-shaped construction is adjusted.

Abstract: In a process for producing a phenolic compound which comprises treating an aralkyl hydroperoxide with a mineral acid to cleave it to phenolic compound and a ketone, neutralizing or removing the mineral acid, feeding the resulting acid cleavage mixture containing the salt to a distillation column, distilling it therein to separate it into an overhead fraction consisting mainly of the ketone and a bottom fraction consisting mainly of the phenolic compound, and recovering the phenolic compound from the bottom fraction; the improvement which comprises withdrawing a liquid layer from a site of feeding the acid cleavage mixture in the distillation column or from a site below it but above the bottom of the distillation column, subjecting the liquid layer to an oil-water separating means, recycling the separated oil layer to a site below said site of withdrawal, optionally feeding a hydrocarbon having a lower boiling point than the phenolic compound but a higher boiling point than the keton and/or water to the distil

Abstract: In a continuous process for producing a polymer or copolymer of an alpha-olefin in a hydrocarbon solvent in the presence of a catalyst comprising a transition metal compound and an organoaluminum compound, the improvement wherein[I] polymerization or copolymerization is carried out in the presence of a catalyst composed of(A) a magnesium compound in the liquid state which is soluble in said hydrocarbon solvent and is free from an organoaluminum compound and a transition metal compound, said magnesium compound being obtained from specific reactants,(B) a transition metal compound in the liquid state, and(C) an organoaluminum compound, and[II] said polymerization or copolymerization is carried out while feeding said compound (C) into a polymerization or copolymerization zone separately from said other compounds (A) and (B), or while adding a part or the whole of said compound (C) to a liquid mixture of said other compounds (A) and (B) and feeding the resulting mixture into said zone, or while feeding a mixture

Abstract: This invention provides a method for purifying crude fatty acid esters of saccharide containing at least fatty acid glycerides as impurity, and which method comprises decomposing the fatty acid glycerides by the treatment thereof with a lipid splitting enzyme or with a combination of a lipid splitting enzyme and a reducing agent in the presence of water.

Abstract: An artificial island for installing oil drilling equipment in ice covered sea areas, comprising barricades against ice which surround oil drilling equipment installed in ice covered sea-water and whose respective top portions are projected above the surface of the sea-water, means provided at the bottom portions of the barricades so as to fix them to the sea-bottom, and inclined ice breaking walls provided at the outer sides of the barricades.

Abstract: Disclosed is a thermosetting resin composition comprising (a) a bismaleimide and/or a polymaleimide and (b) at least one member selected from alkenylaniline derivatives, linear dimers thereof, and polymers thereof. In addition to components (a) and (b), this resin composition can contain (c) a polymerizable unsaturated substance.

Abstract: Metallic coat finishing with good gloss vividness is provided by undercoating a liquid coating containing a specified thermosetting vinyl copolymer and a metallic appearance imparting pigment, overcoating a thermosetting, clear powder paint and then baking the two coated film together. The specified thermosetting vinyl copolymer is obtained by copolymerizing N-alkoxymethyl(metha)-acrylic amide, a hydroxyl group containing vinyl monomer, a carboxyl group containing vinyl monomer and copolymerizable other vinyl monomers in specified amounts.

Abstract: A compound of the formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.5 each represents an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms; R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 each represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms and wherein the bonding at the 2-3 position is a single bond and that at the 3-4 position is a double when the substitution of hydroxy group is at the 5-position or the bonding at the 2-3 position is a double bond and that at the 3-4 position is a single bond when the substitution of hydroxy group is at the 7-position; with the proviso that R.sup.2 and R.sup.4 should not be a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group simultaneously and process for preparing same are disclosed. The compound is useful as a herbicide and fungicide and as an intermediate for preparing agricultural chemicals, etc.

Abstract: A improvement in the process for isolating and recovering meta- and para-cresols from crude cresol-containing compositions composed of cresol components, unreacted cymene components and high-boiling by-products, by distillation in a distillation zone, the characteristic features residing in that:(i) the unreacted cymene components content in the crude cresol-containing composition is adjusted to 5-25% by weight of said composition after the adjustment, and the water content of said composition is adjusted to become 0.17-1.

Abstract: Nitrodiphenyl ether derivatives of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein X represents chlorine, fluorine, methyl or trifluoromethyl and n is an integer of 1-3 are valuable as herbicides, the compounds and compositions containing these compounds possessing an excellent herbicidal activity to a wide variety of undesirable weeds with an extremely low toxicity to useful crops.

Abstract: In a process for producing an aromatic alcohol by catalytic hydrogenation of at least one tertiary peroxide selected from the group consisting of tertiary aromatic hydroperoxides and tertiary aromatic peroxides in the presence of a palladium catalyst in a lower aliphatic alcohol solvent to form the corresponding alcohol; the improvement wherein said catalyst has a palladium metal surface area, determined by the CO chemisorption method, of up to about 200 m.sup.2 /g.multidot.Pd.

Abstract: A welding method in which two metal bars are disposed such that the opposing ends of these bars are placed in a welding mold with a predetermined welding gap preserved therebetween, and are jointed to each other by filling the space formed between the opposing ends of the bars and the inner surface of the welding mold with a molten welding metal. Also, disclosed is a welding apparatus having a welding gap setting device for placing the metal bars with a predetermined welding gap therebetween and an arc welder for jointing the bars by filling the welding gap with molten welding metal.

Abstract: In a process in which a urea synthesis effluent obtained by reacting ammonia with carbon dioxide is subjected to a stripping step of bringing the urea synthesis effluent into countercurrent contact with carbon dioxide under heating to obtain an aqueous urea solution containing a small amount of ammonia and ammonium carbamate, the improvement comprises first bringing the urea synthesis effluent is into contact with a separated gas evolved in the stripping step under adiabatic conditions or with a little cooling. The use of the above process enables a reduction in size of the stripper and a recovery of the high pressure steam without keeping the ammonia to carbon dioxide molar ratio lower than that of the conventional method.

Abstract: A fibrous carbon is prepared by dissolving coal in a hydrocarbon solvent by heating under hydrogen pressure, by subjecting to melt spinning a solvent-refined coal obtained by successively removing insoluble residues and the solvent from the resultant solution, by making the fiber thus obtained non-fusible, and then by subjecting same to carbonization. The melt spinning may be effected by mixing a highly aromatic bituminous substance with the solvent refined coal. Alternatively, the solvent-refined coal may be pretreated prior to melt spinning by extracting it with a non-aromatic solvent to remove soluble components therefrom.

Abstract: It is disclosed that, in the process for producing polymethylene polyphenyl polycarbamates through the reaction of N-phenyl carbamate with formaldehyde or a formaldehyde-supplying substance in the presence of an acid catalyst, if the reaction is carried out in the concurrent presence of at least one compound or a mixture of at least two compounds selected from the group consisting of N-carboalkoxy (or cycloalkoxy)-2-oxa-4-aza-naphthalenes, bis(N-carboalkoxy(or cycloalkoxy)-anilino)-methanes and N,N'-dicarboalkoxy (or cycloalkoxy)aminobenzyl-anilines, the object product, polymethylene polyphenyl polycarbamate, can be obtained at a high yield.

Abstract: An ultraviolet-absorbing amino compound; a paint containing the aforesaid ultraviolet-absorbing amino compound; and a coated article having on its surface a coated film containing the aforesaid ultraviolet-absorbing amino compound are provided. The ultraviolet-absorbing amino compound is produced by reacting (a) a compound having a light absorption maximum within a wavelength region of 300 to 400 m.mu. and containing a mono-, di- or tetra-hydroxyphenyl group, (b) at least one compound containing a amino group and (c) formaldehyde, in the presence of at least one alcohol. The ultraviolet-absorbing amino compound of this invention is used in resin products which undergo photodegradation by ultraviolet light, for example, paints or molded articles of resins, and is especially effective for use in thermosetting synthetic resin paints.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for concentrating aqueous urea solutions in which an aqueous urea solution is allowed to flow as a falling film in countercurrent contact with a stream of hot inert gas to concentrate it to 95-99% by weight and the aqueous urea solution so concentrated is then passed through a packed zone in cocurrent contact with a stream of hot inert gas to concentrate it to not less than 99.5% by weight.

Abstract: In a process for producing a chemically blended propylene resin composition having an ethylene content of about 1 to about 40 mole % based on the entire monomer units of the resin composition which comprises (i) a pre-polymerization step, and (ii) a multiplicity of subsequent polymerization steps, the improvement wherein (I) the pre-polymerization step (i) is either (I-A) a step wherein about 1 to about 1500 g, per millimole of titanium atom, of ethylene is polymerized, (I-B) a step wherein about 1 to about 1500 g, per millimole of titanium atom, of propylene is polymerized, or (I-C) a step wherein about 1 to about 1000 g, per millimole of titanium atom, of an alpha-olefin having 4 to 10 carbon atoms is polymerized, and (II) said multiplicity of polymerization steps (ii) are the following steps (II-1), (II-2) and (II-3) which are carried out in separate reaction zones different from the reaction zone of the pre-polymerization step (i) in this order or in the order of (II-1), (II-3) and (II-2), (II-1) a step o

Abstract: A maleated saturated hydrocarbon wax having a number-average molecular weight of 500 through 6000, a content of a maleic anhydride unit of 14 through 40% by weight and a melt viscosity of 10.sup.2 through 10.sup.6 centipoises at 140.degree. C. is disclosed. This maleated wax is self-emulsifiable and the emulsion thereof can be stored for a long period of time, even in a very dilute emulsion. This maleated wax is produced from the reaction of a saturated hydrocarbon wax with the specified amount of maleic anhydride, in the presence of an organic peroxide, at the specified temperature by adding the maleic anhydride and the organic peroxide to the molten saturated hydrocarbon wax at the specified rates.

Abstract: Device for scraping off a deposit from the internal wall surface of an elongated tube of relatively small diameter, comprising a helical coil spring which is installed inside the tube and adapted to be reciprocally movable and/or rotatable, said spring scraping off the deposit from the internal wall surface of the tube.