Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a process for converting syngas to C2+ alcohols, said process comprising the steps of providing a reactor, of providing a catalyst composition and one or more acidic materials within said reactor, of providing a feed stream comprising a mixture of H2 and CO; and of contacting said feed stream with said catalyst composition and said one or more acidic materials under reaction conditions to provide product stream. Said process is remarkable in that said catalyst composition comprises an active phase comprising CuFe deposited on a carbon-containing support, and the one or more acidic materials are one or more zeolites having a Si/Al molar ratio ranging between 2 and 200.

Abstract: The invention relates to a thickening composition intended for topical application on the skin, lips or skin appendages, said thickening composition comprising at least one oil derived from a biological source and at least one poly(farnesene) polymer having a number average molar mass ranging from 10,000 to 120,000 g/mol. The invention also relates to a cosmetic composition comprising the thickening composition according to the invention and the use of the thickening composition according to the invention in a cosmetic composition.

Abstract: A polypropylene resin composition is provided that includes an ethylene-propylene block copolymer resin. The ethylene-propylene block copolymer resin comprises a propylene homopolymer component and an ethylene-propylene rubber copolymer component as a solvent extract. The content of the ethylene-propylene rubber copolymer component in the ethylene-propylene block copolymer resin is 25 to 40% by weight. The ratio of the content of ethylene to the content of solvent extract in the ethylene-propylene block copolymer resin based on percent by weight is 0.25 to 0.45/ The ethylene-propylene block copolymer resin has a melt index of 20 to 45 g/10 minutes when measured at 230° C. under a load of 2.16 kg.

Abstract: An apparatus (100) for operation in a tubular channel (199), the apparatus comprising a first part and a second part connected to the first part, wherein the second part comprises a first electronic device adapted to generate a data signal and a first communications device for wirelessly transmitting the generated data signal via a wireless communications channel, wherein the first part comprises a second communications device for wirelessly receiving the transmitted data signal via said radio-frequency communications channel.

Abstract: The present invention is a filtration system and a method for cleaning a filtration system. The filtration system comprising a hydraulic circuit Cp recycling the permeate stream to the feed side of the membrane and/or a hydraulic circuit Cr recycling the retentate stream to the feed side of said membrane. The method injects an amount of a chemical product into the filtration system in the hydraulic circuit Cp or in the hydraulic circuit Cr or upstream of the cross-flow filtration membrane, setting the proportion of recycled permeate stream or recycled retentate stream collected in the hydraulic circuit Cp and/or Cr to enable the recycling of a significant amount of unreacted chemical product having passed through the cross-flow filtration membrane to the feed side of said cross-flow filtration membrane.

Abstract: An inclinable rebounding exercise device comprising at least one inclinable rail having an upper and a lower end; an adjustable support assembly that allows the at least one rail to be adjusted to a desired inclination angle; a sliding platform slidably mounted with respect to the at least one rail; a support base; a foot platform assembly including a pair of resilient, independent foot platforms coupled to the support base. The pair of resilient, independent foot platforms allow for a soft landing achieved by absorbing energy therein, reducing joint stress and allowing greater muscle exercise.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a non-ionic surfactant and an anionic surfactant for enhancing the injectivity of an injection well, wherein the non-ionic surfactant and the anionic surfactant are added to produced water, to form a reinjection stream which is injected into a subterranean formation by the injection well.

Abstract: The invention notably relates to a computer-implemented method for designing a geological simulation grid, the method comprising: providing a geometrical grid that conforms to a set of geological structures of a geological environment; providing a geometrical surface that represents a geological surface of the geological environment, the geological surface being outside the set of geological structures; identifying geometrical structures of the geometrical grid that each correspond to a respective location of the geometrical surface; and transferring to each identified geometrical structure one or more respective parameters, each parameter being a value of a respective property of the geological surface. This improves the field of geological simulation.

Abstract: Compositions are obtained by mixing at least one oligomer A1, which is obtained by copolymerizing at least two monomers functionalized by diol functions with at least one second monomer, with at least one compound A2 having at least two boron ester functions. The compositions exhibit very varied rheological properties depending on the proportion of the compounds A1 and A2 used. A composition is also obtained by mixing at least one lubricating oil with such a composition of associative and exchangeable polymers, and the use of this composition to lubricate a mechanical part.

Abstract: Granules of material usable as a road binder or as a sealing binder including a core and a coating layer, wherein: the core consists of a first composition including at least one material selected from: a bitumen base, a pitch, a clear binder, and the coating layer consists of a second composition which includes: at least one viscosifying compound selected from cellulose ethers, and at least one anticaking agent. Also, a method for producing granules of material that can be used as a road binder or as a sealing binder, and the use thereof as a road binder, in particular for the production of coated materials. Also, a method for producing coatings from granules of material that can be used as a road binder or as a sealing binder and to a method for transporting and/or storing and/or handling granules.

Abstract: A product resulting from the reaction of at least: a hydroxybenzoic acid substituted by a hydrocarbyl group, a boron compound, and a quaternary ammonium salt. A lubricant composition including this product. Use of this product as a lubricant for two-stroke marine engines and four-stroke marine engines, more preferably two-stroke marine engines.

Abstract: A bitumen granules including a core and a coating layer, in which the core includes at least one bitumen base, and the coating layer includes at least: one oil selected from a hydrocarbon oil of petroleum or synthetic origin; and at least one organogelator compound selected from among compounds of general formula (I), (II) or (V). The invention also relates to a method for producing bitumen granules, as well as to the use thereof as an asphalt binder, in particular for producing mixes. The invention further relates to a method for producing mixes from bitumen granules and also to a method for transporting and/or storing and/or handling bitumen granules.

Abstract: Embodiments of an injection device shaped in order to atomize a liquid into droplets by means of a gas are disclosed herein. The injection device may comprise a body having a gas inlet orifice intended to be connected to a gas supply duct. The injection device may further comprise an outlet orifice for discharging the atomized liquid. The injection device may also comprise a straight internal duct connecting the inlet orifice to the outlet orifice along an axial direction of said body. At least two liquid inlet ducts may be intended to be connected to at least one liquid supply duct pass through said body radially or substantially radially and open into said internal duct. These liquid inlet ducts may each have an axis and are arranged so that their axes intersect at one and the same point on an axial line extending inside the internal duct.

Abstract: A coupling assembly having first and second sleeves configured to be tightened to a fluid conduit, a radial-split gasket configured to be positioned between the sleeves and the fluid conduit and having an outer gasket layer and a separate inner gasket layer configured to be selectively disengaged from each other, the outer gasket layer having a radial gap defined by first and second radial side wall gap surfaces, the inner gasket layer having a radial gap and a radial insert configured to be received in the radial gap of the outer gasket layer between the first and second radial side wall gap surfaces.

Abstract: A method for determining a plasticity parameter of a hydrating, cement paste by mixing the components to obtain a cement slurry, pouring the cement slurry in a scaled oedometric cell, and performing an oedometric measurement operation within a predefined early-age time interval by applying a predefined axial stress path to the cement slurry over a predefined measurement duration and measuring an axial strain. A plasticity parameter of the hydrating cement paste is determined b a calibration processing operation comprising providing an initial value of a plasticity parameter of an elastoplastic model of hydrating cement paste, determining simulated axial strain values by solving the elastoplastic model of hydrating cement and comparing the simulated axial strain values with the axial strain measurements of the cement slurry.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a dinuclear molybdenum complex with ligands selected from fatty tertiary amines of formula (I): R—N[(CH2)nR2][(CH2)nR3]??(I) wherein R represents a linear or branched alkyl comprising 3 to 30 carbon atoms, preferably 3 to 20, advantageously 7 to 17 carbon atoms; n, identical or different, represents 2 or 3; R2 and R3, identical or different, represent an O, OR, NR?2, COOR?, or COO group, where R?, identical or different, represents a hydrogen atom or an alkaline or alkaline earth metal, preferably R? is H, preferably R2 and R3, identical or different, represent an OH or NH2 group.

Abstract: The present application relates to a gear lubricant composition comprising: 97 to 99.9 wt.-% trimethylolpropane triester; and 0.1 to 3 wt.-% at least one additive selected from among anti-wear additives, extreme pressure additives, antioxidants, anti-corrosion additives, metal deactivator additives, antifoams, and mixtures thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyst composition comprising: catalyst component A comprising a bridged metallocene compound with two indenyl groups, each indenyl being substituted with one or more substituents, wherein at least one of the substituent is an aryl or heteroaryl; catalyst component B comprising a bridged metallocene compound with a substituted or unsubstituted cyclopentadienyl group and a substituted or unsubstituted fluorenyl group; an optional activator; an optional support; and an optional co-catalyst. The present invention also relates to a polymerization process using said composition. The invention further relates to olefin polymers at least partially catalyzed by said catalyst composition and articles comprising said olefin polymers.

Abstract: The invention relates to a catalyst system for electrocatalyzing conversion of CO2 into multi-carbon hydrocarbons and/or alcohols, and to the method to produce it. The catalyst comprises a core-shell structure comprising a core that is composed of metal sulphide and a shell that is composed of a metal with vacancies.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for treating, by reactive distillation, an olefinic feedstock comprising linear olefins containing n carbon atoms, and branched olefins, the branched olefins comprising tertiary branched olefins, for example a mixture of n-butenes and of tertiary branched olefins comprising isobutene, so as to produce an olefinic effluent with a mass content of tertiary branched olefin of less than or equal to 3% by weight and a heavy hydrocarbon effluent, said process comprising the feeding of a reactive distillation section with said olefinic feedstock and with an alcohol feedstock comprising a primary alcohol, said reactive distillation section comprising a column composed at least of an upper reflux zone into which is introduced said alcohol feedstock, comprising, for example, ethanol, an intermediate reaction zone comprising at least 6 reactive doublets, and a lower fractionation zone at the level of which said section is fed with said olefinic feedstock, said reactive distillat