Abstract: The present invention serves to substantially improve the dust capture property of dedusting oils, by modifying these oils with nonionic and/or cationic surfactants. The application of surfactant modified oils reduces dust that is generated when loose-fill insulation is installed.

Abstract: This is a superconducting heat transfer medium which may be placed in a a conduit to rapidly and efficiently transfer heat.

Abstract: A process for preparing a solution of sulfone-containing tanning materials comprises a) preparing a component A by a1) reacting phenol with concentrated sulfuric acid, with oleum of an SO3 content of from 20 to 65% by weight or with a mixture of sulfuric acid and oleum of an SO3 content of from 20 to 65% by weight, the molar ratio of total sulfuric acid, reckoned as SO3, to phenol being in the range from 0.7:1 to 1.5:1, at from 100 to 180° C. to form a mixture containing phenolsulfonic acid, dihydroxydiphenyl sulfone and sulfuric acid, or mixing the individual components to prepare a corresponding mixture, a2) then condensing said mixture with from 0.25 to 4 mol of urea and with from 0.5 to 4 mol of an aliphatic aldehyde of 1 to 6 carbon atoms per mole of phenol units present at from 40 to 90° C., a3) optionally adding a base to set a pH of from 4 to 5, b) preparing a component B by b1) reacting dihydroxydiphenyl sulfone with from 0.

Abstract: An ice thermal storage medium comprises water and a water-soluble additive, in which an amount of the additive is 1-8% by weight.

Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor includes a valve acting metal having microfine pores, a dielectric film formed on a surface of the valve acting metal, and a solid electrolyte layer provided on the dielectric film, in which at least a portion of the solid electrolyte layer is of a lamellar structure. In particular, a solid electrolytic capacitor includes an electrically conducting polymer having a specified condensed ring structure containing (1) a solid electrolyte layer containing a sulfoquinone anion having a sulfo anion group and a quinone structure and other anion, and (2) a solid electrolyte layer containing an anthracenesulfonate ion and other anion.

Abstract: Formulations for anti-icing compositions are of two basic types. The first basic formulation describes alcohol/polyol-based aqueous fluids thickened by the combination of an acrylic emulsion and a water-swellable layered clay mineral, with optional addition of a surfactant combination comprised of a first surfactant with an HLB≦3 coupled with a second surfactant with an HLB 19, and further optional addition of a water-activated polymer and other components. The second basic formulation describes a polyol-based aqueous solution of polyvinyl alcohol with optional thickeners.

Abstract: The present invention provides, inter alia, durable and renewable biocidal wooden materials for safe food contact items, such as cutting boards and containers, to be used in home kitchens and the food processing industries. The biocidal food contact surfaces of the present invention reduce and eliminate cross-contamination of diseases and make the surfaces or wood cutting boards safer to use. The biocidal materials inactivate any microorganisms that are deposited and prevent the materials from building up biofilms.

Abstract: A process for forming a thixotropic ink for use in manufacturing the ceramic of a zinc oxide varistor where the ceramic includes zinc, oxygen and a plurality of additive elements. The process includes the steps of calcining a mixture of powders of zinc oxide and the additive elements to form a calcined product having a particle size larger than the particle size of the zinc ozide powders, mixing said calcined product with an organic liquid, mechanically working the mixture to produce a calcined particulate material in the organic liquid having a particle size less than the particle size of said calcined product, adding an organic binder to the mixture and mixing the composition to produce said ink.

Abstract: An agent containing a lubricant, a non-ionic surfactant and an amphoteric surfactant of a specified kind in specified amounts is applied at a specified rate to spun synthetic fibers before draft and false-twisting processes are simultaneously carried on these fibers such that false-twisted yarns with a high quality without dyeing specks and without abnormal tension variations can be obtained.

Abstract: Frost resistant, aqueous cooling/heating fluid containing alkali salts of acetic acid and/or formic acid and which as a corrosion inhibitor contains a mixture of a C5-C16 monocarboxylic acid or alkali-, ammonium- or amino-salts of said acid, a C5-C16 dicarboxylic acid or alkali-, ammonium- or amino-salts of said acid, and also a triazole.

Abstract: A method of infusing a dye into the surface of an article formed of a plastic material comprises contacting the surface with a solution including one or more solvents each aggressive to the plastic material, one or more dyes and one or more substances each capable of plasticizing the plastic material. If the plastic material is polycarbonate, then the aggressive solvent may be one or more chlorinated hydrocarbons. The dye may be a photochromic dye, a cosmetic tinting dye, dyes for absorbing infrared, laser and ultraviolet radiation, or combinations thereof. A wide range of plasticizers has been investigated. The article is contacted by the solution for ten seconds to one minute; and nearly all the infused solvent is then evaporated from the article by heating. The use of one or more plasticizers reduces or eliminates bubbling or hazing of the contacted surface during solvent evaporation.

Abstract: The present application relates to a cosmetic composition intended for treating keratin fibers, comprising, in a support which is suitable for keratin fibers: (a) at least one enzyme of 2-electron oxidoreductase type in the presence of at least one donor for the said enzyme; (b) at least one nonionic fatty sucronamide; as well as to processes for treating keratin fibers, in particular processes for dyeing, permanently reshaping or bleaching the hair, using this composition.

Abstract: A method is provided for bleaching a non-cotton cellulosic fiber, yarn or fabric by contacting said fiber, yarn or fabric with a hemicellulase enzyme for a time and under conditions suitable to produce a whitening of said fiber, yarn or fabric.

Abstract: A material is impregnated into leather by incorporating the material into micro-capsules and then applying said micro-capsules to said leather material by means of a suitable process. A roller coating process is described in which the material is applied to a roller under which said leather material passes whilst compressed. Alternatively, the micro-capsules may be applied to said leather by drumming-in in a wet process.

Abstract: An anionic cellulose ether obtainable by a process comprising reacting an alkali metal cellulose with one or more reagents A selected from the group consisting of haloacetic acids, alkali metal haloacetates, alkali metal vinyl sulfonates, vinyl sulfonic acid, and precursors thereof, and one or more reagents B having the formula R1—(OCH2CH(R2))n-P, wherein R2 represents hydrogen or a methyl group; n is 0-2; P represents a glycidyl ether group, a 1,2-epoxy group or a precursor thereof, if P represents a glycidyl ether group, R1 represents a linear C3-C5 alkyl group, optionally containing an oxygen atom, a phenyl group, or a benzyl group, and if P represents a 1,2-epoxy group, R1 represents a linear C3-C5 alkyl group, optionally containing an oxygen atom. Preferably, reagent A is chloroacetic acid and reagent B is n-butyl glycidyl ether. The invention also relates to the use of said anionic cellulose ether as an associative thickener, rheology modifier or stabilizer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a solid electrolytic capacitor comprising an electrode produced by forming a solid electrolytic layer comprised by a polymer having at least one repeating unit selected from a thiophene-diyl skeleton, an isothianaphthene-diyl skeleton, a pyrrole-diyl skeleton, a furan-diyl skeleton and an iminophenylene skeleton and having a fibril structure on a dielectric film layer of a porous valve-acting metal and its production method, and to a highly electroconductive polymer obtained by chemical oxidative polymerization of a monomer and an oxidizing agent at an interface and its production method.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for treating a weft knitted fabric containing a regenerated cellulose fiber in order to prevent or eliminate the weft bar of the fabric, as well as to a weft knitted fabric which has been subjected to such a method. A method for treatment of weft knitted fabric, which comprises applying a mellowing treatment to a weft knitted fabric containing a regenerated cellulose fiber and subjecting the resulting weft knitted fabric to an alkali treatment in its spread state.

Abstract: Disclosed are phosphate ester base fluids and aircraft hydraulic fluids containing a novel combination of phosphate ester components. The disclosed aircraft hydraulic fluids contain from about 30 to about 45 weight percent, based on the total weight of the fluid, of tri-iso-butyl phosphate; from about 30 to about 45 weight percent, based on the total weight of the fluid, of tri-n-butyl phosphate; from about 10 to about 15 weight percent, based on the total weight of the fluid, of one or more triaryl phosphates; and an effective amount of a viscosity index improver, an acid control additive and an erosion inhibitor.

Abstract: One or more 1-substituted-2,2,4-trimethylpentane-3-one derivatives represented by the following general formula (1): wherein X represents a benzene ring or a cyclohexane ring; and R represents an arbitrary hydrogen atom on the benzene ring or cyclohexane ring or a methyl group which substitutes the hydrogen atom are incorporated in a bleaching agent composition containing a chlorine-based bleaching agent component such as sodium hypochlorite or oxygen-based bleaching agent component such as sodium perborate.

Abstract: A process for producing a reaction layer material or gas feed layer material for a gas diffusion electrode, which comprises the steps of: dispersing a gas diffusion electrode raw material excluding polytetrafluoroethylene in to an organic solvent to prepare a dispersion; adding polytetrafluoroethylene to the dispersion to prepare a mixture; and mixing the mixture. In the process, polytetrafluoroethylene is added in the form of dispersion or fine powder.