Abstract: An apparatus for the cooling of a cracking-gas stream comprises a vertical pipe through which the cracking-gas stream is conducted and opening into a larger pipe section which surrounds the first-mentioned pipe across an annular gap. A plurality of inlets open tangentially into this gap, upstream of the mouth of the first pipe to distribute cooling oil along the wall of the second pipe. The cooling oil film is found to be uniform and coherent and prevents contact of the cracking gas with the wall of this pipe. A further pipe opening axially into the surrounding pipe or pipe section sprays an additional quantity of cooling oil into the cracking-gas stream downstream of the mouth of the inlet pipe.

Abstract: A system for collecting and stabilizing pasty material such as for example the mucosa available from slaughterhouse operations, employing a collecting tank, a storage reservoir and a preservative reservoir, the collecting tank being equipped with upper and lower liquid level controls and means associated with the controls so that when the pasty material accumulates to the level of the upper level control the pasty material is discharged to the storage reservoir and when the pasty material level thereafter drops to the position of the lower liquid level control, discharge is halted and preservative is metered from the preservative reservoir into the collecting tank.For cleaning out the collecting tank discharge can be continued until the collecting tank has been emptied. For startup a sensing element is provided at the bottom of the collecting tank to cause metering of preservative into the collecting tank when pasty material first enters the collecting tank.

Abstract: In one exemplary embodiment, the efficiency of an acoustic-energy-type cleaner for vessels, such as heat exchangers, is substantially increased by propagating through the fluid in the vessel, a plurality of opposing acoustic wave trains, and continuously varying at least the frequency or phase relationship of said opposing wave trains for causing constructive interference between said opposing acoustic waves to create a series of augmented acoustic waves that are spatially displaced in relation to each other and successive in time interval for sweeping over the surfaces of the body to be cleaned.

Abstract: The method for the inhibition of corrosion of ferrous metals in an aqueous medium consists in adding to the aqueous medium 10 to 2000 ppm of a mixture constituted by a water-soluble complex salt of a metal of groups II to VIII of the periodic table and of a hydroxycarboxylic acid and by a phosphoric ester of alkanolamine.

Abstract: A submerged platform for dissection work is taught. Means are provided to pply a flow of fresh dissection fluid across the platform to keep the work area clear of debris.

Abstract: A method by which in vivo N-nitroso compounds are detected. The N-nitroso compounds appear in the metabolic system or are formed therein from one or more precursors. The metabolic reactions are terminated instantly at a predetermined point in time, as by freezing in a liquidied gas, and the frozen sample is analyzed for the presence of N-nitroso compounds.

Abstract: A low-impurity coke suitable for the production of electrodes for aluminium manufacture is prepared by extracting coal volatile matter content greater than about 28% by weight on a dry ash free basis with a highly aromatic hydrocarbon extractant of which the middle 90% boils in the range 250.degree. to 350.degree. C at a temperature of about 380.degree. to 450.degree. C, in the liquid phase, insoluble matter is separated off and the extract is heated to remove distillable oil and coked wherein the residence time of coal in the extraction step is controlled and the weight ratio of extractant to coal during extraction is maintained greater than 3:1 to maintain a substantially constant specific resistivity of the filter cake.

Abstract: A coke oven door fabricated from steel plate including a rectangular main door plate having inner and outer planar door faces. A pair of side support plates are rigidly affixed to the main door plate outer surface to extend longitudinally therealong adjacent the side edges thereof and a pair of end support plates are similarly mounted adjacent the main door plate end edges so as to form a door support frame. A plurality of gusset members are symmetrically disposed generally about the midpoint of the main door plate outer face and extend from one of the side support plates toward the other across the main door plate outer face. A sealing ring is affixed to the main door plate inner surface and adapted to sealingly engage a door frame when the door is placed over the coke oven opening.

Abstract: Apparatus for disinfecting medical apparatus, and especially artificial respirators, by the action of formaldehyde fumes subsequently neutralized by ammonia fumes, the apparatus being adapted to avoid the deposition of crystalline hexamethylene tetramine inside the respirator and comprising an enclosure for receiving the medical apparatus, a source of formaldehyde fumes likely to spread within the enclosure, and an auxiliary neutralization chamber communicating with the enclosure and provided with a source of ammonia; the volume of the neutralization chamber being such as to allow ammonia fumes to spread and to come into contact with formaldehyde fumes for a sufficient time to ensure neutralization.

Abstract: An improved method and apparatus employing at least one immobilized liquid membrane separated from a liquid sweep by a gas-permeable barrier for removing a gaseous component from a gaseous mixture. The improvements include use of one or more liquid-filled passages extending through the gas-permeable barrier to effect diffusive transfer of active carrier species from the liquid sweep into the membrane, thereby maintaining the separation efficiency of each membrane. In a preferred embodiment, the improvements are applied to removal of hydrogen sulfide from mixtures thereof with carbon dioxide as found in gasified coal.

Abstract: Apparatus for the sterilization of gases, which can be associated with facilities for the distribution or circulation of air or with air-conditioning plant, for example. Instead of employing conventional technology based upon filtration techniques, in which harmful components such as germs are filtered out and attempts are made to kill them on the surfaces of filter elements, media-pervious materials are arranged so that germs and other harmful components carried in the gases are forced through the materials with a residence time sufficient to ensure substantially complete killing by means of UV-radiation directed at the materials. The preferred media-pervious material is a porous form of quartz.

Abstract: In a monolithic carrier catalyst containing a catalytically active substance for the purification of a stream of exhaust gases from an internal combustion engine, the improvement comprises providing an increasing concentration of catalytically active substance on the monolithic carrier catalyst, wherein the concentration increases in the direction of flow of the exhaust gases. The catalyst is particularly useful in oxidizing and/or reducing the noxious substances in automotive exhaust gases.

Abstract: Solid organic wastes are slurried with hot coker recycle feed or fresh petroleum feedstocks at temperatures within the range from about 300.degree. to 1000.degree. F and the resulting mixture is coked to produce gas, oil, and coke. The oil can be used as clean liquid fuel, but preferably it is used as catalytic craker feed since it is a particularly suitable cracking stock and produces high yields of gasoline. This process affords a low-cost waste disposal method by a process compatible with current petroleum refining technology.

Abstract: In the construction of a plug-type, coke oven door, which plug is fitted with an integral flue or duct for venting of gases, the front and side walls of the plug are constructed so as to provide sufficient thermal conductivity, whereby heat entering the duct, primarily by conduction through the front wall, may readily be transferred to the left and right side walls thereof so as to maintain a desirable high temperature boh within the duct and at the exterior surfaces of the side walls to prevent or significantly decrease carbon accumulation.

Abstract: Apparatus for calcining wet powdery gypsum which comprises:(A) a furnace which generates a hot gas having a temperature higher than 900.degree.

Abstract: Purifier unit comprising a porous body coated with a substance having catalytic action to bring about purification of a medium, primarily a gas passing through the unit. A main field of use is the purification of hot exhaust gases from internal combustion engines. To render the porous purifier unit insensitive to the high temperature of the engine exhaust gases and the great variations of temperature particularly in winter time when starting a motor vehicle, and at the same time resistant to high mechanical stress and shock arising mainly from jolts and vibrations of a motor vehicle in motion, the porous body is comprised of a plurality of thin, at least partly corrugated, layers forming between themselves fine passageways extending from end to end for the medium to be purified and coated with the catalyst. The layers consist of a skeleton obtained from asbestos paper by precipitation of certain inorganic substances and subsequent heating to the fusing or slagging temperature for said substances.

Abstract: A method for locating imperfections including voids, bubbles, cracks, and aws in cured epoxy resin articles. These imperfections which are too small to be readily seen with the naked eye, or that are normally very inconspicuous become visible when an indicator solution is applied to the epoxy resin imperfection. The indicator solution is selected from a 0.1 percent alcoholic solution of bromcresol purple, bromthymol blue, thymol blue, meta-cresol purple, xylenol blue, aurin, methyl violet, lacmoid, and resazurin for locating imperfections in epoxy resins cured with an alkaline curing agent such as an amine. The indicator solution is selected from a 0.1 percent alcoholic solution of congo red, p-sulfo-o-methoxybenzene, and azodi-methyl-alpha-naphthylamine for locating imperfections in epoxy resins cured with an acidic curing agent.

Abstract: A method for inhibiting the corrosion of martensitic and ferritic stainless steel surfaces which are exposed to hot carbonate solutions which comprises contacting said stainless steel surfaces with nickel ions and preferably with at least 10 ppm of nickel ion contained in the hot alkali metal carbonate solution.

Abstract: Process for manufacturing an isotropic carbonaceous material having a high density and a high crushing strength which comprises the steps of (a) extracting a reformed coal from at least one component selected from the group consisting of brown coal, lignite and grass peat in the presence of hydrogen gas; (b) heating the reformed coal to produce a green coke; and (c) coking the green coke.

Abstract: A vertical vessel, having a low bed of broken material, having included combustible material, is initially ignited by a plurality of ignitors spaced over the surface of the bed, by adding fresh, broken material onto the bed to buildup the bed to its operating depth and then passing a combustible mixture of gas upwardly through the material, at a rate to prevent back-firing of the gas, while air and recycled gas is passed through the bed to thereby heat the material and commence the desired laterally uniform combustion in the bed. The procedure permits precise control of the air and gaseous fuel mixtures and material rates, and permits the use of the process equipment designed for continuous operation of the vessel.