Abstract: A rotating electric machine in which a coil wrapped in an insulating sheet is fixed to a slot provided in an iron core, wherein the insulating sheet has a porous structure, the coil and the insulating sheet, and the insulating sheet and the iron core are each fixed by an insulating varnish which is brought into a dispersion state by ultrasonic irradiation, and a mixed layer in which the insulating varnish and the insulating sheet are mixed due to penetration of the insulating varnish is formed in at least a predetermined range from a surface layer to an interior of the insulating sheet.

Abstract: A rotating electric machine in which a coil wrapped in an insulating sheet is fixed to a slot provided in an iron core, wherein the insulating sheet has a porous structure, the coil and the insulating sheet, and the insulating sheet and the iron core are each fixed by an insulating varnish which is brought into a dispersion state by ultrasonic irradiation, and a mixed layer in which the insulating varnish and the insulating sheet are mixed due to penetration of the insulating varnish is formed in at least a predetermined range from a surface layer to an interior of the insulating sheet.

Abstract: A catalyst for conversion of carbon monoxide in water gas reaction, which comprises iron oxide, chromium oxide and magnesium oxide in the proportions of the from 40 to 85% by weight computed as Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3, from 12 to 45% by weight computed as Cr.sub.2 O.sub.3 and from 3 to 15% by weight computed as MgO, respectively.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process of preparing terephthalic acid of high quality which is characterized by:oxidizing p-xylene with molecular oxygen in an acetic acid solvent in the presence of a catalyst comprised of at least one heavy metal and bromine at a temperature of from 180.degree. to 230.degree. C. to convert at least 95 wt % of the p-xylene into terephthalic acid and, optionally, subjecting the resultant reaction mixture to low temperature post-oxidation with molecular oxygen at temperatures lower than the temperature of the first oxidation reaction, thereby obtaining a slurry containing terephthalic acid particles whose spectral reflectance defined below is not less than 70% and whose reflectance ratio (400/500) defined below is not less than 0.92;subjecting the slurry to high temperature post-oxidation with molecular oxygen at a temperature of from 235.degree. to 290.degree. C. and then to crystallization; andcollecting the resultant terephthalic acid from the reaction mixture.

Abstract: A process for producing an orthoalkylphenol which comprises reacting phenol with an olefin in a liquid phase in the presence of an alumina catalyst, characterized in that the water content in the liquid phase of the reaction system is maintained at a level of not higher than 250 ppm.

Abstract: There is disclosed a process for preparing cyclohexanone by catalytic dehydrogenation of cyclohexanol, which comprises conducting the dehydrogenation in the presence of a copper-chromium catalyst derived from a mixture of copper oxide and chromium oxide having an atomic ratio of copper to chromium between 8:2 and 2:8, said mixture being subjected to heat treatment at a temperature of 650.degree. to 900.degree. C. in a non-reducing atmosphere and to subsequent reduction to provide the desired catalyst.

Abstract: In a process for producing tantalum concentrates from ores containing tantalum oxides, tantalic acid or its salts together with rutile type titanium dioxide in mixed crystals, the ores are treated in a sulfuric acid of a concentration not lower than 50% by weight with heating at a temperature from 200.degree. C. to the boiling point of said sulfuric acid, and then the above-treated products are treated with a reducing agent in an aqueous solution of sulfuric acid of a concentration lower than 50% by weight to dissolve the titanium component to thereby obtain tantalum concentrates as solid products.

Abstract: A process for catalytically hydrating a nitrile to the corresponding amide by using a copper catalyst prepared by decomposing copper hydride.

Abstract: A copper catalyst obtained by reducing a copper compound with formaldehyde in the presence of an alkali in an aqueous medium is an excellent catalyst for the hydrolysis of an unsaturated nitrile to an amide. Furthermore, when a copper compound is combined with another element, which is selected from a specific group of elements, during the preparation of the copper catalyst, a catalyst is formed which has an increased hydrolysis activity and an increased catalyst lifetime.