Abstract: A system for micro-segmented networking is provided. A system controller is programmed to a) store a plurality of micro-segmented network accounts and a plurality of subscriber accounts, b) receive a request from a user device to activate a first micro-segmented network associated with a first subscriber account, c) authenticate the first subscriber account based on the subscriber information, d) activate the first micro-segmented network, including a plurality of device slots for a plurality of devices, e) transmit, to the user device, first device slot authentication information for a first device slot of the plurality of device slots; f) receive, from a first device connecting to the wireless network, the first device slot authentication information; g) authenticate the first device slot authentication information; and h) in response to authenticating the first device slot authentication information, connect the first device to the first micro-segmented network.

Abstract: Processes for chemical conversion of volatile organic compounds to value added products using membrane reactors and recovery of one or more purified conversion product are described. Useful membranes are preselected to control the relative amount of noncondensable co-product in gaseous reactor effluent such that the energy required for the subsequent compression and partial condensation of the reactor effluent is reduced.

Abstract: Processes using heterogeneous adsorbents are disclosed for purification of olefin streams, such as are produced by thermal cracking of hydrocarbons, to obtain a feedstock suitable for formation of olefin polymers. These purification processes comprises: providing an impure gaseous mixture; passing the impure mixture through a bed of regenerated adsorbent which is free of a substantial amount of carbon monoxide; effecting, in the presence of an essentially dihydrogen-free atmosphere within the bed, selective adsorption of the contained acetylenic impurities with the adsorbent until levels of the acetylenic impurities in the effluent mixture increase to a limiting level in a range downward from about 1 parts per million by volume; and thereafter regenerating the resulting bed of adsorbent in the presence of a reducing gas comprising dihydrogen which reducing gas is free of a substantial amount of carbon monoxide.

Abstract: Processes using heterogeneous adsorbents are disclosed for purification of olefins to obtain feedstocks suitable for formation of olefin polymers using a metallocene catalyst system. An olefinic process stream, containing small amounts of acetylenic impurities, carbon oxides and/or other organic components which are, typically, impurities in cracked gas, passes through at least two zones containing heterogeneous adsorbents. Adsorption is carried out in an essentially dihydrogen-free atmosphere within the initial zone containing a bed of regenerated adsorbent which has retained a substantial amount of carbon monoxide, to effect selective adsorption of the contained acetylenic contaminants with the adsorbent.