Patents by Inventor Emile De Decker

Emile De Decker has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6852881
    Abstract: (Meth)acrylic acid is purified by crystallization by a process in which the (meth)acrylic acid is purified by a combination of at least two different dynamic crystallization processes, in particular a suspension crystallization and a layer crystallization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2005
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Emile De Decker, Erik Bastiaensen, Dieter Baumann, Bernd Eck, Jörg Heilek
  • Publication number: 20030018214
    Abstract: (Meth)acrylic acid is purified by crystallization by a process in which the (meth)acrylic acid is purified by a combination of at least two different dynamic crystallization processes, in particular a suspension crystallization and a layer crystallization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2002
    Publication date: January 23, 2003
    Inventors: Emile De Decker, Erik Bastiaensen, Dieter Baumann, Bernd Eck, Jorg Heilek
  • Patent number: 4882430
    Abstract: Caprolactam is recovered from caprolactam distillation low boilers or high boilers or mixtures thereof by the following steps:(a) crystallizing a low or high boiler or a mixture thereof to form purified capro-lactam crystals and a mother liquor,(b) separating off the purified caprolactam crystals to leave a mother liquor,(c) recycling from 5 to 90% by weight of the mother liquor of stage (b) into stage (a) and transferring the remainder of the mother liquor into the subsequent stage (d),(d) crystallizing the remaining mother liquor portion from stage (c) to form caprolactam crystals and a mother liquor, separating off the caprolactam crystals of stage(e) (d) and recycling the same into stage (a) to leave a mother liquor,(f) recycling from 20 to 99% by weight of mother liquor of stage (e) into stage (d) and channeling out the remainder of the impurity-containing mother liquor of stage (e).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1989
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gerald Neubauer, Emile De Decker, Hugo Fuchs, Bernhard Holzknecht, Josef Ritz
  • Patent number: 4804754
    Abstract: Caprolactam is prepared in a process comprising(a) a Beckmann rearrangement of cyclohexanone oxime with oleum at from 70.degree. to 130.degree. C. in one or more rearrangement stages, and(b) aftertreatment of the reaction mixture obtained from the rearrangement stage in a delay zone at from 70.degree. to 110.degree. C. for from 10 to 600 minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1989
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Emile De Decker, Jozef Oostvogels, Gerard van Wauwe, Gerald Neubauer