Abstract: An apparatus suitable for producing shaped bodies comprising thermoplastic polymers from monomers which form such polymers in a batch process comprises a) at least one reactor suitable for the batchwise preparation of a melt of a thermoplastic polymer from monomers which form such a polymer, b) a piping system suitable as circulation line for the melt of the thermoplastic polymer and c) at least one apparatus suitable for the production of shaped bodies from the melt of a thermoplastic polymer, wherein the reactor or reactors a) is/are connected to the piping system b) and the apparatus or apparatuses c) is/are connected to the piping system b), and an apparatus for producing shaped bodies comprising thermoplastic polymers in such an apparatus.

Abstract: Phthalic anhydride is prepared by catalytic gas-phase oxidation of xylene and/or naphthalene by a gas comprising molecular oxygen in a fixed bed at elevated temperature and using at least three coated catalysts arranged in superposed zones, which catalysts have a layer of catalytically active metal oxides applied to a core of support material.

Abstract: In a process for preparing phthalic anhydride by catalytic gas-phase oxidation of o-xylene/naphthalene mixtures by molecular oxygen, use is made of a catalyst I in a first zone on the gas inlet side which makes up from 25 to 75 percent by volume of the total catalyst volume, comprising, in each case based on the catalytically active composition, from 1 to 10% by weight of vanadium oxide (calculated as V205), from 1 to 10% by weight of antimony oxide (calculated as Sb203) and from 80 to 98% by weight of titanium dioxide of the anatase type having a BET surface area of from 13 to 28 m2/g and also from 0.

Abstract: A catalyst comprising at least one metal of the 10th group of the Periodic Table of the Elements and at least one metal of the 11th group of the Periodic Table of the Elements on an aluminum oxide support, wherein the metal or metals of the 10th group is or are essentially concentrated in an outer layer close to the surface of the catalyst particle, the metal or metals of the 11th group is or are distributed essentially uniformly over the volume of the catalyst particle and the weight ratio of the metal or metals of the 11th group to the metal or metals of the 10th group is not more than 1.95.

Abstract: Copper-containing catalysts for low temperature shift conversion at from 150.degree. to 300.degree. C. and under from 10 to 40 bar, which additionally contain aluminum and zinc, if necessary in the form of the compounds or oxides and are prepared by coprecipitation, the copper-containing catalysts containing potassium and having a BET surface area adapted to the potassium content, and the potassium content being brought to 0.1-3.0% by weight at a BET surface of from 30 to 160 m.sup.2 /g, are used for the preparation of hydrogen and carbon dioxide from carbon monoxide and water.