Patents by Inventor Peter Rudolf

Peter Rudolf 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).

  • Method for producing propylene oxide
    Patent number: 7608728
    Abstract: Process for preparing propylene oxide, which comprises at least the steps (i) and (ii): (i) providing a catalyst comprising at least one porous oxidic material; (ii) reacting propene with a hydroperoxide in at least one nitrile as solvent or in a solvent mixture comprising at least one nitrile in the presence of the catalyst of (i), wherein the at least one porous oxidic material is a zeolite which is assigned X-ray-crystallographically to the MWW type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ulrich Mueller, Georg Krug, Peter Rudolf, Joaquim Henrique Teles, Hans-Georg Goebbel, Peter Bassler
  • Method for continuously operated pure distillation of oxiranes, especially propylene oxide
    Patent number: 7550064
    Abstract: The invention relates to a continuously operated process for the purification by distillation of the oxirane formed in the oxirane synthesis by reaction of a hydroperoxide with an organic compound, wherein the crude oxirane is separated in a dividing wall column into low-, intermediate- and high-boiling fractions and the oxirane is taken off as intermediate boiler at the side offtake in a concentration of at least 99.9%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Bassler, Hans-Georg Goebbel, Joaquim Henrique Teles, Peter Rudolf
  • Continuous recirculation of the olefin which has not been reacted in the oxidation of olefins by hydroperoxides, by means of solvent scrubbing
    Patent number: 7544818
    Abstract: Process for the continuous recirculation of the olefin which has not been reacted in the oxidation of olefins by means of hydroperoxide to give oxiranes and is present in the offgas stream formed during the oxidation, which comprises the steps (i) to (iii) (i) separating the olefin from the offgas stream by absorption in a hydrocarbon, (ii) desorbing the olefin from the hydrocarbon, (iii) recirculating the olefin obtained in step (ii) to the oxidation process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Bassler, Hans-Georg Goebbel, Joaquim Henrique Teles, Peter Rudolf
  • Method for the continuous purification by distillation of the solvent methanol, used in the synthesis of propylene oxide
    Patent number: 7527712
    Abstract: Process for the continuously operated purification by distillation of the methanol used as solvent in the synthesis of propylene oxide by reaction of a hydroperoxide with propylene, with the methoxypropanols being separated off simultaneously, wherein the solvent mixture obtained in the synthesis is separated in a dividing wall column into a low-boiling fraction including methanol, an intermediate-boiling fraction containing the methoxypropanols as azeotrope with water and a high-boiling fraction including water and propylene glycol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Bassler, Hans-Georg Goebbel, Joaquim Henrique Teles, Peter Rudolf
  • Process for Epoxidizing Propene
    Publication number: 20080306290
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the epoxidation of propene which comprises reacting propene with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of methanol as solvent and a titanium zeolite catalyst, the process further comprising separating propylene oxide from the reaction mixture to obtain a mixture comprising methanol, water, at least one carboxylic acid and at least one carbonyl compound, wherein the at least one carboxylic acid is at least partially neutralized, said process optionally comprising a hydrogenation stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Applicants: Basf Se, The Dow Chemical Company
    Inventors: Hans-Georg Gobbel, Peter Bassler, Joaquim Henrique Teles, Peter Rudolf, Ulrich Muller, Anna Forlin, Malte Schulz, Meinolf Weidenbach
  • Highly Functional, Highly Branched Polyureas
    Publication number: 20080306237
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing high-functionality highly branched polyureas which comprises reacting one or more ureas with one or more amines having at least two primary and/or secondary amino groups, at least one amine having at least three primary and/or secondary amino groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2005
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Applicant: BASF AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Bernd Bruchmann, Peter Rudolf, Jean-Francois Stumbe
  • Returning an olefin which is not reacted during the oxidation of olefins
    Patent number: 7408073
    Abstract: Process for the continuous recirculation of the olefin which has not been reacted in the epoxidation of olefins by means of hydroperoxide to give oxiranes and is present in the offgas stream formed during the epoxidation, which comprises the steps (i) to (iii) (i) compressing and cooling the offgas stream, (ii) seperating the olefin from the offgas stream obtain in step (i) by distillation, (iii) epoxidizing the olefin seperating off in step (ii) by means of hydroperoxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Bassler, Hans-Georg Goebbel, Joaquim Henrique Teles, Peter Rudolf
  • Method for producing an alkene oxide
    Patent number: 7408074
    Abstract: Process for preparing an alkene oxide, which comprises at least the steps (i), (ii) and (v): (i) providing a stream S1 comprising compressed, liquid alkene; (ii) depressurizing at least part of the stream S1 with absorption of heat and with at least partial vaporization of the liquid alkene; (v) reacting the alkene obtained in (ii) with a hydroperoxide in the presence of at least one solvent and at least one catalyst to give a mixture comprising alkene oxide and the solvent or solvents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans-Georg Goebbel, Peter Bassler, Joaquim Henrique Teles, Peter Rudolf
  • Method for producing propylene oxide
    Patent number: 7378536
    Abstract: Process for preparing propylene oxide, which comprises at least the steps (iii) and (iv) (iii) separating off propylene oxide from a mixture (M1) comprising propylene oxide and at least one solvent by distillation in a distillation column, giving a bottom stream and a vapor stream consisting essentially of propylene oxide; (iv) compressing the vapor stream obtained in (iii) by means of at least one compressor to give a compressed vapor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans-Georg Goebbel, Peter Bassler, Joaquim Henrique Teles, Peter Rudolf
  • Method for the continuous purification by distillation of 1,2-propylene glycol that accumulates during the synthesis of propylene oxide without coupling products
    Patent number: 7332634
    Abstract: The invention relates to a continuously operated process for the purification by distillation of the 1,2-propylene glycol formed as by-product in the synthesis of propylene oxide, wherein the mixture formed in the synthesis which contains the 1,2-propylene glycol is separated in a dividing wall column into low-, intermediate- and high-boiling fractions and the 1,2-propylene glycol is taken off as intermediate boiler at the side offtake of the column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Bassler, Hans-Georg Goebbel, Joaquim Henrique Teles, Peter Rudolf
  • Autonomic configuration of port speeds of components connected to an interconnection cable
    Patent number: 7254652
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and computer program product for reading an encoded cable speed/length value contained within an interconnection cable to set the interconnection speed of two or more components connected by the interconnection cable within a computing environment. This method detects changes to the cable connections within the I/O fabric of the computing environment, and autonomically reconfigures the connected components to enable the interconnected devices to communicate at the maximum effective bandwidth, based on the length of the interconnection cables utilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gary Dean Anderson, David Alan Bailey, Peter Rudolf Keller, Diane Lacey Knipfer
  • Pipe assembly reactor comprising a helically shaped cross section
    Publication number: 20070178029
    Abstract: Process and apparatus for the continuous preparation of a chemical compound in at least one reactor, where at least one of the reactors is a shell-and-tube reactor which has a shell and at least one internal tube located within the shell, wherein at least one of the internal tubes has, at least in part, a noncircular cross section and a helical configuration in the region in which it is surrounded by the shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2005
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans-Georg Goebbel, Peter Bassler, Joaquim Teles, Peter Rudolf
  • Method for producing propylene oxide
    Publication number: 20070043226
    Abstract: Process for preparing propylene oxide, which comprises at least the steps (i) and (ii): (i) providing a catalyst comprising at least one porous oxidic material; (ii) reacting propene with a hydroperoxide in at least one nitrile as solvent or in a solvent mixture comprising at least one nitrile in the presence of the catalyst of (i), wherein the at least one porous oxidic material is a zeolite which is assigned X-ray-crystallographically to the MWW type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2004
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Applicant: Basf Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ulrich Muller, Georg Krug, Peter Rudolf, Joaquim Teles, Hans-Georg Gobbel, Peter Bassler
  • Method for producing an alkene oxide
    Publication number: 20060276662
    Abstract: Process for preparing an alkene oxide, which comprises at least the steps (i), (ii) and (v): (i) providing a stream S1 comprising compressed, liquid alkene; (ii) depressurizing at least part of the stream S1 with absorption of heat and with at least partial vaporization of the liquid alkene; (v) reacting the alkene obtained in (ii) with a hydroperoxide in the presence of at least one solvent and at least one catalyst to give a mixture comprising alkene oxide and the solvent or solvents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2004
    Publication date: December 7, 2006
    Inventors: Hans-Georg Gobbel, Peter Bassler, Joaquim Teles, Peter Rudolf
  • Organometallic building materials and method for producing the same
    Patent number: 7119219
    Abstract: An organometallic framework material is prepared by a process which comprises reacting a fluid mixture comprising a metal salt with at least one at least bidentate organic compound capable of coordination to metal ions in the presence of at least one base and a solvent, where the solvent comprises at least one cyclic amide (lactam) and/or at least one cyclic ester (lactone).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ulrich Mueller, Michael Hesse, Lisa Lobree, Markus Hoelzle, Jan-Dirk Arndt, Peter Rudolf
  • Method for the continuous production of propylene glycol
    Publication number: 20060216216
    Abstract: An apparatus for carrying out a continuous process for preparing propylene glycols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Publication date: September 28, 2006
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Bassler, Hans-Georg Gobbel, Joaquim Teles, Peter Rudolf
  • Method for producing propylene oxide
    Publication number: 20060205964
    Abstract: Process for preparing propylene oxide, which comprises at least the steps (iii) and (iv) (iii) separating off propylene oxide from a mixture (M1) comprising propylene oxide and at least one solvent by distillation in a distillation column, giving a bottom stream and a vapor stream consisting essentially of propylene oxide; (iv) compressing the vapor stream obtained in (iii) by means of at least one compressor to give a compressed vapor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2004
    Publication date: September 14, 2006
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans-Georg Gobbel, Peter Bassler, Joaquim Teles, Peter Rudolf
  • Method for the continuous production of propylene glycol
    Patent number: 7084310
    Abstract: Process for the continuous preparation of propylene glycols, which comprises the steps (i) to (ii): (i) reacting propylene with hydrogen peroxide to form propylene oxide and give propylene glycols as by-products, (ii) reacting the propylene oxide obtained in step (i) with water to give propylene glycols, (iii) separating off the propylene glycols obtained in steps (i) and (ii).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Bassler, Hans-Georg Goebbel, Joaquim Henrique Teles, Peter Rudolf
  • Process for epoxidation and catalyst to be used therein
    Publication number: 20060167286
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for treating a solid material containing at least one zeolite and being at least partly crystalline or treating a shaped body obtained from said solid material wherein said solid material or shaped body is brought in contact with a composition containing water after at least one of the following steps of an integrated process for producing a solid material or a shaped body containing at least one zeolite: (i) after step (II) of separating the at least partly crystalline solid material from its mother liquor or (ii) after step (S) of shaping said solid material into a shaped body or (iii) after a step (C) of calcining said solid material or said shaped body. The present invention furthermore relates to the solid material obtainable by the inventive process and the shaped body obtainable by the inventive process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2003
    Publication date: July 27, 2006
    Inventors: Ulrich Mueller, Georg Krug, Peter Bassler, Hans-Georg Gobbel, Peter Rudolf, Joaquim Teles
  • Weigela plant named ‘Kolmagira’
    Patent number: PP20384
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Weigela plant named ‘Kolmagira’, characterized by its compact, upright and outwardly spreading plant habit; freely branching habit; yellow green and dark green variegated leaves with purple-colored margins; pink-colored flowers; and good garden performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Kolster Beheer B.V.
    Inventor: Peter Rudolf Kolster