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 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
  • Continuos recirculation of the olefin which has not been reacted in the oxidation of olefins by hydroperoxides, by means of solvent scrubbing
    Publication number: 20060167287
    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: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2003
    Publication date: July 27, 2006
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Bassler, Hans-Georg Gobbel, Joaquim 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
  • Hydrocarbon fluids
    Patent number: 7056869
    Abstract: Hydrocarbon fluids are provided which have ASTM D-86 boiling point ranges within 235° C. to 400° C. and a naphthenic content greater than 60%, the naphthenics containing polycyclic materials, the fluids preferably have an aromatic content below 2% and an aniline point below 100° C. The fluids are particularly useful solvents for printing inks, drilling fluids, metal working fluids and as silicone extenders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Pierre-Yves Guyomar, Olaf Peter Rudolf Keipert, Robert A. Verbelen, Gerd Merhof, Els H. Slachmuijlders, André A. Theyskens
  • Method for producing an epoxide
    Patent number: 7026493
    Abstract: An organic compound having at least one C—C double bond is epoxidized by means of hydrogen peroxide in the presence of at least one catalytically active compound and at least one solvent, wherein a product mixture comprising ?-hydroperoxyalcohols is reduced using at least one reducing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Joaquim Henrique Teles, Alwin Rehfinger, Anne Berg, Peter Rudolf, Norbert Rieber, Peter Bassler
  • Returning an olefin which is not reacted during the oxidation of olefins
    Publication number: 20060058539
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for continuously returning an olefin which has not been reacted with hydroperoxide in order to form oxiranes during the epoxidation of olefins. Said olefin is contained in the flow of waste gas which is produced during epoxidation. Said method is characterised by the following steps: (i) compressing and cooling the flow of waste gas, (ii) separating the olefin from the flow of waste gas obtained in step (i) by distillation,(iii) epoxidating the olefin separated in (ii) with hydroperoxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2003
    Publication date: March 16, 2006
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Babler, Hans-Georg Gobbel, Joaquim Teles, Peter Rudolf
  • Method for the continuous production of proplyene glycol
    Publication number: 20060025637
    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: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2003
    Publication date: February 2, 2006
    Inventors: Peter Babler, Hans-Georg Gobbel, Joaquim Teles, Peter Rudolf
  • Method for the continuous intermediate separation of an oxirane produced by the oxirane synthesis with no coupling product by means of a partition-wall column
    Publication number: 20060014969
    Abstract: Continuously operated process for the intermediate isolation of the oxirane formed by reaction of a hydroperoxide with an organic compound in the oxirane synthesis, wherein the product mixture formed in the synthesis is fractionated in a dividing wall column to give a low-boiling fraction, an intermediate-boiling fraction and a high-boiling fraction and the oxirane is taken off in the intermediate-boiling fraction at the side offtake and the hydroperoxide is taken off in the high-boiling fraction at the bottom of the column.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2003
    Publication date: January 19, 2006
    Inventors: Peter Bassler, Hans-Georg Gobbel, Joaquim Teles, Peter Rudolf
  • Catalyst for epoxidation reactions
    Publication number: 20060014629
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the manufacture of solid materials or shaped bodies containing at least one zeolite and being at least partly crystalline. Furthermore, the present invention relates to the solid materials or shaped bodies as such and to the use of these materials for reactions of compounds having at least one C—C double bond with at least one hydroperoxide. Specifically, the present invention relates to a process for the manufacture of a solid material containing at least one zeolite and being at least partly crystalline, wherein the synthesis of the said solid material involves at least one partial step of contacting at least one transition metal oxide source with at least one epoxide or hydrolysate thereof prior to or during the at least partial crystallization of said solid material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2003
    Publication date: January 19, 2006
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ulrich Mueller, Georg Krug, Peter Babler, Hans- Georg Gobbel, Peter Rudolf, Joaquim Teles
  • Method for the continuous production of epoxids from olefins and hydroperoxides on a suspended catalyst
    Publication number: 20060014970
    Abstract: Continuous process for the epoxidation of olefins by means of hydroperoxide, in which the epoxidation is carried out in a reactor in which at least one catalyst suspended in a liquid phase is present, wherein the liquid phase is passed through a device which has openings or channels and is installed in the reactor and the epoxide-containing liquid is separated off by means of crossflow filtration so that the suspended catalyst is retained in the reaction system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2003
    Publication date: January 19, 2006
    Inventors: Hans-Georg Goebbel, Peter Bassler, Joaquim Teles, Peter Rudolf, Georg Krug, Wolfgang Harder
  • Method for the continuous purification by distillation of the solvent methanol, used in the synthesis of propylene oxide
    Publication number: 20050258026
    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 comprising methanol, an intermediate-boiling fraction comprising the methoxypropanols as azeotrope with water and a high-boiling fraction comprising water and propylene glycol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2003
    Publication date: November 24, 2005
    Inventors: Peter Bassler, Hans-Georg Gobbel, Joaquin Teles, Peter Rudolf
  • Method for the continuous purification by distillation of methanol, used as a solvent in the synthesis of propylene oxide without coupling products, with the simultaneous isolation of the methoxy propanols
    Publication number: 20050252762
    Abstract: Continuously operated process for the 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, as azcotrope with water, and the low boilers and high boilers simultaneously being separated off, wherein the solvent mixture obtained in the synthesis is fractionated in a dividing wall column.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2003
    Publication date: November 17, 2005
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Bassler, Hans-Georg Gobbel, Joaquim Teles, Peter Rudolf
  • Method for producing propenyl oxide using a secondary reactor comprising several feed and/or outlet points
    Publication number: 20050250955
    Abstract: Process for preparing oxiranes by reacting an organic compound with a hydroperoxide in the presence of a solvent and a catalyst, which comprises at least the steps (i) to (iii): (i) reaction of the hydroperoxide with the organic compound to give a product mixture comprising the reacted organic compound and unreacted hydroperoxide, (ii) separation of the unreacted hydroperoxide from the mixture resulting from step (i), (iii) reaction of the hydroperoxide which has been separated off in step (ii) with the organic compound, wherein the reaction in step (iii) is carried out in a tube reactor which has at least two feed points for the reaction mixture comprising at least the organic compound, the hydroperoxide and the solvent or at least two outlets for the product mixture, or at least two feed points and at least two outlets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2003
    Publication date: November 10, 2005
    Inventors: Hans-Georg Goebbel, Peter Bassler, Joaquim Teles, Peter Rudolf
  • Method for the continuous purification by distillation of 1-2, propylene glycol that accumulates during the synithesis of propylene oxide without coupling products
    Publication number: 20050250965
    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: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2003
    Publication date: November 10, 2005
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Bassler, Hans-Georg Gobbel, Joaquim Teles, Peter Rudolf
  • Method for the continuous intermediate separation of the solvent used in the oxirane synthesis with no coupling product
    Publication number: 20050240037
    Abstract: Process for the continuously operated distillation of the solvent used in the synthesis of an oxirane by reaction of a hydroperoxide with an organic compound, wherein the mixture comprising the solvent which is obtained in the synthesis and subsequent work-up is separated in a dividing wall column into a low-boiling fraction, an intermediate-boiling fraction and a high-boiling fraction and the solvent is taken off as intermediate-boiling fraction from the side offtake of the column.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2003
    Publication date: October 27, 2005
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Bassler, Hans-Georg Gobbel, Joaquin Teles, Peter Rudolf
  • Weigela plant named ‘Kolmas’
    Patent number: PP16452
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Weigela plant named ‘Kolmas’, characterized by its upright and outwardly spreading plant habit; dark reddish brown young stem coloration; and large green and pale yellow to white variegated leaves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Gebr. Kolster B.V.
    Inventor: Peter Rudolf Kolster