Abstract: The albums of the current philatelic or stamp collecting industry serve only as a way to make displaying stamps easier and more attractive visually. The method and system of the present invention allows for electronically displaying, cataloguing, buying and bidding stamp collections to allow postage stamp collectors, buyers and sellers to upload, search and receive information related to the postage stamps of their interest. The present invention comprises, inputting digitized stamp information from an input device and storing the digitized information related to the postage stamps in a database, a processor for processing the stored information of the individual stamps, an display for electronically searching and displaying the processed stored information of the individual stamps, and a transmitter, intranet or internet to transmit the information of the one or more stamps for further processing or displaying the transmitted information in response to a query.

Abstract: A process and system for the destruction of compounds having a carbon-hetero atom bond. The process includes wet oxidation at elevated temperature and pressure of an aqueous mixture of at least one compound having a carbon-hetero atom bond to substantially destroy the carbon-hetero atom bond of the at least one compound. The resulting oxidized material may be further treated in an advanced oxidation process to destroy any residual carbon-hetero atom bonds remaining.

Abstract: A wet oxidation process is used to control the concentration of reduced sulfur compounds from a viscose process. The wet oxidation process oxidizes the reduced sulfur compounds to convert such reduced sulfur compounds to an alkali sulfate and/or thiosulfate species. The alkali sulfate stream is recycled to the viscose process. Oxidation is performed under elevated temperature and pressure conditions such that the offgas has an oxygen concentration of between about 2% to 18% and the alkali sulfate stream has a pH of about 2 to 10.