Abstract: Uses are described for hemolymph, contents of hemolymph, fragments or components of the contents found within hemolymph, including hemocyanin, any of which may be derived from crustaceans, as functional agents to treat diseases, provide symptomatic relief, provide a beautifying or relieving effect to the intended organ or site-of-intended-use, or be used as an ingredient in formulations designed to aid in the relief of pathologies or states commonly associated with inflammation and dry skin, including, but not limited to eczema, dermatitis, psoriasis, cystitis, asthma, sinusitis, joint pain, as well as other instances of acute and chronic inflammation, and for relief of general symptoms that may be associated with inflammation and dry skin but not linked directly in the intended use, including, but not limited to, redness, itchiness, irritation, muscle or joint fatigue, swelling, hydrating the skin, and reducing transepidermal water loss (TEWL).

Abstract: A method and a system of determining activity of a target enzyme of a sample is described. The method comprises bringing the sample in physical contact with a substrate for the target enzyme, incubating the sample with the substrate for an actual incubating time, determining a parameter value associated to enzymatic actions of the target enzyme involving the substrate, correlating the actual incubation time for the sample to at least two sets of reference data, determining a best fit standard curve correlated to the actual incubation time for the sample, and correlating the determined parameter value to the best fit standard curve and determine the target enzyme activity. Each of the at least two sets of reference data comprises data representing a standard curve for the parameter associated to the enzymatic actions of the target enzyme involving the substrate as a function of enzyme activity and correlated to an incubation time.

Abstract: A method of determining activity of a target enzyme of a grain material is described. The method comprises providing a fluid extract sample of the grain material using a preselected extraction procedure, providing a dyed and/or chromogenic substrate for the target enzyme, subjecting the fluid extract sample to the substrate for a preselected incubating time, and determining the target enzyme activity of the grain material. The extraction time is relatively short while still obtaining high accuracy.

Abstract: Uses are described for hemolymph, contents of hemolymph, fragments or components of the contents found within hemolymph, including hemocyanin, any of which may be derived from crustaceans, as functional agents to treat diseases, provide symptomatic relief, provide a beautifying or relieving effect to the intended organ or site-of-intended-use, or be used as an ingredient in formulations designed to aid in the relief of pathologies or states commonly associated with inflammation and dry skin, including, but not limited to eczema, dermatitis, psoriasis, cystitis, asthma, sinusitis, joint pain, as well as other instances of acute and chronic inflammation, and for relief of general symptoms that may be associated with inflammation and dry skin but not linked directly in the intended use, including, but not limited to, redness, itchiness, irritation, muscle or joint fatigue, swelling, hydrating the skin, and reducing transepidermal water loss (TEWL).

Abstract: A process for preparing an aluminum-free boron containing zeolitic material comprising the framework structure MWW (BMWW), comprising (a) hydrothermally synthesizing the BMWW from a synthesis mixture containing water, a silicon source, a boron source, and an MWW template compound obtaining the BMWW in its mother liquor, the mother liquor having a pH above 9; (b) adjusting the pH of the mother liquor, obtained in (a) and containing the BMWW, to a value in the range of from 6 to 9; (c) separating the BMWW from the pH-adjusted mother liquor obtained in (b) by filtration in a filtration device.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for introduction of droplets into a reactor, comprising a holder for at least one dropletizer unit, where the dropletizer unit has a feed for a liquid to be dropletized and a dropletizer plate and the dropletizer plate has holes through which a liquid to be dropletized is introduced into the reactor, where the holder for the at least one dropletizer unit can be pushed into the reactor or pulled out of the reactor through an opening in the shell of the reactor. At least one rail is accommodated within the reactor and is used to guide the holder for the at least one dropletizer unit along it.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing pulverulent poly(meth)acrylate in a reactor for droplet polymerization having an apparatus for dropletization of a monomer solution for the production of the poly(meth)acrylate having holes through which the monomer solution is introduced, an addition point for a gas above the apparatus for dropletization, at least one gas withdrawal point on the circumference of the reactor and a fluidized bed, and above the gas withdrawal point the reactor has a region having a constant hydraulic internal diameter and below the gas withdrawal point the reactor has a hydraulic internal diameter that steadily decreases. The reactor has a heating means in the region having a steadily decreasing hydraulic internal diameter.

Abstract: A process for preparing an aluminum-free boron containing zeolitic material comprising the framework structure MWW (BMWW), comprising (a) hydrothermally synthesizing the BMWW from a synthesis mixture containing water, a silicon source, a boron source, and an MWW template compound obtaining the BMWW in its mother liquor, the mother liquor having a pH above 9; (b) adjusting the pH of the mother liquor, obtained in (a) and containing the BMWW, to a value in the range of from 6 to 9; (c) separating the BMWW from the pH-adjusted mother liquor obtained in (b) by filtration in a filtration device.

Abstract: An apparatus for addition of droplets of a monomer solution for production of poly(meth)acrylate to a reactor for droplet polymerization, comprising at least one channel or a dropletizer head having, at its base, holes through which the solution is dropletized into the reactor, at least one of the following features being fulfilled: (a) the ratio of the area covered by the channels or the dropletizer head in the reactor relative to the area which is defined by the circumference of a line along the outermost holes is less than 50%, (b) the number of holes relative to the area which is defined by the circumference of a line along the outermost holes is within a range from 100 to 1000 holes/m2.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for producing pulverulent poly(meth)acrylate, comprising a reactor for droplet polymerization having an apparatus for dropletization of a monomer solution for the preparation of the poly(meth)acrylate having holes through which the monomer solution is introduced, an addition point for a gas above the apparatus for dropletization, at least one gas withdrawal point on the circumference of the reactor and a fluidized bed, the reactor comprising a reactor shell between the apparatus for dropletization and the gas withdrawal point and having, above the fluidized bed, a region having decreasing hydraulic diameter toward the fluidized bed and having a maximum hydraulic diameter greater than the mean hydraulic diameter of the reactor shell, and the reactor shell projecting into the region having decreasing hydraulic diameter, so as to form an annular duct between the outer wall of the reactor shell and the wall by which the region having decreasing hydraulic diameter is bounded,

Abstract: A process for preparing an aluminum-free boron containing zeolitic material comprising the framework structure MWW (BMWW), comprising (a) hydrothermally synthesizing the BMWW from a synthesis mixture containing water, a silicon source, a boron source, and an MWW template compound obtaining the BMWW in its mother liquor, the mother liquor having a pH above 9; (b) adjusting the pH of the mother liquor, obtained in (a) and containing the BMWW, to a value in the range of from 6 to 9; (c) separating the BMWW from the pH-adjusted mother liquor obtained in (b) by filtration in a filtration device.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of a titanium-containing zeolitic material having an MWW framework structure, the process comprising (i) providing a zeolitic material having an MWW framework structure comprising SiO2 and B2O3, (ii) incorporating titanium into the zeolitic material provided in (i) comprising (ii.I) preparing an aqueous synthesis mixture containing the zeolitic material provided in (i), an MWW template compound and a titanium source, (ii.2) hydrothermally synthesizing a titanium-containing zeolitic material having an MWW framework structure from the aqueous synthesis mixture prepared in (ii.1), obtaining a mother liquor comprising the titanium-containing zeolitic material having an MWW framework structure; (iii) spray-drying the mother liquor obtained from (ii.2) comprising the titanium-containing zeolitic material having an MWW framework structure.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for introduction of droplets into a reactor, comprising a holder for at least one dropletizer unit, where the dropletizer unit has a feed for a liquid to be dropletized and a dropletizer plate and the dropletizer plate has holes through which a liquid to be dropletized is introduced into the reactor, where the holder for the at least one dropletizer unit can be pushed into the reactor or pulled out of the reactor through an opening in the shell of the reactor. At least one rail is accommodated within the reactor and is used to guide the holder for the at least one dropletizer unit along it.

Abstract: An apparatus for introducing droplets of a monomer solution for production of poly(meth)acrylate into a reactor for droplet polymerization, comprising at least one channel or a dropletizer head, the channel or the dropletizer head being sealed at its base by a dropletizer plate, the dropletizer plate having holes through which the monomer solution is introduced into the reactor, and the dropletizer plate being configured such that holes that, in an axially symmetric dropletizer plate or in an annular dropletizer plate or in one configured as a ring segment, are not on a center line of the dropletizer plate or, in the case of a circular dropletizer plate, are not at the center of the dropletizer plate are aligned such that monomer solution is introduced through the holes into the reactor at an angle to the vertical, and the holes in the case of a radial alignment of axially symmetric dropletizer plates being aligned such that the angle at which the monomer solution is introduced into the reactor decreases in t

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing water-absorbent polymer particles by polymerizing droplets of a monomer solution in a surrounding heated gas phase in a reactor comprising a gas distributor (3), a reaction zone (5) and a fluidized bed (27), the gas leaving the reactor is treated in a condenser column (12) with an aqueous solution, the treated gas leaving the condenser column (12) is recycled at least partly to the fluidized bed (27), wherein the gas leaving the condenser column (12) comprises from 0.05 to 0.3 kg steam per kg dry gas and the steam content of the gas entering the gas distributor (3) is less than 80% of the steam content of the gas leaving the condenser column (12).

Abstract: An apparatus for producing pulverulent poly(meth)acrylate in a reactor for droplet polymerization having an apparatus for dropletization of a monomer solution for the production of the poly(meth)acrylate having holes through which the monomer solution is introduced, an addition point for a gas above the apparatus for dropletization, at least one gas withdrawal point on the circumference of the reactor and a fluidized bed, and above the gas withdrawal point the reactor has a region having a constant hydraulic internal diameter and below the gas withdrawal point the reactor has a hydraulic internal diameter that steadily decreases. The reactor has a heating means in the region having a steadily decreasing hydraulic internal diameter.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing pulverulent poly(meth)acrylate in a reactor for droplet polymerization having an apparatus for dropletization of a monomer solution for the production of the poly(meth)acrylate having holes through which the monomer solution is introduced, an addition point for a gas above the apparatus for dropletization, at least one gas withdrawal point on the circumference of the reactor and a fluidized bed, and above the gas withdrawal point the reactor has a region having a constant hydraulic internal diameter and below the gas withdrawal point the reactor has a hydraulic internal diameter that steadily decreases.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing a particulate, Si-bonded fluidized-bed catalyst having improved abrasion resistance, which comprises the steps I. provision of an aqueous suspension comprising zeolite particles, II. addition of a silicone resin mixture comprising one or more hydrolyzable silicone resin precondensates and mixing of the aqueous suspension and the silicone resin mixture, III. spray drying of the mixture obtained from step II, with the mixture being homogenized before spray drying, and IV. calcination of the spray-dried fluidized-bed catalyst obtained from step III, and an Si-bonded fluidized-bed catalyst which can be produced by this process and also its use for the nonoxidative dehydroaromatization of C1-C4-aliphatics.

Abstract: An apparatus for production of pulverulent poly(meth)acrylate, comprising a reactor or droplet polymerization, having an apparatus for dropletization of a monomer solution for the production of the poly(meth)acrylate, having holes through which the solution is dropletized, an addition point for a gas above the apparatus for dropletization, at least one gas withdrawal point on the periphery of the reactor and a fluidized bed. The outermost holes through which the solution is dropletized are positioned such that a droplet falling vertically downward falls into the fluidized bed and the hydraulic diameter at the level of the midpoint between the apparatus for dropletization and the gas withdrawal point is at least 10% greater than the hydraulic diameter of the fluidized bed.

Abstract: An apparatus for introducing droplets of a monomer solution for production of poly(meth)acrylate into a reactor for droplet polymerization, comprising at least one channel or a dropletizer head, the channel or the dropletizer head being sealed at its base by a dropletizer plate, the dropletizer plate having holes through which the monomer solution is introduced into the reactor, and the dropletizer plate being configured such that holes that, in an axially symmetric dropletizer plate or in an annular dropletizer plate or in one configured as a ring segment, are not on a center line of the dropletizer plate or, in the case of a circular dropletizer plate, are not at the center of the dropletizer plate are aligned such that monomer solution is introduced through the holes into the reactor at an angle to the vertical, and the holes in the case of a radial alignment of axially symmetric dropletizer plates being aligned such that the angle at which the monomer solution is introduced into the reactor decreases in t