Abstract: A process wherein a blast furnace is operated with oxygen instead of air to provide hot metal and a top gas of essentially carbon monoxide which is disproportionated, or decomposed, to carbon black.

Abstract: A process for the production of fluorinated organic compounds wherein a carbonyl containing organic compound and adducts of sulfur trioxide or sulfur dioxide with metal fluorides are combined.

Abstract: A process for, and certain compositions of, the production of metal carboxylates or N-organic carbamates wherein the carboxylic acid or carbon dioxide and amine is converted to a solution of the corresponding ammonium carboxylate which in the presence of a soluble metal salt results in the precipitation of the product. Certain of these products are organic di and polycarbamic acid metal salts, new compositions of matter.

Abstract: A process for the production of ammonium oxalate and a metal carbonate from a metal oxalate and ammonium carbonate in aqueous or methanol media, ideally using excess ammonium hydroxide.

Abstract: A process for the simultaneous production of relatively insoluble metal oxalates and carbonates and bicarbonates of alkali metals and ammonium in which a metal carbonate and an ammonium or alkali metal oxalate are combined in water or methanol, optionally with the addition of carbon dioxide.

Abstract: A process for the simultaneous production of synthesis and methanol or ammonia in which a modified blast furnace or vertical shaft furnace using iron ore and coke, or coal, is blown with oxygen or an oxygen-air mixture containing carbon dioxide to provide a top gas comprising essentially carbon monoxide which is at least partly shifted with steam to make hydrogen and carbon dioxide, which carbon dioxide is removed by compression and a solvent based carbon dioxide removal process, and the remaining gas stream is heated and passed through a systhesis reactor so constructed to recover heat from the synthesis reaction.

Abstract: A process for the fluorination of carboxylate compounds to the corresponding acyl fluoride or carbamoyl fluoride, the latter compounds decompose to isocyanates and hydrogen fluoride, wherein the carboxylic acid, its anhydride or metal salt is intimately mixed with a metal fluorosulfonate and heated at a temperature at which the gaseous carboxylic acid fluoride is formed or decomposed.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for, and certain products of, the production of vanadium, chromium, manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, copper and zinc by reduction of the corresponding metal carboxylates containing less than 12 percent water by hydrogen or carbon monoxide at 150.degree. to 800.degree.C.