Abstract: The invention relates to microparticles and compositions thereof as each of them is described in the specification. The invention further relates to microparticles obtained by a process as described in the specification, compositions thereof. The invention further relates to cured compositions as well as to objects or kits-of-parts comprising the microparticles of the invention and/or the compositions thereof and/or the cured compositions thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the microparticles of the invention and/or the compositions thereof, for lowering the gloss of coatings. The invention further relates to the use of the microparticles of the invention and/or the compositions thereof, for making matte coatings. The invention further relates to the use of the microparticles of the invention and/or the compositions thereof, for making soft-touch coatings.

Abstract: Disclosed is an edible composition for coating fresh harvest products and a harvest product coated with said composition, to a method for coating an harvest product, and to the use of the edible composition for the preparation of a post-harvest fruit or vegetable item with prolonged shelf life and/or slower weight loss compared to a fruit or vegetable item which is not coated with the composition and to the use of the edible composition for the preparation of a post-harvest cut flower with prolonged vase life when coated with the composition compared to a comparable cut flower which is not coated with the composition.

Abstract: Disclosed is a composition for coating flower heads to prevent or slow down, infection of flower heads during storage and transport to final retail, and a use of the coating composition. The disclosure also relates to a flower coated with said composition. The disclosure is especially suitable for flower heads of roses and rose buds.

Abstract: Disclosed is to composition for coating fruit and a method for coating fruit, by applying post-harvest to said fruit a coating composition containing a linear homopolymer or copolymer of vinyl alcohol and a polyol spacing agent. The post-harvest fruit exhibits enhanced gloss when coated with the composition compared to a fruit item which is not coated with the composition and/or slower weight loss compared to a fruit which is not coated with the composition.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for coating fruit to inhibit or prevent maturation and ripening of climacteric fruit during post-harvest storage and transport, a fruit item having a coating which inhibits or prevents maturation and ripening of the fruit item during post-harvest storage and transport, and a composition for coating fruit post-harvest to prevent or slow down maturation and ripening of climacteric fruit. The disclosure is in particular suitable for mangos, citrus fruit and bananas.

Abstract: A process for producing a purified synthesis gas stream from a feed synthesis gas stream comprising besides the main constituents carbon monoxide and hydrogen also hydrogen sulphide, HCN and/or COS, the process comprising the steps of: (a) removing HCN and/or COS by contacting the feed synthesis gas stream with a catalyst in a HCN/COS reactor in the presence of steam/water, to obtain a synthesis gas stream depleted in HCN and/or in COS; (b) converting hydrogen sulphide in the synthesis gas stream depleted in HCN and/or in COS to elemental sulphur, by contacting the synthesis gas stream with an aqueous reactant solution containing solubilized Fe(III) chelate of an organic acid, at a temperature below the melting point of sulphur, and at a sufficient solution to gas ratio and conditions effective to convert H2S to sulphur and inhibit sulphur deposition, to obtain a synthesis gas stream depleted in hydrogen sulphide; (c) removing carbon dioxide from the synthesis gas stream depleted in hydrogen sulphide, to obta

Abstract: The invention is directed to a process to prepare a hydrogen rich gas mixture from a solid sulphur- and halogen-containing carbonaceous feedstock. The process involves the following steps. Step (a): gasification of the solid carbonaceous feedstock with an oxygen-containing gas to obtain a gas mixture comprising halogen compounds, sulphur compounds, hydrogen and at least 50 vol. % carbon monoxide, on a dry basis. Step (b): contacting the gas mixture with a quench gas or quench liquid to reduce the temperature of the gas mixture to below 900° C. Step (c) contacting the gas mixture with water having a temperature of between 150 and 250° C. to obtain a gas mixture comprising between 50 and 1000 ppm halogen and having a steam to carbon monoxide molar ratio of between 0.2:1 and 0.9:1.

Abstract: Process to prepare a hydrogen rich gas mixture from a halogen containing gas mixture comprising hydrogen and at least 50 vol. % carbon monoxide, on a dry basis, by contacting the halogen containing gas mixture with water having a temperature of between 150 and 250° C. to obtain a gas mixture poor in halogen and having a steam to carbon monoxide molar ratio of between 0.2:1 and 0.9:1 and subjecting said gas mixture poor in halogen to a water gas shift reaction wherein part or all of the carbon monoxide is converted with the steam to hydrogen and carbon dioxide in the presence of a catalyst as present in one fixed bed reactor or in a series of more than one fixed bed reactors and wherein the temperature of the gas mixture as it enters the reactor or reactors is between 190 and 230° C.

Abstract: A spray nozzle manifold comprising a first co-axial passage for supply of an atomization gas, a second co-axial passage present in said first passage for supply of a liquid, more than one laterally spaced nozzle for atomization and spraying liquid in a direction away from the longitudinal axis of the manifold attached to the first passage, said nozzles having an inlet for liquid fluidly connected to said second passage, an inlet for atomization gas fluidly connected to the first passage, a mixing chamber wherein atomization gas and liquid mix and an outlet for a mixture of atomization gas and liquid, wherein the nozzle has an opening for discharge of atomization gas which opening is in fluid communication with the first passage at a position upstream of the mixing chamber and wherein a shield is fixed to the first passage surrounding the nozzle.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a process to prepare a hydrogen rich gas mixture from a solid sulphur- and halogen-containing carbonaceous feedstock. The process involves the following steps. Step (a): gasification of the solid carbonaceous feedstock with an oxygen-containing gas to obtain a gas mixture comprising halogen compounds, sulphur compounds, hydrogen and at least 50 vol. % carbon monoxide, on a dry basis. Step (b): contacting the gas mixture with a quench gas or quench liquid to reduce the temperature of the gas mixture to below 900° C. Step (c) contacting the gas mixture with water having a temperature of between 150 and 250° C. to obtain a gas mixture comprising between 50 and 1000 ppm halogen and having a steam to carbon monoxide molar ratio of between 0.2:1 and 0.9:1.

Abstract: A process for producing a purified synthesis gas stream from a feed synthesis gas stream comprising besides the main constituents carbon monoxide and hydrogen also hydrogen sulphide, HCN and/or COS, the process comprising the steps of: (a) removing HCN and/or COS by contacting the feed synthesis gas stream with a catalyst in a HCN/COS reactor in the presence of steam/water, to obtain a synthesis gas stream depleted in HCN and/or in COS; (b) converting hydrogen sulphide in the synthesis gas stream depleted in HCN and/or in COS to elemental sulphur, by contacting the synthesis gas stream with an aqueous reactant solution containing solubilized Fe(III) chelate of an organic acid, at a temperature below the melting point of sulphur, and at a sufficient solution to gas ratio and conditions effective to convert H2S to sulphur and inhibit sulphur deposition, to obtain a synthesis gas stream depleted in hydrogen sulphide; (c) removing carbon dioxide from the synthesis gas stream depleted in hydrogen sulphide, to obta

Abstract: Process to prepare a hydrogen rich gas mixture from a halogen containing gas mixture comprising hydrogen and at least 50 vol. % carbon monoxide, on a dry basis, by contacting the halogen containing gas mixture with water having a temperature of between 150 and 250° C. to obtain a gas mixture poor in halogen and having a steam to carbon monoxide molar ratio of between 0.2:1 and 0.9:1 and subjecting said gas mixture poor in halogen to a water gas shift reaction wherein part or all of the carbon monoxide is converted with the steam to hydrogen and carbon dioxide in the presence of a catalyst as present in one fixed bed reactor or in a series of more than one fixed bed reactors and wherein the temperature of the gas mixture as it enters the reactor or reactors is between 190 and 230° C.

Abstract: A process to prepare methanol and/or dimethylether from a solid carbonaceous feedstock comprising the steps of (a) feeding an oxygen-comprising gas and the carbonaceous feedstock to a burner firing into a reactor vessel, (b) performing a partial oxidation of the carbonaceous feedstock in said burner to obtain a stream of hot synthesis gas and a liquid slag whereby both the hot synthesis gas and the liquid slag flow downwardly relative to the burner, (c) cooling the hot synthesis gas by direct contact with a liquid water-containing cooling medium, (d) performing a water shift reaction on at least part of the synthesis gas, to obtain a synthesis gas effluent, (e) performing an oxygenate synthesis using the synthesis gas effluent of step (d), to obtain a methanol and/or dimethylether containing oxygenate effluent and a first liquid water-rich by-product, wherein at least part of the first liquid water-rich by-product is used in step (c), forming at least part of the liquid water-containing cooling medium.

Abstract: A quenching vessel being, in use, vertically elongated and provided with an inlet for gas at its upper end, an outlet for cooled gas at its lower end defining a pathway for a gas flow directed downwardly, the vessel being provided at its upper end with a first internal tubular wall part which wall part has an opening fluidly connected to the inlet for gas and wherein the tubular wall part is connected at its lower end with a divergent conical part having walls which are inclined outwardly in the direction of the pathway for gas, wherein an arrangement of more than one nozzle for atomisation and spraying a liquid quench medium in a downward direction into the pathway for the gas flow are present in the space enclosed by the divergent conical part.

Abstract: Process to prepare an olefin-containing product or a gasoline product from a solid carbonaceous feedstock by performing the steps of (a) feeding an oxygen comprising gas and the carbonaceous feedstock to a burner firing into a reactor vessel, which burner is preferably positioned horizontal, (b) performing a partial oxidation of the carbonaceous feedstock in said burner to obtain a stream of hot synthesis gas and a liquid slag, (c) cooling the hot synthesis gas by direct contacting with a liquid water-containing cooling medium, (e) performing a water shift reaction on at least part of the synthesis gas, to obtain a synthesis gas effluent, (g) performing an oxygenate synthesis using the synthesis gas effluent of step (e), to obtain a methanol and/or dimethylether containing oxygenate effluent and a first liquid water-rich by-product, (h) converting the oxygenate effluent to an olefin-containing product or a gasoline product and a second liquid water-rich by-product, wherein at least part of the first and/or se

Abstract: The invention relates to binder comprising a crosslinker that is reactive with acid-functional polyester and a branched, partially defunctionalized acid-functional polyester, wherein the polyester is based on: a. At least one multi-functional component that is either carboxyl-functional, hydroxyl-functional or carboxyl- and hydroxyl-functional; b. At least one di-functional component that is reactive towards a functional group on the multi-functional component; and c. At least one mono-functional component; wherein the multi-functional component does not contain a tertiary carboxylic functionality and at least 50% of the acid-derived groups originate from an aromatic acid.

Abstract: The invention relates to a binder comprising crosslinker and branched, partially defunctionalized, acid-functional polyester based on: a. At least one multi-functional component; b. At least one di-functional component that is reactive towards a functional group on the multi-functional component; and c. At least one mono-functional component; wherein the polyester has a glass transition temperature of 40° C. or greater.

Abstract: A flame retardant polymer fiber, a process for making such a fiber, and a material containing such fibers are provided. The flame retardant polymer fiber is a high tenacity fiber formed of a poly(trimethylene terephthalate) co-polymer containing a trimethylene terephthalate monomer and a phosphorous containing flame retardant monomer. The flame retardant PTT co-polymer fiber is produced by a process in which the trimethylene terephthalate monomer or its precursors and the phosphorous containing flame retardant monomer or its precursors are combined to form the PTT co-polymer in one or more pre-polymerization and polymerization steps, and the PTT co-polymer is spun into a fiber. Materials including such flame retardant PTT co-polymer fibers, e.g. carpets and textiles, are also provided.

Abstract: A quenching vessel being, in use, vertically elongated and provided with an inlet for gas at its upper end, an outlet for cooled gas at its lower end defining a pathway for a gas flow directed downwardly, the vessel being provided at its upper end with a first internal tubular wall part which wall part has an opening fluidly connected to the inlet for gas and wherein the tubular wall part is connected at its lower end with a divergent conical part having walls which are inclined outwardly in the direction of the pathway for gas, wherein an arrangement of more than one nozzle for atomisation and spraying a liquid quench medium in a downward direction into the pathway for the gas flow are present in the space enclosed by the divergent conical part.

Abstract: A process to prepare methanol and/or dimethylether from a solid carbonaceous feedstock comprising the steps of (a) feeding an oxygen-comprising gas and the carbonaceous feedstock to a burner firing into a reactor vessel, (b) performing a partial oxidation of the carbonaceous feedstock in said burner to obtain a stream of hot synthesis gas and a liquid slag whereby both the hot synthesis gas and the liquid slag flow downwardly relative to the burner, (c) cooling the hot synthesis gas by direct contact with a liquid water-containing cooling medium, (d) performing a water shift reaction on at least part of the synthesis gas, to obtain a synthesis gas effluent, (e) performing an oxygenate synthesis using the synthesis gas effluent of step (d), to obtain a methanol and/or dimethylether containing oxygenate effluent and a first liquid water-rich by-product, wherein at least part of the first liquid water-rich by-product is used in step (c), forming at least part of the liquid water-containing cooling medium.