Abstract: This invention relates to a photosensitizer which is bound to a titanate polymer, a method of preparing the bound photosensitizer and a process for using the bound photosensitizer. The photosensitizers which may be used in the invention include rose bengal, azure blue, rhodamine B, fluorescein and eosin. The photosensitizer is attached to the titanate by displacing a ligand on the titanate with a hydroxyl group on the photosensitizer. Finally, the bound photosensitizer may be used to oxidize undesirable oxidizable compounds present in a hydrocarbon or aqueous fraction. One specific example is the sweetening of kerosene which involves oxidizing the mercaptans contained in the kerosene to disulfides.

Abstract: R-1122 (2-chloro-1,1-difluoro-ethylene) can be substantially removed from a stream of R-134a over a zeolite or carbon molecular sieve having a mean pore size of about 3.8 to 4.8 Angstroms. Preferred are 5A synthetic zeolites or calcium chabazite.

Abstract: A method for the preparation of an ion exchange sorbent containing at least one anion exchange resin, a ferromagnetic substance, and a water permeable organic polymer binder, as well as a process for the use of said sorbent to separate removable anions from feed streams containing said anions.

Abstract: A method for the preparation of an ion exchange sorbent containing at least one anion exchange resin, a ferromagnetic substance, and a water permeable organic polymer binder, as well as a process for the use of said sorbent to separate removable anions from feed streams containing said anion.

Abstract: Lithium metal is separated from lithium salts in spent torpedo boiler fuel by solubilizing said salts in a solution of a Lewis acid such as boron trifluoride in a polar solvent such as 1,2-dimethoxyethane followed by subsequent separation of the constituents of said mixture.