Abstract: A hydrophilic, segmented polyether polyurethane-urea that exhibits an increase in tensile strength and elongation when wet with water and is capable of forming visually clear films permeable to water vapor is disclosed.

Abstract: A method and a system for enriching the oxygen content of a body water having a relatively low oxygen content are disclosed. The method contemplates providing, in a pipeline communicating with the body of water, a pressurized, flowing aqueous liquid stream that is at a pressure greater than ambient and supersaturated with respective to the dissolved oxygen concentration thereof. The liquid stream is maintained substantially free of bubbles which grow in size under conditions existing in the body of water. The flow rate of the oxygen-enriched aqueous liquid stream is modulated so as to maintain a dimensionless number, defined as: ##EQU1## wherein .rho.=density of the pressurized aqueous liquid within the pipeline,D=internal diameter of the pipeline,V=mean liquid velocity of the pressurized aqueous liquid stream within the pipeline,g.sub.c =gravitational constant,.DELTA.

Abstract: A continuous process for removal of ammoniacal nitrogen from water is disclosed. This process is useful for maintaining water quality in aquaculture operations, e.g., fish hatcheries and the like. A particulate stream of zeolitic ion exchange material is circulated continuously through an exchanger and a regenerator. An aqueous process stream containing ammoniacal nitrogen, e.g., ammonia, is passed through the exchanger in continuous counter current liquid-solid contact with a stream of particulate, ammoniacal nitrogen-sorbing zeolitic ion exchange material of natural or synthetic origin. A treated liquid water stream having a reduced ammoniacal nitrogen content exits from the exchanger, as does a stream of ammoniacal nitrogen-enriched particulate zeolitic ion exchange material. The latter stream is regenerated in the regenerator at a temperature of about 350.degree. C. to about 650.degree. C. while an oxygen-containing gas stream, e.g.

Abstract: High purity alpha-alumina bodies useful as catalyst supports are made by peptizing boehmite alumina in an acidic mixture containing fluoride anions, extruding the peptized alumina into shaped bodies and drying and calcining the bodies. The alpha-alumina bodies are characterized by a narrow pore-size distribution, having 85 percent of the total pore volume comprising pores of a diameter of from 10,000 to 200,000 Angstroms and by a surface area of less than one square meter per gram.

Abstract: Crystalline synthetic zeolite, denoted "LZ-200", has an anhydrous composition in terms of mole-ratios of oxides of:0.9-1.1 Na.sub.2 O: Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 :1.9-2.4 SiO.sub.2,while having a pore diameter somewhat smaller than that of potassium zeolite A, and is useful as an adsorbent and ion-exchanger.

Abstract: Aluminum alkoxides are prepared by the reaction of impure aluminum and monohydric alcohols in a process wherein impure metallic aluminum particles are continuously fed at a metered rate into a stoichiometric excess of alcohol. The novel apparatus disclosed permits the continuous introduction of the aluminum particles into the reactor and removal of non-reactive impurities through columns of ambient temperature alcohol which avoids contact of atmospheric oxygen with the reaction products.

Abstract: Aluminum alkoxides are prepared by the reaction of impure aluminum and monohydric alcohols in a process wherein impure metallic aluminum particles are continuously fed at a metered rate into a stoichiometric excess of alcohol. The novel apparatus disclosed permits the continuous introduction of the aluminum particles into the reactor and removal of non-reactive impurities through columns of ambient temperature alcohol which avoids contact of atmospheric oxygen with the reaction products.

Abstract: Alumina is produced by the hydrolysis of aluminum alkoxide in a continuous process in which the hydrolysis reaction, the aging of hydrated alumina product and the stripping of occluded by-product alcohol from the alumina particles is accomplished in the same reaction vessel.

Abstract: Molecular sieve catalyst compositions having decreased catalytic activity as a result of accumulating more than 2 weight-% carbonaceous coke deposits are restored essentially to their pre-coked activity by heating an essentially homogeneous mixture of particles thereof with particles of an inert refractory material in the weight ratio of from 1:2 to 1:10 in air at a temperature of from 500.degree. C. to 725.degree. C. for a period of time sufficient to decrease the carbonaceous coke to less than two weight percent.