Abstract: Provided is a cartridge-type hollow fiber membrane module including a hollow fiber membrane unit module with a free end and a cartridge frame and a submerged water treatment apparatus including an air diffuser apparatus capable of intermittent and continuous aeration disposed below the hollow fiber membrane module, wherein the cartridge-type membrane module with the free end using the coarse bubble generating air diffuser apparatus capable of intermittent/continuous aeration in conjunction with an air accumulation pipe may control aeration/non-aeration cycles through adjustment of the volume of an air chamber and an amount of inflow air and carry out continuous aeration based on changes in raw water load and a concentration of solids in a membrane separation tank.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a technique for inhibiting biofouling of the surface of a membrane caused by a biofilm, through immobilizing biofilm formation-inhibiting microorganisms to a container in a membrane water treatment process. The present disclosure provides a non-hollow/hollow columnar or sheet-like permeable carrier with flowability owing to submerged aeration and a container with biofilm formation-inhibiting microorganisms immobilized therein, comprising biofilm formation-inhibiting microorganisms immobilized in the carrier. The present disclosure also provides a membrane water treatment apparatus comprising a reactor accommodating water to be treated, a membrane module for water treatment and a container with biofilm formation-inhibiting microorganisms immobilized therein placed in the reactor.

Abstract: A single-stage water treatment system may include a fine filtration module configured for receiving process material with a high suspended and/or dissolved solids content and for producing a concentrate and a permeate. The fine filtration module may include an elongate housing member, a plurality of tubular membranes arranged within the elongate housing member and comprising elongate tubular members having membranous sidewalls with a selected permeability, a pair of end caps configured for controlling the flow of the process material within the plurality of tubular membranes, and an adjustment mechanism configured to adjust the elongation of the plurality of tubular membranes thereby adjusting the permeability thereof.

Abstract: A polymer membrane for water treatment, characterized in comprising a hollow fiber membrane having a self-supporting design composed of the substantially single principal structural material, with an outer diameter of 3.6 mm to 10 mm and a ratio of outer diameter to thickness, SDR, of 3.6 to 34.

Abstract: A membrane (100) for liquid separation, where the membrane includes a polymer matrix (110) comprising a thickness (115) and a plurality of water-selectively-permeable particles (120) having a diameter (125) disposed within said polymer matrix, where the thickness substantially the same as the diameter.

Abstract: A resilient anion exchange membrane including a homogeneous cross-linked ion-transferring polymer substantially filling pores and substantially covering surfaces of a porous substrate, wherein the resilient anion exchange membrane is prepared by polymerizing a composition including a quaternary ammonium cationic surfactant monomer, a crosslinking monomer including two or more ethylenic groups, a free radical initiator, and a solvent.

Abstract: A substrate for positioning a separation membrane and a collection membrane for separating and collecting plasma is disclosed. The substrate includes an inner flexure disposed proximate to a first peripheral portion of the substrate and an outer flexure disposed surrounding at least a portion of the inner flexure. The inner flexure is formed from a plurality of first slots in the substrate and the outer flexure is formed from a plurality of second slots in the substrate.

Abstract: A copolymer having amphiphilic blocks includes at least one first hydrophilic block, obtainable from n-butyl acrylate and hydroxyethyl methacrylate monomers, and a second hydrophobic block likely to be obtained from a methyl methacrylate monomer. The copolymer is found to be particularly advantageous for use as an additive for manufacturing a polymer filtration membrane, particularly a PVDF membrane, particularly via a phase inversion method.

Abstract: Reverse osmosis membranes made by interfacial polymerization of a monomer in a nonpolar (e.g. organic) phase together with a monomer in a polar (e.g. aqueous) phase on a porous support membrane. Interfacial polymerization process is disclosed for preparing a highly permeable RO membrane, comprising: contacting on a porous support membrane, a) a first solution containing 1,3-diaminobenzene, and b) a second solution containing trimesoyl chloride, wherein at least one of solutions a) and b) contains nanoparticles when said solutions are first contacted, and recovering a highly permeable RO membrane.

Abstract: An in-bottle aerator for mixing the oxygen in the air with wine as the wine is poured from its bottle. The aerator has at least one air ingress channel extending from one end of the aerator to the other allowing air into the bottle to displace wine exiting the bottle. Air mixing channels draw air from outside the bottle and direct that air to lateral channels that intersect a central flow channel extending from one end of the bottle to another. The air mixing and air ingress channels are preferably arranged to allow the user to pour and aerate wine at the same time and with the bottle in any orientation about its axis. The aerator may be a separately formed component that can be inserted into the bottle by the bottle manufacturer, by a wine bottler or by an enduser. Alternatively, the aerator may be wholly or partly formed as part of the neck of the bottle. A completely and integrally formed aerator may be formed a part of a plastic wine bottle.

Abstract: An apparatus for generating a mist is provided. The apparatus has at least one working fluid supply conduit having an inlet in fluid communication with a supply of working fluid and an outlet in fluid communication with a first mixing chamber. The apparatus also includes a plurality of transport fluid passages, each of which has an inlet adapted to receive a supply of transport fluid and an outlet in fluid communication with the mixing chamber. Downstream of the mixing chamber is a nozzle having an inlet in fluid communication with the mixing chamber, an outlet, and a throat portion intermediate the nozzle inlet and outlet. The throat portion of the nozzle has a cross sectional area which is less than that of either the nozzle inlet or the nozzle outlet. The apparatus enhances the atomization of the working fluid to generate the mist.

Abstract: The present invention provides a milk foamer that implements simplification of a configuration of a cup lid, and reduces contamination and corrosion to a drive mechanism or a junction. A milk foamer includes a base body 1, a cup body 2 placed on the base body 1, a cup lid 3 placed on the cup body 2, and a stirring mechanism 5 configured to stir milk in the cup body 2, wherein the stirring mechanism 5 includes a stirring head 50 and a shaft 51 for supporting the stirring head 50, and a magnetic drive mechanism configured to magnetically drive the stirring head 50 is provided to the base body 1.

Abstract: A mixing device for mixing a first and second material together to create an output mixture. The device includes a first chamber containing the first material coupled to a mixing chamber defined between a rotor and a stator. The rotor is disposed inside the stator and rotates therein about an axis of rotation. The first chamber houses an internal pump configured to pump the first material from the first chamber into the mixing chamber. The pump may be configured to impart a circumferential velocity into the first material before it enters the mixing chamber. At least one of the rotor and stator have a plurality of through-holes through which the second material is provided to the mixing chamber. Optionally, a second chamber is coupled to the mixing chamber. The second chamber may house an internal pump configured to pump the output material from the mixing chamber into the second chamber.

Abstract: A rotary impeller having a solid disk-shaped body with a center bore, a first major face, an opposed major face, and an outer peripheral side edge face that is circular in plan and that extends along an outer diameter of the body is provided. A plurality of separate, circumferentially-spaced apart, radially-extending grooves are formed in the first major face, and each of the grooves extends through the outer peripheral side edge face and is of a depth that terminates a spaced distance from the opposed major face of the disk-shaped body such that the grooves do not extend fully through the disk-shaped body. An array of separate, upstanding, circumferentially-spaced teeth project from the first major face adjacent the grooves along the outer peripheral side edge face of the disk-shaped body.

Abstract: A mechanism applies necessary forces for the creation of one or more plugs of compressible material to be supplied to a reactor. The plugs are capable of forming a seal between inlets for the plugs and the reactor. The mechanism includes two double-acting hydraulic piston cylinder assemblies coupled with two single-acting hydraulic piston cylinder assemblies.

Abstract: A system and method for distribution and treatment of secondary solids in packed moving bed reactors is provided. The system includes a packed moving bed reactor and a regeneration reactor downstream of the packed moving bed reactor. The packed moving bed reactor having a primary solid introduction section configured to receive a primary solid material, a primary solid constriction section downstream of the primary solid introduction section, a secondary solid inlet, and a mixing section for primary solid material and secondary solid material downstream of the primary solid constriction section. The primary solid constriction section has a recessed zone, wherein the secondary solid inlet is configured to deliver secondary solid material into the packed moving bed reactor at the recessed zone. The regeneration reactor is operable to regenerate the primary solid material reduced in the packed moving bed reactor.

Abstract: A regenerator for an FCC apparatus. The regenerator includes a riser inside of a shell. The riser includes a cone and a cone skirt. An annulus is formed between the riser and the shell. A sealing system for keeping catalyst out of a portion of the annulus comprises a first sealing element and a second sealing element disposed above the second sealing element. The second sealing element comprises a ring having one or more plates being movable to accommodate the thermal expansion of the riser.

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for separating regenerated catalyst are provided. In one embodiment, an apparatus for separating regenerated catalyst includes a regeneration vessel including a catalyst bed section. The apparatus includes a catalyst settler physically separated from the catalyst bed section by a wall extending within the regeneration vessel. The catalyst overflowing the catalyst bed section flows over the wall and enters the catalyst settler. The apparatus further includes a pipe in fluid communication with the catalyst settler and configured to deliver regenerated catalyst from the regeneration vessel to another vessel.

Abstract: This invention relates to compositions that have utility, amongst others, in the stabilization of suspension particles or gas bubbles in fluid water-based compositions and/or in conferring shear thinning behavior to such fluid water-based compositions. The inventors have developed parenchymal cellulose based materials, which comprise cell wall derived networks of cellulose based fibers and nanofibrils, can advantageously be used for stabilization of suspended solid particles in fluid water-based compositions. Specific aspects of the invention concern the parenchymal cellulose based materials, their production and their use in fluid water-based compositions, as well as the resulting fluid water-based compositions per se.

Abstract: The invention relates to titanium oxide aerogels, in particular to titanium oxide binary or ternary (e.g. titanium oxide-carbon) aerogel monoliths possessing ordered meso- and macroporosity. The porous scaffold can be made with or without addition of binders and/or surfactants. The aerogel obtained by this method has a specific surface area greater than 60 m2/g and porosity larger than 60%. The surface area ranges from 60 to 300 m2/g. The porosity can reach as high as 99.6%. The size of the titanium oxide crystals are between 5 nm and 100 nm. The aerogel contains 100% titanium oxide. The composite (binary or ternary) aerogel can be prepared by adding at least 10% carbon in the form of (carbon nanotubes, carbon nanofibers, carbon microfibers, exfoliated graphene, cellulose fibers, polymer fibers, metallic and metal oxide nano and microfibers etc.). The aerogel can be prepared with a predeterminable shape. It can be shaped in a mold having a shape of a cylinder, cube, sheet or sphere.

Abstract: A system for combinatorial deposition of a thin layer on a substrate is described. The system comprises at least one deposition material source holder and a substrate holder. The system also comprises a rotatable positioning system for subsequently positioning the at least one substrate in parallel and in non-parallel configuration with at least one deposition material source. The system comprises at least one mask holder arranged for positioning a mask between at least one of the target holder and the positioning system, for allowing variation of the material flux across the at least one substrate when the combinatorial deposition is performed. The mask holder is in a fixed arrangement with respect to the at least one deposition material source holder during the combinatorial depositing.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a nanoparticle production system and methods of using the system. The nanoparticle production system includes a plasma gun including a male electrode, a female electrodes and a working gas supply configured to deliver a working gas in a vortexing helical flow direction across a plasma generation region. The system also includes a continuous feed system, a quench chamber, a cooling conduit that includes a laminar flow disruptor, a system overpressure module, and a conditioning fluid purification and recirculation system.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing polysilanes by converting monosilane in the presence of hydrogen in a plasma, and to a plant for performing the process.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for generating cold plasma to be used in the process chemical industry, in particular for producing chemical substances, above all acids such as for example nitric acid and sulphuric acid. The invention also relates to reactors and plants involving said cold plasma generator device and to corresponding chemical processes based thereupon. The device and the associated method of the present invention allow producing with high efficiency several chemical substances, in particular acids. The invention also keeps the several advantages of using the cold plasma technology, in particular the one of not requiring catalysts and/or high reaction temperatures.

Abstract: A method of amplifying the energy of a superfluid by irradiating a paramagnetic body, diamagnetic body, ferromagnetic and ferromagnetic metal microparticles with microwaves, thereby creating a superfluid phenomenon to generate superfluid energy, wherein a mixed phase electromagnetic fluid containing a semiconductor pigment is created and irradiated with microwaves, and when an external magnetic field is applied thereto, quantum chaos occurs, generating quantum turbulence phenomenon, thereby amplifying the energy of superfluid. Microparticles of an element, an oxide or a compound that creates a superfluid phenomenon in microwave band, are sorted from a diamagnetic or a paramagnetic material according to microwave frequency, and introduced into a mixed liquor containing a surfactant and a liquid characterized by containing an organic polyphenol. By activating the reaction of surface electrons, the mixed liquor is converted into a structure having a certain degree of magnetization.

Abstract: A granular sorption material including a plurality of porous granules formed by buildup agglomeration for separation, especially absorption, of harmful gases, especially of SOX and/or HCl, from offgases of thermal processes. The granules containing greater than 80% by weight, and preferably greater than 95% by weight, of Ca(OH)2 and/or CaCO3 based on the dry mass. The granules having a dry apparent density ?, determined by means of an apparent density pycnometer, of 0.5 to 1.2 kg/dm3, preferably 0.7 to 1.1 kg/dm3, and/or a porosity of 45% to 73% by volume, preferably 55% to 65% by volume, and have especially been increased in porosity. A process for producing the granular sorption material, in which pores are introduced into the granules by means of a porosity agent during the production.

Abstract: Herein are described methods and materials for capturing mercury from, for example, the gases produced by the combustion of coal. The composition for the removal of mercury from the fluid includes a polysulfide selected from the group consisting of a calcium sulfide and a bromosulfide; the polysulfide supported by or carried on a surface of a silicate particulate. Disclosed methods include a process for manufacturing the bromosulfide or calcium-sulfide mercury-removal composition and a process of capturing mercury from a fluid, the process can include admixing a bromosulfide or calcium-sulfide mercury-removal composition and a fluid that includes mercury; wherein the bromosulfide mercury removal composition includes a bromosulfide supported by or carried on a surface of a silicate particulate; wherein the calcium-sulfide mercury-removal composition includes a calcium sulfide supported by or carried on a surface of a silicate particulate.

Abstract: Hydrogen sulfide and mercaptans may be removed from a fluid or gaseous stream by introducing a composite to the fluid or gaseous stream containing a hydrogen sulfide scavenger adsorbed onto a water-insoluble adsorbent.

Abstract: An adsorbent for halogenated anaesthetics includes: an inorganic material; and an organic material providing a framework for the inorganic material. The inorganic material may be chromium and the organic material may be terephthalic acid. The adsorbent may be formed or configured such that the adsorbent includes coordinatively unsaturated sites or such that the inorganic material may form octahedral structures. The adsorbent is formed or configured to be substantially regenerated at approximately room temperature and to provide selectivity for sevofluorane in water vapour of approximately 1.0. A method of producing an adsorbent includes: selecting an appropriate chemical containing an inorganic material; selecting an organic material to provide a framework for the inorganic material; dissolving the base chemical in water; mixing the organic material with the dissolved base chemical; heating the mixture; filtering the mixture to remove excess organic material; and drying the filtrate.

Abstract: Provided is a moisture-absorbing material having, in the following order: a moisture-permeable polymer layer; a moisture-absorbing layer having a porous structure and containing amorphous silica with an average secondary particle diameter not exceeding 10 ?m, a water-soluble resin and a moisture-absorbing agent; and a moisture-proof layer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing a water-absorbent resin, characterized in that a reverse-phase suspension polymerization of a water-soluble ethylenically unsaturated monomer is carried out in a hydrocarbon dispersion medium comprising a dispersion stabilizer while an azo-based compound and a peroxide are combined in the presence of an internal-crosslinking agent, in that the following formulae are satisfied, 0.10?B/(A+B)??(1), and 0.055?B+9×C?0.120??(2), wherein A mol, B mol and C mol represent used amounts of the azo-based compound, the peroxide and the internal-crosslinking agent, respectively, relative to 100 mol of the water-soluble ethylenically unsaturated monomer used in the polymerization, and in that a post-crosslinking reaction is carried out by adding a post-crosslinking agent after the polymerization. The present invention also relates to a water-absorbent resin having specific performance and produced by the process.

Abstract: A programmable pH buffer comprises a copolymer that changes pKa at a lower critical solution temperature (LCST) in water. The copolymer comprises a thermally programmable polymer that undergoes a hydrophobic-to-hydrophilic phase change at the LCST and an electrolytic polymer that exhibits acid-base properties that are responsive to the phase change. The programmable pH buffer can be used to sequester CO2 into water.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a super absorbent polymer and a preparation method thereof. The super absorbent polymer includes surface crosslinked polymer particles prepared by surface crosslinking of particles of a base resin, wherein the base resin is polymerized from a monomer composition including water-soluble ethylene-based unsaturated monomers, and a water-soluble component, wherein the water-soluble component has a ratio (dwt/d(log M)) of 0.9 or less over molecular weights (M) ranging from 100,000 to 300,000 when measured from an eluted solution after swelling the super absorbent polymer for 1 hour, and wherein the content of the water-soluble component is 5% by weight or less, based on the total weight of the super absorbent polymer, when measured after swelling the super absorbent polymer for 1 hour. The super absorbent polymer has excellent liquid permeability even when swollen without a reduction in centrifuge retention capacity or absorbency under load while having improved permeability.

Abstract: A method for producing charcoal particles or pellets which use different additives as binders for the biochar pellets. The method includes producing a mixture with charcoal and additives selected from nanocrystalline cellulose, bentonite, and polyvinyl acetate. The mixture is created by mixing one or more of the additives with charcoal and water. The mixture is then processed in a pelletizer device. While processing, the surface of the mixture is sprayed with a liquid. Once turned into pellets by way of the pelletizer device, the resulting pellets are then dried by applying heat to the pellets. The liquid can be water or a solution of water and sodium borate.

Abstract: The present invention relates to porous substrate compositions and methods for producing such compositions. In one embodiment, the porous substrate composition of the present invention comprises sintered spherical particles of a substantially uniform size. The porous media compositions of the present invention comprise relatively randomly-ordered particles with a void fraction significantly higher than compositions with a more ordered, close-packed configuration. The present invention further relates to composite porous media compositions comprising two or more relatively discrete layers of sintered particles.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a porous composite particulate material includes a plurality of composite particles. Each composite particle includes an acid-base-resistant core particle at least partially surrounded by one or more layers of acid-base-resistant shell particles. The shell particles are adhered to the core particle by a polymeric layer. The shell particles and/or core particles may be made from an acid-base-resistant material that is stable in harsh chemical conditions. For example, the shell particles may be made from diamond, graphitic carbon, silicon carbide, boron nitride, tungsten carbide, niobium carbide, zirconia, noble metals, combinations of the foregoing, or other acid-base-resistant materials and the core particle may include at least one exterior layer of non-diamond carbon. The porous composite particulate materials disclosed herein and related methods and devices may be used in separation technologies, including, but not limited to, chromatography and solid phase extraction.

Abstract: A method of forming a catalytic assembly comprises forming a support structure comprising at least one surface comprising at least one catalyst material. At least one mounted nanocatalyst is formed on the at least one support structure, the at least one mounted nanocatalyst comprising a nanoparticle of the at least one catalyst material bound to a nanostructure. A catalytic assembly and system for producing a catalytic assembly are also described.

Abstract: Methods of forming and producing nanocatalysts mounted on or within nanofiber or nanotube structures are disclosed. The mounting structures prevent the nanocatalysts from agglomerating and retain the nanocatalysts in a reactor. The nanocatalysts may be grown over a bulk catalyst material without treating the nanotubes after forming the nanotubes. The resulting nanocatalysts remain catalytically active immediately after formation of the mounting supports and are effective in a wide variety of reactions. Systems are disclosed for reacting reaction gases to form mounting structures with at least one embedded nanocatalyst in the growth tips. The mounting structures may catalyze a different, subsequent reaction than the nanofiber formation reaction, which may take place in the same or a different reactor. Methods of forming a mass of nanocatalysts and catalyzing a reaction with the mass of nanocatalysts are disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a monolith catalyst for a carbon dioxide reforming reaction and to a preparation method for same, and more specifically the invention provides a preparation method for a monolith catalyst for a methane reforming reaction using carbon dioxide, the method comprising a step of mixing and impregnating a support in a metal precursor solution, coating a monolith substrate with the solution resulting from the mixing and impregnating, drying same and then calcining the monolith substrate coated with the solution resulting from the mixing and impregnating.

Abstract: A method for preparing a hydrogenation catalyst by mixing a copper salt with colloidal silica to form a precipitate, washing the formed precipitate to remove anions of the copper salt from the precipitate, and impregnating the anion-removed precipitate with an alkali metal to form a hydrogenation catalyst; and a method for preparing a diol from a lactone using the hydrogenation catalyst.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing a catalyst for glycerin dehydration, a catalyst for glycerin dehydration prepared thereby, and a method for preparing acrolein. More particularly, the catalyst for glycerin dehydration prepared by the preparation method is able to minimize by-product formation to improve acrolein selectivity and to maintain high catalytic activity during the reaction.

Abstract: A cracking catalyst contains a substantially inert core and an active shell, the active shell containing a zeolite catalyst and a matrix. Methods of making and using the cracking catalyst are also described.

Abstract: The invention relates to a novel zeolite catalysts, methods of producing the zeolite catalysts and a methods of using such catalyst, including for production of BTEX with improved yield, product selectivity and reduced char production. The present invention relates to novel mesoporous zeolite catalysts, as well as methods of producing the same. The present invention also relates to methods of producing renewable aromatic hydrocarbons using such catalysts.

Abstract: A metal complex represented by the following Formula (1): (wherein M represents palladium or platinum; L represents a ligand selected from carbon monoxide, an olefin compound, an amine compound, a phosphine compound, an N-heterocyclic carbene compound, a nitrile compound and an isocyanide compound; n represents an integer of 0 to 2 showing the number of the ligand; and each of R1 to R4 represents an organic group). The metal complex described above can be fixed on an inorganic oxide while maintaining a skeletal structure thereof to obtain a supported metal complex, which makes it possible to allow the supported metal complex to maintain the same catalytic activity as that of the original metal complex. Also, calcining the supported metal complex obtained in the manner described above makes it possible to obtain a supported metal catalyst improved in catalytic activity to a greater extent than conventional supported metal catalysts.

Abstract: To provide a hydrocarbon reforming/trapping material which is capable of adsorbing and reforming a hydrocarbon. A hydrocarbon reforming/trapping material of the present invention has an SiO2/Al2O3 ratio of from 7 to 12, and contains an Fe(II)-substituted beta zeolite which is ion-exchanged by Fe(II) ions. The amount of supported Fe(II) is preferably 0.001-0.5 mmol/g with respect to the Fe(II)-substituted beta zeolite. This Fe(II)-substituted beta zeolite is suitably produced by dispersing and mixing a beta zeolite having an SiO2/Al2O3 ratio of from 7 to 12 in an aqueous solution of a water-soluble compound of divalent iron, and mixing and stirring the solution, so that Fe(II) ions are supported on the beta zeolite.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a hydroprocessing catalyst containing at least one catalyst support, one or more metals, optionally one or more molecular sieves, optionally one or more promoters, wherein deposition of at least one of the metals is achieved in the presence of a modifying agent.

Abstract: A microencapsulated catalyst-ligand system is provided comprising a catalyst and a ligand microencapsulated within a permeable polymer microcapsule shell, wherein the ligand is a polymeric ligand. Processes for the preparation of said microencapsulated catalyst-ligand system are also provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of forming an olefin from a first olefin and a second olefin in a metathesis reaction, comprising step (i): (i) reacting the first olefin with the second olefin in the presence of a compound that catalyzes said metathesis reaction such that the molar ratio of said compound to the first or the second olefin is from 1:500 or less, and the conversion of the first or the second olefin to said olefin is at least 50%, characterized in that as compound that catalyzes said metathesis reaction a compound of formula (A) is used: wherein M is Mo or W; R1 is aryl, heteroaryl, alkyl, or heteroalkyl; optionally substituted; R2 and R3 can be the same or different and are hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl, heteroalkyl, heteroalkenyl, aryl, or heteroaryl; optionally substituted; R5 is alkyl, alkoxy, heteroalkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, silylalkyl, silyloxy, optionally substituted; and R4 is a residue R6—X—, wherein X?O and R6 is aryl, optionally substituted; or X?S and R6 is aryl, optionally substituted; or

Abstract: The invention pertains to a stabilized catalyst mould comprising a catalyst body formed of a catalyst material, said catalyst material comprising a catalytically active material or a precursor material of the catalytically active material, characterized in that at least parts of the surface of the catalyst mould are provided with a protective coating comprising an organic binder. Further, the invention pertains to a method for obtaining a stabilized catalyst mould.

Abstract: Closing arrangement for a cap of a tube in a carrier, wherein the arrangement comprises at least a first, a second and a third moveable engagement member, the first member being adapted to induce a first part of the cap rotation and the second member being adapted to induce a second part of the cap rotation and the third member being adapted to induce a third part of the cap rotation for closure.