Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for pyrolysis using a falling bed reactor. The falling bed reactor may result in effective mixing between a heat carrier and biomass, and may reduce or eliminate inert gas requirements.

Abstract: There is provided a method including: combining storage pond tailings with a heated tailings stream to form a tailings mixture, the storage pond tailings having a temperature and a solids content and the tailings mixture having a resulting solids content less than the solids content of the storage pond tailings; and treating the tailings mixture to recover bitumen therefrom.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a process for the production of crude bio-oil which involves heating a mixture of biomass slurry and a mixed catalyst system in the presence of a hydrogen source at a temperature ranging from 200 to 350° C. and at a pressure ranging from 70 to 250 bars to obtain a mass containing crude bio-oil. The crude bio-oil can then be separated from said mass containing crude bio-oil. The mixed catalyst system remains in solid form and can be easily separated and reused in the next cycle of hydrothermal conversion of biomass to crude bio-oil.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for cracking a hydrocarbon. The method includes contacting a first hydrocarbon stream with a cracking catalyst in a riser. The cracking catalyst is regenerated in a regenerator to produce a flue gas stream having a particulate concentration, where the flue gas stream is vented. A second stream is contacted with the cracking catalyst in the riser while the first hydrocarbon stream is contacted with the catalyst, where the second stream includes a natural oil. The particulate concentration is a second particulate concentration while the second stream contacts the cracking catalyst, and a first particulate concentration prior to the second stream contacting the cracking catalyst. The first particulate concentration is greater than the second particulate concentration.

Abstract: Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) units, apparatuses, and methods for catalytically cracking a mixture of a pyrolysis oil stream and a hydrocarbon stream are provided herein. In an embodiment, an FCC unit includes a reaction chamber suitable for contacting a pyrolysis oil, a hydrocarbon, and a catalyst. The FCC unit includes a coolant conduit having an coolant outlet in communication with the reaction chamber and suitable for introducing a coolant stream through the coolant outlet into the reaction chamber. The FCC unit further includes a pyrolysis oil conduit including a pyrolysis oil outlet positioned within the coolant conduit and suitable for injecting the pyrolysis oil through the pyrolysis oil outlet into the reaction chamber.

Abstract: The present invention provides integrated bunker storage systems for waste streams based on the composition and characteristics of waste streams. In particular, the present invention provides a process for generating individual waste streams based on a set of material characteristics. According to the system and method of the present invention, individual waste streams from wastes stored in bunkers are mixed in a given feed ratio to generate a feed stock that will produce a desired output from a chemical conversion process, e.g., gasification. Optionally, composition data regarding the feed stock can be certified to a third party.

Abstract: A synergistic mixture comprising from 1 to 99.9% by weight of compounds having structural elements (I) in which the free valencies on the oxygen atom and on the nitrogen atom may be combined to form a five-, six- or seven-membered ring and the benzene ring may also bear substituents at one or more of the free positions, and from 0.1 to 99% by weight of sulfur-containing organic compounds with antioxidant action. This synergistic mixture is suitable as a stabilizer for stabilizing inanimate organic material, especially mineral oil products and fuels, against the action of light, oxygen and heat.

Abstract: A conditioning assembly to condition a flow of natural gas to reduce hydrate formation for transportation. The conditioning assembly includes a housing with an inlet for introducing a flow of natural gas and an outlet for delivering conditioned gas, wherein the housing is capable of containing natural gas at or above atmospheric pressure. The assembly also includes at least one tube and fin style heat exchanger contained within the housing configured to cool the flow of natural gas to a temperature below hydrate formation temperature and a collection arrangement to remove hydrates from the housing that form during cooling of the natural gas. Also disclosed is a method of conditioning natural gas, substantially corresponding to the assembly described above, wherein a constant flow of natural gas is conditioned by alternating the flow of natural gas between at least two heat exchangers configured in a parallel arrangement.

Abstract: A mould release lubricant comprises of palm-derived base fluid and a specialty additive of satisfactory mould release and lubrication properties such as a tackifier, and if deemed necessary, other additives to improve the lubrication of the mould, is disclosed. The lubricant comprises at least one vegetable base fluid and/or its derivatives having good low temperature fluidity property, and at least one tackifier. The mould release lubricant disclosed in the present invention is used in construction industry (especially concrete construction) for lubrication during the process of detaching the moulded concrete from the mould (formwork) and prevents adhesion of freshly placed concrete to the forming surface.

Abstract: An automotive engine oil and/or fuel comprising a base stock and an organic polymeric friction reducing additive is claimed. A method of reducing friction in an automotive engine oil and/or fuel by the addition of the organic polymeric friction reducing additive to the base stock is also claimed.

Abstract: A lubricant coating for laser printer wiper blades is a solution applied to a laser printer wiper blade before install that reduces friction between the wiper blade and the photoconductor drum of a laser printer in order to reduce wear, prevent damage and increase life of the wiper blade and photoconductor drum. A leveling and wetting agent ensures uniform application and reduces coating defects. An anti-wear agent reduces friction and acts as an electrical insulator. A friction reducing agent also reduces friction and acts as an electrical insulator. An evaporation promoting agent aids in evaporation of unnecessary material after application to a wiper blade. A coating enhancing agent increases the hardness of the coating and provides assistance in adherence of the solution to the wiper blade. Deionized water acts as a carrier. The solution is mixed in a high shear mixture.

Abstract: Lubricating oil compositions comprise one or more polytetrahydrofuranes that are prepared by alkoxylating polytetrahydrofurane with at least one C8-C30 epoxy alkane.

Abstract: Methods and systems for processing a composition comprising an estolide base oil and an immiscible component. In certain embodiments, the process comprises separating an estolide base oil from immiscible components such as water. In certain embodiments, the method comprises one or more of gravity separating, coalescing, and accumulating.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the formula (I) and use thereof as fragrance. In a further aspect the present invention relates to compositions and fragrance mixtures containing compounds of the formula (I) and the products perfumed with these compositions and fragrance mixtures. Further, the present invention relates to a method for intensifying an odor or several odors selected from the group consisting of fruity, floral, spicy, woody, musk and ambrette and a method for endowing hair or textile fibers with one, several or all of the notes selected from the group consisting of fruity, floral, spicy, woody, musk and ambrette with use of one or more compounds of the formula (I).

Abstract: A composition for treating a hard surface. The composition has: (a) at least one adhesion promoter; (b) at least one surfactant selected from the group consisting of: anionic, non-ionic, cationic, amphoteric, zwitterionic, and combinations thereof; (c) mineral oil; (d) water; (e) optionally, at least one solvent; and wherein the composition is self-adhering upon application to a surface to be treated, and wherein the composition provides a wet film to said surface when water passes over said composition and surface.

Abstract: A cleaner composition includes: a saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon (A); an anionic surfactant (B); a nonionic surfactant (C); and water (D). The cleaner composition contains the saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon (A) in a proportion of 60.0% by mass to 85.0% by mass, the anionic surfactant (B) in a proportion of 8.0% by mass to 15.0% by mass, the nonionic surfactant (C) in a proportion of 2.0% by mass to 5.0% by mass, and the water (D) in a proportion of 1.0% by mass to 20.0% by mass, forms a W/O microemulsion or a solubilized W/O emulsion, and has a volume resistivity of 1×109 ?·cm or less.

Abstract: Fabric care compositions, and more specifically, fabric care compositions that include a surfactant system, silicone, and a polyetheramine. Methods of making and using such compositions.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to detergent compositions and, more specifically, to detergent compositions containing a polyetheramine and an anionic soil release polymer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a detergent or cleaning composition, preferably a liquid laundry detergent composition, comprising a sulfonate group-containing copolymer, which is useful in improving anti-soil redeposition in high water hardness conditions and whiteness maintenance benefit of such detergent or cleaning composition. Processes for making and methods of using the detergent or cleaning composition are also encompassed by the present invention.

Abstract: A cleaning composition containing an alkoxylated polyalkyleneimine and a sulfonate group-containing copolymer is provided, which exhibits significant improved whiteness maintenance benefit when used to treat fabrics.

Abstract: The present invention relates to cleaning and/or treatment compositions comprising malodor reduction compositions and methods of making and using such cleaning and/or treatment compositions and malodor reduction compositions. As a result, such malodor reduction compositions do not unduely interfere with the scent of the perfumed or unperfumed cleaning and/or treatment compositions that comprise such compositions and the perfumed or unperfumed situs that is treated with such cleaning and/or treatment compositions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to products that comprise malodor reduction compositions and methods of making and using such products. Such malodor reduction compositions do not unduely interfere with the scent of the perfumed or unperfumed products comprising such malodor reduction compositions and the perfumed or unperfumed situs that is treated with such products.

Abstract: The present invention relates to substrates comprising malodor reduction compositions and methods of making and using such substrates. Such malodor reduction compositions do not unduely interfere with the scent of the perfumed or unperfumed substrates comprising such malodor reduction compositions and the perfumed or unperfumed situs that is treated with such substrates.

Abstract: The present invention relates to delivery systems comprising malodor reduction compositions, methods of making such delivery systems and consumer products made with such delivery systems. Such delivery systems do not unduely interfere with the scent of the perfumed or unperfumed delivery system, perfumed or unperfumed products comprising such delivery systems and any perfumed or unperfumed situs that is treated with such products.

Abstract: Provided herein is a composition and a method for removing CHG from textiles. The composition is an acid-surfactant-based composition that may be used to remove CHG from a textile that has not been exposed to chlorine subsequent to being exposed to CHG.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method of imparting water repellency and optionally stain release to fibrous substrates by contacting a fibrous substrate with a non-fluorinated laundry treatment composition inside a laundry machine. The laundry treatment composition contains a hydrophobic organic urethane compound having a urethane linkage and the residue of a substituted cyclic or acyclic sugar alcohol. Laundry additive compositions containing a first laundry treatment composition, having a hydrophobic organic urethane compound, and a second laundry treatment composition are also included.

Abstract: The present invention relates to liquid laundry detergent compositions comprising a polyetheramine.

Abstract: The present invention relates to liquid laundry detergent compositions comprising a polyetheramine.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to cleaning compositions and, more specifically, to cleaning compositions containing a polyetheramine that is suitable for removal of stains from soiled materials.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to cleaning compositions and, more specifically, to cleaning compositions containing a polyetheramine that is suitable for removal of stains from soiled materials.

Abstract: Provided is a cleaning composition and its applications. The cleaning composition comprises a mixture of a halogen-containing compound and an organic solvent. In some embodiments, the halogen-containing compound is TetraButylAmmonium Fluoride (TBAF) and the organic solvent is either propylene glycol monomethylether acetate (PGMEA) or a mixture of PGMEA and propylene glycol monomethylether (PGME). The cleaning composition is effective in removing silicon-containing material off of a surface of an apparatus. In some embodiments, the apparatus comprises a pipeline for delivering the silicon-containing material in semiconductor spin-coating processes. In some embodiments, the apparatus comprises a drain for collecting waste fluid in semiconductor spin-coating processes. In some embodiments, the apparatus comprises a patterned substrate.

Abstract: Provided are wrinkle reducing and deodorizing dryer sheets and methods of making and using the dryer sheets. In one form of the dryer sheet, the wrinkle reducing and deodorizing dryer sheet includes an absorbent wet substrate in sheet form with a polyvinyl alcohol sheet adhered to one surface of the substrate. In another form the PVA sheet is added separately from that of the absorbent wet substrate sheet. The PVA sheet is preferably in the form of an uncoated non-woven of a thickness of 8 mil or less. The wet impregnated sheet contains a solution of quaternary ammonium salts of different water solubility. The method for using, the wrinkle reducing and deodorizing dryer sheet is added to a rotary dryer with a load of wet or dried garments to reduce wrinkling in the garments during the drying process, reduce static cling and refresh the treated clothing.

Abstract: Energetic beer, flavored beer or energetic drink based on beer containing 10 to 99.99% of weight of beer, non-alcoholic beer, or a drink based on beer or non-alcoholic beer and it further contains stimulating (energetic or vitamin) substances in the amount of 0.001 to 90% of weight.

Abstract: A bioreactor is provided. The bioreactor is a multi-scalable bioreactor, which comprises a culture vessel for seeding and culturing cells by adding a cell-culture media, wherein the culture vessel comprises at least a side wall and a bottom surface, a specific heat transfer area and a specific gas transfer area; wherein the culture vessel is configured to accommodate the cell-culture media volume up to 10 liters, and wherein the specific heat transfer area and the specific gas transfer area are independent of cell-culture media volume. A kit for culturing cells in a large scale is also provided which further comprises disposable tubings, culture bag or combinations thereof. A method for culturing cells is also provided.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein generally provide for the scheduled feeding of cells in a cell expansion system. A schedule to proactively and automatically increase and/or maintain inlet rates of media to feed cells may be created, in which inlet rates to the intracapillary portion (or extracapillary portion) of a bioreactor may be increased or maintained according to the schedule. Such schedule may be conservative or aggressive or a combination thereof, for example. Multiple schedules may be used. Scheduled media exchanges may also be included. By following a feed schedule, the monitoring of metabolite levels may be optional. Inlet rates may be increased or maintained without manual manipulation. Media usage may also be more predictable. In an embodiment, a custom task(s) may be created to follow a desired feed schedule. In another embodiment, a pre-programmed task(s) may be used for the scheduled feeding of cells.

Abstract: An apparatus for culturing cells of the present invention is an apparatus for culturing cells using a culture medium in a culture vessel. The apparatus includes: pump connected to pipet held by first holder; first shifter configured to shift first holder; second holder configured to hold culture vessel; second shifter configured to grip and shift culture vessel; and controller. Controller is programmed to, when pipet draws a liquid in culture vessel or discharges a liquid into culture vessel, control second shifter to translationally shift lid of culture vessel in a horizontal direction.

Abstract: Methods and culture media for culturing a microorganism associated with Morgellons disease are provided. In exemplary embodiments, methods are provided that may include adding a microorganism associated with Morgellons disease to a solution containing ferrous iron, sugar and water or to a solid growth medium containing agar and ferrous iron. Also provided are compositions containing a microorganism associated with Morgellons disease as well as methods for isolating lipids and proteins from this microorganism and methods for inhibiting its growth.

Abstract: Methods for treating tissue matrices and tissue matrices produced according to the methods are provided. The methods can include treating a tissue matrix with a proteolytic enzyme to produce a desired pliability of the tissue matrix and/or to control the immunogenicity of the tissue matrix. The methods can also comprise performing an assay to determine if contacting the at least one collagen-containing tissue matrix with a proteolytic enzyme has altered the at least one collagen-containing tissue matrix to reduce a human immune response to the tissue matrix.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a medium composition for enhancing the self-renewal ability of stem cells, which contains apelin, and a method of culturing stem cells using the medium composition. According to the present invention, stem cells can be effectively cultured to proliferate without changing the characteristics of the cells, and the telomerase activity of stem cells can be increased. Thus, the efficacy of cell therapy based on stem cells can be significantly improved.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a process for the manufacture of adenoviruses wherein the process comprises culturing mammalian cells infected with the adenovirus in the presence of media suitable for supporting the cells such that the virus replicates, wherein the cells are capable of supporting viral replication, and at the end of the culturing period isolating from the media the adenovirus by filtering wherein the isolation of virus is not subsequent to a cell lysis step and to viruses obtainable from the process.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a transfer vector for inserting a gene into a genetic locus of a baculovirus sequence. The transfer vector comprises an expression cassette comprising a eukaryotic promoter operably linked to the gene and a bipartite selection cassette. The present invention also relates to methods of using the transfer vector and derived bacmids and baculoviruses.

Abstract: A mutant Bacillus subtilis, which does not express a functional KASIIIA and/or KASIIIB and method of making; a mutant Rhodospirillum rubrum, which does not express a functional PhaC1, PhaC2, and/or PhaC3 and method of making; method of characterizing substrate specificity of KASIII; method of making mutant KASIII with altered substrate specificity and/or altered level of activity and nucleic acid, vector, host cell/organism, and mutant KASIII; an in vitro, high-throughput spectrophotometric method of assaying KASIII activity, and materials and methods for using KASIII for production of bi-functional fatty acids and the materials so produced.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides novel compositions and methods for the production and use of polynucleotide sequences encoding a glycine N-acyltransferase protein (GLYAT, GLYATL 1, GLYATL 2, and GLYATL 3) for the biosynthesis of N-acylglycine biosurfactants within a heterologous expression system.

Abstract: Enzymes catalyzing the glycosylation of polyphenols, in particular flavonoids, benzoic acid derivatives, stilbenoids, chalconoids, chromones, and coumarin derivatives. An enzyme catalyzing the glycosylation of polyphenols, wherein the enzyme a) includes an amino acid sequence according to one of the sequences of SEQ ID NO: 7-12, or b) is encoded by a nucleic acid with a nucleotide sequence of one of the sequences of SEQ ID NO: 1-6, or c) is homologous to one of the enzymes defined in a) or b) above, or d) is encoded by a nucleic acid hybridizing under stringent conditions with a nucleic acid complementary to a sequence with a nucleotide sequence of one of the sequences of SEQ ID NO: 1-6.

Abstract: Presented herein are polymerase enzymes for improved incorporation of nucleotide analogues, in particular nucleotides which are modified at the 3? sugar hydroxyl, as well as methods and kits using the same.

Abstract: The present invention falls within the field of biotechnology. More specifically, the invention relates to reverse transcriptases expressed and purified in bacteria and having the amino acid sequence of the reverse transcriptase of a human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) group O, modified at positions 358, 359 and 360; and variants of this enzyme that contain additional changes at positions 355 and 357 or at 478 or position 69 (in this case accompanied by an insertion of two amino acids). These polymerases have greater activity than the non-mutated enzyme at high temperatures (above 60° C.). In addition, they retain the capacity for DNA synthesis at temperatures greater than 70° C. Moreover, the copying fidelity of these enzymes is not significantly different from that of the non-mutated reverse transcriptase.

Abstract: Presented herein are recombinases for improved recombinase-mediated amplification of nucleic acids, such as a PCR-library having single-stranded adapter regions, on a patterned flow cell surface for improved cluster amplification, as well as methods and kits using the same.

Abstract: Mutated ?-glucuronidase enzymes with enhanced enzymatic activity and thermostability as compared to wild type enzyme are provided. The enzymes of the invention advantageously allow for accurate analysis of bodily samples for the presence of drugs in 30 minutes or less, as compared to the several hours needed using prior enzyme preparations. Methods of using the mutated enzymes for hydrolysis of glucuronide substrates, including opiates and benzodiazepines, are also provided.

Abstract: Described herein are heme-binding compositions and methods relating to their use, e.g. methods of treatment of for example, sepsis and rhabdomyolysis.

Abstract: Increases in antibiotic resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus have elicited efforts to develop novel antimicrobials. One potential treatment includes lytic enzymes produced by staphylococcal bacteriophage during the lytic cycle. The phage Twort endolysin (PlyTW) harbors three domains, a CHAP endopeptidase, an amidase-2 domain, and a SH3b-5 cell wall binding domain. The CHAP domain alone is necessary and sufficient for lysis of live S. aureus; the amidase-2 domain alone is insufficient. Loss of the SH3b cell wall binding domain results in a 10 fold reduction of enzymatic activity in turbidity reduction and plate lysis assays compared to the full length protein. Deletion of the amidase-2 domain resulted in a protein (PlyTW ?172-373) with lytic activity that exceeded the activity of the full length construct in both assays. Addition of Ca2+ enhanced activity in turbidity reduction assays. Chelation by the addition of EDTA or zinc inhibited the activity of all PlyTW constructs.