Abstract: A method of producing a quartz glass optical component is provided. The method includes providing a cylindrical quartz glass body made of core rod glass and cladding glass. The quartz glass body has a square cut first end having a first outer diameter. The method further includes providing a glass handle having a first end and an opposing square cut second end having a second outer diameter which is between 50% and 110% of the first outer diameter; attaching the square cut end of the glass handle to that of the quartz glass body; and using the glass handle to guide the quartz glass body through a draw furnace. A distortion in a clad-to-core ratio proximate the interface of the cylindrical quartz glass body and the glass handle is less than 5%.

Abstract: A method and corresponding apparatus for processing optical fiber include directing light from a directed light source toward an optical fiber on a fiber draw. A fiber core of the optical fiber is heated, using at least the light from the directed light source, to a fiber core temperature within a glass transformation temperature range of the fiber core. The method can be used to reduce fictive temperature of the fiber core, with Rayleigh scattering being reduced, leading to lower attenuation losses in the fiber core.

Abstract: A copper dopant delivery powder comprising a fused silica powder and a Cu2S powder. A method of making the copper dopant delivery powder. A method of making a copper-doped glass comprising placing a target glass in a container, packing a composite SiO.CuS dopant powder around the target glass and heating the container and SiO.CuS dopant powder to a temperature of between 800° C. and 1150° C. A copper-doped glass comprising a glass comprising copper-doping wherein the copper-doped glass was formed by covering the glass with a fused silica powder and a Cu2S powder, wherein the fused silica powder and the Cu2S powder are mixed in varying ratios of Cu2S to silica represented by the formula (SiO2)(1-x)(Cu2S)x and heating to a temperature of between 800° C. and 1150° C.

Abstract: A method of making a surface-active glass as regenerative anti-fouling material comprising mixing Na2O and B2O3, creating a surface-active glass with a water-soluble glass matrix, wherein the surface-active glass comprises a sodium borate glass consisting of 25 mol % Na2O and 75 mol % B2O3 or wherein the surface-active glass comprises a sodium aluminoborate glass consisting of 10-30 mol % Al2O3, 10-30 mol % Na2O and 70-40 mol % B2O3.

Abstract: A ceramic ink may include about 20% to 80% by weight oxide frit, wherein the oxide frit is particles of at least one compound selected from silica, titania, alumina, zirconia, a compound having fluoride ion, bismuth oxide, zinc oxide, boron oxide, potassium oxide, sodium oxide, calcium oxide, barium oxide, lead oxide, lithium oxide, phosphorous oxide, molybdenum oxide, strontium oxide, and magnesium oxide; about 10% to 40% by weight infrared or near-infrared transmissive or reflective inorganic pigment; and about 10% to 40% vehicle.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a glass-ceramic composition may include from about 60 mol. % to about 75 mol. % SiO2; from about 5 mol. % to about 10 mol. % AI2O3; from about 2 mol. % to about 20 mol. % alkali oxide R2O, the alkali oxide R2O including Li20 and Na2O; and from 0 mol. % to about 5 mol. % alkaline earth oxide RO, the alkaline earth oxide RO including MgO. A ratio of Al2O3 (mol. %)) to the sum of (R2O (mol. %)+RO (mol. %)) may be less than 1 in the glass-ceramic composition. A major crystalline phase of the glass-ceramic composition may be Li2Si2O5. A liquidus viscosity of the glass-ceramic composition may be greater than 35 kP. The glass-ceramic composition may be used to form the glass clad layer(s) of a laminated glass article.

Abstract: A method of coating a substrate is disclosed. The method comprising the steps of that includes providing a substrate having a first surface, providing a particle based coating composition comprising particles, applying the coating composition to at least a part of the first surface of the substrate, and converting the particle based coating composition on the first surface of the substrate into a functional coating having a thickness of 50 nm to 25 ?mas measured along across section in a scanning electron microscope (SEM), wherein the particle based coating composition comprises nanoparticle, and converting the particle based coating composition involves a high intensity energy source heating at least a part of the coating composition, wherein the high intensity energy source is selected from the group of certain CO2 lasers and flame arrays. Furthermore an apparatus for preparing a coating is disclosed.

Abstract: A low emissivity coating 30 includes a plurality of phase adjustment layers 40, 50, 62; a first metal functional layer 46; and a second metal functional layer 58 located over and spaced from the first metal functional layer 48. A ratio of the geometric thickness of the first metal functional layer divided by the geometric thickness of the second metal functional layer is in the range of 0.6 to 1. The low emissivity coating 30 provides a reference IGU summer/day SHGC of at least 0.4 and a reference IGU winter/night U factor of no greater than 0.4 BTU/hr-ft-° F. (2.27 W/m2-K).

Abstract: A substrate is coated on one face with a thin-films stack having reflection properties in the infrared and/or in solar radiation including a single metallic functional layer, based on silver or on a metal alloy containing silver, and two antireflection coatings. The coatings each include at least one dielectric layer. The functional layer is positioned between the two antireflection coatings. At least one of the antireflection coatings includes an intermediate layer including zinc tin oxide SnxZnyOz with a ratio of 0.1?x/y?2.4, with 0.75(2x+y)?z?0.95(2x+y) and having a physical thickness of between 2 nm and 25 nm, or even between 2 nm and 12 nm.

Abstract: Formaldehyde-free binder compositions are described that include an aldehyde or ketone, a reaction product between a polyamine and an organic anhydride, and an acidic compound. The acidic compound may be an organic acid, an acidic catalyst, or both. The acidic compound is supplied in quantities that lower the pH of the binder composition to about 5 or less. The binder compositions may be used in methods of binding fiberglass and the resulting fiberglass products have an improved tensile strength due to the addition of the acidic compound.

Abstract: Methods and a slaker for removal of heavy grit during batchwise slaking of burnt lime in a slaker (2) for the production of lime slurry with a high degree of fineness and prolonged sedimentation time are described, where the following processing steps are carried out during the slaking process: a)—reduction of the stirring of the slaker (2) from a normal stirring speed to a lower stirring speed, b)—opening of an upper inlet valve (60) in a collector (70) mounted in the lower part (54) of the slaker (2) to lead sinking grit in the slurry batch to the collector (70), whereupon the upper inlet valve (60) is closed after a given time period, c)—increase the stirring in the slaker (2) back to the normal stirring speed, d)—after a given time period with normal stirring speed, a regulating valve (22) in the lower part (54) of the slaker (2) is opened for emptying of a batch of slurry to an external storage tank (3), and e)—when said regulating valve (22) is opened for emptying of a batch of slurry, a lower outlet va

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a fiber reinforced cementitious composition comprising a cementitious binder and at least one synthetic inorganic reinforcing fiber type, wherein the synthetic inorganic reinforcing fiber type comprises at least one of a man-made mineral fiber type such as basalt fibers, an aluminosilicate wool fiber type or an alkaline earth silicate wool fiber type.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a gypsum-containing foamed prefabricated building material and to a gypsum-containing foamed prefabricated building material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for hydrophobization of concrete or mortar using an alkylketene dimer dispersion and to the concrete or mortar obtainable by the process of the invention. The process allows to achieve effective mass and surface hydrophobization of concrete.

Abstract: A cement slurry composition, containing hydraulic cement, water, and from 1 to less than 4% of an organically modified nanoclay. A method for cementing a high pressure high temperature well by pumping the cement composition of claim 1 between a casing and a formation of a well bore to fill a gap between the casing and the formation, and allowing the cement to harden.

Abstract: Use of a geopolymer in a coating composition for a building construction component, a coated component for use in building construction wherein the coating comprises a geopolymer, a method of coating a component comprising applying a curable geopolymer mixture to a surface of the component and curing the mixture to form a cured geopolymer coating, and the use of a geo polymer as a mortar.

Abstract: Electronic devices are produced from dielectric compositions comprising a mixture of precursor materials that, upon firing, forms a dielectric material comprising a barium-strontium-titanium-tungsten-silicon oxide.

Abstract: Methods for making printed articles from carbon powder are described. Three-dimensional binder jet printing is used to make a printed article from the carbon powder. Methods are also provided for the production of near net shaped carbonized printed articles and graphitized printed articles.

Abstract: There is described a mesoporous composite material comprising carbon nanoparticles dispersed in a mesoporous carbonaceous material.

Abstract: A fiber having an environmental barrier coating is provided that includes, in one illustrative form, a Hi Nicalon preform assembled in a tooling for chemical vapor infiltration and cleaned to remove sizing char from fibers of the Hi Nicalon preform; a ytterbium doped silicon carbide coat located over the Hi Nicalon preform; a boron nitride interface coat applied over the ytterbium doped silicon carbide coat; and a silicon carbide coat applied over the boron nitride interface coat.

Abstract: A method for the joining of ceramic pieces with a hermetically sealed joint comprising brazing a layer of joining material between the two pieces. The wetting and flow of the joining material is controlled by the selection of the joining material, the joining temperature, the joining atmosphere, and other factors. The ceramic pieces may be on a non-diffusable type, such as aluminum nitride, alumina, beryllium oxide, and zirconia, and the pieces may be brazed with an aluminum alloy under controlled atmosphere. The joint material is adapted to later withstand both the environments within a process chamber during substrate processing, and the oxygenated atmosphere which may be seen within the shaft of a heater or electrostatic chuck.

Abstract: The present invention provides compositions for use as stable additive concentrates, such as aqueous solutions or powders, in cement admixtures comprising i) one or more nonionic or substantially nonionic vinyl or acrylic brush polymers having pendant or side chain polyether groups and having a weight average molecular weight of from 140,000 to 50,000,000, ii) one or more aromatic cofactors containing one or more phenolic groups or, in combination, one or more aromatic groups with at least one sulfur acid group, preferably, a branched aromatic cofactor; and iii) one or more polycarboxylate ether copolymer water reducers containing carboxylic acid or salt groups and having polyether side chains and a weight average molecular weight of from 5,000 to 100,000.

Abstract: A method of fertilizing a plant comprises applying to a plant an effective amount of a composition comprising a product of a salicylic acid, a potassium polyphosphite, a potassium phosphite, and a potassium phosphate. The composition may be prepared by reacting salicylic acid, ammonium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide and/or potassium carbonate, phosphoric acid, and phosphorous acid.

Abstract: A plant (10) for treating poultry manure comprises:—an apparatus for the first treatment (11) of the poultry manure, configured to carry out dilution, homogenization and hot, damp alkaline hydrolysis of the diluted poultry manure and to supply at exit a stream of inert materials (18) and a stream of hydrolyzed poultry manure (19); —a second treatment unit (20) configured to carry out a flocculation of the stream of hydrolyzed poultry manure (19) and to supply a hydrolyzed and flocculated stream of poultry manure (22);—a solid-liquid separation unit (24) configured to separate the stream of hydrolyzed and flocculated poultry manure (22) into a solid fraction (26) suitable for anaerobic digestion and a liquid fraction (28);—a liquid post-treatment unit (30) of the liquid fraction (28) supplied by the solid-liquid separation unit (24) configured to recover water (32, 60), ammonium sulfate (31, 56) and salts (34, 54, 54a) from the liquid fraction (28).

Abstract: A process for producing a commercial soil additive comprises mixing a compost composition with elementary (raw) sulphur to form a mixed material and turning the mixed material until it is substantially homogenous and until there is microbial oxidation of elementary sulphur therein to at least one sulphate.

Abstract: A method for inoculating a plant with a nitrogen-fixing bacteria such as Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus, said method comprising administering the nitrogen-fixing bacteria to a wound of a growing plant, for example to recently cut grass. Inoculation in this manner leads to enhanced growth characteristics including increased greenness of grass. Novel compositions suitable for use in the method are also described and claimed, together with kits for producing these.

Abstract: Disclosed is a stable fertilizer composition including: a sulfur-containing compound; and a reaction product of a potassium-containing compound and a humectant selected from the group consisting of polyhydric alcohols, esters of polyhydric alcohols, polyalkylene glycols, and hydroxylated carboxylic acids. One version of the fertilizer composition also includes a nitrogen-containing compound; a phosphorous-containing compound; and at least one more additional macronutrient or micronutrient. The macronutrient may be selected from the group consisting of calcium and magnesium, and the micronutrient may be selected from the group consisting of zinc, manganese, iron, copper, calcium, magnesium, cobalt, boron, nickel, and molybdenum. The fertilizer composition may be essentially free of chelated metals and chelated metal salts. Methods of using a solution of the fertilizer composition for supplying plant nutrients to a plant are also disclosed.

Abstract: A system and method for providing fertilizer for crop production in an aqueous solution comprising nano-sized fertilizer particles, which are free of any chemical side chain and free any micelle to protect the nano-sized particle from re-agglomeration, suspended therein for improved uptake by the population of the crop.

Abstract: The present invention relates to increasing longevity of the nitrogen content of soil through improved liquid delivery formulations of nitrification inhibitors. The liquid formulation can also be comprised of nitrification inhibitors and optionally urease inhibitors that are blended solutions of each. The nitrification inhibitors are present in a mixture that comprises both a protic and an aprotic solvent system. The novel formulations are designed to be applied to fertilizers, especially urea and manure based fertilizers. The delivery formulations provide an environmentally sound and inherently safe solvating system that improves the storage stability of the urease inhibitors by utilizing liquid organic non-water containing solvents, maintains the nitrification inhibitors in solution to storage temperatures of at least 10° C., and provides improved application to fertilizer of nitrification inhibitors.

Abstract: Solid-fuel rocket propellants comprising an oxidizer, an oxophilic metal-halophilic metal formulation, and a binder are described herein. Further described are processes for preparing such propellants and methods of reducing hydrogen chloride production via the combustion of such propellants. Non-limiting examples of such formulations include aluminum-lithium alloys.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for (I) producing a carboxylic ester of formula (I). Said method comprises the steps of: a) bringing an organosilane/borane of formula Si or B into contact with CO2, in the presence of a catalyst and an electrophilic compound of formula (III), the groups R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, Y, and M? being as defined in claim 1; and optionally b) recovering the compound of formula (I) produced.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to processes and systems for the hydrodeoxygenation of an oxygenate feedstock that increases the conversion of oxygenates to hydrocarbons while avoiding detrimental effects resulting from increasing the severity of the hydrodeoxygenation reaction.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for making para-xylene from toluene and/or benzene comprising (i) converting toluene and/or benzene to a first product mixture comprising mixed xylenes, (ii) obtaining a xylene mixture from the first product mixture, (iii) separating para-xylene from the xylene mixture, and (iv) transalkylating meta-xylene and/or ortho-xylene with toluene and/or benzene.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for production of ethylene by an oxidative coupling of methane process in the presence of a catalytic material. Heat generated from the oxidative coupling of methane can be transferred to an inert material in an amount sufficient to reduce thermal deactivation of the catalytic material.

Abstract: Process for the distillative separation of ethylbenzene from a mixture comprising ethylbenzene and at least one other C8 aromatic compound, comprising distilling said mixture in a distillation column in the presence of an extractive solvent, characterized in that the distillation column is operated at a sub-atmospheric pressure.

Abstract: Ethylbenzene can be separated from a C8 aromatics mixture containing ethylbenzene and a close boiling compound by extractive distillation using an extractive agent comprising a mixture of a chlorinated aromatic compound and another compound selected from furandione derivatives and organic nitriles.

Abstract: The invention provides a process for the catalytic conversion of a saccharide-containing feedstock in a reactor, wherein saccharide-containing feedstock is provided to the reactor as a feed stream through a feed pipe and is contacted with a catalyst system in the reactor and wherein, as the saccharide-containing feedstock is fed through the feed pipe, a solvent stream, initially comprising essentially no saccharide, is fed along the internal walls of the feed pipe.

Abstract: Synthesizing methanol from a synthesis gas and separating an unreacted gas from a reaction mixture obtained by passing through the synthesis step, the method including a synthesis loop having at least two synthesis steps and at least two separation steps; obtaining a first mixed gas by increasing through a circulator a pressure of a residual gas, obtained by removing a purge gas from the final unreacted gas separated from the final reaction mixture subsequent to the final synthesis step, and by mixing the residual gas with a fraction of a make-up gas; synthesizing methanol; separating a first unreacted gas from the first reaction mixture obtained in the synthesizing step; obtaining a second mixed gas by mixing the first unreacted gas and a fraction of the make-up gas; finally synthesizing methanol; and separating the final unreacted gas from the final reaction mixture obtained in the final synthesis step.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a new class of thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) and processes for making them. In some embodiments of the present invention, the end groups of the multi-arm PIB copolymer is a conjugated diene, whereas the other component is a multi-functional dienophile. The components of the TPE of the present invention are chemically connected via the well-known Diels-Alder reaction which is thermally reversible (by the retro-Diels-Alder reaction) at moderately elevated temperatures. The reversibility of the Diels-Alder retro-Diels-Alder reactions allows the recovery of the original components of the TPE and thus its recyclability and also gives the TPE the ability to be reshaped or reformed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for separating off a substance from a solution, in which electromagnetic radiation is radiated into the solution, an intensity of the electromagnetic radiation which has been scattered by crystals located in the solution is detected, the detected intensity is compared with a desired intensity (IS) and the temperature of the solution is regulated depending on the difference between the detected intensity and the desired intensity (IS) in such a way that the amount of this difference is reduced. If the amount of the difference between the detected intensity and the desired intensity (IS) is less than a limiting value, a crystallization method is started in which crystals of the substance are obtained which are then separated off.

Abstract: A polyether diol compound represented by the following formula (3): where R5, R6, R7 and R8, which may be the same as or different from each other, each represent a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a method of recovering acetone comprises separating a bisphenol A stream into a bisphenol A product stream and an extraction stream comprising unreacted acetone; recovering the unreacted acetone in a recovery section of the bisphenol A production facility and forming a bisphenol A plant acetone recovery stream comprising methanol and a recovered acetone; introducing the bisphenol A plant acetone recovery stream to a phenol purification plant; and purifying the bisphenol A plant acetone recovery stream in the phenol purification plant to form an acetone product stream. The acetone product stream can comprise a reduced amount of methanol as compared to the bisphenol A plant acetone recovery stream.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the production of an aromatic dicarboxylic acid comprising the catalytic oxidation of a hydrocarbon precursor in an organic solvent, comprising the steps of: i) separating a vent gas from an oxidation stage into an organic solvent-rich liquid stream and a water-rich vapour stream in a distillation stage; and ii) separating an aqueous purific ation mother liquor comprising organic compounds from purified aromatic dicarboxylic acid crystals in a separation stage, characterised in that the process further comprises the steps of: iii) transferring the aqueous purification mother liquor from the separation stage to an extraction stage; iv) extracting said organic compounds from the aqueous purification mother liquor by contacting the aqueous purification mother liquor at a temperature of at least 90° C.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the production of palladium(0) powder in which a palladium(0) starting powder is subjected to a thermal treatment in a furnace at a temperature of no more than 370° C. in a hydrogen gas atmosphere.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes a method of coupling a first compound to a second compound, the method comprising: providing the first compound having a fluorosulfonate substituent; providing the second compound comprising an alkene; and reacting the first compound and the second compound in a reaction mixture, the reaction mixture including a catalyst having at least one group 10 atom, the reaction mixture under conditions effective to couple the first compound to the second compound.

Abstract: A process for removing water from an oxidative esterification reactor includes (a) conducting an oxidative esterification reaction in a reactor; (b) removing a crude product stream from the reactor; (c) passing a first portion of the crude product stream directly to a product recovery zone; (d) introducing a second portion of the crude product stream to a distillation column to generate a column overheads stream and a column bottoms stream; (e) passing at least a portion of the columns bottoms stream to the product recovery zone; and (f) recycling a recycle stream comprising at least a portion of the overheads stream to the reactor; wherein the recycle stream contains less than 1 weight percent (wt %) water based on the total weight of the recycle stream, wherein the weight ratio of the first portion to the second portion is at least 1:10, and wherein the amount of the recycle stream recycled to the reactor is such that the reactor contains less than or equal to 2.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are novel compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and related methods of their use. The compounds described herein are useful, e.g., as liposomal delivery vehicles to facilitate the delivery of encapsulated polynucleotides to target cells and subsequent transfection of said target cells, and in certain embodiments are characterized as having one or more properties that afford such compounds advantages relative to other similarly classified lipids.

Abstract: The invention relates to the 4-((2E,4E,6E)-octa-2,6,4-trienamid)butanoic acid; its use in the therapeutic and cosmetic field for topical application to the skin to achieve a combined antioxidant activity against ROS together with an anti-inflammatory effect and an effect of promoting the production of hyaluronic acid, so as to oppose at the same time the oxidizing action of free radicals and inflammatory effects, in order to preserve the physiological conditions of human epidermis and skin homeostasis and prevent skin aging (anti-aging); the compositions for therapeutic and cosmetic use which comprise 4-((2E,4E,6E)-octa-2,6,4-trienamid)butanoic acid as active ingredient, formulated with excipients for topical use suitable for local administration on the skin.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of general formula A, useful as potential anticancer agents against human cancer cell lines and process for the preparation thereof. [Formula should be entered here] General formula A where in B selected from aryl, heteroaryl and fused heteroaryl ring R and X selected from H, hydroxy, alkyl, alkoxy, prop-2-ynyloxy, allyloxy, halo, alkylhalides, alkoxy halides, nitro, amine.

Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, an azo polymer forms a complex with a lithium ion and a sodium ion among alkali metal ions, but does not form a complex with a potassium ion. Therefore, the azo polymer is expected to be utilized as a material for a sensor capable of selectively detecting a specific alkali metal ion, or as a novel material capable of selectively trapping a specific alkali metal ion from a solution in which metal ions are mixed.