Abstract: A cellulose acetate wood filler composition comprises a binder composition and a filler. The binder compositions comprise cellulose acetate, a plasticizer, and at least one organic solvent. The binder compositions may be substantially free, e.g., free of tackifiers. The wood filler compositions may be used in a method of filling a cavity in a substrate. The method comprises applying the wood filler composition to an inner surface of the substrate.

Abstract: Compositions, methods, and kits for treating a surface of an object made of copper or a copper alloy to produce a patina thereon. One composition includes a mild acid solution and a powdered salt in a concentration of up to about one pound per gallon of mild acid solution. One method includes treating a surface of an object made of copper or a copper alloy by applying a patina composition to the surface, the patina composition comprising a mild acid solution and a powdered salt in a concentration of up to about one pound per gallon of mild acid solution, allowing the patina composition to remain in contact with the surface for a predetermined amount of time sufficient to permit the patina composition to chemically react with the copper or copper alloy surface to produce patina, and applying water to the surface to remove residual patina composition from the surface.

Abstract: The present invention relates the use of a 2-(2-hydroxyphenyl)benzotriazole compound of the formula R(QUV)n as an UV absorbing agent in coatings.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a deep base or accent coating composition comprising an acrylic based binder and a Zn++ additive. The composition of the present invention resists water staining better than comparable formulations that do not contain the additive.

Abstract: An inkjet printing method includes the steps of: a) jetting on a substrate one or more aqueous UV curable inkjet inks including at least one photoinitiator and capsules composed of a cross-linked polymeric shell surrounding a core, with the core containing UV curable compounds; and b) applying UV radiation to the one or more aqueous UV curable inkjet inks jetted on the substrate.

Abstract: An ink including: water; at least one organic solvent; a polysiloxane surfactant; and acryl-silicone resin particles, where the polysiloxane surfactant has an HLB value of 8 or less.

Abstract: An aqueous inkjet ink contains: a) a color pigment; b) an alkoxylated fluorosurfactant; and c) an ethoxylated oligomer having a molecular weight smaller than 400; and has a static surface tension at 25° C. of no more than 28 mN·m; and a viscosity between 5 and 12 mPa·s at 32° C. at a shear rate of 1,000 s?1.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electroconductive paste which is excellent in a stability upon storage for a long period and in an anti-migration property, and capable of forming electrodes, wirings and sheets having a low resistance, an extensibility and a repetitive stretchability. An electroconductive silver paste, characterized in that, it contains a silver powder (A) and a rubber (B) containing a nitrile group, that a ratio by weight of (A)/(B) is within a range of from 77/23 to 90/10, that the silver powder (A) is an amorphous aggregated powder and/or a flaky powder, and that a content of an alkali metal in the nitrile group-containing rubber (B) is 4,000 ppm or less.

Abstract: Compositions, methods, and coating composition using a curing agent are provided herein. In one embodiment, a curing agent for epoxy resins may be prepared using a formulation including: (a) an adduct of: (i) a diglycidyl ether of a bisphenol, and (ii) a first polyamine; (b) a second polyamine; and (c) water; wherein the composition has an amine hydrogen equivalent weight, based on solids, of less than or equal to 105.

Abstract: A thermosetting resin composition containing: (A) a resin composition having an unsaturated maleimide group, produced by reacting (a) a maleimide compound having at least two N-substituted maleimide groups per one molecule and (b) an amine compound having at least two primary amino groups per one molecule, in an organic solvent; (B) a thermosetting resin; and (C) a modified imidazole compound, such as an isocyanate-masked imidazole and an epoxy-masked imidazole, and a prepreg, an insulating film with a support, a laminate plate and a printed wiring board, each containing the same.

Abstract: The present invention provides aqueous chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) polishing compositions that comprise a mixture of one or more surfactants chosen from an amine alkoxylate, an ammonium alkoxylate, or mixtures thereof, and colloidal silica particles having at least one cationic species, the colloidal silica particles being present in the amount of from 1 to 30 wt. %, as solids based on the total weight of the composition, and the compositions having a pH ranging from 2 to 6. The surfactants have a hydrophobic tail. The CMP polishing compositions exhibit tunable oxide:polysilicon and oxide:nitride removal rate ratios and reduce both silicon nitride and polysilicon removal rates significantly without significantly reducing dielectric (e.g. TEOS) removal rates.

Abstract: A polishing agent for chemomechanically polishing a base having a carbon-based material and an insulating material to remove at least a part of the carbon-based material, the carbon-based material having a carbon content of 60 to 95 atm % as measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, the polishing agent comprising: an abrasive grain comprising silica; an allylamine-based polymer; and water, wherein a mass ratio of a content of the allylamine-based polymer with respect to a content of the abrasive grain is 0.002 to 0.400, and the abrasive grain has a positive charge in the polishing agent.

Abstract: An adhesive composition that can be used in an extrusion-coating process for application to a support or in an extrusion-laminating process in order to bond several supports of different or identical nature to one another, over a wide temperature range, including: from 91% to 98% by weight of the composition, of a copolymer of ethylene and of alkyl acrylate; at least one tackifying resin; processing aids, wherein the tackifying resin represents between 1.5% and 5.5% of the weight of the composition and the processing aids represent between 0.5% and 3.5% of the weight of the composition and the anti-blocking agent represents, in the processing aids, at least 60% by weight of the aids. Also, a film of the composition and a multilayer structure that includes this film.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a binder composition, in particular for wooden composite boards, obtainable from a binder composition, in particular for wooden composite boards obtainable from at least one polymer adhesive, at least one polyalcohol compound, at least one compound of the general formula (I) RaSiX(4?a)??(I), or the general formula (II) ObXc(OH)dReSiO(4-b-c-d-e)/2??(II). The present invention relates also to a wooden composite board containing said binder composition.

Abstract: Thermoplastic Polyimide (TPI) polymer adhesive coated laminating films in which the TPI coating is under cured or B-staged as well as the process for preparing the films and the use thereof is disclosed.

Abstract: A bituminous composition is used as an adhesive binder. The bituminous composition has at least one acidic additive of general formula (I): R—(COOH)z in which R is a linear or branched, saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon-based chain having from 4 to 68 carbon atoms, preferably from 4 to 54 carbon atoms, more preferentially from 4 to 36 carbon atoms and z is an integer ranging from 1 to 4, preferably from 2 to 4.

Abstract: A liquid epoxy resin, a powdered metal and a hardening agent are provided as a filling material (S) and poured into an insert hole (82). The filling material (S) is in a liquid state under a normal temperature so as to make the filling material (S) handle easily in the filling work. The filling material (S) is hardened at a clearance between a bushing tool (12) and the insert hole (82). The filling material (S) is placed between the bushing tool (12) and the insert hole (82) to enhance a heat-conductivity therebetween. By heat treating a metallic mold die 80, it is possible to char the epoxy resin. This makes it possible to deposit the powdered metal (copper or the like) over an entire area of the clearance so as to highly enhance the heat-conductivity.

Abstract: A stable composition (CS) including at least x wt.-% 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (99.8 ÿ x<100), at most y wt.-% unsaturated compound(s) (Ia) (0<y ÿ 0.2) selected from among 3,3,3-trifluoropropene (HFO-1243zf) and the positional isomers of 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, such as 1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (isomers Z and E) and 1,1,2,3-tetrafluoropropene, and, optionally, at most 500 ppm of 3,3,3-trifluoropropyne and/or at most 200 ppm 1,1,1,2,3-pentafluoropropene (HFO-1225ye).

Abstract: The subject of the present application is a composition comprising a lubricant based on polyol esters (POEs) or PVE and a refrigerant F comprising from 1 to 99% by weight of trans-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (trans-HFO-1234ze) and from 1 to 99% by weight of 1,1,1,3-tetrafluoroethane. The subject of the present application is also the use of said composition in refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pumps.

Abstract: In one aspect, compositions are described herein. In some embodiments, a composition comprises a phase change material, a hydrophobic sorption material, and a viscosity modifier. In some embodiments, a composition comprises a foam and a latent heat storage material dispersed in the foam, the latent heat storage material comprising a phase change material and a hydrophobic sorption material.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a heat transfer fluid additive composition comprising: greater than or equal to 10 weight percent (wt %) of a carboxylic acid, based on the total weight of the composition; an azole compound; and a base, wherein the base is present in an amount sufficient to obtain a pH 8-10.5 when diluted by 50 volume % with water. The heat transfer fluid additive composition can be combined with other components to form a heat transfer fluid. The heat transfer fluid can be used in a heat transfer system.

Abstract: A cooling system based on thermoelastic effect is provided. The system comprises a heat sink, a refrigerated space and a regenerator coupled to the refrigerated space and to the heat sink to pump heat from the refrigerated space to the heat sink. The regenerator comprises solid thermoelastic refrigerant materials capable of absorbing or releasing heat.

Abstract: A method for reducing lost circulation in a subterranean formation. The method includes providing a treatment fluid comprising a base fluid and a lost circulation material comprising cane ash. The treatment fluid is introduced into a wellbore within the subterranean formation such that at least a portion of the cane ash bridges openings in the subterranean formation to reduce loss of fluid circulation into the subterranean formation.

Abstract: A method of providing a substantially constant rheological profile of an oil-based drilling fluid over a temperature range of about 120° F. to about 40° F., comprising adding drilling fluid additive to the drilling fluid, wherein the drilling fluid additive comprises an organoclay composition comprising: organoclay compositions where a phyllosilicate clay is exchanged with quaternary ammonium ions having a formula of [NR1R2R3R4]+ wherein at least one of R1, R2 and R3 is a mixture of branched alkyl groups.

Abstract: Certain invert emulsion treatment fluids and methods for use in subterranean formations Certain of those methods herein include: providing an invert emulsion treatment fluid that comprises an oleaginous external phase, and an internal phase that comprises one or more alcohols and one or more polar organic compounds that are soluble in the internal phase; and introducing the treatment fluid into at least a portion of a subterranean formation.

Abstract: A process comprising the steps of: (a) injecting a steam composition into a subterranean location containing heavy hydrocarbons, preferably bitumen, wherein the steam composition comprises (i) steam and (ii) an ammonium carboxylate and (b) recovering the heavy hydrocarbon from the subterranean location to above the ground. The process is preferably a cyclic steam stimulation (CSS) process, a steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD), or a combination thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of oilfield chemistry, and discloses a composition for fracturing and displacement and a method for fracturing and displacement of a tight oil reservoir. The composition contains a pyrrolic compound represented by formula (1) and a laurate; in the formula (1), M? is halide ion, R1 is C1-C5 linear or branched alkyl, and R2 is C15-C20 linear or branched alkyl. The composition for fracturing and displacement provided in the present invention has functions of fracturing, solid carrying, imbibition, drainage and oil displacement, so as to maximize the recovery efficiency of tight oil, and attain economic and social benefits by implementing multiple functions with a single composition, saving resources, and reducing cost.

Abstract: A fracturing fluid composition that includes a chelating agent, e.g. GLDA, and a polymeric additive comprising a copolymer of acrylamido-tert-butyl sulfonate and hydrolyzed polyacrylamide diluted in an aqueous base fluid, e.g. seawater, and a method of fracking a geological formation using the fracturing fluid composition. Various embodiments of the fracturing fluid composition and the method of fracking are also provided.

Abstract: An aggregate processing assembly is provided. The processing assembly includes a separator assembly having a central member extending from a first end to a second end, the central member supporting at least one helical flight provided between the first and second ends, the helical flight having a width provided between a proximal end and a distal end. An assembly housing is provided around a portion of the separator assembly, the assembly housing includes a collection portion for receiving processed feed stock which exits the separator assembly radially away from the central member outward past the distal end, and the collection portion includes a first outlet. A second outlet is coupled to the separator assembly for receiving processed feed stock which exits the separator assembly at the second end of the at least one helical flight. A proppant, an aggregate, a system for processing feed stock to produce a proppant or aggregate, and a method of producing a proppant or aggregate is also provided.

Abstract: Viscosifying proppants including proppant particles coated with a CO2-philic coating in which the CO2-philic coating has a solvable portion that viscosifies a CO2-based fluid when the viscosifying proppant is added to the CO2-based fluid are provided. Methods of making viscosifying proppants are also provided that include coating proppant particles with a precursor material of a CO2-philic material, and polymerizing the precursor material to form a viscosifying proppant. Viscous hydraulic fracturing fluids include a CO2-based fluid and the viscosifying proppants and methods of treating subterranean formations that include contacting a subterranean formation with a viscous hydraulic fracturing fluid and propagating at least one subterranean fracture are also provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides a functional material and a method for preparing the same, as well as a color filter material and a color filter substrate. The present invention belongs to the display technical field and can solve the problem that existing color filter films are environmentally unfriendly and have poor heat resistance and unsatisfactory colors. The functional material of the present invention includes an inorganic powder whose surface has a modified layer, wherein the inorganic powder includes any one or more of aluminum oxide, magnesium oxide, zinc oxide, zirconium oxide, silicon dioxide, titanium dioxide, boron oxide, diiron trioxide, calcium oxide, potassium oxide, sodium oxide and lithium oxide; and the modified layer is generated by a reaction of a dianhydride and a diamine. The color filter material of the present invention includes the above functional material and a quantum dot.

Abstract: Described herein are devices, compositions, and methods for improving color discernment.

Abstract: A tag composition includes a naphthalocyanine tag component that is invisible in light of the visible spectrum and which emits fluorescent light in a non-visible spectrum under a non-visible excitation energy, a binder for binding the tag to a surface of a material; and a solvent, wherein the tag component and the binder are dissolved in the solvent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to carbon-based fluorescent nano-agent tracers for analysis of oil reservoirs. The carbon-based fluorescent nano-agents may be used in the analysis of the porosity of a formation. The nanoagents are suitable for injection into a petroleum reservoir and may be recovered from the reservoir for the determination of hydrocarbon flow rates and retention times.

Abstract: A method of storing and transporting quantum dot formulations is provided. The method includes storing and/or transporting the quantum dot formulation under an oxygen-containing atmosphere. A sparged and degassed quantum dot formulation is also described.

Abstract: A liquid crystal composition includes a compound having a structure represented by formula A-1: wherein RA1 is an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a cyano group, a halogen atom, or a hydrogen atom, RA2 is an alkyl group, a cyano group, a halogen atom, or a hydrogen atom, ZA is *—O—*, *—COO—*, *—OCO—*, *—CF2O—*, *—OCF2—*, *—CH2O—*, *—OCH2—*, *—SCH2—*, *—CH2S—*, *—C2F4—*, *—CH2CF2—*, *—CF2CH2—*, *—(CH2)k—*, *—CH?CH—*, *—CF?CF—*, *—CH?CF—*, *—CF?CH—*, *—C?C—*, *—CH?CHCH2O—*, or a single bond, X is a halogen atom, each of l1 and l2 is independently an integer of 0 to 2, and when l1 is 2 and ZA in a repeating unit defined by l1 are the same or different, wherein k is an integer of 1 to 5 and “*” indicates a point of attachment.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with few drop marks left during manufacture is provided without degrading the image-sticking characteristics of the liquid crystal display device or other characteristics fundamental to liquid crystal display devices, such as dielectric anisotropy, viscosity, upper nematic phase temperature limit, and rotational viscosity (?1), and a method for manufacturing such a liquid crystal display device is also provided. A liquid crystal display device 10 according to the present invention includes a first substrate 11, a second substrate 12, a liquid crystal composition layer 13 disposed therebetween, and vertical alignment layers 16 and 17 containing a polymer of a monofunctional reactive-group-containing polymerizable compound and a polyfunctional reactive-group-containing polymerizable compound.

Abstract: A gasifier including a vertically disposed furnace body, a feeder disposed in a middle part of the furnace body and communicating with the furnace body, one or two layers of microwave plasma generators, an external heater configured to supply external thermal energy for the gasifier, and a monitoring unit. The furnace body includes an upper nozzle for spraying vapor, a lower nozzle for spraying CO2/vapor, a syngas outlet disposed at a top of the furnace body. The upper nozzle for spraying vapor is disposed in a clearance zone of the furnace body, and the lower nozzle for spraying CO2/vapor is disposed in a bed zone of the furnace body. The monitoring unit is disposed close to the syngas outlet. The one or two layers of microwave plasma generators are disposed above the upper nozzle in the clearance zone of the gasifier.

Abstract: Tools and techniques for pyroligneous acid production are provided in accordance with various embodiments. For example, a method of pyroligneous acid production is provided. The method may include: introducing a compound that includes at least carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen into a reaction chamber; heating the compound to a temperature of at least 700 degrees Celsius in the reaction chamber such that the compound reacts through a pyrolysis reaction to produce a liquid, where the liquid may include pyroligneous acid; and/or collecting the produced liquid. In some cases, the residence time of the compound may be less than 1,000 seconds. Temperatures above 1,000 degrees Celsius may be utilized in some cases. The produced liquid may be separated into an oil component and a water component that includes the pyroligneous acid. A lighter fraction may be distilled from the water component, where the lighter component includes the pyroligneous acid.

Abstract: A method for converting carbon into a carbon oxide, comprises: contacting carbon with steam in presence of a carnegieite-like material of formula (Na2O)xNa2[Al2Si2O8], wherein 0<x?1. Method and apparatus for hydrocarbon cracking are also described herein.

Abstract: Disclosed is a composition capable of removing safely and efficiently a sulfur-containing compound contained in a hydrocarbon, particularly hydrogen sulfide, an —SH group-containing compound, or a mixture thereof. Provided is a composition for removal of a sulfur-containing compound in a hydrocarbon, the sulfur-containing compound being hydrogen sulfide, an —SH group-containing compound or a mixture thereof: the composition containing a dialdehyde having 6 to 16 carbon atoms as an active ingredient.

Abstract: A petroleum desalting process in which the oil/water emulsion layer which forms in the desalter vessel between the settled water layer and the settled oil layer is separated into the oil and water components by contact with a heated high boiling hydrocarbon to break the emulsion and vaporize water from the emulsion in a flash drum. The vessel has an emulsion outlet for removing an emulsion stream from the emulsion layer and a conduit connecting the emulsion withdrawal port to an inlet of an optional settling drum to effect and initial separation into an oil-enriched phase and a water phase with the oil-enriched phase led to the flash drum.

Abstract: Supercritical upgrading reactors and reactor systems for upgrading a petroleum-based compositions comprising one or more catalyst layers and, in some embodiments, one or more purging fluid inlets, where one or more catalyst layers at least partially sift and convert heavy hydrocarbon fractions to light hydrocarbon fractions to produce an upgraded supercritical reactor product. In some embodiments, upgrading reactor systems comprise one or more supercritical upgrading reactors and one or more supercritical standby reactors alternating functions such that a supercritical upgrading reactor is converted to a supercritical standby reactor and the supercritical standby reactor is converted to a supercritical upgrading reactor, where the supercritical upgrading reactor upgrades a combined feed stream while a supercritical standby reactor delivers a cleaning fluid into the supercritical standby reactor.

Abstract: A process for controlling hydrocracking reactions in a hydrocracking reactor by passing aqueous ammonia to the hydrocracking reactor. The aqueous ammonia is injected into the process at various locations at a low pressure, typically between approximately 0.17 to approximately 2.07 MPa (25 to 300 psi). A wash fluid can be used to lower the concentration of ammonia in the hydrocracking reactor, and thus, increase the catalytic activity of the hydrocracking catalyst.

Abstract: A process for converting high boiling hydrocarbon feedstock into lighter boiling hydrocarbon products in which the lighter boiling hydrocarbon products are suitable feedstock for petrochemical processes.

Abstract: Described herein are associative polymers capable of controlling formation of particulate matter from a non-polar ignitable composition upon ignition of the non-polar ignitable composition, alone or in combination with control of a physical and/or chemical property of the non-polar compositions and related compositions, methods and systems. Associative polymers herein described have a non-polar backbone and functional groups presented at ends of the non-polar backbone, with a number of the functional groups presented at the ends of the non-polar backbone formed by associative functional groups capable of undergoing an associative interaction with another associative functional group with an association constant (k) such that the strength of each associative interaction is less than the strength of a covalent bond between atoms and in particular less than the strength of a covalent bond between backbone atoms.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel quaternized nitrogen compounds, to the preparation thereof and to the use thereof as a fuel and lubricant additive, more particularly as a detergent additive; to additive packages which comprise these compounds; and to fuels and lubricants thus additized. The present invention further relates to the use of these quaternized nitrogen compounds as a fuel additive for reducing or preventing deposits in the injection systems of direct-injection diesel engines, especially in common-rail injection systems, for reducing the fuel consumption of direct-injection diesel engines, especially of diesel engines with common-rail injection systems, and for minimizing power loss in direct-injection diesel engines, especially in diesel engines with common-rail injection systems.

Abstract: A system includes a water knock-out tank that receives a fluid material. Water from the fluid material settles on the bottom of the water knock-out tank. The system includes a mixing pipe that mixes a glycol with the fluid material transferred from the water knock-out tank and a first heat exchanger that cools the mixed fluid material and glycol. The system includes a gas-liquid separator that separates gaseous components and liquid components of the mixed fluid material and cooled glycol and a liquid-liquid separator that separates the liquid components of the mixed fluid material and cooled glycol by density. The system includes a fractional distillation column that heats a first liquid from the liquid-liquid separator. Heating the first liquid from the liquid-liquid separator gasifies a first portion of the first liquid. A second portion of the first liquid from the liquid-liquid separator remains liquid and is natural gas liquids.

Abstract: A method of and device for processing carbonacious material into gas and activated carbon together with blower.

Abstract: The present invention provides a carbon-enriched biomass material, a method of producing the carbon-enriched biomass material, and a method for using the carbons-enriched biomass material. A lignocellulosic material is used as a starting material and is treated at elevated temperatures under partially oxidizing conditions in a reaction vessel which is isolated from the environment. The carbon enriched biomass can be used in domestic or industrial combustion processes.