Abstract: A composition having a plurality of abrasive particles including alumina, the plurality of abrasive particles have mesoporosity with an average meso branching index of at least 55 junctions/microns2 and a median particle size (D50) of at least 5 microns.

Abstract: A particulate material having a body including a dopant contained in the body, the dopant is non-homogenously distributed throughout the body and the body has a maximum normalized dopant content difference of at least 35%.

Abstract: Azeotropic compositions including between 74 and 81.5 wt.-% HFO-1324yf, between 6.5 and 10.5 wt.-% HFC-134a, and between 12 and 16 wt.-% HFC-152a, relative to the total weight of the composition, the azeotropic composition having a boiling point of between ?40.00° C. and 70.00° C., at a pressure of between 0.5 and 21.0 bar abs (±0.5%). Also, the uses of the aforementioned compositions in heat transfer systems.

Abstract: A method is provided for converting heat from a heat source to mechanical energy. The method comprises heating a working fluid using heat supplied from the heat source; and expanding the heated working fluid to lower pressure of the working fluid and generating mechanical energy as the pressure of the working fluid is lowered. The method is characterized by using a working fluid comprising (2E)-1,1,1,4,5,5,5-heptafluoro-4-(trifluoromethyl)pent-2-ene (HFO-153-10mzzy). Also provided is a power cycle apparatus. The apparatus is characterized by containing a working fluid comprising HFO-153-10mzzy.

Abstract: A working fluid for heat cycle, a composition for a heat cycle system containing the working fluid, and a heat cycle system employing the composition are provided. The working fluid has a low global warming potential and can replace R410A. The working fluid contains trifluoroethylene, 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, and optionally a hydrofluoroolefin other than trifluoroethylene and 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene. The total proportion of trifluoroethylene and 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene based on the entire amount of the working fluid is from 70 to 100 mass %.

Abstract: In one aspect, the present invention provides a resin member comprising a copolymer of ethylene and an olefin having 3 or more carbon atoms, and a straight-chain saturated hydrocarbon compound.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use, as a liquid phase heat-transfer medium, of a fluid having a boiling point in the range of from 200° C. to 400° C. and a boiling range below 80° C., said fluid comprising more than 95% by weight isoparaffins and less than 3% by weight of naphthens, a biocarbon content of at least 95% by weight, containing less than 100 ppm by weight aromatics.

Abstract: A polymer composition that contains a polyamide is provided. The composition exhibits a Charpy unnotched impact strength of about 5 kJ/m2 or more as measured at a temperature of 23° C. according to ISO Test No. 179-1:2010 and an in-plane thermal conductivity of about 15 W/m-K or more as determined in accordance with ASTM E 1461-13.

Abstract: A portable, heated scent, odor, and/or molecule dispense system is provided, as well as devices and methods for doing the same. The portable systems and methods to dispense molecules may contain a liquid, gel, solid, foam, or other material-based formulation so as to attract, repel, kill, mask, or otherwise use the molecules. The portable system and methods may include a housing; a molecule holding pad in the housing; a first chemical reaction heat source in the housing; and a second chemical reaction heat source in the housing, wherein the molecule holding pad is arranged between the first chemical reaction heat source and the second chemical reaction heat source, and wherein the first chemical reaction heat source and the second chemical reaction heat source are each reactive to oxygen.

Abstract: The invention is a fluid having a kinematic viscosity from 3 to 6 mm2/s, a flash point of higher than 120° C. and a pour point lower than ?40° C., having a boiling point in the range of from 200° C. to 400° C. and a boiling range below 80° C., said fluid comprising more than 95% isoparaffins and less than 3% of naphthens by weight, a biocarbon content of at least 95% by weight, containing less than 100 ppm aromatics by weight. The invention is also a drilling fluid and the use of the fluid to improve the viscosity of the drilling fluid.

Abstract: A well treatment fluid is provided having an acidic nanosilica dispersion and an alkanolamine. The nanosilica dispersion and the alkanolamine may form a gelled solid after interaction over a period. Methods of reducing water production using the well treatment fluids are also provided.

Abstract: Systems and methods for forming a permanent plug in a subterranean formation include providing a solution of colloidal silica and pumping the colloidal silica into a bore of a subterranean well so that the colloidal silica penetrates pores of the subterranean formation. The colloidal silica within the pores of the subterranean formation is dehydrated to form a glass-like material within the pores of the subterranean formation.

Abstract: Systems and methods for the use of degradable polymers that are dissolved and/or plasticized in an organic solvent in subterranean treatments. In some embodiments, the methods comprise: providing a treatment fluid that comprises at least one organic solvent and one or more degradable polymers, wherein the treatment fluid does not comprise a significant amount of solid material comprising the one or more degradable polymers; introducing the treatment fluid into a well bore penetrating at least a portion of a subterranean formation; and contacting the treatment fluid with one or more aqueous fluids to form a solid precipitate comprising the one or more degradable polymers in the portion of the subterranean formation.

Abstract: A system and method for hydraulic fracturing including mixing seawater with an additive to precipitate sulfate from the seawater and mixing a flocculating agent with the seawater to agglomerate the sulfate precipitates.

Abstract: Systems and methods for treating fracture faces and/or unconsolidated portions of a subterranean formation are provided. In some embodiments, the methods comprise: providing an aqueous alkali solution; introducing the aqueous alkali solution into at least a portion of a subterranean formation that comprises one or more fractures; contacting an aluminum component and a silicate component with the aqueous alkali solution to form a geopolymer on one or more fracture faces in the fractures; and placing a plurality of proppant particulates in the fractures.

Abstract: Provided in this disclosure, in part, are methods, compositions, and systems for degrading organic matter, such as kerogen, in a subterranean formation. Further, these methods, compositions, and systems allow for increased hydraulic fracturing efficiencies in subterranean formations, such as unconventional rock reservoirs. Also provided in this disclosure is a method of treating kerogen in a subterranean formation including placing in the subterranean formation a composition that includes a first oxidizer including a persulfate and a second oxidizer including a bromate.

Abstract: Aqueous well treatment fluids are provided especially for use in far field diversion in low viscosity carrier fluids. The fluids comprise water, a friction reducer, and a diverter. The diverter comprises dissolvable particulates and proppants. The dissolvable particulates have a specific gravity of from about 0.9 to about 1.6 and a particle size of about 50 mesh or less. The proppants have a specific gravity of from about 0.9 to about 1.4 and a particle size of from about 20 to about 100 mesh. The dissolvable particulates have a higher specific gravity and a smaller particle size than the proppant.

Abstract: Systems and methods having friction reducer compositions for use in subterranean treatment fluids are provided. An embodiment of the present disclosure is a method comprising: (A) forming a treatment fluid comprising: an aqueous base fluid, a friction reducer, and an alkaline buffering agent, wherein the treatment fluid has a pH in the range of about 7 to about 10; and (B) injecting the treatment fluid into a wellbore penetrating at least a portion of a subterranean formation at a pressure sufficient to create or enhance one or more fractures within the subterranean formation.

Abstract: A breaker fluid includes a base fluid; lactide; and a mixture of hydrolyzable esters of dicarboxylic acids. A method of breaking a filtercake in a wellbore includes circulating a breaker fluid into the wellbore, the breaker fluid including: a base fluid; lactide; and a mixture of hydrolyzable esters of dicarboxylic acids.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fracturation fluid comprising at least one propping agent and at least one water-soluble (co)polymer prepared from the hydrated crystalline form of 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulfonic acid and/or at least one of its salts. The invention relates to a process to prepare said fluid, and to a hydraulic fracturation process using said fluid.

Abstract: Methods for producing a coating on a fracture surface within a subterranean formation are provided. A pad fluid is injected or introduced into a wellbore to form a primary fracture in the subterranean formation and a coating fluid is injected or introduced into the primary fracture to form secondary fractures in the subterranean formation. The coating fluid is flowed into the secondary fractures to expose nucleation surfaces on the secondary fractures to the coating fluid and to produce a resin coating on the nucleation surfaces. Conductive flow paths are formed on and/or within the resin coating. Hydrocarbons can be retrieved from the subterranean formation via the conductive flow paths within the secondary fractures. A viscosity of the pad fluid is greater than a viscosity of the coating fluid and the coating fluid contains or includes a resin, a curing agent, a surfactant, and an organic solvent.

Abstract: Methods of treating a subterranean formation include forming a treatment fluid including a hydrophilic fiber coated with a water soluble polymer and a crosslinking agent.

Abstract: The method for well-stimulation through a wellbore in a rock formation is hydraulic fracturing under high temperature conditions. The method includes injecting a fracturing fluid system to the rock formation; fracturing the rock formation at a temperature between 150-260 degrees Celsius; and recovering fluid components of the fracturing fluid system from the wellbore and setting the proppant in the fractures. The fracturing fluid system includes proppant and a plurality of fluid components. The fluid components can include water, a gelling agent, and a stabilizer made of ascorbic acid ranging from 50-100 ppt so as to adjust pH and delay said cross linking agent.

Abstract: Methods and compositions for treating a well with a self-breaking emulsified fluid system. One embodiment is a method comprising: providing a treatment fluid comprising: an emulsion comprising: an external phase comprising a hydrophobic and hydrolysable liquid; an internal aqueous phase, and an emulsifier; and a plurality of proppant particulates; and injecting the treatment fluid into a well bore penetrating at least a portion of a subterranean formation at or above a pressure sufficient to create or enhance one or more fractures in the subterranean formation.

Abstract: Methods and compositions for stimulating oil or gas production from a well with a single treatment fluid for use in a combined acidizing and hydraulic fracturing treatment are provided. An embodiment is a method comprising: coating a plurality of proppant particulates with oil to form oil-coated proppant particulates; adding the oil-coated proppant particulates to a solution comprising water, an acid source, and an emulsifier, wherein the ratio of the oil coating the proppant particulates to the water in the solution is less than 20:80 by volume; and mixing the solution and the oil-coated proppant particulates to form a treatment fluid comprising a water-in-oil emulsion and the oil-coated proppant particulates.

Abstract: Provided are methods and systems for treating a subterranean formation. An example method comprises adding proppant particulates to a fluidized bed granulator; spraying a binding agent on the proppant particulates to at least partially coat the proppant particulates with the binding agent, wherein the coated proppant particulates form proto-aggregates; adding the proto-aggregates to a treatment fluid; and introducing the treatment fluid into a fracture within the subterranean formation.

Abstract: [Problems] The present invention provides a highly marketable reversibly color changeable composition which provides a vivid yellow to orange color during color development, turns colorless during decoloration, and improves light resistance and a reversibly thermochromic microcapsule pigment encapsulating the same. [Solution] Disclosed are a reversibly thermochromic composition including: (a) a specific pyridine derivative as an electron-donating color-developing organic compound; (b) an electron-accepting compound; and (c) a reaction medium which reversibly induces an electron transfer reaction between the component (a) and the component (b) in a specific temperature range, and a reversibly thermochromic microcapsule pigment encapsulating the same.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a process for the preparation of metal sulphide quantum dots by using a very low cost sulphur precursor as a sulphur source. The metal sulphide quantum dots finds application in optical devices selected from photovoltaic cells, photodetectors and light-emission devices.

Abstract: Embodiments of composite scintillators which may include a scintillator material encapsulated in a plastic matrix material and their methods of use are described.

Abstract: Systems and methods for hermetically sealed quantum dots that may be positioned directly on top of the LED, so that a separate film is not needed to incorporate the quantum dots into a light, display, or other LED-based device. An enclosed quantum dot package can be incorporated directly on top of an LED die and packaged in the same packaging as the LED itself. Alternatively, the LED die may be encapsulated in the LED package, and the enclosed quantum dot package may be placed on top of the encapsulated LED. Alternatively, the enclosed quantum dot package may be separate from the encapsulated LED, e.g., included in a device as a separate layer from the LED package(s).

Abstract: A light source unit includes: a light emitting body; and a color conversion film including an organic luminescent material configured to convert at least a part of incident light incident from the light emitting body into light having a wavelength longer than a wavelength of the incident light. The light emitting body includes a light source, and a layer including a green phosphor and formed on the light source. The organic luminescent material has a light emission wavelength peak in a wavelength region of 580 nm or longer and 750 nm or shorter.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a conversion element is disclosed. A precursor material is selected from one or more of lutetium, aluminum and a rare-earth element. The precursor material is mixed with a binder and a solvent to obtain a slurry. A green body is formed from the slurry and the green body is sintered to obtain the conversion element. The sintering is performed at a temperature of more than 1720° C.

Abstract: The present invention has for its object to provide a composition in which a photoluminescent carbon nanoparticle having no dependency of an emission wavelength on an excitation wavelength and being enhanced in terms of quantum efficiency is dispersed, a process of producing the same, and an application of the same. The composition of the invention has a photoluminescent carbon nanoparticle dispersed in a water-soluble solvent. The photoluminescent carbon nanoparticle contains a carbon atom, an oxygen atom, a nitrogen atom, and a hydrogen atom if required. As shown in FIG. 6, the photoluminescent carbon nanoparticle has an intensity of a C—N bond and/or C—O bond-derived peak (285.98 eV) larger than that of a C—C bond and/or C—H bond-derived peak (284.95 eV) in terms of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic spectra, and a Raman spectrum having a peak based on a G-band and a D-band.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an infrared light-emitting phosphor which emits light in a wavelength range where the sensitivity of a detector is high by combination with a semiconductor light-emitting element that emits light in the visible light region, and to provide an infrared light-emitting device using the infrared light-emitting phosphor. The object can be achieved with a light-emitting device including a semiconductor light-emitting element that emits ultraviolet light or visible light and a phosphor that absorbs ultraviolet light or visible light emitted from the semiconductor light-emitting element and emits light in the infrared region, wherein an emission peak wavelength in the infrared region of the phosphor emitting in the infrared region is from 750 to 1,050 nm, and the half width of an emission peak waveform is more than 50 nm.

Abstract: Provided is a plasma etching method comprising supplying heptafluoropropyl methyl ether (HFE) gas, argon (Ar) gas and oxygen (O2) gas to a plasma chamber receiving an etching target therein, thereby to plasma-etch the etching target.

Abstract: Polishing compositions comprising ceria coated silica particles and organic acids having one selected from the group consisting of sulfonic acid group, phosphonic acid group, pyridine compound, and combinations thereof, with pH between 5 and 10 and electrical conductivity between 0.2 and 10 millisiemens per centimeter provide very high silicon oxide removal rates for advanced semiconductor device manufacturing.

Abstract: The present invention comprises compositions and methods for enhancing biological processes, such as plant growth or bioremediation. For example, the present invention comprises compositions and methods for effectively remediating chemical and organic wastes and reducing the environmental risk from manure, septic, sewage, oil pollution, and other contaminants.

Abstract: A liquid crystalline polyester resin composition is described, which includes a liquid crystalline polyester; and an amide compound including the following structural units (I) to (III), and having a melting point of ?100° C. and a volume average particle diameter of ?5 ?m and ?50 ?m, wherein a content of the amide compound is ?0.005 parts by mass and ?0.1 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of a content of the liquid crystalline polyester, structural unit (I): CH3—X—CO—, X represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having ?10 carbon atoms or a hydroxy hydrocarbon group in which one or more hydrogen atoms of an aliphatic hydrocarbon group are substituted with a hydroxy group; structural unit (II): —HN—Y—NH—, Y represents a hydrocarbon group having ?2 carbon atoms; structural unit (III): —OC—Z—CO—, Z represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having ?4 carbon atoms, an alicyclic hydrocarbon group, or an aromatic hydrocarbon group.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal composition, comprising, 14-30% of one or more compounds of general Formula I, 8-30% of one or more compounds of general Formula II, 13-58% of one or more compounds of general Formula III, and 20-65% of one or more compounds of general Formula IV, on the basis of the total weight of the liquid crystal composition. The liquid crystal composition of the present invention has a higher retardation, a higher transmittance, a larger optical anisotropy, a proper clearing point, a lower rotational viscosity and a good low-temperature storage stability, and is applicable to liquid crystal display devices to meet the rapid response required by a liquid crystal display, and ensure good display of the liquid crystal display in a harsh environment.

Abstract: According to the present invention, a liquid crystal aligning agent is configured to contain a polymer [P] which has a partial structure represented by formula (1) and comprises a photo-alignment group. In formula (1), each of R1 and R2 independently represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or a monovalent organic group having one or more carbon atoms; and each of X1 and X2 independently represents —OH, —NH2 or a monovalent organic group having one or more carbon atoms, provided that at least one of X1 and X2 represents “—OR3” or “—NR3R4” (wherein each of R3 and R4 independently represents a hydrogen atom or a monovalent organic group having one or more carbon atoms).

Abstract: A liquid crystal aligning agent which contains a polymer (A) and a polymer (B). Polymer (A): A polymer which has at least one structural unit U1 selected from the group consisting of structural units represented by formula (1) and structural units represented by formula (2), and a structural unit U2 derived from at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of styrene monomers and (meth)acrylic monomers. Polymer (B): At least one polymer selected from the group consisting of polyamic acids, polyamic acid esters and polyimides. In the formulae, R7 represents a monovalent organic group having one or more carbon atoms; R8 represents a monovalent organic group having one or more carbon atoms; and R9 represents a hydrogen atom or a monovalent organic group having one or more carbon atoms.

Abstract: A straight fin for a device for recovering the waste heat of raw coke oven gas in the ascension pipe of the coke oven includes the straight fin body and a group of V-shaped notches disposed on the straight fin body. The depth h of the V-shaped notches is less than the width H of the straight fin body. The distances between the adjacent V-shaped notches increase from bottom to top in the longitudinal direction of the straight fin body. The present invention further provides a heat recovering device and a power generation device both including the straight fins. Moreover, the width, the angle, and the distances in the longitudinal direction of the V-shaped notches at the top of the straight fin are determined according to the temperature field distribution during use of the device.

Abstract: Systems and methods for safe on-line pigging decoking of a coker furnace tubes and which also permits on-line spalling operations.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an apparatus for domestic hot water and electricity production by the use of a natural organic fuel, the apparatus comprising a separated chambers pyrolysis furnace comprising: a) a pyrolysis chamber wherein the fuel is heated, substantially in the absence of oxygen at a temperature capable of causing pyrolysis of fuel; b) a combustion chamber of the pyrolyzed fuel, wherein the pyrolyzed fuel is burned in the presence of an air flux. The invention is also directed to an apparatus for the production of domestic hot water and electricity, which apparatus comprises: the above defined furnace; b) a heat exchanger connected to the exit of the exhausted gas, wherein domestic water is heated; c) a power generator connected with the exit of syngas, wherein syngas produced in the pyrolysis chamber is used as a fuel.

Abstract: A method for pre-treating bitumen froth for mixing with solvent for froth treatment includes heating the froth to a froth-solvent mixing temperature below the solvent flash temperature and suitably high to provide reduced bitumen viscosity sufficiently low for complete mixing of the solvent and the froth prior to introduction into a separation apparatus. A method of improving energy use in froth treatment includes reducing heat provided to the solvent, increasing heat provided to the froth prior to adding the solvent to reduce bitumen viscosity and adding the temperature-reduced solvent to the heated froth. A froth treatment separation process includes trim heating first and second solvent streams to adjust the first and second stage separation temperatures.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for performing a partial trip for an ethane steam cracker while reducing or minimizing ethane consumption in a ground flare system during the partial trip. In particular, a trip system is provided that reduces the firing on an ethylene furnace (such as a reduction into a range of 10% to 40% of normal firing) while also providing a reduced flow of feed to the furnace with dilution steam at a steam to hydrocarbon ratio similar to a ratio that is suitable during normal operation. The trip system can be actuated, for example, when the loss of circulating quench water to the water quench tower is detected.

Abstract: Embodiments of an organosulfur capture or scavenger nanomaterial of this disclosure include a sorbent containing a composition of a mixed metal oxide, the metal being in various oxidation states. In embodiments, the mixed metal is manganese, iron, nickel, copper, or zinc. In some embodiments the sorbent includes a first mixed metal oxide and a second different metal or mixed metal oxide. The scavenger material may be synthesized from a metal precursor salt, neutralized and dried, and then washed or soaked to remove one or more byproducts. The resulting sorbent is in nanoparticulate form and has an amorphous non-crystalline structure.

Abstract: A crude oil refinery pre-heat train (PHT) includes a crude oil stream pipeline system that extends through the PHT and is configured to carry a stream of crude oil from an inlet of the PHT to a furnace of the PHT; heat exchangers positioned in the crude oil stream pipeline system; and a control system. The heat exchangers include a first set of heat exchangers positioned in the crude oil stream pipeline system between the inlet of the PHT and one or more de-salters of the PHT; a second set of heat exchangers positioned in the crude oil stream pipeline system between the one or more de-salters of the PHT and one or more pre-flash drums of the PHT; and a third set of heat exchangers positioned between the one or more pre-flash drums of the PHT and the furnace of the PHT.

Abstract: A method for separating basic-sediment and water (BS&W) from oil in an oil field crude-oil sample using a halogen lighting-unit and a sample-measurement container; the method includes obtaining a crude-oil sample having an undetermined concentration of basic-sediment, water and oil. Providing a sample-measurement container having a known volume. Inserting the crude-oil sample into the sample-measurement container, the crude-oil sample occupying the known-volume of the sample-measurement container. Exposing the crude-oil sample in the sample-measurement container to a halogen lighting-unit. Separating the basic-sediment and the water from the oil in the crude-oil in the sample-measurement container. Calculating the fraction-of-oil by volume in the crude-oil sample after the basic-sediment and the water has separated.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a precursor for a catalytically active material or a catalytically active material comprising platinum, a molecular sieve and a metal oxide support, characterized in at least 80%, 90% or 95% of said platinum being dispersed on said molecular sieve and at least 80%, 90% or 95% of said platinum being dispersed in clusters having a size below 2 nm or 1 nm, as well as a method of producing such materials and process for hydroisomerization involving such materials. The disclosure has the associated benefit of such a catalytically active material being highly active and selective towards hydroisomerization.