Abstract: Surface-treated carboxyalkylated polysaccharides comprising a biobased content of at least 82% are described herein. The surface-treated carboxyalkylated polysaccharides comprise a CRC of at least 18 g/g, a FSC of at least 26 g/g, and an AUL at 0.7 psi of at least 14 g/g. Processes for the manufacture of surface-treated carboxyalkylated polysaccharides are also described herein.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 25, 2007
Date of Patent:
June 11, 2013
Assignee:
Archer Daniels Midland Company
Inventors:
Isabelle Bolduc, Anne-Claude Couffin, Shuojia Dong, Danick Godin, George Koutlakis, Nicole Lachapelle, André Laforest, Caroline Lavergne, Vladimiro Nettel, Nicolas Nourry, Frédéric Picard, Oscar Suarez-Hernandez, Catherine Theriault
Abstract: The present invention relates to novel hydrophilic swellable addition polymers comprising improved odor control, a process for their preparation and their use for absorbing aqueous fluids and a process for screening superabsorbents.
Abstract: A process for decolorizing an aqueous sugar solution by contacting the solution with an absorbent resin, wherein the adsorbent resin is a macroporous copolymer being post-crosslinked in a swollen state in the presence of a Friedel-Crafts catalyst and functionalized with hydrophilic groups prior to contact with the aqueous sugar solution.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 27, 1989
Date of Patent:
August 21, 1990
Assignee:
The Dow Chemical Company
Inventors:
Richard T. Stringfield, H. Robert Goltz, Seth I. Norman, Upen J. Bharwada, Robert L. LaBrie
Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for producing highly pure rhamnose from gum arabic, which the process comprises after partially hydrolyzing gum arabic in an aqueous solution of a mineral acid, neutralyzing and condensing the liquid hydrolyzate, thereby obtaining an aqueous solution containing from 40 to 70% by weight of organic substances, adding a polar organic solvent in an amount of from 5 to 20 times by volume of the amount of the aqueous solution, thereby precipitating an insolubilized substance, removing the insolubilized substance from a mixture of the aqueous solution and the polar organic solvent, removing the polar organic solvent from the mixture, thereby obtaining an aqueous solution containing monosaccharides formed by the hydrolysis of gum arabic, and subjecting the thus obtained aqueous solution to strongly cationic ion-exchanging resin-chromatography and then to a method of adsorption and separation by using activated carbon, thereby obtaining the highly pure rhamnose from the aqueous solution.
Abstract: Disclosed is a method for refining sugar solutions with magnesia wherein magnesia used for refining of a sugar solution is calcined together with pearlite and/or diatomaceous earth at least in an amount of the same weight as that of the magnesia and the resulting calcined mixture is used for refining of the sugar solution again.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 27, 1981
Date of Patent:
December 7, 1982
Assignees:
Agency of Industrial Science & Technology, Sumitomo Jukikai Envirotech, Inc., Hokkaido Soda Co., Ltd., Mitsui Sugar Co., Ltd.