PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR CONTACTING PARTICULATE SOLIDS WITH A FLUID Process for contacting particulate solids (e.g. cracking catalyst) with a fluid (e.g. a hydrocarbons-comprising mixture) by introducing said fluid as a, preferably single, annular stream into a stream comprising the particulate solids. The invention further relates to an apparatus for contacting particulate solids with a fluid co...

A polypropylene resin composition comprises (A) a polypropylene, (B) an ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymeric rubber having a Mooney viscosity, ML1+4 (100 DEG C), ranging from 5 to 50 and an iodine value of not less than 15, the component (B) ranging from 10 to 50% by weight on the basis of the total weight of the components (A) and (B), and optionally (C) an inorganic filler in an amount ranging ...

2054772 9113750 PCTABS00007 The invention comprises a multi-layer thermoplastic foam sheet comprising a thermoplastic foam layer adjacent to at least one multi-resin layer, preferably comprising a reclaim material mixture recycled from the sheet manufacturing process, and which comprises a thermoplastic barrier resin. In a preferred embodiment, the multi-layer sheet (10) of the invention comprises...

A process for preparing a prepreg that comprises reacting a polycyclic polyene comprising dicyclopentadiene with a cyclic polysiloxane having three or more hydrogen atoms bound to silicon, and the polyene and the polysiloxane are reacted with a chain extender comprising at least one polyene having at least two non-aromatic, non-conjugated carbon-carbon double bonds highly reactive in hydrosilation...

A crosslinkable organosilicon prepolymer and a crosslinked organosilicon polymer comprising alternating hydrocarbon and cyclic polysiloxane radicals, which is the hydrosilation reaction product of: (a) at least one polyene having at least two non-aromatic, non-conjugated carbon-carbon double bonds highly reactive in hydrosilation, the carbon-carbon double bonds being either in an alpha, beta or ...

Low void composites with high Tg polyimide matrices are prepared from stoichiometrically unbalanced precursors.

Incorporation of fibrous filler into a styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) by mixing a fibrous filler, SBR latex and a coagulant, feeding the resulting coagulated fiber-filled SBR latex to a dewatering extruder and through a flow restriction that applies back pressure sufficient that water present in the SBR is forced out of a vent upstream from the flow restriction and discharging the fiber-filled SBR...

A process for producing a polymer crosslinkable by exposure to moisture in the presence of a hydrolysis/condensation catalyst comprising blending (i) a thermoplastic base polymer, (ii) a solid carrier polymer containing a silane, and (iii) a free radical generator; heating and mixing (i), (ii) and (iii) together at a temperature above the crystalline melting point of said base polymer; optionally,...

Disclosed are absorbent structures containing individualized, crosslinked fibers. The individualized, crosslinked fibers preferably have a C2 - C9 polycarboxylic acid crosslinking agent reacted with the fibers in the form of intrafiber crosslink bonds. Preferably, the crosslinking agent is citric acid, and between about 0.5 mole % and about 10.0 mole % crosslinking agent react to form the intrafib...

The invention relates to a composition for coating wet rubber particles during extrusion and pelletization prior to drying comprising an inorganic partitioning agent, a thickener and binder reagent, water and a water soluble anionic dispersant, and to the process for application to elastomers including those of low viscosity or high resin content to improve their processability during manufacture.

Alkenyl aromatic thermoplastic synthetic resinous elongate foam bodies having a machine direction, a traverse direction and closed noninterconnecting gas-containing cells are prepared using at least 70 percent by weight of 1,1,1-trifluoroethane and or 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane as a blowing agent or part of a blowing agent mixture. These foam bodies have an average cell size of 0.01 to 0.3 millimet...

A bevel-gear differential for motor vehicles has a crown wheel (5; 6) which is mounted on the case (1) of the differential and can be driven by a bevel pinion (7). In order to make the differential fulfil a second function using the installation space already available, the crown wheel (5; 6) is rotatably mounted on the case (1) of the differential and can be coupled selectively to it.

A drive system for an industrial vehicle which consists substantially of an electric motor, a two-step transmission and a drive wheel and can be pivotally mounted for movement about a vertical axis in the undercarriage of the industrial vehicle. An axis of the electric motor is arranged parallel with respect to the drive wheel. The transmission can be a two-step spur gearing or a combined toothed ...

The dermal use of non-irritating retinoids such as the esters and amides of 13-cis and 13-trans-retinoic acid for effecting the reduction and reversal of photoaging and skin cancer is disclosed.

Pursuant to detecting rotor faults in an induction motor by analysis of a frequency spectrum of the current drawn by the motor under test, wherein success of the fault analysis requires an accurate determination of the fundamental frequency of the motor current and the motor slip frequency, method and apparatus are disclosed for determining the fundamental and slip frequency values solely from ana...

An antipilferage system for the detection of magnetic tags comprises an assembly (2) of spirally wound emitter (1) and/or detector (3a,3b) coils. This arrangement enables a tag to be detected regardless of its orientation.

A magnetic article surveillance system in which surveillance is carried out by operating the system in first and second different modes of a magnetic transmitting and receiver means in order to make a determination as to the presence of an article in the zone.

According to the boundary detector of this invention, in order to perform high-speed boundary detection processing for image data read out from a frame memory comprising a plurality of memory planes, image data having a predetermined unit data length, at identical positions from the plurality of memory planes in the frame memory, are compared, by a comparator, with input boundary condition data fo...

In the transmission of information, particularly long-distance speech signals, between a first and a second station, the information is transmitted from the first to the second station by means of a code alternating current of predetermined frequency and phase-state, and from the second station to the first station by means of a code alternating current which has the predetermined frequency and a ...

PURPOSE: To mutually connect all processors to any memory by all constitution by providing a multi-link multi-bus crossbar switch between the respective processors and the respective memories. CONSTITUTION: This system is provided with the processors 100-103 capable of controlling many different processes by an instruction set supplied from the memory 10, the memory 10, a switch matrix 20 connecte...