Commercial technology

A commercial technology (69), the SABRE process, treats contaminated water and soil ia a two-stage process by adding a readily degradable carbon and an inoculum of anaerobic bacteria able to degrade the contaminant. An initial aerobic fermentation removes oxygen so that the subsequent reduction of the contaminant is not accompanied by oxidative polymerization. 

DMN can be produced by alkylating naphthalene or 2-methylnaphthalene at 250—450°C over ZeoHte catalysts (102,103). However, no commercial technology by this synthetic route had been developed as of 1991, primarily because of low catalytic selectivity. 

NASA s Commercial Technology Network— http //nctn.hq.nasa.gov Testing... 

Heck, R.M., Farrauto, R.J., and Gulati, S.T. (eds) (2002) Catalytic Air Pollution Control Commercial Technology, 2nd edn, Wiley/lnterscience, New York. 

All commercial technology areas are considered as patentable technologies. The most important effect of this was precisely in the field of pharmaceuticals, as non-recognition of patents was prohibited. 

This chapter provides an overview of the leading commercial and semi-commercial technologies suitable for coal gasification. 

Improvements in the resolution and versatility of microscopic techniques have come about rapidly. TEM, STEM, and high-resolution electron microscopy have helped the catalytic chemist to analyze the effects of metal-support interactions and particle-size effects—developments that will probably lead to improvements in commercial technologies. Several novel analytical methods, arising from very clever experimentation, were discussed at the... 

There are commercial or near commercial technologies for coal gasification processes used for hydrogen production. These are Koppers-Totzek and Texaco gasification processes. 

After ARCO patents issued, Stille and coworkers published on butadiene oxycarbonylation(14-16). Palladium was utilized as the oxidative carbonylation catalyst and copper(II) chloride was employed as a stoichiometric reoxidation agent for palladium. Although the desired hex-3 -enedioate is the exclusive product, commercial technology which uses stoichiometric copper is not practical. Once the copper(Il) is consumed, the monoatomic palladium spent catalyst agglomerates affording polymeric palladium which is not easily reoxidized to an active form. 

Palladium catalyst stability, recovery and recycle are the key to viable commercial technology. Continuous palladium recovery and recycle at 99.9% efficiency is critical to the economics of the process. Traditional catalyst recovery methods fail since the adipic acid precursor, dimethyl hex- -enedioate, is high boiling and the palladium catalytic species are thermally unstable above 125 C. Because of this problem, a non-traditional solvent extraction approach to catalyst recovery has been worked out and implemented at the pilot plant scale. Since patents have not issued, process detail on catalyst separation, secondary palladium recovery, and product recovery cannot be included in this review. 

The Hot Air Vapor Extraction System (HAVE) is an ex situ commercial technology that uses a sequence of thermal, heap pile, and vapor extraction techniques to remove and destroy hydrocarbon contamination in soil. This technology is effective in cleaning soils contaminated with gasoline, diesel, heavy oil, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. 

The Texaco gasification process (TGP) is a patented ex situ commercial technology for the treatment of hazardous and nonhazardous liquid or solid waste. The high-temperature, high-pressure. 

The PO WW ER system was developed by Wheelabrator Clean Air Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of U.S. Filter Corporation, to reduce the volume of aqueous waste and catalytically oxidize volatile contaminants. PO WW ER is used to treat complex industrial and hazardous wastewaters containing mixtures of organic, inorganic, and radioactive contaminants. This proprietary, commercial technology combines evaporation with catalytic oxidation to concentrate and remove contaminants, producing a high-quality product water. 

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