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It was not until the twentieth century that furfural became important commercially. The Quaker Oats Company, in the process of looking for new and better uses for oat hulls found that acid hydrolysis resulted in the formation of furfural, and was able to develop an economical process for isolation and purification. In 1922 Quaker announced the availability of several tons per month. The first large-scale appHcation was as a solvent for the purification of wood rosin. Since then, a number of furfural plants have been built world-wide for the production of furfural and downstream products. Some plants produce as Httie as a few metric tons per year, the larger ones manufacture in excess of 20,000 metric tons. 

Impregnating Formulations Based on Furan Chemicals, Technical Bulletin No. 190, Chemicals Division, The Quaker Oats Company, Chicago, lU., 1979. 

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The tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol available from the Quaker Oats Company, or the Practical grade from the Eastman Kodak Company, has been used. If the material a ailable does not hydrogenate satisfactorily, it may be purified by hydrogenation over Raney nickel at 150 /100-200 atmospheres pressure. A sample of good quality boils at 177-178°/740 mm. and does not become dark-colored when a few milliliters are shaken with 1 drop of concentrated sulfuric acid at room temperature. 

According to the submitters, Eastman s practical grade of tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol must be purified by distillation the fraction boiling at 79-80°/20 mm. was used. The checkers used, without purification, tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol obtained from the Quaker Oats Company. The yields were equally good. 

Whether or not Haig actually ate Quaker Oats himself, he did agree that diet was the only method of defeating uric acid. 

Reagent grade tetrahydrofuran (Mallinckrodt) has been used directly. The formation of the Grignard reagent starts readily and no precipitates are formed. Tetrahydrofuran obtained from the Quaker Oats Company in 1-gal. cans has also been used the reaction, however, is slower to start, a cloudy l)recipitate is formed, and the yield is slightly lower. 

Xylose. Catalytic dehydration of xylose, which is the most abundantly available pentose monomer in hemicellulose, has been known for a long time (Scheme 5). In fact, as early as 1922, an industrial process involving sulfuric acid catalyzed dehydration of xylose to produce furfural was developed by the Quaker Oats Co. 

Quaker Oats, Physical Data on Furfural, Bull 203, Chicago (1947) 10) W.L. Faith,... 

The raw material for furfural is an agricultural waste. It is therefore readily available in unlimited quantities (largest manufacturer at the present time is the Quaker Oats Co.). The price of furfural has remained surprisingly constant during the period of... 

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The filler is usually "furafil," (a ligno-cellulose by-product of furfural production of Quaker Oats Company), Douglas fir or alder bark, wood particleboard sander dust and/or attapulgite clay. A sulfite paper mill lignin is also used as a filler in the Northwest. Between 50,000 and 60,000 tons of filler were used in phenolic glue mixes per year. 

We acknowledge with sincere appreciation the financial support of the following sponsors Campbell Soup Company, Hershey Foods Corporation, Kraft USA, Procter Gamble Company, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, and The Quaker Oats Company. 

Most furfural is produced from corncobs and oat and rice hulls, primarily by the Quaker Oats Company. The product is used in the chemical industry as a solvent and in wood rosin refining. A large amount of furfural is treated further to give furfuryl alcohol. The furfuryl alcohol is added to urea-formaldehyde resins in applications for adhesives and foundry core binders. 

Developed from a symposium held Apr. 10, 1984, in St. Louis, entitled The Influence of Aerobic Exercise on Energy Metabolism and Nutrient Requirements , sponsored by the Division of Agricultural and Food Chemistry of the American Chemical Society, the Quaker Oats Company, and the Dart-Kraft Company. 

Chemical Society. Division of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. III. Quaker Oats Company. IV. Dart Kraft. V. Series. 

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