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Disclosed are methods of treating subterranean formations with rapidly hydratable treatment fluids based upon heteropolysaccharides. In particular, the invention relates to treatment methods with fluids containing a heteropolysaccharide, aqueous medium, and an electrolyte, wherein the fluids may further include a gas component, a surfactant and/or an organoamino compound. The fluids exhibit good rheological properties at elevated temperatures, and unusually rapid hydration rates which allows utilizing such fluids without the need of hydration tanks.

The present invention relates to processes for preparing a glucopyranosyl-substituted benzyl-benzene derivative of general formula III,

wherein R¹ is defined according to claim 1.

A high sulfur content crude oil feedstream is treated by mixing one or more selected solvents with a sulfur-containing crude oil feedstream for a predetermined period of time, allowing the mixture to separate and form a sulfur-rich solvent-containing liquid phase and a crude oil phase of substantially lowered sulfur content, withdrawing the sulfur-rich stream and regenerating the solvent, hydrotreating the remaining sulfur-rich stream to remove or substantially reduce the sulfur-containing compounds to provide a hydrotreated low sulfur content stream, and mixing the hydrotreated stream with the separated crude oil phase to thereby provide a treated crude oil product stream of substantially reduced sulfur content and without significant volume loss.

The invention relates to polymeric ultrafiltration or microfiltration membranes of, for instance, Halar, PVDF or PP, incorporating PVME or vinyl methyl ether monomers. The PVME may be present as a coating on the membrane or dispersed throughout the membrane or both. The membranes are preferably hydrophilic with a highly asymmetric structure with a reduced pore size and/or absence of macrovoids as a result of the addition of PVME. The PVME maybe cross-linked. The invention also relates to methods of hydrophilising membranes and/or preparing hydrophilic membranes via thermal or diffusion induced phase separation processed.

In the process of recovering platinum group metals from platinum group metal- and base metal-containing materials, the present invention uses reductants and a sulfur-deficient matte to aide the separation of the furnace matte from the furnace slag and therefore improve recovery of platinum group metals.

Nanoporous three-dimensional networks of polyurethane particles, e.g., polyurethane aerogels, and methods of preparation are presented herein. Such nanoporous networks may include polyurethane particles made up of linked polyisocyanate and polyol monomers. In some cases, greater than about 95% of the linkages between the polyisocyanate monomers and the polyol monomers are urethane linkages. To prepare such networks, a mixture including polyisocyanate monomers (e.g., diisocyanates, triisocyanates), polyol monomers (diols, triols), and a solvent is provided. The polyisocyanate and polyol monomers may be aliphatic or aromatic. A polyurethane catalyst is added to the mixture causing formation of linkages between the polyisocyanate monomers and the polyol monomers. Phase separation of particles from the reaction medium can be controlled to enable formation of polyurethane networks with desirable nanomorphologies, specific surface area, and mechanical properties. Various properties of such networks of polyurethane particles (e.g., strength, stiffness, flexibility, thermal conductivity) may be tailored depending on which monomers are provided in the reaction.

The invention discloses a method for extracting and separating molybdenum (VI) in an aqueous solution. The method is mainly characterized in that a non-ionic surface active agent, the molybdenum-containing aqueous solution, a saline solution and deionized water are mixed and stirred evenly, the concentration of the non-ionic surface active agent is 50-300 g/L, the concentration of molybdenum is 1-40 g/L, and the salt concentration is 50-300 g/L; the pH value is adjusted to 1-4, the mixture is subjected to still standing and phase separation after being stirred for 10-60 min at 25-80 DEG C, phase separation is conducted for 10-60 min, an aqueous two-phase system with the upper phase being a non-ionic surface active agent phase loading the molybdenum and the lower phase being an aqueous phase, and the concentration of the molybdenum in the non-ionic surface active agent phase loading the molybdenum is 2-80 g/L; the reextraction temperature is 25-80 DEG C, the time is 10-60 min, phase separation is conducted for 10-60 min, the phase ratio of the non-ionic surface active agent phase loading the molybdenum to an ammonium sulfate aqueous solution is 1 to 5, and the reextraction product is ammonium molybdate. According to the method, the extraction rate is high, good phase separation is achieved, the molybdenum extraction rate reaches 95% or above, and the molybdenum reextraction rate reaches 95% or above.

The addition of a compatible metal salt crystal to the organic solution entering the mixer(s) in the solvent extraction stage(s) and/or the stripping stage(s), or to the emulsion mixture of the organic solution and the aqueous solution in the mixer(s), or to the mixture of the organic solution and the aqueous solution in a settler tank(s) following the mixer(s) in the solvent extraction and/or stripping stage(s) following the leaching of metal values from the ore containing that/those value(s) into an aqueous solution, and prior to the further refining of those values in processes, such as electrowinning, during mining operations for those metal values in order to improve the phase separation of the organic phase and the aqueous phase, and to promote the removal of contaminants from the organic phase.

A carbon nanotube-metal particle composite includes: carbon nanotubes, polymer layer, and metal particles. The polymer layer is coated on a surface of the carbon nanotubes and defines a number of uniformly distributed pores. the metal particles are located in the pores. A catalyst including the carbon nanotube-metal particle composite is also disclosed.

A liquid-liquid-liquid three-phase continuous and countercurrent extraction apparatus comprises a three-phase-mixing chamber, a three-liquid-flow settler, and a two-phase-mixing chamber; a liquid-flow control separator placed in the three-liquid-flow settler aims to flexibly regulate the directions of three liquid flows in the three-phase system by different control separator combinations to achieve either a countercurrent operation of the top-layered phase with the middle-bottom two-layered mixtures, or a countercurrent operation of the top-middle two-layered mixtures with the bottom-layered phase; and a method of using the same, relating to extraction and separation field of chemical technology.

The invention relates to a small-size block polymer material assembled at a low quenching temperature as well as preparation and application of the small-size block polymer material. Particularly, the invention discloses a block copolymer which has a glass transition temperature below 120 DEG C. The invention also discloses a preparation method and the application of the block copolymer. The block copolymer can realize excellent phase separation and rapid patterning at a relatively low annealing temperature (e.g., 80 DEG C) and relatively short annealing time (e.g., 30 seconds), and is etched to obtain a photoetch pattern with extremely high resolution (e.g., 5 nm half-pitch), thereby providing a new photoetch means for the further extension of Moore's Law and photoetching semiconductors smaller than 10 nm, even 5 nm (half-pitch).

Improved methods for producing colloidal dispersions of cerium-containing oxide nanoparticles in substantially non-polar solvents is disclosed. The cerium-containing oxide nanoparticles of an aqueous colloid are transferred to a substantially non-polar liquid comprising one or more amphiphilic materials, one or more low-polarity solvents, and, optionally, one or more glycol ether promoter materials. The transfer is achieved by mixing the aqueous and substantially non-polar materials, forming an emulsion, followed by a phase separation into a remnant polar solution phase and a substantially non-polar organic colloid phase. The organic colloid phase is then collected. The promoter functions to speed the transfer of nanoparticles to the low-polarity phase. The promoter accelerates the phase separation, and also provides improved colloidal stability of the final substantially non-polar colloidal dispersion. The glycol ether promoter reduces the temperature necessary to achieve the phase separation, while providing high extraction yield of nanoparticles into the low-polarity organic phase. In addition, use of particular amphiphilic materials, such as heptanoic acid or octanoic acid, enable efficient extractions at ambient temperatures without the use of a glycol ether promoter.

The invention discloses a method for treating a chemical nickel plating concentrated waste liquid by a solvent extraction method and an ion exchange method. The method comprises adjusting a chemical nickel plating concentrated waste liquid concentration to 6-7 by NaOH, fully mixing the waste liquid subjected to pH adjustment and an extractant, carrying out standing for two phase layering, separating the two phases to obtain organic and water phases, wherein the water phase is a nickel-free solution and the organic phase is a loading organic phase, fully mixing sulfuric acid and the above organic phase, carrying out standing for two phase layering, separating the two phases to obtain a water phase and an organic phase, wherein the water phase is a nickel sulfate solution and the organic phase is an extractant, treating the nickel-free solution by an alkalescent anion exchange resin column to remove hypophosphite, carrying out cooling to precipitate sodium sulfate crystals, and adding nickel sulfate and hypophosphite into the sodium sulfate crystals to obtain a regenerated chemical nickel plating liquid for direct chemical nickel plating. The method has the advantages of high extraction efficiency, environmental friendliness, simple operation, low cost and high economic value.

A separation device with a gas inlet port that accepts an inlet gas. The inlet gas is composed of a mixture of at least two separable particle components with each component having a different mass. A rotating separation rotor accepts the inlet gas and uses a separator to substantially separate the gas according to mass into two fractions, a heavier and a lighter fraction. One of the fractions is passed to a second separator that further separates that fraction into another two fractions consisting of heavier and lighter fractions. The desired fractions are collected and exhausted from the separation device for use.