4058 results about "Bulk density" patented technology

The present invention provides a water-absorbent resin powder and its production process and use, wherein the water-absorbent resin powder has high liquid permeability and high water absorbency. The production process for a water-absorbent resin powder, according to the present invention, comprises the step of obtaining water-absorbent crosslinked polymer particles by an aqueous solution polymerization step, and grinding the resultant crosslinked polymer particles until the bulk density thereof increases to not lower than 0.72 (g/ml). The water-absorbent resin powder is characterized by being arbitrarily pulverized and having a bulk density of not lower than 0.74 (g/ml) and a water absorption capacity of not lower than 20 (g/g) for 0.9 weight % physiological saline under a load of 0.7 psi (4.83 kPa). In addition, the absorbent structure comprises the above water-absorbent resin powder and a fibrous material. The absorbent article comprises an absorbent layer including the above absorbent structure.

The invention is directed to nanostructure surface treatments, coatings or modifications formed from nanoscale building blocks. The nanostructure surface treatments, modifications or coatings have hydrophobic, hydrophilic and surface adherence properties. The nanoscale building blocks have orientation, geometry, packing density and composition that may be adjusted to control the unique surface characteristics of the desired treatment, coating or modification. Applications of this nanostructure technology include surgical clips, staples, retractors, sutures and manipulators where an improvement in traction, retention or occlusion is desired without excessive material or tissue deformation or where high compressive forces would be undesirable, dangerous or ineffective. In one aspect, a nanostructure surface treatment for a medical device having an external surface is disclosed, wherein the treatment is applied on the external surface to provide a hydrophobic or a hydrophilic surface. With this aspect, the treatment comprises titanium dioxide and provides nanoscopic structures having nearly vertical sidewalls. The treated surface of the device has contact angles greater than or equal to 150 degrees. The vertical sidewalls provide a negative capillary effect and have a width of about 200 nm. The vertical sidewalls attach to a wet surface by the negative capillary effect. The van der Waals forces of the vertical sidewalls enable the treated surface to attach to a dry surface. The treatment may be vapor deposited and cured on the device, or the treatment may be laser blasted on the device.

The invention is directed to an intracorporeal fibrous marker formed of a fibrous pad or mat with strands of synthetic polymeric material such as polyglycolic acid and delivery devices and methods of using such devices. The fibrous pad or mat has a bulk density of at least 10, preferably about 30 to about 100 mg/cc and typically about 40 mg/cc. The fibrous marker has an effective in vivo lifespan of at least three weeks.

The invention relates to a magnesium compound supported non-metallocene catalyst, which is obtained by directly contacting a compound of catalytic active metal and a magnesium compound containing a non-metallocene ligand through an in-situ supporting method. The preparation method for the magnesium compound supported non-metallocene catalyst has simple, feasible and flexible process, and has more adjustable parameters to the polymerization activity of the catalyst. When the supported non-metallocene catalyst and a catalyst promoter are adopted to form a catalytic system for the homopolymerization/copolymerization of olefins, the obtained polymer has high bulk density and low ash, and the molecular weight distribution of the polymer has wide adjustable range.

A suturable adhesion-preventing membrane has high suture strength, good biocompatibility, decomposition and absorption in a living body, sufficient adhesion-preventing effect, and desirable guided tissue regeneration. The membrane is composed of at least one non-woven fabric layer made of collagen fibers, or a laminated membranous substance consisting of at least one non-woven fabric layer made of collagen fibers and at least one sponge layer made of collagen, and a coating layer of gelatin or hyaluronic acid on the surface or surfaces of the above membrane. Preferably, the membrane comprises one to six compressed cross-linked collagen non-woven fabric layers wherein a layer has a fibers having a fiber diameter of 0.05 mm to 1.0 mm, a bulk density of 5.0×10⁻⁴ to 5 g/cm³ and a thickness of 0.1 mm to 50 mm, and a coating layer containing gelatin or hyaluronic acid and having a thickness of 0.05 mm to 20 mm, wherein the coating layer covers one or both sides or a part or whole of the surface of the membrane.

The invention belongs to the petroleum exploration field, and concretely relates to a compact sandstone reservoir complex netted fracture prediction method. The method comprises the steps of: building a geological structure model and a fracture growth model; testing magnitudes and directions of ancient and modern crustal stresses; completing a rock mechanic parameter experiment; testing rock mechanic parameters and fracture stress sensitivities; developing a fracture rock multistage composite rupture criterion; performing a rock deformation physical test to obtain a peak value intensity; building a relation model between single axle state stress-strain and fracture bulk density; building a relation model between triaxial state stress-strain and fracture bulk density and occurrence; building a relation model between single axle state stress-strain and fracture bulk density; calculating and stimulating fracture parameters under modern conditions; and verifying the reliability of a fracture quantitative prediction result. The method can accurately obtain compact sandstone reservoir complex netted fracture parameters, and perform quantitative characterization, is suitable for quantitative prediction of any fracture mainly with a brittle reservoir, and reduces exploitation risks and costs.

Methods of controlling the durability of and/or the amount of air in concrete formulations that include combining cement, water, and optionally aggregates, admixtures and/or additives to form a cement mixture; and adding prepuff particles to the cement mixture to form a concrete formulation. The prepuff particles have an average particle diameter of from 0.2 mm to 3 mm, a bulk density of from 0.015 g/cc to 0.35 g/cc, an aspect ratio of from 1 to 3, and a smooth continuous outer surface. The cured and hardened concrete formulation typically has a relative dynamic modulus of at least 70% determined according to Procedure A of ASTM C666 (2003). The amount of air in the concrete typically increases over the amount of air in similar formulations not containing prepuff particles, as determined according to ASTM C231, based on the volume percent of prepuff. The concrete formulations can be used to make articles.

The invention provides a method for preparing spherical alkoxyl magnesium particles with excellent properties. In the method, magnesium, alcohol and a halogenating agent are reacted at a reflux temperature, so that the alkoxyl magnesium particles are obtained. The alkoxyl magnesium particles have the advantages of higher bulk density, good particle shape and particular suitability for serving as a catalyst carrier of an olefin polymerization reaction.

A method of manufacturing a cementitious composite including: (1) mixing an extrudable cementitious composition by first forming a fibrous mixture comprising fibers, water and a rheology modifying agent and then adding hydraulic cement; (2) extruding the extrudable cementitious composition into a green extrudate, wherein the green extrudate is characterized by being form-stable and retaining substantially a predefined cross-sectional shape; (3) removing a portion of the water by evaporation to reduce density and increase porosity; and (4) heating the green extrudate at a temperature from greater than 65° C. to less than 99° C. is disclosed. Such a process yields a cementitious composite that is suitable for use as a wood substitute. Particularly, by using higher curing temperatures for preparing the cementitious building products, the building products have a lower bulk density and a higher flexural strength as compared to conventional products. The wood-like building products can be sawed, nailed and screwed like ordinary wood.

The invention provides a supported metallocene catalyst, which comprises a carrier, and alkyl aluminoxane and a metallocene compound which are supported on the carrier, wherein the metallocene compound has a structure shown as a formula 1. The invention also provides a method for preparing the supported metallocene catalyst, a method for preparing an olefin polymer by using the catalyst, and the olefin polymer prepared by the method for preparing the olefin polymer. In the olefin polymerization process, the supported metallocene catalyst can reduce the using amount of the alkyl aluminoxane so as to reduce the preparation cost of the olefin polymer; the high molecular weight polyethylene prepared by using the catalyst has a good shape and high bulk density; and the catalyst can be applied to gas-phase polymerization and slurry polymerization processes. The formula 1 is shown as the specifications.

This invention discloses the method for preparing high-density spherical lithium ferric phosphate used as the positive material of lithium ion cell, which contains synthesizing the ferric iron salt aqueous solution, phosphorus source aqueous solution and alkali aqueous solution to form spherical or spheroid ferric phosphate precursor, uniformly mixed with lithium source, carbon source and doped metal compound after being washed and dried, high temperature heat treating at 600-900 degree centigrade for 8-48 hr under inertia or reducing atmosphere protection to obtain lithium ferric phosphate with mean grain size of 7-12 micrometer,2.0-2.2g/cm3 of tap density, high buck density of 140-155mAh/g first discharge ratio capacity at normal temperature, and high volume ratio capacity.

A particulate water absorbing agent of the present invention includes a water absorbent resin, having a cross-linking structure, whose surface has been cross-linked by adding a surface treatment agent, wherein: (i) a mass average particle diameter (D50) ranges from 200 to 600 μm and 95 to 100 wt % of a particulate water absorbing agent whose particle diameter ranges from less than 850 μm to not less than 150 μm is contained with respect to 100 wt % of whole the particulate water absorbing agent, and (ii) a logarithmic standard deviation (σζ) of particle size distribution ranges from 0.25 to 0.45, and (iii) a compressibility rate defined by a following equation ranges from 0 to 18%, and (iv) a surface tension of a supernatant liquid obtained in 4 minutes after dispersing 0.5 g of the particulate water absorbing agent in 50 ml of physiological saline whose temperature is 20° C. is 55 mN/m or more,

the compressibility rate (%)=(P−A)/P×100

where P represents a tapped bulk density of the particulate water absorbing agent and A represents a loose bulk density of the particulate water absorbing agent.

A spherical particle of the present invention contains a sugar alcohol and a crystalline cellulose and/or powdered cellulose, wherein the mass ratio between the sugar alcohol and the crystalline cellulose and/or powdered cellulose is within a range from 50:50 to 90:10, the particle size is within a range from 75 to 250 μm, the sphericity is not less than 0.8, and the bulk density is not less than 0.6 g/ml. Further, a method for producing the spherical particle of the present invention includes a granulation step of rolling a sugar alcohol having an average particle size of not more than 40 μm and a crystalline cellulose and/or powdered cellulose having an average particle size of not more than 50 μm while spraying a liquid thereon.

A sound-absorbing material, wherein a non-woven fabric with a mass per unit area of 150 to 800 g/m² and a bulk density of 0.01 to 0.2 g/cm³ and a surface material with an air permeability of not more than 50 cc/cm²/sec measured according to JIS L-1096 are layered.

The invention provides mesoporous spherical alumina and a method for preparing the mesoporous spherical alumina by guiding of a template. By the adoption of an oil column forming method, the template with a guiding function is added into aluminum sol during the aluminum sol preparation process; and during the forming and aging processes of the aluminum sol, due to the existence of the template with the guiding function, a large number of meso-structures are prepared in alumina balls. The mesoporous spherical alumina has the following characteristics of: its specific surface is 150-300 m<2>/g; particle diameter is 0.1-5 mm; pore volume is 0.7-1.5 ml/g; holes, hole diameter of which is 2-40 nm, are greater than 97%; bulk density is 0.30-0.80g/cm<3>; and crushing strength is 70-250 N/granule. The mesoporous spherical alumina can be used as a catalyst or a catalyst carrier in the petrochemical industry and the industry of fine chemicals.

The invention relates to a support of an olefinic polymerization catalyst and a preparation method thereof, solid catalyst components for olefinic polymerization and an olefinic polymerization catalyst. The support of the olefinic polymerization catalyst is dialkoxy magnesium. The preparation method of the support of the olefinic polymerization catalyst comprises the following steps: in an inert gas protective atmosphere, reacting magnesium and alcohol, which serve as raw materials, in the presence of a halogenating agent under reflux to prepare the dialkoxy magnesium, wherein the weight ratio of alcohol to magnesium is (4-50):1; the halogenating agent is at least one of halogen simple substances and halides, and the mol ratio of halogen atom to magnesium is (0.0002-0.2):1; and the dialkoxy magnesium is spherical particles of which the average particle size is 10-150 um and the particle size distribution index SPAN is smaller than 1.1. The olefinic polymerization catalyst prepared by the support has high activity, and the polymer has the advantages of high bulk density, good particle shape and uniform distribution; and thus, the olefinic polymerization catalyst is suitable for producing propylene homopolymer and copolymer.

Disclosed are nutritional compositions having a solid crisp matrix, or a flour derived from the solid crisp matrix, said matrix comprising (A) from about 10% to about 50% by weight of a soluble viscous fiber, preferably guar; (B) from about 10% to about 99% by weight of a carbohydrate other than and in addition to the soluble viscous fiber; and (C) from about 1% to about 49% by weight of protein, wherein the matrix has a bulk density of less than about 0.4 g/cc. It has been found that soluble viscous fiber sources such as guar gum can be formulated into a solid crisp matrix, which then minimizes several limitations commonly associated with the formulation of such fiber sources into a conventional nutrition bar, e.g. slimy mouthfeel, tooth packing. These compositions are especially effective when formulated with gelled inclusions, including those containing or associated with acidulants, sour flavorants, or both. The nutritional compositions are especially useful as satiety agents, weight reduction agents, and/or for blunting the postprandial glycemic response in diabetics or other individuals in whom such a response would be beneficial.

A catalyst and a process for using the catalyst are disclosed generally for the conversion of hydrocarbons. The catalyst has an increased average bulk density and a decreased mass ratio of platinum-group metal. The process using the catalyst obtains unexpected high activity and stability for the reforming of naphtha range hydrocarbons. Mössbauer spectroscopy is used to characterize the extent of tin association with platinum and determine an effective molar tin ratio appropriate for alumina supports with densities above 0.6 g/cc.

Relatively high speed methods for increasing the bulk density of coal particles without impacting the coal particles and an apparatus for compacting coal for making metallurgical coke. The method includes depositing coal particles onto a charging plate external to a coking oven. The charging plate has side walls, and at least one movable end wall to provide an elongate bed of dry, uncompacted coal having an upper surface on the charging plate. The uncompacted coal is compacted by passing a vibratory cylindrical compactor along a length of the uncompacted coal for a number of passes sufficient to decrease a thickness of the bed of coal to less than about 80 percent of an original thickness of the uncompacted coal. The vibratory cylindrical compactor has a length to diameter ratio ranging from about 1.4:1 to about 2:1.