41429 results about "Sodium hydroxide" patented technology

A method of treating a patient with a pulmonary disease, where the method includes delivering a dose of aerosolized medicament intermittently to a ventilator circuit coupled to the respiratory system of the patient. Also, a method of treating a patient with a pulmonary disease, where the method includes taking the patient off a ventilator, and administering to the patient, a nebulized aerosol comprising from about 100 μg to about 500 mg of a medicament. Additionally, an aerosolized medicament for the treatment of a pulmonary disease, where the medicament includes amikacin mixed with an aqueous solution having an adjusted pH from about 5.5 to about 6.3. The pH is adjusted by adding hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide to the aqueous solution.

The invention provides a method for preparing lithium cobaltate by directly using an invalid lithium ion battery. The method comprises the following steps: crushing the invalid lithium ion battery or scraps generated when a lithium cobaltate battery is produced by a mechanical crusher at normal temperature; adding water and one or more of acetic acid, sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid or nitric acid to produce mixed aqueous solution of the battery scraps and acid; filling the mixed aqueous solution into a hermetic pressure reactor, and controlling the temperature in the reactor to be between 50 and 150 DEG C; introducing or adding one leaching additive of sulfur dioxide or hydrogen, or adding hydrazine hydrate; stirring and leaching, cooling, and filtering; adding one precipitator of sodium carbonate, potassium carbonate and ammonium carbonate, or adding composite precipitator consisting of one of the sodium carbonate, the potassium carbonate and the ammonium carbonate and one of sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide to obtain mixture of lithium carbonate, cobalt carbonate and cobalt hydroxide; drying and calcining at high temperature to produce a lithium cobaltate product. The method is particularly suitable for the treatment scale of medium-sized and small enterprises, and is an effective method for directly materializing cobalt secondary resources.

A closed loop system for increasing yield, reducing post process pollution, reducing energy consumed during and after extraction of fuels or contaminants in formations and for sequestering of carbon dioxide C0₂ from various sources is converted to a critical fluid for use as a flushing and cooling medium. Electrical energy heats a hydrocarbon rich formation resulting in the extraction of hot fluids which are fed to heat exchangers, gas/liquid separator, and steam turbine whereby oil, electric power, carbon dioxide and methane are produced for reuse in the system or for external use. Further, a method for sequestering of carbon dioxide in a formation comprises the steps of injecting CO₂ into the reservoir, flushing with cool pressurized CO₂ for heat removal, infiltrating with ultra-fine low density suspended catalyst particles of dry sodium hydroxide in CO₂, pumping water moistened CO₂ into the reservoir to activate the catalysts, binding the CO₂ with reacting materials and capping the reservoir.

A method for extracting silicon dioxide, alumina and gallium oxide from high-alumina fly ash relates to the technology fields of environmental mineralogy and material, chemical industry and metallurgy. The method comprises the main steps as follows: causing the high-alumina fly ash to react with sodium hydroxide solution; filtering the solution; introducing CO2 to the filtrate for full gelation; cleaning, purifying, drying, grinding and calcining the silica gel after gel filtration to obtain finished white carbon black; adding limestone and a sodium carbonate solution into the filter mass after the reaction and filtration of the high-alumina fly ash and the sodium hydroxide solution; ball grinding the mixture into raw slurry; dissolving out the clinker obtained by baking the raw slurry; subjecting the filtrate to deep desiliconization to obtain sodium aluminate extraction liquid; filtrating the sodium aluminate extraction liquid after subjecting the sodium aluminate extraction liquid to carbon dioxide decomposition; baking the aluminum hydroxide after washing the filter mass to form the aluminum hydroxide product; and extracting the gallium oxide from the carbon dioxide decomposition mother solution and desiliconized solution. The method has the advantages of low material price, simple operating procedures, low investment, low production cost, low energy consumption and less slag.

The invention provides a method for producing aluminum oxide and co-producing active calcium silicate through high-alumina fly ash. The method comprises the following steps that: the high-alumina fly ash firstly reacts with a sodium hydroxide solution to carry out pre-desilication to obtain a liquid-phase desiliconized solution and a solid-phase desiliconized fly ash; lime cream is added to the liquid-phase desiliconized solution to carry out a causticization reaction, the resulting solid phase is active calcium silicate which is prepared through carrying out filter pressing, flash evaporation and drying to obtain the finished product; limestone and a sodium carbonate solution are added to the desiliconized fly ash to blend qualified raw slurry, then the blend qualified raw slurry is subjected to baking into the clinker, the liquid phase generated from dissolution of the clinker is a crude solution of sodium aluminate; the crude solution of the sodium aluminate is subjected to processes of first-stage deep desilication, second-stage deep desilication, carbonation, seed precipitation, baking and the like to obtain the metallurgical grade aluminum oxide meeting requirements. According to the present invention, the defects in the prior art are overcome; purposes of less material flow and small amount of slaggling are achieved; energy consumption, material consumption and production cost are relative low; extraction rate of the aluminum oxide is high; the calcium silicate with high added value is co-produced; the method provided by the present invention can be widely applicable for the field of chemical engineering.

A method and device for removing, deodorizing and purifying odor, smoke and harmful substances from exhaust gas or flue gas employs a water solution containing hypohalogen acid such as hypochlorous acid soda, an alkaline electrolyte such as potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide and a saline electrolyte such as sodium chloride, potassium chloride, sodium bromide or potassium bromide which is electrolyzed to produce an electrolytic water solution which is fed to a deodorizing tower and brought into contact with exhaust gas or flue gas to remove odor, smoke and harmful substances in the exhaust gas or flue gas.

A composite millipore-mesopore molecular sieve is prepared through proportionally adding millipore Zeolite molecular sieve ZSM-5, beta-zeolite, mordenite, L-zeolite, MCM-22 and ZSM-35 to the solution of sodium hydroxide, stirring, adding the template agent of mesopore molecular sieve, crystallizing at 90-120 deg.C for 22-26 hr, regulating pH=7.5-7.9, and static crystallizing at 90-120 deg.c for 24-168 hr.

The present invention relates to sorbierite cracking process to prepare C2-C4 diatomic alcohol and polyol, and is especially the process of preparing sorbierite with corn material and hydrocracking sorbierite to prepare C2-C4 diatomic alcohol and polyol. The process includes hydrocracking sorbierite to prepare the mixture of C2-C4 diatomic alcohol and polyol at high temperature and high pressure in the presence of cracking sodium hydroxide and nickel/ruthenium catalyst, separation and refining to obtain single product. The production process of the present invention has the advantages of novel production path, unique technological condition, simultaneous production of several kinds of alcohol and high product quality. In addition, using grains, such as corn, as material to replace non-regenerable resource is significant.

The invention discloses a method for preparing lithium nickel cobalt manganese oxide by taking a waste lithium ion battery as a raw material. The method is mainly characterized in that a waste lithium ion battery taking the lithium nickel cobalt manganese oxide, lithium nickel cobalt oxide and so on as a battery positive material is selected as the raw material and is pretreated through disassembly, separation, crushing, screening and so on, and then processes such as adhesive removal at high temperature and aluminum removal by sodium hydroxide are adopted to obtain an inactivated positive material containing nickel, cobalt and manganese; then a sulfuric acid and hydrogen peroxide system is adopted to leach, and P204 is adopted to remove impurities by extraction to obtain pure nickel, cobalt and manganese solution, and proper manganese sulfate, nickel sulfate or cobalt sulfate is blended to ensure that the mol ratio of nickel, cobalt and manganese elements in the solution is 1: 1: 1; and then ammonium carbonate is adopted to adjust the pH value to form a nickel cobalt manganese carbonate precursor, and then a proper amount of lithium carbonate is blended for high temperature sintering to synthesize a lithium nickel cobalt manganese oxide battery material. The first discharge capacity of the material is 150 mAh/g, the discharge capacity is still kept more than 130mAh/g after the circulation for 30 times, and the material has good electrochemical performance.

The invention discloses a method for preparing lignin polyurethane, which comprises the following steps of: using an organic solvent to dissolve the lignin which is extracted and separated from residues after producing ethanol from straws by sodium hydroxide; removing the residues, and depositing the mixture with water; separating the lignin; modifying the lignin with an epoxide; dissolving the lignin into a polylol; and finally compounding the lignin with raw materials of isocyanate and the like to obtain a polyurethane material. The lignin used in the method has high reactivity which can be further enhanced through modification so as to obtain a lignin polyurethane material; the polylol used in the method not only can be used as a solvent but also can take part in a synthetic reaction, has good dissolvability to the lignin, and ensures that undissolved lignin particles cannot appear in a polyurethane foam material; and the link for polyurethane synthesis uses no volatile organic solvents, so the production process causes no pollution to the environment, and simultaneously the cost of a polyurethane product is reduced.

A method and system to produce biodiesel from a combination of corn (maize) and other agro feedstock may be simarouba, mahua, rice, pongamia etc. Germ is separated (either by wet process or dry process) from corn, crude corn oil extracted from germ and corn starch milk/slurry is heated and cooked in jet cooker to about 105 degree Celsius, enzymes added to convert starch into fermentable sugars in liquification and saccharification process and rapidly cooled down to about 30 degree Celsius. Simarouba fruits syrup, mahua syrup is mixed with corn starch milk (after saccharification). When yeast is added the fermentation takes place for about 72 hours. Thereafter the fermented wash is distilled to produce ethanol. Water consumed in dry process is very less compared to traditional wet process system. Corn oil and mixture of other oils is fed into transesterification (reaction) vessels where ethanol with catalyst, usually sodium hydroxide is added and reaction takes place for about a period of 2-8 hours. Crude biodiesel and crude glycerin as by-products is produced. Excess ethanol removed by distillation process. Crude biodiesel washed with warm water to remove residual soaps or unused catalyst, dried and biodiesel stored for commercial use. Oil extracted from spent bleach mud (used sodium bentonite), a waste product of edible oil refineries may also be utilized for economical production of biodiesel in combination of corn oil and ethanol.

The invention discloses a super-hydrophobic and super-oleophylic oil-water separating mesh membrane and a preparation method thereof. The method comprises the following steps of: (1), cleaning a fabric mesh and drying the cleaned fabric mesh; (2), dissolving dopamine hydrochloride and trihytdroxy methyl-aminomethane to water to acquire a mixed solution, wherein the pH value of the mixed solution is 8.0-12.0; (3), soaking the dried fabric mesh in the mixed solution, and then getting out the soaked fabric mesh for drying; (4), dissolving mercaptan compound and sodium hydroxide in water to acquire mixed turbid liquid; (5), soaking the fabric mesh acquired in the step (3) in the mixed turbid liquid, reacting the mixture to acquire the oil-water separating mesh membrane. The oil-water separating mesh membrane disclosed by the invention has high bearing pressure to water so that oil can quickly pass, a separating effect is good, the speed is high, and the separating effect on normal hexane, petroleum ether, benzene, gasoline, diesel oil, animal and vegetable oil, crude oil and the like is good. The oil-water separating mesh membrane is non-toxic and harmless, environment-friendly, easy to clean and keep, can be reusable, and has good stability.

The invention relates to an anti-emulsification water-soluble metal washing agent. Every 100 parts of the anti-emulsification water-soluble metal washing agent include the following components according to parts by weight: 3-7 non-ionic surfactant, 3-7 bi-ion active agent, 1-5 chelator, 1-5 rust preventive, 5-10 inorganic builder and the balance water, wherein the non-ionic surfactant is any one of fatty amine polyoxypropylene ether, alkylphenol ether and fatty amine polyoxyethylene alkyl ether ammonium sulfate, the bi-ion active agent is any one of alkyl dimethylin acetic acid betaine, lauramidopropyl betaine and cocamidopropyl betaine, the chelator is any one of sodium citrate, ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid tetrasodium salt and nitrilotriacetic acid sodium salt, the rust preventive is any one of sodium borate, sodium nitrite, sodium benzoate and long carbon chain carboxylic acid amine, and the inorganic builder is any one of trisodium phosphate, sodium metasillcate, sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate and sodium hydroxide. The anti-emulsification water-soluble metal washing agent has the advantage of higher cleaning capacity and reutilization capacity.

The present invention discloses the preparation process of nanometer silver solution and nanometer silver powder with polymer as stabilizer. Water soluble polymer as stabilizer in solution of 0.001-0.05 g/ml solution and silver nitrate in solution of 0.001-0.1 mol/L are compounded and reduced with water soluble reductant in solution of 0.001-0.2 mol/L to obtain nanometer silver particle of 5-100 nm size. The nanometer silver particle in solution may be further deposited and washed with sodium hydroxide solution, dried and crushed to obtain nanometer silver particle of 5-100 nm size. The prepared solution may be used in medical article, and prepared nanometer silver powder may be used widely in household appliance, plastic product, paint, etc. The present invention is environment friendly, low in cost and simple in operation, and the prepared nanometer silver particle has extremely powerful antibiotic capacity and wide antibiotic spectrum.

The invention provides a method for preparing fibrilia carboxylation cellulose nanowhiskers, which is characterized by comprising the following steps: soaking fibrilia powder in sodium hydroxide for processing, then processing the fibrilia powder by a former treating agent and taking out the fibrilia powder to be dried in a vacuum oven to obtain preprocessed fibrilia powder; and placing the preprocessed fibrilia powder in a TEMPO oxidation system for catalytic oxidation to obtain a stable cellulose nanowhiskers suspending liquid after mechanical processing and freeze drying the suspending liquid to obtain the fibrilia carboxylation cellulose nanowhiskers having grain diameters of 3-10 nm. According to the invention, fibrilia carboxylation and nano fibrillation are realized and surfaces of prepared nanocrystalline celluloses have carboxyl functional groups, thus the surfaces generate negative charges, electrostatic repulsion among the negative charges can avoid the reunion of nanoparticles, so that the nanocrystalline celluloses can be well dispersed in water and the obtained nanocrystalline celluloses have excellent uniformity of grain sizes.

Disclosed are processes of making solutions of alkali alkoxides in their corresponding alcohols using an electrolytic process. In one embodiment, sodium methoxide in methanol is made from methanol and aqueous sodium hydroxide solution, where the aqueous sodium hydroxide solution is present in the anolyte compartment and a solution of sodium methoxide in methanol is present in the catholyte compartment, the two compartments are separated by a ceramic membrane that selectively transports sodium ions under the influence of an electric potential, and wherein the composition of the solution of sodium methoxide in methanol in the catholyte compartment of the electrolytic cell comprises between at least about 2% by weight sodium methoxide and at most about 20% by weight sodium methoxide.

The present invention is related with bioplasticizers or primary oleochemical plasticizers and the improved process for obtaining thereof. It refers primarily to epoxydized oleochemical plasticizers produced from vegetable oils, as substitute of traditional petrochemical plasticizers. The process starts with the epoxydized product of natural oils, such as sunflower, linseed, Jatropha curcas, soybean, etc., which are transesterified with an alcohol such as ethylic or methylic, in the presence of a catalyst such as sodium methoxide or sodium hydroxide in order to produce an alkylic esters mixture of the fatty acids that were present in the oil or oil mixture used as raw material in the epoxydized oil production. When the plasticizer obtained by the process already mentioned is used for the formulation of moldable poly(vinyl chloride), PVC, resins; the resulting plastic films get adequate hardness, static and dynamic thermal stability, and plasticizer extractability by solvents, such as n-hexane, gasoline and oil. Besides, when the PVC resin is formulated with a phthalic or terephthalic plasticizers mixture and the bioplasticizer, the bioplasticizer presents a full range solubility and or compatibility with the remainder of the resin compounds. The oxyrane chemical ring of the bioplasticizer is an excellent chemical neutralizer of the HCL that might be formed from the PVC, due to the action or interference of thermal or UV radiation.

The process of preparing alumina includes: the reaction of flyash from circular fluidizing bed and acid to obtain aluminum chloride solution, eliminating silicon impurity, concentrating to crystallize and heating to decompose and to obtain crude alumina product; reaction of crude alumina product and hot alkali solution to obtain sodium aluminate solution; eliminating iron, titanium and other impurity, adding aluminum hydroxide crystal seed into sodium aluminate solution for seed separating decomposition to obtain aluminum hydroxide precipitate; and final calcining aluminum hydroxide to obtain metallurgical alumina. The normal pressure process has no any cosolvent added, and the alumina product has Al2O3 content up to 98 %. The process has small sodium hydroxide consumption, reuse of most of sodium hydroxide, simple operation, low cost, low power consumption, capacity of reducing flyash pollution and other advantages.

Water containing dissolved salts, such as calcium sulfate, calcium chloride, magnesium sulfate, magnesium chloride, sodium carbonate, sodium chloride, sodium sulfate, calcium bicarbonate, and mixtures thereof, is treated to reduce the concentration of those salts. About 0.1 to about 60 g/L of sodium hydroxide, sodium carbonate, potassium hydroxide, potassium carbonate, calcium hydroxide, calcium carbonate, aluminum hydroxide, aluminum sulfate, aluminum potassium sulfate, and mixtures thereof is added to the water, whereby a precipitate forms in the water. The precipitate is separated from said water and the water is desalinated using reverse osmosis, flash evaporation, or another method. The process is preferably performed by first adding calcium oxide or calcium hydroxide, separating the precipitate that forms, then adding sodium hydroxide and sodium carbonate to form a second precipitate.