BASF

A fuel composition for use in a compression ignition engine comprises a hydrocarbon compound and oxygenate compound. The hydrocarbon compound comprises at least one member of each of a paraffinic C_8-25 hydrocarbon, a C_13-25 cycloparaffinic hydrocarbon, and an aromatic hydrocarbon. The oxygenate compound comprises at least one of an ether, monoetherified and monoesterified diols, an ester, and an ether alcohol ester, each having a molecular weight of 220 to 500 g/mol. The fuel composition has a density of 0.79 to 1.00 g/cm³ at a temperature of 15°C. The fuel composition is useful as a diesel fuel having improved low temperature properties.

The present invention relates to a polyol composition (PC) for the production of a polyurethane, in particular a thermoplastic polyurethane, comprising at least one compound (P1) having at least two hydrogen atoms which are reactive towards isocyanates and (P1) has the general formula (A1)-(B)-(A2). The invention furthermore relates to a process for producing a polyurethane, preferably a thermoplastic polyurethane, comprising mixing an isocyanate composition (IC) comprising at least one polyisocyanate (11); and a polyol composition (PC), comprising at least one compound (P1); and reacting the isocyanate composition (IC) and the polyol composition (PC) to form a polyurethane. The present invention also relates to the polyurethane obtained in the process as well as the use thereof for producing an article, in particular for producing an article selected from the group consisting of flooring, a shoe or a part of a shoe.

The present invention concerns a multilayer composite battery electrode comprising active electrode materials obtained by direct recycling of battery materials from batteries comprising coated metal foil electrodes which are common in, e.g., lithium ion batteries or other alkali metal batteries. The battery materials are either obtained as production scrap from electrode and/or cell production, or obtained from end-of-life batteries (EoL batteries) by sorting and healing processes as they are described in literature.

A process for increasing the content of 2,4-bis[4-(2-ethylhexyloxy)-2-hydroxyphenol]-6-(4-methoxyphenol)-1,3,5-triazine (BEMT) in a composition comprising BEMT, the process comprising the steps of a) providing a composition comprising BEMT and impurities; b) dissolving said composition in a solvent mixture at a first dissolving temperature yielding an unsaturated BEMT solution, wherein the solvent mixture comprises at least one polar solvent; c) decreasing the temperature of the unsaturated BEMT solution to a saturation temperature, wherein the saturation temperature is lower than the first dissolving temperature, yielding a saturated BEMT solution; d) further decreasing the temperature of the first saturated BEMT solution to a first crystallization temperature, wherein the first crystallization temperature is lower than the saturation temperature, thereby yielding a supersaturated BENT solution; e) adding seed crystals of BEMT in an amount in the range of from 0.00001 wt.-% to 20 wt.-% with respect to the total weight of said composition to the supersaturated BEMT solution during step d) yielding a first BEMT suspension comprising BEMT particles; f) heating the first BEMT suspension to a second dissolving temperature yielding a second BEMT suspension comprising less BEMT particles than the first BEMT suspension, wherein the second dissolving temperature is higher than the first crystallization temperature and lower than the first dissolving temperature; g) decreasing the temperature of the second BEMT suspension to a second crystallization temperature yielding a final BEMT suspension comprising larger BEMT particles than the first BEMT suspension; h) isolating the BEMT particles from the final BEMT, wherein the second crystallization temperature is lower than the first crystallization temperature.

The present invention relates to fungicidal mixtures comprising at least one substituted benzoxazepine picolinonitrile compounds (compound I) and at least one active compound II in a weight ratio of from 100:1 to 1:100; to a method for controlling phytopathogenic harmful fungi using mixtures of at least one compound I and at least one compound II in a weight ratio of from 100:1 to 1:100; to the use of mixtures comprising compounds I and compounds II for controlling phytopathogenic harmful fungi; to agrochemical compositions comprising these mixtures; and to agrochemical compositions further comprising seed.

The present invention relates to specific alanine analogues, and to the use of said alanine analogues for controlling unwanted vegetation. Furthermore, the invention relates to agrochemical formulations comprising these alanine analogues and to methods of applying the alanine analogues or their agrochemical formulations for controlling unwanted vegetation. <img class="EMIRef" id="78dce938-bf02-4e8c-ae3e-91d7387596a2-ia01" />

Disclosed is a method for processing batteries, the method comprising deactivating batteries by cooling of the batteries, wherein the cooling comprises ultradeep cooling of the batteries.

A process for reducing the amount of feed gas A in a void volume of solid particles S, whereby solid particles D are obtained, in a reactor, wherein a reaction is carried out, the reactor having a start and an end, wherein the start is preferably a top (T) and the end is preferably a bottom (B) of the reactor, a feed gas inlet A, a gas outlet, a solid particle inlet and a solid particle outlet, the process comprising displacement of at least a part of the feed gas A in the void volume of the solid particles S with a gas B different from said feed gas A, wherein the displacement is carried out by addition of the gas B at the end, preferably at the bottom of the reactor between the feed gas inlet A and the solid particle outlet, wherein the solid particles D are discharged at the bottom of the reactor via a solid particle outlet, or the displacement is carried out by addition of the gas B to a vessel, wherein the solid particles S are collected in the vessel, the vessel being connected with the solid particle outlet at the start, preferably at the top and/or at the end, preferably at the bottom of the reactor;andto a reactor (R) for a reaction of a feed gas A in the presence of solid particles P, preferably a pyrolysis, more preferably a methane pyrolysis, wherein solid particles S are obtained comprising feed gas A in its void volume, the reactor having a start and an end, wherein the start is preferably a top (T) and the end is preferably a bottom (B) and a solid particle outlet at the end, preferably at the bottom and/or at the start, preferably at the top of the reactor, preferably at the end, more preferably at the bottom, a feed gas inlet A, a gas outlet, and a solid particle inlet, and having either an inlet B for a gas B for displacement of the feed gas A in the void volume of said solid particles S for obtaining solid particles D having a reduced amount of feed gas A in a void volume, at the end, preferably at the bottom of the reacfor between the feed gas inlet A and the solid particle outlet, or having an inlet C for a gas B for displacement of the feed gas A in the void volume of said solid particles S for obtaining solid particles D having a reduced amount of feed gas A in a void volume in a vessel, wherein the solid particles S are collected in the vessel, the vessel being connected with the solid particle outlet at the start, preferably at the top and/or at the end, preferably at the bottom of the reactor.

A process for obtaining a product gas from a feed gas in a moving bed reactor, the reactor having a top and a bottom and comprising between the top and the bottom an upper heat integration zone, a lower heat integration zone, and a reaction zone located between the upper and the lower heat integration zone, wherein a plurality of solid material particles and feed gas are counter-currently driven, wherein the plurality of solid material particles is introduced at the top at an inlet and passes through the reactor in the direction of gravity, wherein the process comprises a continuous measurement of the temperature at the top of the reactor and/or a continuous measurement of the temperature at the bottom of the reactor, and adjusting the mass flow of the plurality of solid material particles at the outlet at the bottom of the reactor and/or at the inlet at the top of the reactor and/or adjusting the mass flow of the feed gas at the inlet at the bottom of the reactor depending on the temperature measured by the continuous measurement of the temperature at the top of the reactor and/or the continuous measurement of the temperature at the bottom of the reactor; a moving bed reactor for carrying out said process; and a method for stabilizing the position of the reaction zone in a moving bed reactor in said process or in said reactor.

The present disclosure relates to a process and a device for quality control during vehicle manufacturing. The disclosure relates to methods, apparatuses, systems, a measuring device, and use of the quality of the coating for monitoring and/or controlling the quality of a coating present on at least a part of the surface of a vehicle during manufacturing of the vehicle.