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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" />

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 invention relates to a process for preparation of 8-substituted isochroman-3-ones as intermediates for the preparation of substituted enol ether fungicides. The invention also relates to processes for the preparation of intermediates of 8-substituted isochroman-3-ones synthesis.

The present invention relates to a process for preparation of substituted cyclohexenes as intermediates for the preparation of substituted enol ether fungicides. The invention also relates to processes for the preparation of novel intermediates of enol ether fungicide synthesis starting from substituted cyclohexenes.

The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for providing at least one target material associated with one or more environmental attributes and produced by a chemical production network and to a use of the target material associated with one or more environmental attribute(s) to produce at least one discrete product associated with the one or more environmental attribute(s).

Disclosed is a computer-implemented method for providing material identifier package usable for recycling of batteries, the method comprising the steps of:- providing at least one battery identifier and corresponding material configuration data associated with at least one component of the battery to be recycled;- determining at least one material identifier package by relating the at least one material configuration provided by the material configuration data to at least one material configuration processable by at least one plant;- providing the at least one material identifier package usable for recycling batteries including the at least one battery identifier.

The present invention is related to an improved method for the production of a monoglyceride with reduced MCPD content which comprises the following subsequent steps: i) glycerol is mixed with at least one base and at least one triglyceride and/or at least one fatty acid, ii) the resulting mixture is heated up to a temperature in the range of from 200 to 300 °C and held in said range for 1 to 180 minutes to form at least one monoglyceride, iii) a first portion of at least one acid is added to the heated-up mixture, iv) the mixture is cooled down to a temperature in the range of from 20 to 170 °C, if applicable, any excess glycerol is separated out using phase separation, and v) a second portion of at least one acid is added to the cooled-down mixture to completely neutralize the at least one base. The present invention is also directed to a monoglyceride producible with said method as well to the use of said monoglyceride for the production of formulations used in food, pharmaceutical or animal nutrition.