Macrosurfactants consisting of water-soluble poly(vinylcaprolactam) (PVCap) or poly(vinylpyrrolidone) (PVP) segments with comparatively shorter hydrophobic poly(styrene) (PS) poly(2,3,4,5,6-pentafluorostyrene) (PPFS) were used as kinetic hydrate inhibitors (KHIs). These synthesized 2-cyanopropan-2-yl N-methyl-N-(pyridin-4-yl)dithiocarbamate switchable reversible addition–fragmentation chain tra...

−Segregation and deposition of hydrate particles observed in flowloop experiments are required to be investigated more thoroughly to understand the hydrate plugging mechanism in offshore flowlines. We used natural gas as gas phase and selected three different systems as liquid phase, which are pure water only, kinetic hydrate inhibitor added aqueous solution, and water+decane mixture, respectiv...

Cyclohexane oxidation is an important commercial reaction for the preparation of cyclohexanol and cyclohexanone, which are intermediates in the production of adipic acid and caprolactam respectively. These intermediates are important in the manufacture of nylon-6 and nylon-6,6 polymers (Yuan et al 2006 and Shylesh et al 2007). In addition, cyclohexanol and cyclohexanone are also used as solvent...

In this study, carbon fiber (CF)/polyamide 6 (PA 6) fabric laminates molded by in-situ polymerization using ε-caprolactam were evaluated. To investigate the effect of CF sizing agent on their molecular weight distributions PA in CF/PA and mechanical properties, we removed a surface heat treatment before molding. The concentrations monomer oligomer (carbon reinforced thermoplastics (CFRTP)) appl...

Hexamethylene bisacetamide, a compound which in vitro induces differentiation in a wide variety of human and animal cancer cell lines, is being investigated in phase I clinical trials. After i.v. administration of hexamethylene bisacetamide to humans, urine contained the parent compound and at least five metabolites formed by deacetylation and oxidation pathways. Identification of urinary metab...