Anaerobic purification of waste water containing sulfate and organic material
Granted: April 5, 1988
Patent Number:
4735723
Waste water containing sulfate and organic material is purified by anaerobic biological waste water treatment where at least 80% of the sulfate is converted into hydrogen sulfide in an acidification process and at least 70% of the resulting hydrogen sulfide is removed from the waste water.
Apparatus for the anaerobic purification of waste water
Granted: February 9, 1988
Patent Number:
RE32597
In apparatus for the anaerobic purification of waste water the invention aims at improving the structure and the operation. In known apparatus of this kind there is a reactor tank with one or more aftersettling compartments in the upper part thereof, with inlet and outlet openings for water and sludge into and from the aftersettling compartments from and into the reactor tank respectively. Such apparatus is improved according to the invention be interrupted inclined walls of the…
Pharmaceutical tablets
Granted: December 8, 1987
Patent Number:
4711777
Novel tablets comprising (a) 80 to 98% by weight of a mixture of trimethoprim and/or an acid addition salt thereof and a sulfonamide and/or a salt thereof in a weight ratio of 1:20 to 20:1 and (b) a pharmaceutically acceptable synthetic ion exchange resin having improved disintegration times and other properties and a process for their preparation.
1H-imidazol-1-ethanol esters
Granted: December 1, 1987
Patent Number:
4710571
Novel sebum synthesis inhibiting compositions comprising a sebum inhibiting effective amount of at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein R is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and acyl of an organic carboxylic acid free of additional carboxyl group and their non-toxic, pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts and an inert pharmaceutical carrier and to a novel method of inhibiting sebum synthesis in…
Immobilization of microorganisms on a plastic carrier
Granted: September 29, 1987
Patent Number:
4696901
Hydrocarbon utilizing microorganisms are immobilized on a plastic carrier in an aqueous nutrient medium to which a minor amount of a water-immiscible hydrocarbon substrate has been added. The water-immiscible hydrocarbon is preferably hexadecane or dodecylcyclohexane and the plastic carrier is preferably polytetrafluoroethylene. Presence of the water-immiscible hydrocarbon substrate results in increased loading of microorganisms on the carrier.
Cephalosporin deoxygenation process
Granted: September 22, 1987
Patent Number:
4695627
A process for the preparation of 7.beta.-acylamino-3-substituted-3-cephem-4-carboxylic acid compounds comprising reacting at -70.degree. C. to 0.degree. C. in an inert organic solvent phosphorus pentachloride with a cephalosporin compound in the presence of an olefinic compound having at least one carbon-carbon double bond having not more than three hydrogen atoms attached thereto capable of removing chlorine at least in part by addition to a carbon-carbon double bond.
Preparation of 6-amino-penicillanic acid-1,1-dioxide
Granted: September 22, 1987
Patent Number:
4695628
A process for the preparation of 6-amino-pencillanic acid-1,1-dioxide without protecing either the amino group or the carboxy group during oxidation, by oxidation of 6-amino-penicillanic acid or 6-amino penicillanic acid sulfoxide with an alkali metal permanganate in an aqueous medium.
Infections bronchitis virus strains
Granted: September 8, 1987
Patent Number:
4692410
Infectious bronchitis vaccines for poultry derived from at least a virus strain of a novel serotype of the infectious-bronchitis virus (IBV), identified by the internal indication Gelderland. 901 and Brabant. 802, which have been deposited at the Czechoslovak National Collection of Type Cultures of the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology under the numbers CNCTC AO 17/81 and CNCTC AO18/82 and at the Collection Nationale de Cultures de Microorganismes D'Institut Pasteur, under Nos. I-169…
Process for the preparation of oligosaccharides-containing products from biomass
Granted: June 30, 1987
Patent Number:
4677198
Process for the preparation of oligosaccharides-containing products from biomass involving the use of hydrochloric acid for partly hydrolyzing biomass to easily fermentable oligosaccharides-containing products and easy recovery of the hydrochloric acid and the oligosaccharides containing products. The oligosaccharides-containing products themselves and use of the latter for the preparation of useful products like ethanol and penicillin by fermentation.
Infectious bronchitis virus strain
Granted: May 19, 1987
Patent Number:
RE32423
Infectious bronchitis (IB) vaccines for poultry derived from at least one novel virus strain of novel infectious bronchitis serotypes, selected from the group consisting of culture Nos. CNCTC A 07/80, CNCTC A 08/80, CNCTC A 09/80, CNCTC A 010/80, CNCTC A 011/80, CNCTC A 013/80, CNCTC A 014/80, CNCTC A 015/80 and CNCTC A 016/80 deposited at the Czechoslovak National Collection of Type Cultures of the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology in Prague, Czechoslovakia and the novel viruses per…
Biologically active conjugates and their preparation and use
Granted: May 5, 1987
Patent Number:
4663287
Water-soluble, biologically active conjugates comprising residues of (1) a biologically active protein or glycoprotein having primary amino groups, (2) a heteropolymer of D-mannuronic acid and L-guluronic acid and (3) an alkyleneglycol of 2 to 6 carbon atoms, the said residue (2) being linked to (1) by an amide linkage and to (3) by an ester linkage, which conjugates have increased activity at higher pH values and higher temperatures and a process for their preparations.
Process for preparing biomass attached to a carrier
Granted: April 7, 1987
Patent Number:
4655924
In a process for the production and maintenance of well-adhering biomass attached to carrier particles capable of decomposing contaminants in waste water containing both well-adhering and non-adhering microorganisms wherein a granular carrier is contacted in a reaction space with a continuous stream of waste water containing both well-adhering and non-adhering microorganisms and nutrients for the growth and the maintenance of the microorganisms in an adherent layer until a sufficiently…
Process for anaerobic fermentation of solid wastes in water in two phases
Granted: March 24, 1987
Patent Number:
4652374
A solid organic waste is fermented in water in two phases, a hydrolysis/acidification phase and a methane fermentation phase. Solid organic waste is introduced in the first phase, of which waste at least 80% of the volume has a particle size larger than x mm, x being between 0.25 and 1.5 mm dependent on the introduced solid organic waste. The waste in the first phase is continuously or periodically stirred and is screened for the removal of particles smaller than x mm with liquid,…
Novel 17-substituted steroids
Granted: March 3, 1987
Patent Number:
4647410
Novel 17-(formamidosulfonylmethylene)-steroids of the formula ##STR1## useful as intermediates for the novel 17-(isocyanosulfonylmethylene)-steroids of the formula ##STR2## which are useful intermediates for 21-hydroxy-20-keto-.DELTA..sup.16 -steroids and 20-keto-.DELTA..sup.16 -steroids.
Live infectious bronchitis vaccine for poultry
Granted: February 24, 1987
Patent Number:
4645665
Infectious bronchitis vaccines for poultry derived from at least a virus strain of a novel serotype of the infectious-bronchitis virus (IBV), identified by the internal indication Gelderland. 901 and Brabant. 802, which have been deposited at the Czechoslovak National Collection of Type Cultures of the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology under the numbers CNCTC AO 17/81 and CNCTC AO 18/82 and at the Collection Nationale de Cultures de Microorganismes d'Institut Pasteur, under Nos.…
Vaccines
Granted: November 11, 1986
Patent Number:
RE32283
Infectious bronchitis vaccines for poultry derived from at least a virus strain of a novel serotype of the infectious-bronchitis virus (IBV), identified by the internal indication Gelderland. 901 and Brabant. 802, which have been deposited at the Czechoslovak National Collection of Type Cultures of the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology under the numbers CNCTC AO 17/81 and CNCTC AO 18/82 and at the Collection Nationale de Cultures de Microorganismes d'Institut Pasteur, under Nos.…
Preparation of 6-.alpha.-bromo- and/or 6,6-dibromo-penicillanic acid-1,1-dioxides
Granted: October 28, 1986
Patent Number:
4619786
A process for the preparation of at least one compound of a formula selected from the group consisting of ##STR1## and their salts and esters wherein X is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and a substituent such as halogen and acetoxy comprising diazotizing a compound of the formula ##STR2## and salts and esters thereof wherein X has the above definition and brominating the resulting diazotized compound with at least an equimolar amount of a nitrosating agent in the presence…
Fluidized bed reactor
Granted: October 21, 1986
Patent Number:
4618418
A single unit fluidized-bed reactor having a reaction space for purification of waste water with biomass attached to carrier particles, comprising a liquid distribution device above the bottom of the reaction space particularly suited for introduction of waste water in wide reactors to achieve uniform fluidization therein, said device consisting of a number of substantially horizontal pipes, each having in the under-surface a number of regularly distributed openings for downward…
Novel sodium amoxicillin preparations
Granted: August 19, 1986
Patent Number:
4607029
Novel sodium amoxicillin preparations which are easily converted into stable, suitably injectable solutions which are free of allergic reactions-causing chemicals and which contain besides sodium amoxicillin, a small amount of sodium hydroxide and optionally also a small amount of sodium chloride, and a process for their preparation and a process for the preparation of aqueous sodium amoxicillin containing injection solutions. The sodium amoxicillin preparations are prepared by the as…
Preparation of 6,6-dibromo-penicillanic acid-1,1-dioxide
Granted: March 18, 1986
Patent Number:
4576754
In a process for the preparation of 6,6-dibromo-penicillanic acid-1,1-dioxide comprising reacting 6.beta.-amino-penicillanic acid-1,1-dioxide with a nitrosating agent in the presence of bromine and an inorganic acid or strong organic acid, the improvement comprising effecting the reaction in the presence of an alcohol resulting in a high purity product.