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w.r.{GRACE & oo. ,/V. . _. > \ .-.; W>>MxglonR>>t>rcn Cnl-. Clrlc-*iti.-' Maryland 21029 .'&) - ' 'v''; GRiCE COKIIDEKTIAL v ,5ggw,- CCKSOLrDATED MONTHLY SUMMARY r:.w: -' DECEMBER 1970 This Consolidated Monthly Summary contains the technical Information for December 1970. Because of the . highly confidential nature of its contents, circulation is restricted to one copy per operating unit in the Chemical Group and to a fev selected individuals. Those receiving copies axe requested to limit access to only those members within their organization who have a real need to know. '-Jr Cable C race rad Tel. {301) 531 5711 T V 10034373 DISTRIBirriON OF^ CONSOLIDATED MONTHLY-SUMMARY -' ^' '-Sr T;**' *- - 1 > v Operating Unitsfc ' ,, - WRC ACC;:'.'- c/o G.LW. Blackwood DAV^T - * v c/o CE~ ', Brr ook?es,--A , D&A-. - Lu A c/o rI?A. i'' -T ' it CLabault -* i. Lorentzen G. E. Ashby j. H. Baird ' '' ^ H. C. Duecker R. H. Gray, Vlning>i': V. S. Frank Singer, Jr. Morrill T. G. Gibian - *t C. L. Kehr ifman ICG,, - c/o P. M. Rinaldo D. E. Kramm O. D. Myrick, Jr. SPG - c/o D. Clark W. K. O'Loughlin New York Engineering Division c/o R. H. Lafferty Patent Department c/o T. A. Wilson Mathematical Sciences c/o A. M. Schneider Commercial Dept. c/o W. Copulsky K. E. Prince R. G- Rice M. G. Sanchez F. J. Sergeys G. Teplitzky P. L. Veltman Central Files Overseas Dr. Otto Ambros - (Edited to comply with U.S. restrictions on export of technical information) 10054374 *<v / /-!? -'i'f* - -V-Hf ~ w: r. a oo. - R E S E ARC H CJ V I S I O N V.-"? - WhlAgton - " ` v/.* -~--^ Cntr, Clrhv*ut Maryland 21023 January 22, 1971 ? &\ r ' ` -r,. y&C.' i HONTHLY?REPORT FOR DECEMBER 1970 v.w- '-&&&*: ' <m-- - n- -... CONSOLIDATED EDITION -^Z-^r-r ^ r-'V , '-01 '; if-'r. - . ^ i ' / '? GRACE: CONFIDENTIAL ,j : 7' . ; NOT.TO. GO OUTSIDE D.S. 'vV -w, :. - vzte; ',' . This report contains''information on the following activities at the Washington Research Center. INORGANIC RESEARCH 1-1 AUTO EMISSIONS CATALYST 1-2 ` NEW MOLECULAR SIEVE COMPOSITIONS 1-3 ZEOLITE STABILITY AND ACTIVITY 1-4 LEAF AUTOMATION ; v 1-5 ALFALOX CUTTING TOOLS 1-6 KEMALOX POWDER 1-7 ELECTRONIC SUBSTRATES 1-8 1-9 ADVANCED NAVAL FUELS ADVANCED SPACE rilfTT^ ORGANIC RESEARCH 0-1 0-2 0-3 0-4 0-5 0-6 0-7 0-8 0-9 0-10 0-11 0-12 POLYMERIC ADHESIVES - CAN END FASTENING SYSTEM (D&A) CAN COMPOUNDS - OVERSTRIPE POP. CONOWELD SIDE SEAM PACKAGING MATERIALS - NON-HALOGENATED BARRIER MATERIALS FOAM STUDIES - CPL COOPERATIVE STUDY ADHESION STUDIES, CRYOVAC COOPERATIVE STUDY EXPLORATORY PROJECT - PHOTOCHEMISTRY STUDIES - PHOTOACTIVATION OF CONVENTIONAL POLYMER CURING AGENTS FIRE RETARDANT FOAMS - CPD RELEASE COATINGS - ENDURA REWETTABLE WALLPAPER ADHESIVES - ENDURA ADDITIVES TO POLYOLEFINS SILICA-BASED CHELATING MATERIALS FIRE RETARDANT MATERIALS I; *- ' f- |: Cable - Gracerad Tel. (301) 331 - 3711 10034373 TtX - 710 862 1886 % ^CONSOLIDATED EDITION^; -2 - 22M971 January TASK FORCE RESEARCH -^v. LETTERFLEX~Bc QUALITY CONTROL LETTERFLEX SUPPORT - COMPETITIVE PLATES ULTRAVIOLET:; CURABLE ,HDCSV> CLP.; INK FEASIBILITY STUDIES CURABLE LIQUID^ POLYMERS ?f- PHOTORESISTS _ CURABLE LIQUID^POLYMERS^- NEW APPLICATIONS FOR CLP MATERIALS CURABLE LIQUID^POLYMERSl-- CLP PRESSURE SENSITIVE ADHESIVE CURABLE POLYMERS -- DARK 'STABILITY^' ' CLP' HATERIALS^TECHNOLOGY^ r HIGH M-IWT., LOW COST POLYTHIOLS FOR CLP TECHNOLOGY INSTRUMENTATION.FOR CLP,,*.S,v > ' Jfi12 CLP /OFFSET/LITHOGRAPHIC.,PLATES RESEWttlP^'' '"AGRICULTURAL SOLID SYSTEMS' A-l A-2 A--3 > 4- ' "' (- . WASTE WATER CLEAN-UP AND BY-PRODUCT RECOVERY REFORMULATION\AND EVALUATION OF MONO-KOTE VERMICULITE-HOSS PLANTING DEVICES BIOCHEMICAL RESEARCH B--1 B-2 B-3 B-4 B-5 B-6 ADAPTED RUMEN/MICROBES (ARM) "CHRON-X" - v - SALTS OF ISOBUTYRIC ACID AS POULTRY FEED ADDITIVE AMMONIUM ISOBUTYRATE AS SILAGE PRESERVATIVE FERMENTATION SCREENING PROGRAM" L-DOPA GOVERNMENT CONTRACT OPERATIONS G-l NEW PROPOSAL - OIL RECOVERY SYSTEM USING SORBENT MATERIALS TTDFRAI. WATER QOAT-TTY ADMINI STRATIOH - WASHINGTON, L) . C. lRFP-WA-71-531) OTHER R & D OT-1 OT-2 THE GRACE SUGAR PROCESS SYNOPAL 1005A37& ,rf.r-t..XchlUATED EDITION $&&& ' ' :^Rl CULTURAL" RESEARCH 29, .'W January 22, 1971 U- t* A-I3&WASTE WATER crrAN-UT AND BY-PRODUCT RECOVERY (Project 4810) -, Z X&^The possibility of Olin Corporation licensing the Grace process foricontrolling water pollution and.recovering calcium fluoride arid calcium phosphate by-products was discussed with olin's peisonneli.at,-. Houston, Texas'. Sufficient technical information was presented tolx 01iJp.Jto indicate the type of process to bemused and the results toj||_y be^expected.U^The Houston peopleware interested in further discussing theffieras under which the detailsTof the Graced process ^can be learifea, and^agreed to" bring this^to the attention offTtheir top'managementr^^ Tliisj informat ion has been parsed along to Mr||w. R. Fullem. It isf^ expected that'the Agricultural Chemicals Groups(ACG) would decideithe termsiof any business arrangements1-to be madeTijf,Meeting details arid,*, arrangements with personnel in oliri( are being! handled by Mr. Gordon . Consultant'- ' 0^? ^ jV'sS (Legal) tfGrace representatives from the Natural Resources Group, the Ore and Mining Division, and the Washington Research Center discussed the Chemico/Buss HF processes with personnel from Chemico/Buss Ltd. at Chemico's New York offices on December 21, 1970. Buss offers both the traditional hydrogen fluoride process of treating fluorspar with sulfuric acid and a new process for converting fluosilicic acid (^SiFg) to hydrogen fluoride (HF). The processes were described in the January 6th issue of Chemical Week. According to chemico, hydrofluoric acid can be produced from fluosilicic acid considerable cheaper than from fluorspar despite a substantially higher capital investment. Chemico believes there are about 12 phosphate producers in the U.S..* including Grace, of sufficient capacity to make conversion of H2SIF5 to HF eco nomically attractive. (tore specific details on economics of the process to be furnished by Chemico will be sent to ACG for consider ation. The possible use of the synthetic fluorspar, potentially recover able from Bartow c.iste water, was discussed with Buss. The main concera, as previously recognized, would be the effect of the P2O5 during acidulation to. produce the HF. Buss has no direct knowledge of P2O5 reactions but offered to test samples of the synthetic fluorspar pro duced at YTRC. . . They pointed out, however, these laboratory tests would be indicative only, and that large scale tests would be required for precise data. Provided the laboratory tests are favorable and Grace wished to pursue the development, Euss could arrange a full scale plant test which would require about 50 tons of synthetic fluorspar. A pilot plant operation at Bartow would be required to produce this quantity of material. (Legal, Myrick) A-2 REFORMULATION AND EVALUATION OF MONP-KOTE (Project 2659) Eleven Mono-Kote (MK-3) formulations containing the various additives selected at the meeting with CPD on November 9th were 103<J3R7 - 30 -,,i , January 22, BWT--..............-Rafcit. '>=>'- .' - '-*.> ^j'^fQRMULATlON AND EVALUATION 0F~MONO-KOTE*(Project 2659) 1971 '*/" ; Eleven HoncrKote (MX-3)' formulations containing the various additives selected at the' meeting with CPD on[November 9th were evaluated for bond strength using the Veltman-kraus firecup test at 800#P. Four ofjthe additives, COSO4,' Na2A102]:KOH and MgC03 increased the bond strength^ over ` tlie^basic formulation. ^The addition of 1-% - ^a247 to the Mono-Kote formulation' (MK-4) increased bond strength to a level approaching that, of MK-3;-,>; These tests are being repeated to determine reproducibility and tests will be made on other additives, especially phosphate rockJ': to the MK-4 formulation. -v v-vja&sR-- ; \' fg-: (Kraus) V: A-3 VERMICULITE-MOSS PLANTING DEVICES (Project*4815) ' vThe;Keyes[;Fibre.CcHnpahyJ^Graybaj^Bldg.-,_ New] York, has*expressed3" a desire'to discuss'' possible 'arrangements for licensing the Grace vermiculite-moss'planting^device technique. Mr. Chester Cobb, Vice President-Market Development^" states^that their study shows that Planting Devicesjwould be valuable as an adjunct to their present business. In their opinion, the devices could not support a sales effort by itself but, as we already know, Keyes i3 planning to bring out a loose type potting earth similar to Redi-Earth for this current season. They would like to, be in a position to start marketing the compressed product for the 1972 season. As considerable time is required to arrange for the purchase and delivery of the compression equipment, it is not too soon to start developing the basis for the licensing arrangement now. Mr. Cobb stated that he would like to meet with Grace within the month. (Legal, Kolbe) BIOCHEMICAL RESEARCH B-l ADAPTED RUMEN MICROBES (ARM) (Project 4623? A review of the resultof the ARM feeding tests in Phase I of the program led to the conclusion that it would not be feasible to submit a New Dmg Application (NDA) to FDA because of the inconsist encies in performance of the treated cattle. Phase II of the program which involves treating 2000 head was slow in starting because of the slowdown in movements of large herds of feeder cattle to feedlots. We are advised by Farr Better Feeds that movements are expected to increase substantially after the first of the year. Our objective is to have at least 1000 head of feedlot cattle on ARM feeding tests by January 31st and 2000 head by the end of February. Arrangements have been made for two ARM feeding tests in early January at the High Plains Feedlot and Moody Farms, respectively. A total of 390 head will be treated (390 controls). (Myrick, Hahn and Jessup) B-2 "CIIRON-X" (Project 4640) Four statistically significant feedlot tests have been completed on the use of ARM for getting "chronics- back on feed. 10034578 i} I I i