The present disclosure relates to a preparation method of a porous super absorbent polymer exhibiting excellent absorption performance and improved absorption rate due to a novel pore structure, and a porous super absorbent polymer prepared therefrom. The porous super absorbent polymer includes a base resin powder including a cross-linked polymer of a water soluble ethylene-based unsaturated monomer containing acidic groups which are at least partially neutralized, and an inorganic filler contained in the cross-linked structure of the cross-linked polymer, wherein the base resin powder includes a plurality of pores having a diameter of a sub-micron (sub-m) scale in the cross-linked structure, and an interconnected pore structure in the form of an open channel in which 90% or more of the pores are connected to each other.

A hydrated lime product exhibiting superior reactivity towards HCl and SO.sub.2 in air pollution control applications. Also disclosed is a method of providing highly reactive hydrated lime and the resultant lime hydrate where an initial lime feed comprising calcium and impurities is first ground to a particle-size distribution with relatively course particles. Smaller particles are then removed from this ground lime and the smaller particles are hydrated and flash dried to form a hydrated lime, which is then milled to a significantly smaller particle size than that of the relatively course particles. The resultant lime hydrate product has available CaOH of greater than 92%, a citric acid reactivity of less than 20 seconds, a BET surface area greater than 18, a D90 less than 10 m, a D50 less than 4 m, a D90/D50 less than 3, and a large pore volume of greater than 0.2 BJH.

The present invention is a solid lubricant treatment medium, usually but not always in bead form, suitable to be brought into contact with lubricants to remediate and to condition them. A key feature of the medium, typically a polymeric resin, is the presence of relatively very large pores, which are able to capture and remove fine lubricant contaminants and breakdown products (such as small phosphate ester varnish, soot, coke, dissolved metal or other small semi-soluble or insoluble particles). Resins and adsorbents of the prior art have proven unable to remove fine contaminants like phosphate ester varnish that have a deleterious impact on industrial equipment performance and reliability. The mean pore size diameter of the medium is between about 8,000 and 100,000 and, more preferably, in the range of about 20,000 to about 80,000 .

A method comprising obtaining a bodily fluid from a subject; contacting the bodily fluid with an adsorbent material comprising a synthetic carbon particle (SCP) to produce a first filtrate having a level of disease mediators (y); contacting the first filtrate with an adsorbent material comprising the SCP and an anion exchange resin where the ratio of SCP to anion exchange resin is from about 0.1:100 to 100:0.1 to produce a second filtrate; contacting the second filtrate with an adsorbent material comprising the SCP and a cation exchange resin where the ratio of SCP to cation exchange resin is from about 1:100 to produce a third filtrate; and administering the third filtrate to the subject.

Method for recovering a target protein from a feedstock comprising said target protein and at least one impurity compound selected from host cell proteins (HCP), DNA, RNA or other nucleic acid, the target protein being characterized by a hydrodynamic radius R.sub.h1 and the impurity compound being characterized by a hydrodynamic radius R.sub.h2, wherein R.sub.h1>R.sub.h2, comprising the following steps (i) to (iv) and optionally step (v): (i) providing a polymeric mesh comprising at least one crosslinked polymer containing positively charged amino groups, wherein the polymer has a pore size exclusion limit Rhi which can be set variably; (ii) adapting the variable pore size exclusion limit Rhi of the polymeric mesh such that R.sub.h2<R.sub.hi and R.sub.h1>R.sub.hi; (iii) contacting the polymeric mesh with the feedstock; (iv) separating the polymeric mesh containing the retained impurity compound from the feedstock containing the excluded target protein.

A hydrated lime product exhibiting superior reactivity towards HCl and SO.sub.2 in air pollution control applications. Also disclosed is a method of providing highly reactive hydrated lime and the resultant lime hydrate where an initial lime feed comprising calcium and impurities is first ground to a particle-size distribution with relatively course particles. Smaller particles are then removed from this ground lime and the smaller particles are hydrated and flash dried to form a hydrated lime, which is then milled to a significantly smaller particle size than that of the relatively course particles. The resultant lime hydrate product has available CaOH of greater than 92%, a citric acid reactivity of less than 20 seconds, a BET surface area greater than 18, a D90 less than 10 m, a D50 less than 4 m, a D90/D50 less than 3, and a large pore volume of greater than 0.2 BJH.

A process for separations and recovery from mixtures via specific adsorption using high-surface area, flexible silica-based nanostructured gel adsorbents and articles of manufacture relating to same.

Disclosed herein are activated carbons having high decolorization performance in liquid phases, especially in liquid phases having relatively high viscosities, such as sugar liquids, and methods for producing the activated carbons. Activated carbons disclosed herein include activated carbons having a pore volume at a pore diameter of 10 to 10000 nm measured by the mercury intrusion method of 0.8 to 1.9 mL/g, and having a pore volume at a pore diameter of 300 to 1000 nm measured by the mercury intrusion method of 0.19 mL/g or more.

The present disclosure relates to a method of separating a compound of interest, particularly unsaturated compound(s) of interest, from a mixture. The compound is separated using a column having a chromatographic stationary phase material for various different modes of chromatography containing a first substituent and a second substituent. The first substituent minimizes compound retention variation over time under chromatographic conditions. The second substituent chromatographically and selectively retains the compound by incorporating one or more aromatic, polyaromatic, heterocyclic aromatic, or polyheterocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon groups, each group being optionally substituted with an aliphatic group. In some examples, the present disclosure can include a chromatographic system having a chromatographic column having a stationary phase with a chromatographic substrate containing silica, metal oxide, an inorganic-organic hybrid material, a group of block copolymers, or a combination thereof.

A composite material of polyurethane foam having a layer of reduced graphene oxide and polystyrene is described. This composite material may be made by contacting a polyurethane foam with a suspension of reduced graphene oxide, drying, and then irradiating in the presence of styrene vapor. The composite material has a hydrophobic surface that may be exploited for separating a nonpolar phase, such as oil, from an aqueous solution.