Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080214745 | Polymerisation Process - A process for the polymerisation of olefins is disclosed wherein at least part of a stream, preferably a catalytically active stream, withdrawn from a polymerisation reactor is passed through a fractionator so as to remove hydrogen and active fines. | 09-04-2008 |
20090062485 | Polymerisation process - A process for the polymerisation of olefins is disclosed wherein at least part of a stream, preferably a catalytically active stream, withdrawn from a polymerisation reactor is passed through a fractionator so as to remove hydrogen and active fines. | 03-05-2009 |
20090124779 | Polymer treatment - A process for the separation of volatile material from particulate polymer discharged from a polymerisation reactor in the form of a polymer slurry and which has been substantially freed from unreacted monomer in an earlier separation step, comprising | 05-14-2009 |
20100126590 | Particulate flow control process - A process is disclosed for providing a flow of particulate matter such as a catalyst to a reactor, comprising intermittently adding said particulate matter and a diluent to a mixing tank, and continuously withdrawing a slurry of particulate matter in diluent from the mixing tank for introduction into the reactor, wherein prior to each addition of particulate matter and diluent to the mixing tank, the concentration of particulate matter in the diluent already in the mixing tank is measured or calculated, and the amount of particulate matter and diluent subsequently added is measured so as to achieve the same concentration at the end of the addition as that measured or calculated prior to the addition. Preferably measurement of the amount of particulate matter and diluent added to the mixing tank is carried out before any diluent is added to the particulate matter. | 05-27-2010 |
20100273960 | SLURRY PHASE POLYMERISATION PROCESS - Process for producing a multimodal polyethylene in at least two loop reactors connected in series, in which 20-80 wt % of a high molecular weight (HMW) polymer is made in suspension in a first reactor and 20-80 wt % of a low molecular weight (LMW) polymer is made in suspension in a second reactor, one polymer being made in the presence of the other in either order, wherein the ratio of the average activity in the LMW reactor to the average activity in the HMW reactor is from 0.25 and 1.5, where average activity in each reactor is defined as the rate of polyethylene produced in the reactor (kgPE/hr)/[ethylene concentration in the reactor (mol %)×residence time in the reactor (hours)×feed rate of catalyst into the reactor (g/hr)], residence time being defined as the mass of the polymer in the reactor (kg)/the output rate of polymer from the reactor (kg/hr), and the volumes of the two reactors differ by less than 10%. | 10-28-2010 |
20100276117 | REACTOR COOLING SYSTEM - A cooling circuit for at least two reactors which form at least part of a polymerisation reactor system is described, which circuit comprises: one or more heat exchangers which provide at least 95% of the cooling requirement for the cooling circuit; a cold flow of cooling fluid exiting the one or more heat exchangers, part of which cold flow passes into a first inlet flow directed to the cooling system of a first reactor, and part of which passes into a second inlet flow directed to the cooling system of a second reactor; a return flow comprising the combined exit flows of the cooling fluids used to remove the heat from each of the reactors; wherein a potion of the return flow is diverted to bypass at least one of the heat exchangers, and is wholly or partly incorporated into at least one of the first and second inlet flows. The application also covers a process using the above circuit. | 11-04-2010 |
20100279858 | APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR ACTIVATING A CATALYST - Apparatus for activating a catalyst is described, comprising means for passing high-temperature gases across a catalyst, a primary filter for filtering said gases, means for cooling the filtered gases, and a secondary filter for filtering the cooled gases which collects at least 99.97% of all residual particles smaller than 0.3 μm, wherein the secondary filter is disposable and/or has a design pressure less than 0.5 bar. | 11-04-2010 |
20110002816 | POLYMERISATION REACTOR - A tubular reactor for use in polymerisation reactions is described, having a design pressure P | 01-06-2011 |
20110028684 | POLYMER STREAM TRANSFER - A process for heating a polymer-containing stream being transferred from a polymerization reactor to a separation zone or device, comprising passing the stream through at least two heaters operating in parallel, each heater comprising at least one transfer line for the stream and means for heating the transfer line, wherein the temperature of the polymer-containing stream at the outlet of all heaters is maintained above the dew point of the stream, and no heater has a volumetric flowrate of polymer-containing stream more than three times that of any other heater. | 02-03-2011 |
20110166313 | POLYMER STREAM TRANSFER - A process for heating a polymer-containing stream being transferred from a polymerization reactor to a separation zone or device is described, comprising passing the stream through a heater comprising at least one transfer line for the stream and means for heating the transfer line, wherein the average particle size of the solid polymer is less than 3 mm, the mass flowrate of the polymer-containing stream exiting the heater is no more than 15% greater than the mass flowrate exiting the reactor, and the average velocity of the polymer-containing stream at 80% along the length of the heated part of the transfer line measured from the transfer line inlet is at least 6 m/s, preferably at least 8 m/s and more preferably at least 10 m/s and the pressure drop across the transfer line is between 0.01 bar/m and 0.2 bar/m. | 07-07-2011 |