Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080214767 | Isotactic Polypropylene Produced From Supercritical Polymerization Process - This invention relates to an isotactic propylene homopolymer having:
| 09-04-2008 |
20080234443 | Process for fluid phase in-line blending of polymers - A process for fluid phase in-line blending of polymers. The process includes providing two or more reactor trains configured in parallel and a separator for product blending and product-feed separation; contacting in at least one of the parallel reactor trains olefin monomers having three or more carbon atoms, catalyst systems, optional comonomers, optional scavengers, and optional inert diluents or inert solvents, at a temperature above the solid-fluid phase transition temperature of the polymerization system and a pressure no lower than 10 MPa below the cloud point pressure of the polymerization system and less than 1500 MPa; forming a reactor effluent including a homogeneous fluid phase polymer-monomer mixture in each parallel reactor train; combining the reactor effluent from each parallel reactor; passing the combined reactor effluent through the separator; maintaining the temperature and pressure within the separator above the solid-fluid phase transition point but below the cloud point pressure and temperature to form a fluid-fluid two-phase system including a polymer-rich blend phase and a monomer-rich phase; and separating the monomer-rich phase from the polymer-rich blend phase. The separated monomer-rich phase is recycled to the polymerization reactor bank. The polymer-rich blend phase is conveyed to a downstream finishing stage for further monomer stripping, drying and/or pelletizing to form a polymer product blend. | 09-25-2008 |
20080242895 | Polyketone Plasticizers - The invention relates to polyketone compounds and the at least partially hydrogenated products thereof, the use of said polyketone compounds and/or the at least partially hydrogenated products thereof as plasticizers, processes of making polyketone compounds and the at least partially hydrogenated products thereof, compositions comprising the polyketone compounds and/or the at least partially hydrogenated products thereof, and to articles formed from products of the invention. | 10-02-2008 |
20080281040 | Monomer recycle process for fluid phase in-line blending of polymers - A monomer recycle process for fluid phase in-line blending of polymers is provided. In one form, the monomer recycle process includes providing a first group (G1) of one or more reactor trains and a second group (G2) of one or more reactor trains and one or more separators fluidly connected to G1 and one separator fluidly connected to G2; polymerizing in each reactor train of G1 and G2 olefin monomers to form homogenous fluid phase polymer-monomer mixtures wherein each of the G1 and G2 reactor trains have at least one common monomer; passing the reactor effluents from the one or more G1 reactor trains through the one or more G1 separators to separate a monomer-rich phase from a polymer-enriched phase; passing the polymer-enriched phase and the reactor effluents from the one or more G2 reactor trains into the G2 separator (separator-blender) to separate another monomer-rich phase from a polymer-rich blend; recycling to one or more G1 reactor trains the separated monomer-rich phase from the one or more G1 separators; and recycling to one or more G2 reactor trains the separated monomer-rich phase from the G2 separator. The polymer-rich blend is conveyed to a downstream finishing stage for further monomer stripping, drying and/or pelletizing to form a polymer product blend. | 11-13-2008 |
20090005520 | Fouling prevention in polymerization reactors - Reactor designs and processes for operating such reactor designs to minimize or eliminate fouling in homogeneous polymerization processes (solution and supercritical). The process includes providing a reactor with one or more feed entry ports, wherein the reactor feed components are fed through each of the one or more feed entry ports at a linear velocity of greater than or equal to 0.3 m/min. The one or more feed entry ports may also be optionally extended beyond the interior reactor wall by greater than or equal to 2% of the internal radius of the reactor to further decrease the propensity for fouling. A stirred reactor may also include a stirrer feed port for purging the stirrer with a stirrer purge stream at a linear velocity of greater than or equal to 0.3 m/min to decrease stirrer fouling. | 01-01-2009 |
20090076214 | In-line blending of plasticizers with a base polymer - A process for in-line blending of plasticizers and polymers is provided. The process includes providing a single reactor train including one or more serially configured reactors, a high-pressure separator downstream fluidly connected to the reactor train, and one or more storage tanks, wherein the reactor train produces one or more base polymer components and the one or more storage tanks store one or more off-line produced plasticizers; contacting in the reactor train olefin monomers, catalyst systems, optional comonomers, optional scavengers, and optional diluents or solvents, at a temperature above the solid-fluid phase transition temperature of the polymerization system and a pressure no lower than 10 MPa below the cloud point pressure of the polymerization system and less than 1500 MPa, forming a reactor effluent including a homogeneous fluid phase polymer-monomer mixture; passing the reactor effluent through the separator to separate a monomer-rich phase from a polymer-rich phase; and feeding the plasticizers to the process after the reactor train and while the base polymer still has a substantial quantity of light components to form a plasticized polymer blend with improved blend quality. | 03-19-2009 |
20090076216 | IN-LINE PROCESS FOR PRODUCING PLASTICIZED POLYMERS AND PLASTICIZED POLYMER BLENDS - A process for fluid phase in-line blending of plasticized polymers is provided. The process includes providing two or more reactor trains configured in parallel and a separator for product blending and product-feed separation, wherein one or more of the reactor trains produces one or more polymers and one or more of the reactor trains produces one or more plasticizers; contacting in at least one of the parallel reactor trains olefin monomers, catalyst systems, optional comonomers, optional scavengers, and optional diluents or solvents, at a temperature above the solid-fluid phase transition temperature of the polymerization system and a pressure no lower than 10 MPa below the cloud point pressure of the polymerization system and less than 1500 MPa; forming a reactor effluent including a homogeneous fluid phase polymer-monomer mixture and plasticizer-monomer mixture in each parallel reactor train; passing the reactor effluents through the separator; maintaining the temperature and pressure within the separator above the solid-fluid phase transition point but below the cloud point pressure and temperature to form a fluid-fluid two-phase system including a plasticized polymer-rich blend phase and a monomer-rich phase; and separating the monomer-rich phase from the plasticized polymer-rich blend phase. The polymer-rich blend phase is conveyed to a downstream finishing stage for further monomer stripping, drying and/or pelletizing to form a plasticized polymer product blend. Suitable plasticizers for in-line production and blending include polyalphaolefin oligomers, polybutenes, low glass transition temperature polymers and combinations thereof. | 03-19-2009 |
20090163642 | In-Line process to produce pellet-stable polyolefins - An in-line fluid phase process for blending low crystallinity polymer components (LCPCs) and high crystallinity polymer components (HCPCs) to form pellet-stable polyolefin pellets is provided. The in-line process for producing the blend includes providing two or more parallel reactor trains and one or more separators for product blending and product-feed separation; wherein the two or more reactor trains producting the LCPC and HCPC blend components operate under fluid phase bulk homogeneous conditions, and at least one of the reactor trains operates under supercritical conditions. The HCPC blend component is a high crystallinity polypropylene-based polymer. The LCPC blend component is a low crystallinity ethylene-based or propylene-based polymer. The resultant blend pellets exhibit a reduced tendency or an eliminated tendency to agglomerate during shipping, handling and storage. | 06-25-2009 |
20090163643 | Polypropylene ethylene-propylene copolymer blends and in-line process t produce them - Isotactic polypropylene ethylene-propylene copolymer blends and in-line processes for producing them. The blend of polypropylene and ethylene-propylene copolymer may have between 1 and 50 wt % of isotactic polypropylene with a melt flow rate of between 0.5 and 20,000 g/10 min and a melting peak temperature of 145° C. or higher, and wherein the difference between the DSC peak melting and the peak crystallization temperatures is less than or equal to 0.5333 times the melting peak temperature minus 41.333° C., and between 50 and 99 wt % of ethylene-propylene copolymer including between 10 wt % and 20 wt % randomly distributed ethylene with a melt flow rate of between 0.5 and 20,000 g/10 min, wherein the copolymer is polymerized by a bulk homogeneous polymerization process, and wherein the total regio defects in the continuous propylene segments of the copolymer is between 40 and 150% greater than a copolymer of equivalent melt flow rate and wt % ethylene polymerized by a solution polymerization process. The in-line process for producing the blend includes providing two or more parallel reactor trains and a separator for product blending and product-feed separation; wherein the two or more reactor trains operate under fluid phase bulk homogeneous conditions and at least one of the trains operates under supercritical conditions. | 06-25-2009 |
20090163678 | Bulk homogeneous polymerization process for ethylene propylene copolymers - Provided are bulk homogeneous polymerization processes for producing ethylene propylene random copolymers. The process includes contacting in a reactor or in a series of reactors propylene monomer, ethylene comonomer with one or more catalyst systems and optional solvent (present at less than 40 wt %), wherein the reactor train is at a temperature of between 65° C. and 180° C. and at a pressure no lower than 10 MPa below the cloud point pressure of the polymerization system and less than 1500 MPa, and wherein the polymerization system for the reactor train is in its dense fluid state to form a polymer reactor effluent including a homogeneous fluid phase polymer-monomer mixture in the reactor train; and wherein the resultant copolymer product comprises between 10 wt % and 20 wt % randomly distributed ethylene and the concentration of total region defects in the continuous propylene segments of the random EP copolymer is between 40 and 150% greater than in a copolymer of equivalent melt flow rate and wt % ethylene polymerized by a solution polymerization process. | 06-25-2009 |
20090186995 | Production of Propylene-Based Polymers - In a process for producing a propylene-based olefin homopolymer or copolymer, a monomer composition comprising propylene is contacted with a polymerization catalyst system under homogeneous polymerization conditions (such as solution, supersolution or supercritical conditions), wherein the polymerization catalyst system includes an activator and a bridged bis-indenyl transition metal (group 4) compound substituted with a carbazole (unsubstituted or substituted) at the 4 position. | 07-23-2009 |
20090259005 | Monomer/solvent separation and recycle process for propylene containing polymers - Monomer/solvent separation and recycle processes for continuous supercritical, solution and advanced solution polymerization processes for propylene-containing polymers and their blends are provided. The advantageous monomer/solvent separation and recycle process includes heating a polymer-lean recycle stream coming from a gravimetric separator positioned downstream of the reactor to form a heated polymer-lean recycle stream, and subsequently combining the heated polymer-lean recycle stream with the one or more homogenous reactor effluent streams to form a heated reactor effluent mixed stream. The heated reactor effluent mixed stream may then be passed through a pressure let-down valve followed and a gravimetric separator, such as to provide for reduced fouling propensity of the polymer-rich phase and sufficient heating of the polymer-rich phase to be able to pass through the remainder of the processing steps to form a propylene based polymer product without additional heat. | 10-15-2009 |
20090292085 | Polymerization processes for broadened molecular weight distribution - Provided are methods of producing polymers with broadened molecular weight and/or composition distribution in a continuous homogeneous polymerization system utilizing reactor temperature gradients, reactor polymer concentration gradients, monomer concentration gradients, catalyst concentration gradients, and combinations thereof in the polymerization reactor. Such methods are particularly suitable when utilizing metallocene catalysts and other single-site catalysts, which generally produce polymers with narrow molecular weight and composition distribution. | 11-26-2009 |
20100063338 | Process for feeding ethylene to polymerization reactors - Provided are processes for feeding ethylene into a polymerization system operating in a liquid phase or supercritical phase. The process includes providing a low-pressure ethylene stream, one or more low-pressure C | 03-11-2010 |
20100113718 | Super-Solution Homogeneous Propylene Polymerization and Polypropylenes Made Therefrom - This invention relates to processes for producing an isotactic propylene homopolymer having more than 15 and less than 100 regio defects (sum of 2,1-erythro and 2,1-threo insertions and 3,1-isomerizations) per 10,000 propylene units; a weight-averaged molecular weight of 35000 g/mol or more; a peak melting temperature of greater than 149° C.; an mmmm pentad fraction of 0.85 or more; a heat of fusion of 80 J/g or more; and a peak melting temperature minus peak crystallization temperature (Tmp−Tcp) of less than or equal to (0.907 times Tmp) minus 99.64 (Tmp−Tcp<(0.907×Tmp)−99.64), as measured in ° C. on the homopolymer having 0 wt % nucleating agent. | 05-06-2010 |
20110196115 | POLYMERIZATION PROCESSES FOR BROADENED MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION - Provided are methods of producing polymers with broadened molecular weight and/or composition distribution in a continuous homogeneous polymerization system utilizing reactor temperature gradients, reactor polymer concentration gradients, monomer concentration gradients, catalyst concentration gradients, and combinations thereof in the polymerization reactor. Such methods are particularly suitable when utilizing metallocene catalysts and other single-site catalysts, which generally produce polymers with narrow molecular weight and composition distribution. | 08-11-2011 |
20110196116 | POLYMERIZATION PROCESSES FOR BROADENED MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION - Provided are methods of producing polymers with broadened molecular weight and/or composition distribution in a continuous homogeneous polymerization system utilizing reactor temperature gradients, reactor polymer concentration gradients, monomer concentration gradients, catalyst concentration gradients, and combinations thereof in the polymerization reactor. Such methods are particularly suitable when utilizing metallocene catalysts and other single-site catalysts, which generally produce polymers with narrow molecular weight and composition distribution. | 08-11-2011 |
20110203971 | Hydrotreating process - A process for hydrotreating a first aromatics- and sulfur-containing hydrocarbon feed using a fresh supported CoMo catalyst, includes treating the fresh catalyst under first hydrotreating conditions with a second hydrocarbon feed having a lower aromatics content than the first feed. | 08-25-2011 |
20110207888 | Elastomeric Polymer Blends and Processes for Their Production - Elastomeric polymer blends and processes for their production are described. Specifically, the polymer blends comprise a first polymer and a second polymer, where the first polymer comprises from about 70 wt % to about 90 wt % units derived from propylene and from about 10 wt % to about 30 wt % units derived from ethylene and/or a C | 08-25-2011 |
20110313115 | PHASE SEPARATOR AND MONOMER RECYCLE FOR SUPERCRITICAL POLYMERIZATION PROCESS - This invention relates to a process for polymerizing olefins, comprising the steps of: | 12-22-2011 |
20120108726 | Polyketone Plasticizers - The invention relates to polyketone compounds and the at least partially hydrogenated products thereof, the use of said polyketone compounds and/or the at least partially hydrogenated products thereof as plasticizers, processes of making polyketone compounds and the at least partially hydrogenated products thereof, compositions comprising the polyketone compounds and/or the at least partially hydrogenated products thereof, and to articles formed from products of the invention. | 05-03-2012 |
20120225998 | POLYPROPYLENE ETHYLENE-PROPYLENE COPOLYMER BLENDS AND IN-LINE PROCESS TO PRODUCE THEM - Isotactic polypropylene ethylene-propylene copolymer blends and in-line processes for producing. The blends may have between 1 and 50 wt % of isotactic polypropylene with a melt flow rate of between 0.5 and 20,000 g/10 min and a melting peak temperature of 145° C. or higher, and wherein the difference between the DSC peak melting and the peak crystallization temperatures is less than or equal to 0.5333 times the melting peak temperature minus 41.333° C., and between 50 and 99 wt % of ethylene-propylene copolymer including between 10 wt % and 20 wt % randomly distributed ethylene with a melt flow rate of between 0.5 and 20,000 g/10 min, wherein the copolymer is polymerized by a bulk homogeneous polymerization process, and wherein the total regio defects in the continuous propylene segments of the copolymer is between 40 and 150% greater than a copolymer of equivalent melt flow rate and wt % ethylene polymerized by a solution polymerization process. | 09-06-2012 |
20130006029 | HYDROTREATING PROCESS - A process for hydrotreating a first aromatics- and sulfur-containing hydrocarbon feed using a fresh supported CoMo catalyst, includes treating the fresh catalyst under first hydrotreating conditions with a second hydrocarbon feed having a lower aromatics content than the first feed. | 01-03-2013 |
20130018120 | DENDRITIC ETHYLENE POLYMERS AND PROCESSES FOR MAKINGAANM Tsou; Andy H.AACI AllentownAAST PAAACO USAAGP Tsou; Andy H. Allentown PA USAANM Luo; ShujiAACI BridgewaterAAST NJAACO USAAGP Luo; Shuji Bridgewater NJ USAANM Crowther; Donna J.AACI SeabrookAAST TXAACO USAAGP Crowther; Donna J. Seabrook TX USAANM Kiss; GaborAACI HamptonAAST NJAACO USAAGP Kiss; Gabor Hampton NJ USAANM Soulages; Johannes M.AACI MorristownAAST NJAACO USAAGP Soulages; Johannes M. Morristown NJ USAANM Shirodkar; Pradeep P.AACI HoustonAAST TXAACO USAAGP Shirodkar; Pradeep P. Houston TX US - Provided is a dendritic ethylene polymer. The polymer is a dendritic polymer of an ethylene/alpha-olefin-diene copolymer and a vinyl-terminated polyethylene. There is also provided a process for making a dendritic ethylene polymer. The process includes the steps of preparing a dendritic ethylene polymer by reacting ethylene/alpha-olefin-diene copolymer with vinyl-terminated polyethylene in the presence of a radical source. There is also provided a blend and a blown film that include the dendritic ethylene polymer. | 01-17-2013 |
20130035442 | ELASTIC PROPYLENE-ALPHA-OLEFIN COPOLYMER COMPOSITIONS AND PROCESSES TO PRODUCE THEM - Provided are elastic propylene-alpha olefin blocky copolymers. In one form, the elastic propylene-alpha olefin blocky copolymer includes an α-olefin content from 12 to 25 wt % and having a propylene crystallinity less than 30 J/g, a Tm <100° C. and a Tg >−45° C., wherein said copolymer has blocky propylene segments with r | 02-07-2013 |
20140316098 | Process for Producing Phenol - In a process for producing phenol, a composition comprising an alkylaromatic compound is contacted with an oxygen-containing stream in the presence of an oxidation catalyst comprising a cyclic imide under oxidation conditions effective to oxidize 15 wt % or less of the alkylaromatic compound based upon the total weight of the composition and produce an oxidation product comprising unreacted alkylaromatic compound and alkylaromatic hydroperoxide in a molar ratio of 6:1 to 100:1. Thereafter, at least a portion of the oxidation product is contacted with an acidic molecular sieve catalyst under cleavage conditions effective to convert at least a portion of the alkylaromatic hydroperoxide into phenol and cyclohexanone. | 10-23-2014 |
20150045587 | Process for Producing Phenol - A process for producing phenol is described in which a feed comprising cyclohexylbenzene hydroperoxide is contacted with a cleavage catalyst comprising an aluminosilicate zeolite of the FAU type having a unit cell size less than 24.50 Å under cleavage conditions effective to convert at least part of the cyclohexylbenzene hydroperoxide into phenol and cyclohexanone. | 02-12-2015 |