Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100137521 | Thermoplastic Polymer Compositions, Methods for Making the Same, and Articles Made Therefrom - Provided are thermoplastic polymer compositions having a single melting point, articles made therefrom, and methods for elevating the melting point of low melting point polymers. Thermoplastic polymer compositions are composed of one or more high melting point polyolefins and a thermoplastic component that includes a low melting point polypropylene. High melting point polyolefins are composed of a stereoregular polypropylene having a tacticity similar to the low melting point polypropylene. The low melting point polypropylene includes, for example, propylene homopolymers and copolymers composed of propylene and one or more comonomers. Thermoplastic polymer compositions may also optionally contain any of the various additives commonly used in such polymer compositions, such as for example oils, etc. In one embodiment, thermoplastic polymer compositions are thermoplastic elastomer compositions that include an elastomeric component composed of an elastomer or rubber. The elastomeric component may be substantially or partially crosslinked to form a thermoplastic vulcanizate. | 06-03-2010 |
20110112238 | Thermoplastic Vulcanizates - A process for preparing a thermoplastic vulcanizate, the process comprising: charging a reactor with an olefinic copolymer rubber, where the olefinic copolymer rubber is characterized by a multimodal molecular weight, an average branching index of greater than 0.8, includes less than 10 parts by weight oil per 100 parts by weight rubber, includes less than 1 parts by weight non-rubber particulate, per 100 parts by weight rubber, and is in the form of granules having a particle size less than 8 mm; charging the reactor, contemporaneously or sequentially with respect to the rubber, with a thermoplastic resin, an oil, and a cure system; melt mixing the rubber, the thermoplastic resin, the oil, and the cure system; and dynamically vulcanizing the rubber. | 05-12-2011 |
20110275764 | Peroxide Cured TPV - Thermoplastic elastomer compositions and methods for making same. The elastomer composition can include at least one partially cured rubber component that is an ethylene-alpha-olefin-vinyl norbornene elastomeric polymer, and at least one thermoplastic component. The rubber component is at least partially cured using a peroxide curative in an amount effective to yield a cure level of the rubber component of at least 85%. The rubber component has a molecular weight distribution (MWD) less than 6, and a branching index greater than 0.60. | 11-10-2011 |
20110313117 | Propylene Ethylene Polymers And Production Process - Ethylene propylene copolymers, substantially free of diene, are described. The copolymers will have a uniform distribution of both tacticity and comonomer between copolymer chains. Further, the copolymers will exhibit a statistically insignificant intramolecular difference of tacticity. The copolymers are made in the presence of a metallocene catalyst. | 12-22-2011 |
20120015854 | Olefinic Copolymer Compositions for Viscosity Modification of Motor Oil - Lube oil compositions and methods for making the same are provided. The lubricating oil composition can include at least one propylene-based polymer comprising 60 wt % to 98 wt % propylene derived units, other units derived from one or more other alpha olefins, and a base oil. The propylene-based polymer can have a triad tacticity of 90% or more, a heat of fusion of less than 80 J/g, and a weight average molecular weight (Mw) as measured by GPC of from 70,000 to 250,000. | 01-19-2012 |
20120123069 | Method for Controlling Polyolefin Properties - The invention relates to a method for controlling properties of a polyolefin. More particularly, the invention relates to a method for controlling certain properties of an ethylene-butene copolymer and compositions thereof using isobutylene and/or other C | 05-17-2012 |
20130035460 | Process for Making Ethylene Interpolymers and Interpolymers Made Thereby, and Compositions and Electrical Devices Containing Such Interpolymers - The invention relates to a continuous polymerization process for preparing a random ethylene interpolymer which comprises: (A) polymerizing ethylene, and an α-olefin comonomer selected from propylene and/or 1-butene, and mixtures thereof, under continuous random polymerization conditions in the presence of single site catalyst system employing an ionic activator having cyclic ligands shielding a central charge bearing atom, at a temperature of 140° C. to 250° C. at a conversion of ethylene of 80 to 99% and a comonomer conversion of from at least 20%; and (B) devolatilizing the polymer to provide an ethylene copolymer having a density of from 0.85 to 0.92 g/cm | 02-07-2013 |
20130102721 | Thermoplastic Vulcanizate Composition - The disclosure is directed to a thermoplastic vulcanizate composition comprising a dynamically-cured rubber; from about 20 to about 300 parts by weight of a thermoplastic resin per 100 parts by weight rubber and from about 30 to about 250 parts by weight additional oil per 100 parts by weight rubber; wherein the rubber comprises a multimodal polymer composition cured with a curing agent, the multimodal polymer composition comprising 45 to 75 wt % of a first polymer fraction and 25 to 55 wt % of a second polymer fraction, each comprising ethylene, a C | 04-25-2013 |
20130203641 | Process for the Production of Polymeric Compositions Useful as Oil Modifiers - Provided are processes for making polymer compositions, especially those with reduced or no gel formation in lubricating oils as identified by rheological and visual gel tests and which are useful as viscosity modifiers. The processes described herein aim to achieve this objective by adjusting the concentrations of the hydrogen feed(s) in the first and/or second polymerization reaction zones, preferably such that (a) the hydrogen feed concentration in the first polymerization reaction zone is 0.0-1.0 wt %, based on total weight of feed(s) of hydrogen, ethylene monomer, α-olefin comonomer, and solvent into the first polymerization reaction zone, and/or (b) the hydrogen feed concentration in the second polymerization reaction zone is 0.0-0.5 wt %, based on total weight of feed(s) of hydrogen, ethylene monomer, α-olefin comonomer, and solvent into the second polymerization reaction zone. | 08-08-2013 |
20140107386 | Polymerization Process - The present invention relates to a polymerization process of producing ethylene-alpha-olefin polymer. The polymerization process comprises supplying at a feed temperature a feed containing ethylene, at least one alpha-olefin and optionally, a diene in a solvent, the solvent is supplied at a solvent feed rate; supplying at a catalyst feed rate a catalyst to a reactor, and contacting the feed with the catalyst to produce a reaction mixture containing the polymer. The present invention also relates to processes for improving the energy utilization of polymerization processes, wherein the process comprises decreasing the feed temperature, decreasing the solvent feed rate, and decreasing the catalyst feed rate. | 04-17-2014 |
20140378732 | Mitigation of Catalyst Inhibition in Olefin Polymerization - This disclosure relates to a process for polymerization comprising providing a recycle stream, wherein the recycle stream comprises one or more C | 12-25-2014 |
20150031831 | Polymer Compositions and Methods of Making Them - The present disclosure is directed to polymer compositions that can be useful as viscosity modifiers, comprising (a) a first ethylene-α-olefin copolymer having an ethylene content of from about 60 to about 80 wt % and (b) a second ethylene-α-olefin copolymer having an ethylene content of from about 40 to about 60 wt %. The polymer composition comprises about 35 wt % to about 50 wt of the first ethylene-α-olefin copolymer and about 50 wt % to about 65 wt % of the second ethylene-α-olefin copolymer. The polymer compositions are made by comprising producing a first ethylene-α-olefin copolymer in a first reactor, directing the first copolymer to a second reactor, producing the second ethylene-α-olefin copolymer in the second reactor and forming the polymer composition. | 01-29-2015 |
20150045513 | Polyolefin Adhesive Compositions and Methods for Preparing the Same - A blended multimodal polymer product is disclosed that comprises a first polymer, wherein the first polymer is a homopolymer of propylene or a propylene copolymer having an ethylene or a C | 02-12-2015 |