Invention Grant
- Patent Title: In-line blending process
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Application No.: US15776095Application Date: 2016-12-21
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Publication No.: US10597472B2Publication Date: 2020-03-24
- Inventor: Henry Sleijster , Mohammad Al-Haj Ali , Jukka Rasanen , Samuli Zitting , Michiel Bergstra , Erik Eriksson , Christof Wurnitsch , Guhan Mathivanan , Sameer Vijay , Vasileios Kanellopoulos , Jani Aho , Jouni Takakarhu
- Applicant: Borealis AG
- Applicant Address: AT Vienna
- Assignee: BOREALIS AG
- Current Assignee: BOREALIS AG
- Current Assignee Address: AT Vienna
- Agency: Fay Sharpe LLP
- Priority: EP15003632 20151221
- International Application: PCT/EP2016/082184 WO 20161221
- International Announcement: WO2017/108951 WO 20170629
- Main IPC: C08J11/02
- IPC: C08J11/02 ; C08F6/10 ; C08F210/14 ; C08F6/00 ; C08F2/06 ; C08F6/12 ; C08F10/00 ; C08F210/02 ; B01D1/14 ; B01D1/00

Abstract:
An in-line blending process for polymers comprising: (a) providing two or more reactor-low pressure separator units (1,7) in parallel configuration, each reactor-low pressure separator unit comprising one reactor (2,8) fluidly connected to one low pressure separator (3,9) downstream and further a recycling line (5,11) connecting the low pressure separator (3,9) back to the corresponding reactor (2,8); (b) polymerizing olefin monomers having two or more carbon atoms in each of the reactors (2,8) in solution polymerisation; (c) forming an unreduced reactor effluents stream including a homogenous fluid phase polymer-monomer-solvent mixture in each of the reactors (2,8), (d) passing the unreduced reactor effluents streams from each of the reactors (2,8) through the corresponding low pressure separators (3,9), whereby the temperature and pressure of the low pressure separators (3,9) is adjusted such that a liquid phase and a vapour phase are obtained, whereby yielding a polymer-enriched liquid phase and a polymer-lean vapour phase, and (e) separating the polymer-lean vapour phase from the polymer-enriched liquid phase in each of the low-pressure separators (3,9) to form separated polymer-lean vapour streams and separated polymer-enriched liquid streams; (f) combining the polymer-enriched liquid streams from step (e) in a further low-pressure separator and/or a mixer (13) to produce a combined polymer-enriched liquid stream (16); (g) reintroducing the polymer-lean vapour streams from step (e) via recycling lines (5,11) into the corresponding reactors (2,8).
Public/Granted literature
- US20180327529A1 IN-LINE BLENDING PROCESS Public/Granted day:2018-11-15
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