Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Process for recovering hydrocarbons in a solution polymerisation process
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Application No.: US15781733Application Date: 2016-12-21
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Publication No.: US10759880B2Publication Date: 2020-09-01
- Inventor: Mohammad Al-Haj Ali , Erik Eriksson , Guhan Mathivanan , Henry Sleijster , Sameer Vijay , Christof Wurnitsch , Samuli Zitting
- Applicant: Borealis AG
- Applicant Address: AT Vienna
- Assignee: Borealis AG
- Current Assignee: Borealis AG
- Current Assignee Address: AT Vienna
- Agency: Insigne LLP
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@3409f70f com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@748e2e15
- International Application: PCT/EP2016/082199 WO 20161221
- International Announcement: WO2017/108963 WO 20170629
- Main IPC: C08F6/12
- IPC: C08F6/12 ; C08F2/06 ; C08F6/00 ; B01D3/14 ; B01D3/42 ; C08F6/04 ; C08F10/02 ; C08F10/06 ; C08F36/02

Abstract:
A process for producing a polymer composition comprising the steps (A) to (M) as recited herein, involving the polymerization, in a polymerization reactor of a first polymer, a first stream thereof being passed into a first separator wherein a first liquid phase comprising the polymer and a first vapor phase coexist; withdrawing a first vapor stream and a first concentrated solution stream comprising the polymer from the first separator, passing at least a part of the first vapor stream to a first fractionator; withdrawing a first overhead stream and a first bottom stream from the first fractionator; recovering at least a part of the first overhead stream as a first recycle stream and passing it to the polymerization reactor; passing the first concentrated solution stream from the first separator to a second separator, wherein a second liquid phase comprising the polymer and a second vapor phase coexist; passing at least a part of the second vapor stream to a second fractionator; withdrawing a second overhead stream and a second bottom stream from the second fractionator; recovering at least a part of the second overhead stream as a second recycle stream and passing it to the polymerization reactor; wherein the mass flow rate of the first recycle stream is at least 80% of the mass flow rate of the first vapor stream and the mass flow rate of the second recycle stream is at least 70% of the mass flow rate of the second vapor stream.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180355075A1 A PROCESS FOR RECOVERING HYDROCARBONS IN A SOLUTION POLYMERISATION PROCESS Public/Granted day:2018-12-13
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