Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
A process for fluid phase in-line blending of plasticized polymers by providing two or more reactor trains configured in parallel and a separator, wherein one or more of the trains produces one or more polymers and another produces one or more plasticizers; contacting in at least one train olefin monomers, catalyst systems, optional comonomers, scavengers, 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 polymer mixture and plasticizer-monomer mixture in each train; passing the reactor effluents through the separator; maintaining the temperature and pressure within the separator to form a fluid-fluid two-phase system; and separating the phases. The polymer-rich blend phase is conveyed to a downstream finishing stage.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a process to polymerize olefins comprising contacting propylene, at a temperature of 65° C to 150° C and a pressure of 1.72 to 34.5 MPa, with: 1) a catalyst system comprising one or more activators and one or more nonmetallocene metal-centered, heteroaryl ligand catalyst compounds, where the metal is chosen from the Group 4, 5, 6, the lanthanide series, or the actinide series of the Periodic Table of the Elements, 2) optionally one or more comonomers selected from ethylene and C4 to C 12 olefins, 3) diluent or solvent, and 4) optionally scavenger, wherein: a) the olefin monomers and any comonomers are present in the polymerization system at 30 wt% or more, b) the propylene is present in the feed at 80 wt% or more, c) the polymerization occurs at a temperature above the so lid- fluid phase transition temperature of the polymerization system and a pressure greater than 1 MPa below the cloud point pressure of the polymerization system, and d) the polymerization occurs: (1) at a temperature below the critical temperature of the polymerization system, or (preferably and) (2) at a pressure below the critical pressure of the polymerization system.
Abstract:
An in situ process for conducting regeneration of spent hydrocarbon synthesis catalyst. Regenerated, but not yet re-activated, catalyst (15) may be introduced into an operating HCS reactor (1) that has catalyst rejuvenation means (14). Any combination of a fresh, activated catalyst, a fresh, passivated catalyst or short-term or long-term deactivated catalysts may already be present in the HCS reactor (1). The regenerated, but not yet re-activated catalyst is activated in the HCS reactor (1) with rejuvenation means (14) at normal process conditions. The HCS reactor (1) receives syngas through the inlet line (3) and releases liquid hydrocarbons through outlet line (4) and gaseous hydrocarbon and unreacted syngas through the offgas line (2). Catalyst is removed from the HCS reactor (1) through the slipstream line (5) and into a filtration unit (6) which is fed with a stripping fluid (7). The filtered catalyst proceeds to the regeneration unit (9) which is fed a regenerative fluid (10). The regenerated catalyst is returned to the HCS Reactor (1) through the catalyst return line (11) where it is reactivated.
Abstract:
Processes for feeding ethylene into a polymerization system operating in a liquid phase or supercritical phase, including providing a low -pressure ethylene stream, one or more low-pressure C3 to C20 monomer streams, an optional low-pressure inert solvent/diluent stream, and one or more reactors, metering and mixing the streams together to form an ethylene-carrying low-pressure blended liquid feed stream, pressurizing the ethylene-carrying low-pressure blended liquid feed stream to the polymenzation system pressure with one or more high-pressure pumps to form an ethylene-carrying high-pressure blended reactor feed stream, and feeding the ethylene- carrying high-pressure blended reactor feed stream to the one or more reactors. The monomer recycle stream may also be optionally blended with the ethylene feed stream and the C3 to C20 higher olefin before being pressurized to the reactor pressure.
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
This invention relates to 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; an Mw of 35000 g/mol or more; a peak melting temperature of greater than 149 0C; anmmmm 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