Abstract:
Film having improved transparency prepared from a mixture of an ethylene polymer and from 0.05 to 1.0 percent by weight (based on the mixture) of a copolymer of styrene, a graft copolymer of styrene, a homopolymer of propylene or a copolymer of propylene and ethylene; the film may be used as packaging material.
Abstract:
Production of polyethylene by polymerizing ethylene at elevated temperatures and elevated pressure under the action of a polymerization initiator, consisting of oxygen and t-butyl hydroperoxide, and of a polymerization regulator. The process of the invention is characterized in that temperature ranging from 310* to 400*C are used and that the polymerization initiator consists of from 1 to 12 molar parts of oxygen and from 1 to 5 molar parts of t-butyl hydroperoxide per million molar parts of the ethylene being polymerized. The process of the invention is preferably carried out continuously in a tubular reactor. The process permits easy control of the reaction with high yields and provides products with high flexibility and elongation.
Abstract:
A process for the production of ethylene copolymers containing hydroxyl groups which contain polymerized units of ethylene, an alkenol and if desired other monomers copolymerizable with ethylene, by copolymerization of a mixture of ethylene, alkenol and the other copolymerizable monomer(s), if any, at superatmospheric pressure and elevated temperature under the action of a free-radical polymerization initiator in the presence or absence of a polymerization regulator. 3-methyl-3-buten-1-ol is used as the alkenol. The process has the advantage that it is more easily carried out than comparable prior art methods and that it gives copolymers containing a relatively high proportion of polymerized units of alkenol.