Method for producing vinyl alcohol polymers

    公开(公告)号:US11091574B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-17

    申请号:US16304842

    申请日:2017-05-25

    申请人: KURARAY CO., LTD.

    发明人: Takuma Kaneshima

    摘要: The present invention provides an industrially advantageous method for producing vinyl alcohol polymers having a low degree of polymerization using a chain transfer agent having an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 12 carbon atoms, the method being capable of producing a vinyl alcohol polymer whose aqueous solution has excellent viscosity stability. The present invention relates to a method for producing vinyl alcohol polymers, including: polymerizing a vinyl ester monomer (a) in the presence of a polymerization initiator (B) and a chain transfer agent (C) having an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 12 carbon atoms to obtain a vinyl ester polymer (A); and saponifying the vinyl ester polymer (A) at a concentration of 40 mass % or more and 75 mass % or less in the presence of an acidic catalyst (D) to obtain a vinyl alcohol polymer, wherein the vinyl alcohol polymer has a viscosity-average degree of polymerization of 160 or more and 400 or less.

    Crude oil dispersion stabilizer
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10919012B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-16

    申请号:US15758596

    申请日:2016-09-14

    申请人: KURARAY CO., LTD.

    摘要: Provided is a crude oil dispersion stabilizer containing a vinyl alcohol-based polymer, wherein a degree of saponification of the vinyl alcohol-based polymer is greater than 70 mol % and 82 mol % or less, and the total content of carboxyl groups and lactone rings is 0.02 to 1 mol % relative to all structural units of the vinyl alcohol-based polymer. According to this, there is provided a crude oil dispersion stabilizer capable of dispersing or emulsifying a highly viscous crude oil, thereby reducing the viscosity and allowing the resulting crude oil dispersion liquid or emulsion to be present stably for a long time.