Abstract:
The invention pertains to a method for the preparation of ultra high molecular mass polyethylene by polymerization in suspension or in gas phase in the presence of a chromium catalyst sitting on an alumosilicate support material. The chromium catalyst has been subjected to a fluorinating treatment and the polymerization is performed under low temperature conditions within a temperature range of from 50 to 100 °C. The invention pertains also to ultra heigh molecular mass polyethylene prepared by that method and having a density in the range of from 0.930 to 0.950 g/cm 3 .
Abstract:
Catalysts useful for polymerizing olefins are disclosed. The catalysts comprise a transition metal complex, an optional activator, and an optional support. The complex is the reaction product of a Group 3-6 transition metal source, an optional alkylating agent, and a ligand precursor comprising a 2-imino-8-anilinoquinoline or a 2-aminoalkyl-8-anilinoquinoline. The catalysts, which are easy to synthesize by in-situ metallation of the ligan precursor, offer polyolefin manufactures good activity and the ability to make high-molecular-weight ethylene copolymers that have little or no long-chain branching.
Abstract:
A novel process for the manufacture of a mixed catalyst system by combining a Ziegler catalyst and a tridentate iron complex is described, which is characterized in that the reaction of a tridentate ligand with an iron compound is performed in an organic solvent containing less than 10 percent by weight, based on the total amount of the organic solvent, of electron donor compounds selected from the group consisting of ethers, aliphatic esters, aromatic esters, tertiary amines, amides, silanes, silazanes or orthoesters.
Abstract:
New ethylene polymers having broad molecular weight distribution and long-chain branching, above all at high molecular weight fractions; the polymers have strain hardening equal or higher than 1.4 (at constant elongational rate of 0.5s -1 , at 150°C), branching index g' equal or lower than 0.9 (at Mw of 2⋅10 6 g/mol). The polymers are prepared by using a mixed catalyst system comprising a polymerization catalyst based on a late transition metal component having a tridentate ligand, and a Ziegler polymerization catalyst annealed at a temperature higher than 100°C, for a time of at least 10 minutes.
Abstract translation:新的乙烯聚合物具有宽分子量分布和长链支化,首先是高分子量级分; 聚合物具有等于或高于1.4的应变硬化(在150℃的恒定拉伸速率为0.5s -1,支化指数g'等于或低于0.9(Mw为2·10 6 g / mol)。 通过使用包含基于具有三齿配体的后过渡金属组分的聚合催化剂和在高于100℃的温度下退火的齐格勒聚合催化剂至少10分钟的混合催化剂体系来制备聚合物。
Abstract:
A method of controlling the polymer composition of an ethylene copolymer in a process for preparing ethylene copolymers by copolymerizing ethylene and at least one other olefin in the presence of a polymerization catalyst system comprising - at least one late transition metal catalyst component (A) having a tridentate ligand which bears at least two ortho, ortho'-disubstituted aryl radicals, - at least one Ziegler catalyst component (B), and - at least one activating compound (C) by varying the polymerization temperature, a process for copolymerizing ethylene and at least one other olefin in the presence of such a polymerization catalyst system comprising utilizing the controlling method, a method for altering the polymer composition of an ethylene copolymer obtained by copolymerizing ethylene and at least one other olefin in the presence of such a polymerization catalyst system by varying the polymerization temperature and a method for transitioning from one ethylene copolymer grade to another by using the method for altering the polymer composition.
Abstract:
Process for the preparation of an ethylene copolymer composition having a polydispersity index M w /M n of from 3 to 100, comprising a) feeding ethylene to at least one polymerization reactor; b) performing in the at least one polymerization reactor an oligomerization of ethylene in the presence of an oligomerization catalyst component (C) to produce comonomer; c) performing simultaneously in the at least one polymerization reactor polymerization reactions in the presence of catalyst components (A) and (B) producing, respectively, a first and a second polyethylene fraction, wherein the weight average molecular weight M w of the first polyethylene fraction produced by catalyst component (A) is less than the M w of the second polyethylene fraction produced by catalyst component (B) and the comonomer incorporation ability of catalyst component (B) is higher than the comonomer incorporation ability of catalyst component (A); and d) withdrawing the ethylene copolymer composition from the polymerization reactor.