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US 11,879,057 B2Granted
Process for preparing polypropylene composition
AssigneeBorealis AG
InventorsPauli Leskinen, Luca Boragno
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Abstract
The invention relates to a process for producing a polypropylene composition by sequential polymerization, said polypropylene composition having low sealing initiation temperature (SIT) and high melting point (Tm), thus providing abroad sealing window.
Claims11
A process for producing a polypropylene composition by sequential polymerization comprising the steps:
- a) polymerizing in a first reactor monomers consisting of propylene and a comonomer selected from C4-C10 alpha-olefins, to obtain a first propylene polymer fraction having a comonomer content in a range of from 2.0 to 8.0 mol %,
- b) polymerizing in a second reactor monomers consisting of propylene, ethylene, and a comonomer selected from C4-C10 alpha-olefins, in the presence of the first propylene polymer fraction, to obtain a second propylene polymer fraction, and
- c) polymerizing in a third reactor monomers consisting of propylene, ethylene, and optionally one or more C4-C10 alpha-olefins, in the presence of the second propylene polymer fraction, to obtain a polypropylene composition having an ethylene comonomer content in a range of from 0.5 to 5.0 mol % and a C4-C10 alpha-olefin comonomer content in a range of from 3.0 to 10.0 mol %, relative to a total amount of monomers present in the polypropylene composition, and
- wherein the process is operated in the presence of a Ziegler-Natta catalyst comprising a transition metal of group 4 to 6 of the periodic table, and an internal donor, optionally a co-catalyst and optionally an external donor, wherein the internal donor is a non-phthalic internal donor.
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