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US 12,559,580 B2Granted
Process for introducing catalyst in a polymerization process
AssigneeBraskem S.A.
InventorsOlavo Martins Junior, Dihogenes Adriano Pozzer, Élita Cavalli
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Abstract
Methods of adding a catalyst to a bulk polymerization process may include mixing the catalyst with propylene to form a catalyst mixture that is substantially free of any C20 or greater hydrocarbons, feeding the catalyst mixture into a polymerization reactor, activating the catalyst mixture; and performing a polymerization on the catalyst mixture in the polymerization reactor. Polymers may be formed by polymerization processes that are substantially free of any C20 or greater hydrocarbons.
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A system for a bulk polymerization process, the system comprising:
- a first reactor configured to prepare, in the absence of cocatalyst and electron donor, at a temperature of room temperature to −48° C. and a pressure sufficient to ensure the presence of liquid propylene, a catalyst mixture, comprising unreacted liquid propylene and free of C20 or greater hydrocarbons,
- a catalyst feed that feeds a catalyst into the first reactor,
- a first propylene feed that feeds liquid propylene into the first reactor,
- a second reactor configured to activate the catalyst mixture by the addition of a cocatalyst, an electron donor, and liquid propylene at temperature sufficiently low to as to not polymerize or prepolymerize the propylene, wherein the second reactor is either a continuous stirred-tank reactor or a continuous plug-flow reactor;
- a first feeder transferring the catalyst mixture from the first reactor into a second reactor,
- a cocatalyst feed that feeds the cocatalyst into the second reactor,
- an electron donor feed that feeds the electron donor into the second reactor,
- a second liquid propylene feed that feeds liquid propylene into the first feed or the second reactor,
- a bulk polymerization reactor, and
- a second feeder that connects the second reactor to the bulk polymerization reactor and feeds the catalyst mixture from the second reactor into the bulk polymerization reactor.
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