Reactor cleaning process and composition
AssigneeThe Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
InventorsKelsey Elizabeth Noyes, Margaret Flook Vielhaber
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Abstract
A process of cleaning a reactor includes providing an alcohol-containing material to the reactor; and providing a metathesis catalyst to the reactor. The reactor contains a high molecular weight polymer gel and an organoaluminum material. The alcohol-containing material is not an alkyl tartrate and may be selected from triisopropanolamine, 4-tert-butylcatechol, isopropanol, and phenol formaldehyde resins.
Claims20
A process of cleaning a reactor containing a high molecular weight polymer gel and an organoaluminum material, the process comprising:
- providing an alcohol-containing material to the reactor;
- and
- providing a metathesis catalyst to the reactor;
- wherein the alcohol-containing material is not an alkyl tartrate.
A reactor cleaning composition comprising:
- an alcohol-containing material;
- and
- a metathesis catalyst;
- wherein the alcohol-containing material is not an alkyl tartrate.
A polymerization and reactor cleaning process comprising in sequence:
- polymerizing at least one monomer in the presence of a catalyst system comprising an organoaluminum compound;
- providing an alcohol-containing material to the reactor;
- providing a ruthenium-containing metathesis catalyst to the reactor;
- and
- recovering a polymer from the reactor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.