Silica having titanium incorporated through use of peroxide

Abstract

A silica composition having a high concentration of titanium is produced by solubilizing a titanium compound by combining same with a peroxide such as hydrogen peroxide. In a preferred embodiment, the peroxide is combined with the acid typically used in producing a gel from the combination of a silicate solution and an acid although the solubilizing component can also be used to simply impregnate particulate silica. The resulting composition has a high titanium content and an unusual pore structure makes it ideally suited as a catalyst base. When contemplated as a catalyst base, chromium can simply be coprecipitated with the silica and titanium. The resulting catalyst is ideally suited for the polymerization of olefins under slurry conditions.

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