Process for preparing light colored petroleum resins and resins produced thereby (CS-203)
AssigneeExxon Research & Engineering Co.
InventorsAugustus B. Small, Vincent L. Hughes, Francisco M. Benitez
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Abstract
Petroleum resins of lightened color while retaining satisfactory melting point and compatibility are provided by a process which comprises heat soaking a petroleum cracking or reforming fraction containing cationically polymerizable hydrocarbons and from 2 to more than 0.5 weight percent of cyclodienes until the cyclodiene content is no more than 0.5 weight percent distilling said heat soaked petroleum fraction and polymerizing said distilled petroleum fraction in the presence of a polymerization catalyst.
Claims4
A process for producing a hydrocarbon resin of improved color and thermal stability which comprises heat soaking a petroleum cracking or reforming fraction containing cationically polymerizable hydrocarbons including from more than 0.5 to 2 weight percent of cyclodienes until the cyclodiene content is no more than 0.5 weight percent and the piperylene to cyclopentadiene weight ratio is above at least 50, distilling said heat soaked petroleum fraction, polymerizing said distilled petroleum fraction in the presence of an aluminum halide catalyst and recovering a resin having a Gardner color of no greater than 4 when measured on a solution of equal weights of said resin and toluene.
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