Polyolefin resin blends for crack-resistant pipe
AssigneeEquistar Chemicals, LP
InventorsShaotian Wang, Gregory G. Hlatky, Sebastian Joseph, Jean A. Merrick-Mack, Kenneth J. Klug, Wallace W. Yau
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AssigneeEquistar Chemicals, LP
InventorsShaotian Wang, Gregory G. Hlatky, Sebastian Joseph, Jean A. Merrick-Mack, Kenneth J. Klug, Wallace W. Yau
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Resin blends useful for pipe and blow-molded articles are disclosed. The blends comprise a low-molecular-weight, high-density polyethylene and a high-molecular-weight, low-density ethylene copolymer. The high-molecular-weight component is made with a bridged indenoindolyl Group 4 metal complex having open architecture. Blends of the invention uniquely have high molecular weight (Mw>200,000) and low levels of long-chain branching. A quick, convenient approach for estimating levels of long-chain branching in polyethylenes from gel permeation chromatography and dynamic oscillatory rheometry (“viscosity enhancement factor”) is disclosed.
A blow molded pipe produced from a resin blend comprising from about 30 to about 70 wt. % of a low-molecular-weight, high-density polyethylene, and from about 30 to about 70 wt. % of a high-molecular-weight, low-density ethylene copolymer produced using a bridged indenoindolyl Group 4 metal complex having open architecture, wherein the ethylene copolymer has a weight-average molecular weight within the range of 150,000 to 500,000,
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