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Process for polymerizing ethylene in a multi-stage polymerization process

US12043687B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 1, 2019
Grant dateJul 23, 2024
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Expiry dateJul 9, 2041

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY02P20/54
  • WIPO fieldMacromolecular chemistry, polymers
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

The present invention is concerned with a process for polymerizing ethylene or copolymerizing ethylene and at least one alpha-olefin comonomer in the presence of a supported polymerization catalyst in a multi-stage process in which the last polymerization stage is a gas phase reactor, the use of said process for reducing particle carry-over in the last polymerization stage and the use of a supported polymerization catalyst with a certain median particle size to polymerize an ethylene homo- or copolymer in said multi-stage process with a span of its particle size distribution which can be predicted from the median particle size of the catalyst.

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