Manufacture of a titanium-containing component for catalysts of the Ziegler-Natta type

US4154699A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Heinz Mueller-Tamm
• Hans Schick · Berlin, DE
• James F. R. Jaggard · Ludwigshafen, DE
• Johann Nickl

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 30, 1977
• Grant date: May 15, 1979
• Expiry date: Nov 30, 1997

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C08F10/00
• WIPO field: Macromolecular chemistry, polymers
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A process for the manufacture of a titanium-containing component of a catalyst for the polymerization of monoolefins by the Ziegler-Natta method by milling (a) a particular titanium-containing compound, viz. a titanium trichloride/aluminum trichloride complex and (b) a particular ester with one another, in which process (1) a vibratory ball mill producing a particular milling acceleration is used, (2) the mill is first charged with the titanium-containing compound (a) and may or may not then be run for some time in the absence of diluents, (3) while milling, the ester (b) is added at a particular rate, continuously or in small portions, and in the absence of diluents, thereafter (4) the grist is brought to an elevated temperature, while milling, and is kept at this temperature until from 5 to 85% of the aluminum trichloride originally present in a bonded form in the titanium-containing compound (a) have been eliminated from the said compound (a), after which (5) if appropriate, the product obtained in accordance with (4) is washed with a hydrocarbon and dried, and then (6) the product obtained in accordance with (4) or in accordance with (5) is milled for a certain length of time a…