Preparation of ethene polymers using a ziegler catalyst system

US4900798A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Juergen Kerth · Eisenberg (Pfalz), DE
• Rudolf Mueller-Mall · Schifferstadt, DE
• Guenther Schweier · Friedelsheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 16, 1987
• Grant date: Feb 13, 1990
• Expiry date: Sep 16, 2007

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S526/904
• WIPO field: Macromolecular chemistry, polymers
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Finely divided ethane polymers are prepared using a Ziegler catalyst system consisting of (1) a titanium-containing catalyst component which has been obtained by (1.1) precipitation in an organic liquid comprising (1.1.1) a solution of titanium tetrachloride in a hydrocarbon, (1.1.2) a solution of a certain organoaluminum compound in a hydrocarbon and (1.1.3) an alpha-monoalkene, and (2) an aluminum-containing catalyst component. In this process, the component (1) used is a component where (1.1) precipitation has been carried out at relatively low temperatures in an organic liquid which has a relatively high viscosity at the precipitation temperature and conists of (1) a liquid hydrocarbon an (b) small amounts of a polymer of an alpha-monoalkene dissolved therein, with the provisos that (i) specific amounts of the organic liquid, of the organoaluminum compound and of the alpha-monoalkene are used per g mol of the titanium tetrachloride used in total, and (ii) per molar unit of the titanium tetrachloride used in total, specific amounts per minute are precipitated and specific amounts per minute of the alpha-monoalkene are introduced, and (1.2) the substance precipitated according to…