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Process for recycling inert particulate materials

US5116940A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateOct 30, 1991
Grant dateMay 26, 1992
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Expiry dateOct 30, 2011

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB01J2208/00761
  • WIPO fieldMacromolecular chemistry, polymers
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

Process for recycling inert particulate materials used in sticky polymer polymerization reactors by discharging the sticky polymer having unbound inert material on its surface into a product hold tank maintained at a lower pressure than the polymerization reactor and thereafter contacting said polymer with a sweep gas and at a velocity sufficient to remove the inert particulate material which is then recycled to the polymerization reactor.

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