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Continuous polymerization method and apparatus

US5470539A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 30, 1994
Grant dateNov 28, 1995
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Expiry dateMar 30, 2014

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  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB01J2219/185
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

Polymer particles having a small particle diameter and a narrow particle diameter distribution are obtained by a continuous polymerization method which does not accompany an increase of cohering products attaching to an inner face of a reaction vessel and an air-bubble invasion and, in which stirring of a material solution for polymerization is easy. An emulsion polymerization reaction or a suspension polymerization reaction is carried out by supplying a material solution for polymerization continuously to a clearance between coaxial double cylinders, which have stretched toward a direction crossing a horizontal plane, from the end side of the cylinders, by rotating at least one of the double cylinders round the axis and thereby, causing Taylor vortices. The polymer particles thus-formed are obtained by through from the other end side of the double cylinders to the outside.

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