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US5532325A Expired / Lapsed US ⏱️ 0.0 years remaining

Process for producing high stiffness polypropylene

Assignee: JNC Corp
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Filing: 1995-10-19
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Granted: 1996-07-02
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Expires: 2015-10-19
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Abstract

Abstract A process for producing polypropylene is provided which comprises polymerizing propylene in multiple stages, in the presence of a catalyst which is prepared by reacting a first organoaluminum compound (i), or a reaction product (vi) formed between the first organoaluminum compound (i) and an electron donor (a), with titanium tetrachloride (c) to obtain a first solid product (ii), reacting the resulting first solid product (ii) with the electron donor (a) and an electron acceptor (b) to obtain a second solid product (iii), and combining the resulting second solid product (iii) with a second organoaluminum compound (iv) and an aromatic carboxylic acid ester (v) at a molar ratio of the aromatic carboxylic acid ester to the second solid product (v/iii molar ratio) of from 0.1 to 10.0, in such a manner that from 10 to 90% by weight of the total polymer is produced in a first stage and the balance of the total polymer is produced in a second and any subsequent stages with the v/iii molar ratio of the catalyst being made higher in the second and any subsequent stages than that in the catalyst used in the first stage by adding the aromatic carboxylic acid ester (v) to the polymerization system so as to give 1</=v/iii molar ratio</=10, while controlling the melt flow rate (MFR) of a polymer portion produced in each of the first and any subsequent stages so as to satisfy the relationships: 0.5<log (MFRH/MFRL)<5.0(1) and 0.0028</=MFRL</=0.4(2) wherein MFRH is the MFR of a polymer portion having the highest MFR and MFRL is the MFR of a polymer portion having the lowest MFR.

Inventors

  • 👤 Takahiro Oka
  • 👤 Hiromasa Chiba

Bibliographic Details

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Jurisdiction US
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CPC Classifications
C; C08; C08F; C08F10/00; C08F10/04; C08F10/06; C08F110/00; C08F110/04; C08F110/06

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 7
Claim 1
Independent Claim 271 words
A process for producing polypropylene which comprises polymerizing propylene in multiple stages, in the presence of a catalyst which is prepared by reacting a first organoaluminum compound (i), or a reaction product (vi) formed between the first organoaluminum compound (i) and an electron donor (a), with titanium tetrachloride (c) to obtain a first solid product (ii), reacting the resulting first solid product (ii) with said electron donor (a) and an electron acceptor (b) to obtain a second solid product (iii), and combining the resulting second solid product (iii) with a second organoaluminum compound (iv) and an aromatic carboxylic acid ester (v) at a molar ratio of the aromatic carboxylic acid ester to the second solid product (v/iii molar ratio) of from 0.1 to 10.0, in such a manner that from 10 to 90% by weight of the total polymer is produced in a first stage and the balance of the total polymer is produced in a second and any subsequent stages with the v/iii molar ratio of said catalyst being made higher in the second and any subsequent stages than that in the catalyst used in the first stage by adding the aromatic carboxylic acid ester (v) to the polymerization system so as to give 0.1≦v/iii molar ratio≦10, while controlling the melt flow rate (MFR) of a polymer portion produced in each of the first and any subsequent stages so as to satisfy the relationships: 0.5<log (MFR.sub.H /MFR.sub.L)<5.0 (1) and 0.0028≦MFR.sub.L ≦0.4 (2) wherein MFR H is the MFR of a polymer portion having the highest MFR and MFR L is the MFR of a polymer portion having the lowest MFR.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 271 words
A process for producing polypropylene which comprises polymerizing propylene in multiple stages, in the presence of a catalyst which is prepared by reacting a first organoaluminum compound (i), or a reaction product (vi) formed between the first organoaluminum compound (i) and an electron donor (a), with titanium tetrachloride (c) to obtain a first solid product (ii), reacting the resulting first solid product (ii) with said electron donor (a) and an electron acceptor (b) to obtain a second solid product (iii), and combining the resulting second solid product (iii) with a second organoaluminum compound (iv) and an aromatic carboxylic acid ester (v) at a molar ratio of the aromatic carboxylic acid ester to the second solid product (v/iii molar ratio) of from 0.1 to 10.0, in such a manner that from 10 to 90% by weight of the total polymer is produced in a first stage and the balance of the total polymer is produced in a second and any subsequent stages with the v/iii molar ratio of said catalyst being made higher in the second and any subsequent stages than that in the catalyst used in the first stage by adding the aromatic carboxylic acid ester (v) to the polymerization system so as to give 0.1≦v/iii molar ratio≦10, while controlling the melt flow rate (MFR) of a polymer portion produced in each of the first and any subsequent stages so as to satisfy the relationships: 0.5<log (MFR.sub.H /MFR.sub.L)<5.0 (1) and 0.0028≦MFR.sub.L ≦0.4 (2) wherein MFR H is the MFR of a polymer portion having the highest MFR and MFR L is the MFR of a polymer portion having the lowest MFR.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 22 words
A process as claimed in claim 1, wherein the total polymer produced has an MFR ranging from 0.05 to 100 g/10 min.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 16 words
A process as claimed in claim 1, wherein said organoaluminum compound (iv) is a dialkylaluminum monohalide.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 33 words
A process as claimed in claim 1, wherein said catalyst is a preactivated catalyst obtained by reacting a combination of said second solid product (iii) and said organoaluminum compound (iv) with an α-olefin.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim 52 words
A process as claimed in claim 1, wherein the polymerization is carried out while controlling the isotactic pentad ratio (P) and the MFR of the total polymer produced so as to satisfy the relationship: 1.00≧P≧0.015 log MFR+0.955 MFR; and MFR L is the MFR of a polymer portion having the lowest MFR.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim 18 words
A process as claimed in claim 1 wherein said first and second organoaluminum compounds are the same compound.

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