The slurry polymerization of ethylene was studied by employing a (TiCl4/Mg(OEt)2/TEA) catalyst system in hexane. The effects of triethylaluminum concentration and temperature on polymer yield and polymer viscosity average molecular weight, Mv, were investigated. The maximum polymer yield was obtained at an Al/Ti molar ratio of 124. The highest yield and Mv were achieved at 60 °C. The concentrat...

a new model based on a combination of the polymeric multigrain and multilayer models has been developed to predict the polymerization rate, particle growth, morphology, effective parameters on broadening of the molecular weight distribution, number and weight average of the molecular weight, isotacticity index and bulk density of polymer. mathematical correlations and the kinetics used in this ...

A new model based on a combination of the polymeric multigrain and multilayer models has been developed to predict the polymerization rate, particle growth, morphology, effective parameters on broadening of the molecular weight distribution, number and weight average of the molecular weight, isotacticity index and bulk density of polymer. Mathematical correlations and the kinetics used in t...

Title of Document: KINETICS AND MORPHOLOGY OF METALLOCENE CATALYZED SYNDIOSPECIFIC POLYMERIZATION OF STYRENE IN HOMOGENEOUS AND HETEROGENEOUS REACTION SYSTEMS Joong Jin Han, Doctor of Philosophy, 2008 Directed By: Professor Kyu Yong Choi Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Syndiotactic polystyrene (sPS) is a semicrystalline thermoplastic polymer with many advantageous properties...

in the present work, a titanium-based ziegler-natta catalyst was employed to synthesize ultra molecular weight polyethylene in a slurry medium. the effect of different parameters such as ethylene pressure, temperature, catalyst composition, and hydrogen pressure was studied. as the results indicate, increasing either [al]/[ti] ratio or temperature causes polymerization rate to go through a maxi...

The olefins polymerization process in a slurry reactor is discussed. The reaction rate dynamics was analyzed and the contributions of feed flow, gas-liquid mass transfer, polymerization reaction, and catalyst deactivation were estimated. The propylene solubility in a solvent mixture “heptane” was calculated using Soave-Redlich-Kwong equation of state. These data were then approximated by Henry-...

In this study, slurry polymerization kinetics of ethylene with TiCl4/Mg(OEt)2/AlR3 Ziegler-Natta catalysts in various conditions using the model of sum square error (SSE) (method I) and model of least square error (LSE) (Method II) was investigated. For this purpose the molecular weight distributions of the samples were deconvoluted to the minimum number of Flor...

Front Cover: In article number 2200057, Arash Alizadeh, Vasileios Touloupidis, and João B. P. Soares have developed a thermodynamic simulation package for the catalytic polymerization of olefins in autoclave slurry, loop gas-phase, solution reactors. The simulator uses Sanchez–Lacombe theory as one major models polymer industry. Simulations under industrial conditions show why effects must be i...

the olefins polymerization process in a slurry reactor is discussed. the reaction rate dynamics was analyzed and the contributions of feed flow, gas-liquid mass transfer, polymerization reaction, and catalyst deactivation were estimated. the propylene solubility in a solvent mixture “heptane” was calculated using soave-redlich-kwong equation of state. these data were then approximated by henry-...

in this study, the slurry polymerization of ethylene over ticl4/mgcl2/alet3 was obtained. firstly, to obtain the optimum value of [al]/[ti], the effect of [al]/[ti] on polymerization rate and catalyst yield was studied. also, the effect of catalyst content on yielding, crystallization, melting point and density of product were obtained. to determine the order of reaction, the monomer pressure w...