Snamprogetti S.p.a.

Anic S.p.a.

Agostino Balducci

Margherita Corbellini

Bruno Notari

Luigi Rivola

Silvano Gordini

Mirko Osellame

Vittorio Mormino

Alessandro Beranger

This application relates to a process for the homopolymerization (or copolymerization) of unsaturated compounds, particularly ethylene and higher alpha olefines, to give homopolymers (or copolymers) having a wide molecular weight distribution. The polymerization yields are very high, even at relatively low pressures (10 bars), i.e. such as not to require scrubbing in order to remove the catalytic residue from the polymer. These results are obtained by using, in union with an organometallic aluminium compound, a catalyst in the form of a new titanium trihalide-based chemical composition satisfying the following formula:

Chemical composition based on titanium trihalide, a method for its

The present specification describes novel aluminum-polyimine compounds that are useful as catalysts for the polymerization of unsaturated compounds. The aluminum-polyimine compounds are of the formula:

Aluminium polymeric compounds of polyimine nature

Process for the preparation of aluminum polymeric compounds of polyimine

Process for the purification of olefins by removing oxygen and acetylene from them which comprises passing the olefins over a contact material consisting essentially of a metallic element from the first B group of the period system which element is homogeneously and finely dispersed on a carrier selected from zeolites, spheroidal alumina, silica gel, Kieselghur or colloidal silica stabilized in an aqueous suspension. The purification process is carried out at temperatures of from -50 to 50.degree. C. under pressures of from 0.01 to 60 atmospheres. The contact material is prepared by mixing a suitable compound of the metallic element such as a carbonate or ammonia complex with the selected carrier, thereafter atomizing the mixture to obtain microspheroids, granulating the spheroids into the desired shape and size and finally subjecting the carrier material to a reducing treatment to obtain the metallic element thereon. The contact material for the purification preferably utilizes the element copper with the contact material having the size of 1-250.mu. and is most suitably used in the purification of ethylene.

Preparation of copper and silver particles for ethylene purification

The invention relates to the purification of homo- and copolymers of mono- and diolefines, as obtained from a solution polymerization in the presence of uranium catalysts, from the catalyst residues, and particularly to a process for the removal of the uranium from the hydrocarbon solution of the polymer, which solution is mixed with an aqueous solution of ammonium carbonate, the thus resulting aqueous phase being then separately treated for the recovery of the ammonium carbonate and of the uranium.

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Agostino Balducci