Phillips Petroleum Company

Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP

Fernando C Vidaurri

Jon F Geibel

Jeffrey S Fodor

Aubrey South, Jr

James W Waterman

Glenn F Kile

Marvin M Johnson

Carlton Edwin Ash

Owen H Decker

Robert W Campbell

Darryl R Fahey

Lacey E Scoggins

Guy Senatore

William R Coutant

David A Soules

Jay M Chaffin

Jimmie J Straw

Harvey D Hensley

Kenneth L Anderson

Paul J Deslauriers

Wei-Teh W Shang

Kenneth S Wheelock

Mark A Haney

Disclosed herein is a process for preparing cured arylene sulfide polymers. A first curing vessel comprising a first agitator is used to cure a poly(arylene sulfide) compacted powder. The curing proceeds until the compacted powder reaches a melt flow rate within a target range. When the melt flow rate of the compacted powder first reaches the target range, the power consumption of the first agitator is determined. A second curing vessel comprising a second agitator is charged with a second quantity of the compacted poly(arylene sulfide) powder. The second quantity of compacted powder is cured in the second vessel until the power consumption of the second agitator reaches the value at which the melt flow rate in the first curing vessel first reached the target range.

Method of measuring extent of curing of compacted poly(arylene sulfide)

In a multistage counter current wash operation wherein an original solvent contained in a cake of polymeric material is displaced with a wash solvent which enters the final stage and progresses forwardly a mathematical model of the counter current wash operation is developed for providing a feedforward control system. In use, the feedforward control system maintains a desired weight fraction of the original solvent that remains in the cake exiting the final wash stage at a desired low level by manipulating the wash solvent flow rate as a function of the flow rate of the feed material. Additionally a feedback control is used in conjunction with the feedforward control.

Method and apparatus for controlling counter current

A process is provided to recover at least one modifier compound and at least one polar organic compound from a poly(arylene sulfide) reaction mixture comprising high molecular weight poly(arylene sulfide), low molecular weight poly(arylene sulfide), cyclic and linear poly(arylene sulfide) oligomers, at least one polar organic compound, at least one modifier compound, and an alkali metal halide by-product.

Menthanol extraction of polar organic compounds and modifier compounds from poly(arylene sulfide) polymer and oligomer streams

A process is provided for curing poly(arylene sulfide) polymers by achieving and maintaining curing conditions in a cure vessel, then intermittently adding uncured polymer to said cure vessel and intermittently removing polymer from the cure vessel wherein the removal of polymer from the cure vessel is performed at intervals such that the presence of uncured polymer is minimized or avoided.

Pulse continuous curing of poly(arylene sulfide) polymers

A process is provided to recover at least one modifier compound and at least one polar organic compound from a reaction mixture comprising high molecular weight Poly(arylene sulfide) product, low molecular weight P(AS), cyclic and linear P(AS) oligomers, at least one POC, at least one modifier, an alkali metal halide by-product, and water.

Process for producing poly(arylene sulfide)

A process is provided to recover at least one modifier compound and at least one polar organic compound from a P(AS) recycle mixture.

Recovery of modifier compounds and polar organic compounds from a poly(arylene sulfide) recycle mixture

A novel treatment and recovery process is provided which produces commercially desirable high molecular weight poly(arylene sulfide)s from undesirable low molecular weight poly(arylene sulfide)s. The novel process reduces the quantity of low molecular weight poly(arylene sulfide)s which otherwise have little or no commercial value and can require disposal.

Process for producing poly (arylene sulfide)

A process is provided for producing a poly(arylene sulfide) polymer which employs at least one base as a reactant, wherein the base is contacted with the polymerization reaction mixture incrementally during the polymerization.

Process for preparing poly(arylene sulfide) polymers

A process for the production of arylene sulfide polymers is provided which comprises subjecting a mixture of at least one first sulfur source, at least one second sulfur source comprised of at least one organic monothiol compound, at least one polyhalo-substituted aromatic compound and at least one polar organic compound to polymerization conditions sufficient to produce the arylene sulfide polymer. The organic monothiol compound can be added at any time prior to substantial completion of polymerization to provide arylene sulfide polymers of increased extrusion rate.

Arylene sulfide polymers

A method is provided for hydrovisbreaking hydrocarbon polymers, particularly those derived from scrap articles, in which a mixture of at least one hydrocarbon polymer and a solvent is contacted with hydrogen under conditions sufficient to hydrovisbreak the polymer. The solvent comprises a combined weight percentage of C.sub.n H.sub.2n-8 and C.sub.n H.sub.2n-10 hydrocarbons of at least about 10 weight percent, where n is an integer of at least 8 in C.sub.n H.sub.2n-8 and n is an integer of at least 10 in C.sub.n H.sub.2n-10. The hydrovisbroken polymer can be fed to a catalytic cracker for cracking to cracked products.

Hydrovisbreaking of hydrocarbon polymers

A contacting apparatus that is a vertically elongated, cylindrical shell having closed ends and separated by horizontal baffle plates into a multiplicity of discrete chambers with access from one chamber to another through concentric circular holes, axially centered in the baffles with a continuously rotatable shaft extending concentric with the baffles within the shell with at least one agitator means attached to the shaft positioned in each chamber and with the shaft in the circular openings providing annular openings in the baffles such the the ratio of backflow rate to feed rate through the openings is less than 1.5. A method for continuously producing arylene sulfide polymer in which reactants suitable for producing poly(arylene sulfide) are introduced into at least a first chamber of the contacting vessel described above thereby forming a reaction mixture which is passed through the chambers of the contactor while maintaining each chamber within conditions for producing arylene sulfide polymer and recovering arylene sulfide polymer from a chamber removed from the chamber into which the initial reactants are introduced.

Multistage, agitated contactor and its use in continuous production of

Continuous production of arylene sulfide polymer is provided in a series of two or more substantially liquid-full reactors maintained at seriatim reduced temperature and pressure and discharging into a final zone which has a vapor space above a controlled liquid level and is maintained at a pressure lower than the liquid-full reaction train by vapor withdrawal with the reaction temperature increased at least to exceed all but the highest temperature in the liquid-full reactors so that at least a portion of the water produced in the arylene sulfide polymerization and a portion of the organic amide diluent are vaporized to concentrate the reaction slurry. The reaction slurry effluent from the vaporizing reactor can then be flashed with or without the aid of superheated steam dilution to produce a vapor which can be condensed, separated and recycled to the continuous reaction process and a particulate, polymeric product.

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Bartlesville, OK, United States of America

Fernando C Vidaurri