Borealis Ag

Borealis Gmbh

Guhan Mathivanan

Erik A Eriksson

Mohammad Al-Haj Ali

Sameer Vijay

Henry Sleijster

Samuli Zitting

Christof Wurnitsch

Vasileios Kanellopoulos

René Dicke

Jukka Räsänen

Jukka Rasanen

Erik Eriksson

Jani Aho

Michiel Bergstra

Jouni Takakarhu

Andreas Leitner

Kristof Weyne

Thomas Rumetshofer

Jukka RÄSÄNEN

The present invention relates to a process for removing hydrocarbons comprising the steps of:

Method of recovering olefins in a solution polymerisation process

The present invention relates to a process for removing hydrocarbons comprising the steps of: (A) passing a stream of a solution into a separator wherein a liquid phase comprising polymer and a vapor phase coexist; (B) withdrawing a vapor stream and a concentrated solution stream from the separator; (C) passing at least a part of the vapour stream into a first fractionator; (D) withdrawing a first overhead stream and a first bottom stream from the first fractionator; (E) passing the first bottom stream to a second fractionator; (F) withdrawing a second overhead stream and a second bottom stream from the second fractionator; characterized in that at least a part of the second overhead stream is withdrawn as a purge stream.

Method of recovering olefins in a solution polymerization process

The present invention deals with a process for polymerising olefins in a solution and withdrawing a stream of the solution from the polymerisation reactor and passing it to a sequence of heating steps. The heated solution is passed to a separation step, which is conducted at a pressure of no more than 15 bar and in which separation step a liquid phase comprising the polymer and a vapour phase coexist. A vapour stream and a concentrated solution stream comprising the polymer are withdrawn from the separation step. At least a part of the vapour stream is passed to the first polymerisation reactor, to the second polymerisation reactor or to both.

Process and apparatus for in-line blending of polymers

A process for producing a polymer composition comprising the steps (A) to (M) as recited herein, involving the polymerization, in a polymerization reactor of a first polymer, a first stream thereof being passed into a first separator wherein a first liquid phase comprising the polymer and a first vapor phase coexist; withdrawing a first vapor stream and a first concentrated solution stream comprising the polymer from the first separator, passing at least a part of the first vapor stream to a first fractionator; withdrawing a first overhead stream and a first bottom stream from the first fractionator; recovering at least a part of the first overhead stream as a first recycle stream and passing it to the polymerization reactor; passing the first concentrated solution stream from the first separator to a second separator, wherein a second liquid phase comprising the polymer and a second vapor phase coexist; passing at least a part of the second vapor stream to a second fractionator; withdrawing a second overhead stream and a second bottom stream from the second fractionator; recovering at least a part of the second overhead stream as a second recycle stream and passing it to the polymerization reactor; wherein the mass flow rate of the first recycle stream is at least 80% of the mass flow rate of the first vapor stream and the mass flow rate of the second recycle stream is at least 70% of the mass flow rate of the second vapor stream.

Process for recovering hydrocarbons in a solution polymerisation process

A process for withdrawing polyolefins from a reactor includes: continuously withdrawing a liquid solution stream from a solution polymerization reactor and passing the liquid solution stream into a low pressure separator; withdrawing a first vapour stream and a first liquid stream from the separator and passing the first vapour stream into a washing column; withdrawing a second vapour stream from the washing column and feeding it via a condenser line to a condenser; cooling the second vapour stream in the condenser so that part of the second vapour stream condenses, producing a condensed second vapour stream and an uncondensed second vapour stream; passing the condensed second vapour stream to an upper part of the washing column via a reflux line; withdrawing a second liquid stream from the washing column and passing at least part of the second liquid stream to the separator via a recycling line; and recovering heat.

Process for withdrawing polyolefins

An in-line blending process for polymers comprising: (a) providing two or more reactor-low pressure separator units () in parallel configuration, each reactor-low pressure separator unit comprising one reactor () fluidly connected to one low pressure separator () downstream and further a recycling line () connecting the low pressure separator () back to the corresponding reactor (); (b) polymerizing olefin monomers having two or more carbon atoms in each of the reactors () in solution polymerisation; (c) forming an unreduced reactor effluents stream including a homogenous fluid phase polymer-monomer-solvent mixture in each of the reactors (), (d) passing the unreduced reactor effluents streams from each of the reactors () through the corresponding low pressure separators (), whereby the temperature and pressure of the low pressure separators () is adjusted such that a liquid phase and a vapour phase are obtained, whereby yielding a polymer-enriched liquid phase and a polymer-lean vapour phase, and (e) separating the polymer-lean vapour phase from the polymer-enriched liquid phase in each of the low-pressure separators () to form separated polymer-lean vapour streams and separated polymer-enriched liquid streams; (f) combining the polymer-enriched liquid streams from step (e) in a further low-pressure separator and/or a mixer () to produce a combined polymer-enriched liquid stream (); (g) reintroducing the polymer-lean vapour streams from step (e) via recycling lines () into the corresponding reactors ().

In-line blending process

An endothermic catalytic dehydrogenation process conducted in gas phase in system including a reactor with a catalyst bed including an inorganic catalytic material and a first inert material including the steps of: feeding a first stream having an alkane of the formulae I CHRwith n&#x2265;3 and R&#x2550;H or aryl to be dehydrogenated into the reactor, and simultaneously or subsequently feeding a second stream including a mixture of an inert gas and a reactive gas selected from the group of alkanes of the formulae II CHwith m&#x2265;2, or alkenes of the formulae III CHwith&#x2265;2. The alkane to be dehydrogenated of formulae I in first stream has at least one more carbon atom than the alkane of formulae II and alkene of formulae III in the second stream.

Endothermic gas phase catalytic dehydrogenation process

A catalyst bed system, and a dehydrogenation process using the same, including a horizontal catalyst bed having a mixture of at least one catalytic material and at least one first inert material, a predetermined volume of at least one second inert material arranged upstream of the catalyst bed, wherein the volume of the reactor above the catalyst bed system is not filled by any solid material (empty space). The volume of the second inert material and the volume of the reactor above the second inert material (empty space) is between 0.04 and 0.73, preferably between 0.06 and 0.3, most preferably between 0.09 and 0.2.

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Linz, Austria

Guhan Mathivanan