Indian Oil Corporation Limited

Gurmeet Singh

Gurpreet Singh Kapur

Sukhdeep Kaur

Naresh Kumar

Bhasker Bantu

Ravinder Kumar Malhotra

Shashi Kant

Sankara Sri Venkata Ramakumar

Biswajit Basu

Rashmi Rani

Shashikant

Dheer Singh

Anju Chopra

Mohasin Momin

Usharani Sahoo

Jarmo Lindroos

Deepak Saxena

Sujit Mondal

Mahender Singh Negi

Shobhashankar Kumhar

Jai Narayan Pandey

Naresh Pappu

Mahendra Singh Negi

Svein Nenseth

Bineesh Vijayan Kanattukara

Rajasekhar Tota

Yajnaseni Biswas

Sankara Ramakumar

Rashimi Rani

The present disclosure relates to a process for producing linear alpha olefins in high yield carried out by oligomerization of ethylene in the presence of a novel catalyst composition. The catalyst composition includes Zirconium compound, an organoaluminum compound, and at least one Lewis base selected from cyclic and acyclic ethers (i.e., di-n-butyl ether and diethyl ether). The process for oligomerization of ethylene is carried out in an inert organic solvent in the presence of said catalyst composition. The process as disclosed herein provides significantly high activity of the said catalyst composition resulting in high yield of the alpha olefins (>95 wt. %) as the product and significantly minimum polymer as by-product. The process provides higher yield of C6-C10 fraction with >60 wt. %.

Process and catalyst composition for producing linear alpha olefins in high yield by ethylene oligomerization

The present invention relates to a process for producing ultrahigh molecular weight polymer in powder form which is highly efficient drag reducing polymer. The process consists of polymerizing using titanium halide-based catalyst, co-catalyst, optionally a solvent, and monomer to a polymerization reactor, having stirring device and inlet charging and discharge outlet. The resulting ultrahigh molecular weight drag reducing polymers is free flowing, having intrinsic viscosity >10 dL/g. The process reduces polymerization time, temperature, and achieves high conversion, i.e., >90%.

Process for producing ultrahigh molecular weight polymer in powder form

The present invention relates to a process for preparation of a catalyst for polymerization of olefins. The catalyst has a particle size of between 5 to 30 microns with activity ranging from 3-4 Kg (co)polymer per g of catalyst and excellent hydrogen response. The method for preparation of the catalyst comprises the steps of: a) contacting a liquid magnesium complex, an electron donor, and a titanium halide compound to form a solution; b) obtaining the solid uniform catalyst particles by precipitation; and c) washing the catalyst particles to obtain solid uniform catalyst., for producing (co)polymer of ethylene with other olefins have fines less than 10 wt. %.

Process for preparation of a catalyst for polymerization of olefins

The present invention provides a method for producing highly reactive polyisobutylene by liquid phase polymerization of isobutylene or isobutylene containing feed stock, wherein at least 70 mole % of polymer chains in the polyisobutylene have exo olefin end groups. Further, the present invention provides a catalyst composition for polymerization, comprising of a Lewis acid complexed with at least two Lewis bases selected from sterically hindered ether and linear dialkyl ether; or a Lewis base complexed with at least two Lewis acids selected from aluminium halides mixture. The present invention additionally provides that Lewis acid with Lewis bases mixture or Lewis base with Lewis acids mixture constituting the catalyst show synergistic effect resulting in high isobutylene conversion and production of polyisobutylene having high exo olefin content, while maintaining desired molecular weight range of 250-10000 Dalton.

Polymerization catalyst system and process to produce highly reactive polyisobutylene

The present invention provides a process of catalytic depolymerization of polystyrene involving a spherical catalyst, an apparatus for carrying out the depolymerization, recovering the aromatic rich liquid product and recycling the catalyst without any decrease in the catalytic performance. Further, the present invention provides that the aromatic rich liquid product includes styrene, xylene, benzene, ethyl benzene, with styrene content greater than 65%. Additionally, the catalyst involved in the depolymerization process is a spherical catalyst that is easily recovered from coke/char formed during the process and is recycled and reused without any decrease in the catalytic performance.

Catalytic pyrolysis of polystyrene into aromatic rich liquid product using spherical catalyst

The invention relates to a method of the oligomerization of C6 and above olefin monomer whereby, at a fixed monomer/Al halide mole ratio, polyalphaolefins having desirable kinematic viscosities are prepared by controlling the oligomerization temperature. The oligomerization is carried out in presence of an oligomerizing catalyst comprising of aluminum halide and a promoter, and oligomerizing temperatures of about 10&#xb0; C. to about 120&#xb0; C.

Method of controlling kinematic viscosity of polyalphaolefin

The present invention describes a catalyst composition for use as a catalyst system for an ethylene oligomerization, providing high activity and produce linear oligomer product having broad weight percent distribution i.e. Cto C. The catalyst composition comprises a zirconium amide compound, an organoaluminum compound and an additive. The present invention also provides a process for preparation of the zirconium amide compound comprising reacting a zirconium component having formula ZrX.nTHF, wherein X is halogen atom; m is an integer having value equal or less than 4 and n is a number equal or less than 2, and a substituted amide of formula RCONR'R&#x2033;, wherein R, R&#x2032; and R&#x2033; are saturated or unsaturated aliphatic C-Chydrocarbon or aromatic C-Chydrocarbon, in the presence of an organic solvent.

Process for preparation of ethylene oligomerization catalyst and oligomerization thereof

The present invention provides an external electron donor composition comprising essentially of monoether as activity limiting agent for polymerization of olefins along with alkoxy silane as selectivity controlling agent, wherein mole percentage of the alkoxy silane to monoether is from 1 to 100.

External donor for olefin polymerization

The present invention provides a solid organomagnesium precursor having formula {Mg(OR')X}.a{MgX}.b{Mg(OR&#x2032;)}.c{R&#x2032;OH}, wherein R&#x2032; is selected from a hydrocarbon group, X is selected from a halide group, and a:b:c is in range of 0.01-0.5:0.01-0.5:0.01-5 and process for preparing the same, said process comprising contacting a magnesium source with a solvating agent, an organohalide and an alcohol to obtain the solid organomagnesium precursor. The present invention also provides a process for preparing a catalyst system using the organomagnesium precursor and its use thereof for polymerization of olefins.

Organometallic compound in solid form, process for preparing the same and use thereof

The present invention relates to a process for preparing ultra-high molecular weight polyalphaolefin. The process consists of polymerizing alphaolefin monomers using the catalyst system consisting of supported Ziegler-Natta catalyst without internal donor in presence of co-catalyst based on alkyl aluminums. The resulting ultra-high molecular weight polyalphaolefins having intrinsic viscosity &#x2265;10 dL/g are used as drag reducing polymers for increasing throughput in the pipelines by reducing frictional resistance in turbulent flow.

Process of preparation of drag reducing polymers and usage thereof

A catalyst composition for use as precursor for Ziegler-Natta catalyst system, said catalyst composition comprising a combination of magnesium moiety, titanium moiety and an internal donor containing at least one 1,2-phenylenedioate compound of structure (A). Also, the present invention provides a process for preparing the aforesaid catalyst composition. Further, the present invention provides a Ziegler-Natta catalyst system incorporating the aforesaid catalyst composition and a method for polymerizing and/or copolymerizing olefins using the Ziegler-Natta catalyst system. 

Ziegler-natta catalyst systems comprising a 1,2-phenylenedioate as internal donor and process for preparing the same

The present invention describes a process of preparing a catalyst for olefin polymerization comprising: (i) treating a magnesium metal with an organohalide along with an internal donor to obtain a reaction mixture having solid component (A); (ii) treating the reaction mixture having solid component (A) with an acyl halide to obtain a reaction mixture having solid component (B); and (iii) treating the reaction mixture having solid component (B) of step (ii) with a transition metal compound to obtain the catalyst. The present invention also relates to a process for preparation of a catalyst system from said catalyst and preparation of a polyolefins from the catalyst system.

Ziegler-Natta catalyst synthesis and process thereof

The present invention provides a liquid organomagnesium precursor having formula {Mg(OR')X}.a{MgX}.b{Mg(OR&#x2032;)}.c{R&#x2032;OH}, wherein R&#x2032; is selected from a hydrocarbon group, X is selected from a halide group, and a:b:c is in range of 0.1-99.8:0.1-99.8:0.1-99.8, and a process for preparing the same. The said process comprises contacting a magnesium source with an organohalide and alcohol in a solvent to form the liquid organomagnesium precursor. The present invention also provides a catalyst system using the organomagnesium precursor and its use thereof for polymerization of olefins. An illustrative example of the claimed process to make the organomagnesium precursor is: At 25&#xb0; C., magnesium (powder or turnings) is added to organohalide, followed by alcohol in toluene. After heating to 90&#xb0; C. and keeping there for 6 h the solution became viscous.

Precursor for catalyst, process for preparing the same and its use thereof

The present invention describes a process for preparation of catalyst component comprising contacting magnesium based precursor along with an internal donor based on phenylene dioates with an acyl halides in a solvent to obtain a solid precatalyst component; and contacting the solid precatalyst component with transition metal compound to obtain the catalyst component. The present invention also relates to a process for preparation of a catalyst system from said catalyst component and preparation of a polyolefins having free flowing characteristics with bulk densities (BD) of at least about 0.3 g/cc from the catalyst system.

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Faridabad, India

Gurmeet Singh