Saudi Basic Industries Corporation

Sabic Global Technologies B.v.

Hesham A Al-Shobilly

Abderrahman Meddad

Mansour Izzat Taftaf

Ahmad Abdullah Alshaiban

Abdulrahman Albeladi

Riyadh A Al Humoud

The invention relates to a process for the preparation of polypropylene having: a molecular weight of 450,000-950,000, a molecular weight distribution of 3-6, and xylene soluble content of 2-6 wt %, by converting propylene into the polypropylene without pre-polymerization in the presence of a polymerization catalyst under a condition where the volume ratio of Hto propylene is at most 0.0020, wherein the catalyst comprises a catalyst component and a co-catalyst, wherein the catalyst component is obtained by a process wherein a compound with formula Mg(OAlk)Clwherein x is larger than 0 and smaller than 2, y equals 2&#x2212;x and each Alk, independently, represents an alkyl group, is contacted with a titanium tetraalkoxide and/or an alcohol in the presence of an inert dispersant to give an intermediate reaction product and wherein the intermediate reaction product is contacted with titanium tetrachloride in the presence of an internal donor.

Polypropylene and articles thereof

The invention relates to a process for the preparation of ethylene-propylene copolymers having &#x2014;a weight average molecular weight of 800,000-1,800,000, &#x2014;a molecular weight distribution of 3-8, &#x2014;an ethylene content of 1-10 wt %, preferably 1.5 to 5.5 wt %. &#x2014;a melt flow in the range of 1.5-8 dg/min measured with a load of 21.6 kg at 230&#xb0; C. and &#x2014;a xylene soluble content of 2-15 wt % by converting propylene into the UHMWEP copolymer without pre-polymerization in the presence of a polymerization catalyst under a condition where the volume ratio of Hto propylene is at most 0.0020, wherein the catalyst comprises a catalyst component and a co-catalyst, wherein the catalyst component is obtained by a process wherein a compound with formula Mg(OAIk)Clwherein x is larger than 0 and smaller than 2, y equals 2&#x2212;x and each Alk, independently, represents an alkyl group, is contacted with a titanium tetraalkoxide and/or an alcohol in the presence of an inert dispersant to give an intermediate reaction product and wherein the intermediate reaction product is contacted with titanium tetrachloride in the presence of an internal donor.

Process for the polymerization of propylene

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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Hesham A Al-Shobilly