Bayer Aktiengesellschaft

E.i. Dupont De Nemours and Company

Ec Erdoelchemie Gmbh

Hubert Sutter

Alois Kolwert

Werner Obrecht

Jens Herwig

Dieter Woltjes

Szolt Szentivanyi

Winston P Ledet

Reinhard Peuker

Karl-Uwe Haas

Ethylene/vinyl acetate high-pressure bulk polymers having reduced tackiness can be produced by copolymerization of small quantities of an acryloyl or methacryloyl compound.

Process for the production of ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers, new

Ethylene/acrylonitrile high pressure solvent-free polymers with reduced tackiness may be obtained by the copolymerisation of small quantities of acryloyl or methacryloyl compounds.

Process for the preparation of ethylene/acrylonitrile copolymers, new

An ionomer-modified polyethylene, that is, an ethylene/carboxylic acid copolymer in which at least some of the acidic groups are neutralized, is preparable by a one-stage procedure by reacting ethylene with unsaturated carboxylic acids and salts of such unsaturated carboxylic acids in the presence of a free radical polymerization initiator, under the conditions employed in the production of high pressure polyethylene (LDPE). The concentration of salt which is incorporated in the polymer is kept at no more than 1 mol %, relative to converted ethylene and other comonomers respectively. Advantageously, the unsaturated carboxylic acids and their salts are added to the copolymerization reaction as a homogeneous solution in a suitable solvent. The ionomer-modified polyethylenes based on low density polyethylene (LDPE), in which 30-95% of the carboxyl groups are neutralized and the neutralized carboxyl groups represent 0.1-0.8 mol % of the total number of moles of all monomers are suitable as a film material having high strength, good drawability and high tear propagation resistance.

Ionomer-modified polyethylene as film material

An improved continuous process for the manufacture of polymers of ethylene in autoclave reactors with practically complete back-mixing under pressure of from about 800 to about 2500 bars in the presence of free-radical-generating initiators is provided wherein (a) two autoclaves are connected in series in such a way that all the reaction product from the first reactor is fed to the second reactor, (b) each autoclave has a length/diameter (L/D) ratio of from about 1:1 to about 3:1, (c) the monomer(s) feed stream is divided between the two reactors such that when the temperature/concentration and/or pressure environment in the first reactor is different from that in the second reactor, the monomer(s) feed stream to the first reactor is equal to or greater than the monomer(s) feed stream to the second reactor, (d) the reaction temperatures in the two autoclaves are set such that when the temperature in the first reactor is different from that in the second reactor, the temperature in the first reactor is lower than the temperature in the second reactor, (e) the amount of initiator fed into each reactor being greater than 0.

Continuous process for the manufacture of low-density polyethylene in

Process for the continuous production of a polymer of an .alpha.-olefin monomer. The monomer is polymerized in bulk, employing a screw conveyor as the reactor. The monomer can be in liquid phase when introduced into the conveyor. By the process, the use of diluents is avoided.

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