Neste Oy

Borealis Polymers Oy

Borealis Ag

Jouni Takakarhu

Ari Palmroos

Kari Sarantila

Klaus Nyfors

Henrik Andtsjo

Antero Ahvenainen

Erik A Eriksson

Ali Harlin

Mohammad Al-Haj Ali

Vasileios Kanellopoulos

Auli Nummila-Pakarinen

Jukka Koskinen

Sameer Vijay

Jani Aho

Michiel Bergstra

Henry Sleijster

Samuli Zitting

Christof Wurnitsch

Guhan Mathivanan

Aimo Sahila

Kari Matilainen

Markku Savolainen

Timo Blomqvist

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

Method and apparatus for taking sample

A process for producing polyethylene compositions in the presence of a catalytic system of ethylene polymerizing catalyst and cocatalyst in a multistage continuous reaction sequence consisting of successive liquid phase and gas phase polymerizations is disclosed. In the first step of the process, ethylene and optionally hydrogen and comonomer are polymerized in a first loop reactor in a low boiling hydrocarbon medium in the presence of ethylene polymerizing catalyst and cocatalyst. The reaction mixture is then removed and then transferred to a second loop reactor where polymerization is continued by addiing ethylene, hydrogen and optionally inert hydrocarbon, comonomers and cocatalysts. Thereafter, the reaction mixture is removed from the second loop reactor along with an essential part of the reaction medium and transferred to a gas phase reactor where polymerizing is continued in the presence of added ethylene and optionally hydrogen, comonomers and cocatalysts to form an end product. The residence time and reaction temperature being such that the proportion of the ethylene polymer produced in the first loop reactor to the end product of the process is between 1-20%.

Process for preparing polyethylene

Method for polymerizing olefins in a fluid-bed reactor

Method and equipment for taking a sample

Multi-stage process for producing polyethylene

The invention relates to a regulation method for regulating the temperature in a reactor utilized in the polymerization of olefines. A circulating gas is led to the reactor along a circulating gas flow line, and the circulating gas is cooled by leading part of the circulating gas flowing along a circulating gas flow line along a by-pass flow line through a cooler. A regulating device for the circulating gas inlet-flow temperature controls the amount of the circulating gas by-pass flow along a circulating gas by-pass flow line through the cooler such that the sum of the openings of a valve in the circulating gas flow line and a valve in the circulating gas by-pass flow line is maintained substantially constant in the range from about 90 to about 120%.

Regulation method for regulating the temperature in a reactor utilized

The invention relates to a method and device for feeding a mud-like catalyst mixture into a polymerization reactor. The catalyst mixture is fed from a container into a batching space of a feeder connected thereto, from which channel the catalyst mixture is further fed by batches into the polymerization reactor by the use of the pressure of a medium fed into the feeder. In accordance with the invention, after each catalyst batch fed into the polymerization reactor, the medium is substantially removed from the batching space of the feeder by leading the medium via an outlet channel into a space between two on/off valves before filling the batching space with a new catalyst batch.

Method for feeding a mud-like catalyst into a polymerization reactor

The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for continuously taking a sample from a discharge system of a polymerization reactor having a discontinuously opening discharge valve connecting the polymerization reactor to a product tube leading into a solid-constituent separation system. A sampling means having a closing valve of an on/off type is connected to the product tube. The closing valve closes for the period of a pressure wave occurring when the discharge valve opens, and opens after the pressure wave. A buffer container connected to an analyzer is provided with a sufficient volume to maintain the continuity of the sample flow when the closing valve is closed.

Method and apparatus for taking samples

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Helsinki, Finland

Jouni Takakarhu