Phillips Petroleum Company

Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP

Kent E Mitchell

Gil R Hawley

Eric D Schwerdtfeger

Steven M Bischof

Bruce E Kreischer

Jared T Fern

Paul F Schubert

James L Hillier

Don W Godbehere

Denton C Fentress

Kendall M Hurst

Max P McDaniel

Elizabeth Ann Benham

M Bruce Welch

Gary L Glass

Randall S Muninger

Richard E Lowery

Ralph E Bonnell

Grover W Cone

L Matthew Kirchman

Robert K Provence

Leigh A Ford

Norman L Freeman, Jr

Donald H Kubicek

Howard F Efner

Melvin B Welch

Warren M Ewert

Stanley J Marwil

David C Miller

Dodnald H Kubicek

Larry S Maddox

Richard E Lowrey

Max P Mcdaniel

Norman L Freeman

Methods for determining ethylene concentration in an ethylene oligomerization reactor using an ultrasonic flow meter are described, and these methods are integrated into ethylene oligomerization processes and related oligomerization reactor systems.

Methods for operating ethylene oligomerization reactor systems with an integrated ultrasonic flow meter

A method for producing polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) polymer, including polymerizing reactants in a reaction mixture in a vessel to form PPS polymer in the vessel, measuring values of operating variables of the vessel and/or PPS process, and determining the amount of quench fluid to add to the vessel based on the values of the operating variables. The technique may rely on the vapor liquid equilibrium (VLE) of the mixture to calculate the concentration of water existing in the reactor prior to quench, and accounts for the effectiveness of the upstream dehydration process and in the amount of water produced during the polymerization. The technique is a striking improvement over the trial-and-error estimation of the amount of quench water based on human operating experience, and avoids direct measurements of the existing water concentration in the reactor. The result is improved control of PPS particle size and other properties.

Inferred water analysis in polyphenylene sulfide production

A solid metallocene-containing catalyst system of an organoaluminoxane, at least one metallocene having at least one olefinically unsaturated substituent and a polyolefin is disclosed. The polyolefin is formed from at least one olefin polymerized in the presence of a combination of a solution of the organoluminoxane in an aromatic liquid, the at least one metallocene, and an aliphatic liquid. The solid metallocene-containing catalyst system may also include one or more the particulate solids.

Solid metallocene catalyst system

Methods are disclosed for preparing a highly active solid metallocene-containing catalyst system and its use in the polymerization of olefins. The catalyst system is prepared by creating a catalyst system solution by combining an aluminoxane with a metallocene having a substituent which has olefinic unsaturation in an aliphatic liquid to form a liquid catalyst system, conducting prepolymerization of an olefin in the liquid catalyst system, preferably in multiple stages, and separating the resulting solid metallocene-containing catalyst system from the reaction mixture. Also polymerization of olefins using the inventive solid catalyst system is disclosed.

Method for making and using a metallocene catalyst system

A process is disclosed for the particle form polymerization of olefins. The process employs a titanium-containing having hydrocarbon soluble titanium components. The resulting catalyst is pretreated with an organometallic reducing agent prior to the introduction of the catalyst into the polymerization zone to give a catalyst which can be used satisfactorily in a loop reactor with lower levels of cocatalyst.

Olefin polymerization

The aqueous wash stream of an electrolytic precipitation system treating natural gas liquid (NGL) is maintained at a pH sufficiently basic to decrease the solubility of iron sulfide in the aqueous wash stream.

Removing iron salts from NGL streams

A prepolymerized olefin polymerization catalyst, its prepration, and use are disclosed. The catalyst is prepared by contacting a solid particulate transition metal-containing olefin polymerization catalyst with an olefin in a confined zone under suitable conditions wherein the prepolymerization is conducted under conditions such that the olefin is added to the confined zone at a rate such that the pressure in the confined zone increases no more than about 0.5 psig/sec. during the olefin addition.

Prepolymerized catalyst and use thereof

A process for desalting a crude oil comprises (1) injecting steam into the oil to form a steam-injected oil; (2) adding water to the steam-injected oil to form a mixture; (3) introducing the mixture to a desalter; (4) inducing the formation of aqueous phase and oil phase; and (5) separating the oil phase from the aqueous phase. Where there are two desalting stages for desalting crude oil, the process can be carried out in either the first stage or second stage, or both stages. The process can also be similarly employed in a multistage desalting process.

Crude oil desalting process

A prepolymerized olefin polymerization catalyst, its preparation, and use are disclosed. The catalyst is prepared by contacting a solid particulate transition metal-containing olefin polymerization catalyst with an olefin in a confined zone under suitable conditions wherein the prepolymerization is conducted under conditions such that the olefin is added to the confined zone at a rate such that the pressure in the confined zone increases no more than about 0.5 psig/sec. during the olefin addition.

Catalyst supports, catalyst systems, methods for the preparation thereof, and dimerization process therewith are provided catalyst supports are extruded from a thick paste of potassium carbonate and water catalyst systems comprise at least one elemental alkali metal deposited on the catalyst support. Optionally, the catalyst system further comprises at least one promoter.

Potassium carbonate supports, catalysts, and olefin dimerization

A process for preparing a polymerization catalyst useful for the polymerization of olefins is provided comprising contacting a metal dihalide compound wherein the metal is selected from Group 2 and Group 12 of the Periodic Table and a transition metal compound which is a hydrocarbyloxide of a transition metal selected from Group 4 and Group 5 to form a first catalyst component; contacting the first catalyst component with at least one organoaluminum precipitating agent, wherein at least at the commencement of this step, the temperature at which such contacting is carried out is greater than about 70.degree. C. to about 150.degree. C. to form a solid product, and contacting the solid product with an activating agent to form a catalyst. Other aspects of the invention provide a catalyst prepared by the above described method and a polymerization process employing the thus prepared catalyst.

Polyolefin polymerization process, method of producing catalyst, and

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Bartlesville, OK, United States of America

Kent E Mitchell