Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited

Masashi Hamba

Akio Imai

Kazuki Wakamatsu

Yukio Naito

Kiyoyuki Sugimori

Tsutomu Konaka

Kohzoh Miyazaki

Yuji Gotoh

Yoshiyuki Ichikawa

Tomoaki Gotou

Koichi Ogino

The gas-phase fluidized-bed reactor conducting reaction by feeding a gas, through a gas-distribution plate located at the lower part of a reaction vessel, into a fluidized bed formed on the gas-distribution plate, wherein the reaction vessel is made up so as to have a narrowed part at a specified position of the gas flow passage above the gas-distribution plate, and the fluidized bed is formed in the area from below the narrowed part to above the narrowed part. The gas-phase fluidized bed rector of the present invention allows manufacturing polymers having excellent homogeneity of polymer structure in gas-phase polymerization.

Gas-phase fluidized-bed reactor, multivessel polymerization reactor and process for producing olefin polymer

There is provided a process for producing an olefin polymer, which comprises a step of polymerizing an olefin in a gas phase in the presence of a homogeneous solid catalyst having a content of particles having a particle size of not more than 180 &mgr;m of not more than 15% by weight based on 100% by weight of the total weight of the homogeneous solid catalyst.

Process for producing olefin polymer

Fluidized bed reactor for gas phase olefin polymerization, process for polymerizing olefin and process for producing olefinic polymer

An ethylene-.alpha.-olefin copolymer comprising ethylene and an .alpha.-olefin having from 3 to 10 carbon atoms, the copolymer having an .alpha.-olefin content of from 1.0 to 8.0 mol %, a density of from 0.900 to 0.930 g/cm.sup.3, and a melt flow rate of from 0.1 to 100 g/10 min., the programed-temperature thermogram of said copolymer as determined with a differential scanning calorimeter after being completely melted and then gradually cooled showing an endothermic peak (a) in a range of from 75.degree. to 100.degree. C. and an endothermic peak (b) in a range of from 120.degree. to 140.degree. C., with the ratio of an endotherm at the endothermic peak (b), .DELTA.Hb, to an endotherm at the endothermic peak (a), .DELTA.Ha, i.e., .DELTA.Hb/.DELTA.Ha, being from 0.03 to 2.0. The copolymer provides a film exhibiting excellent physical properties required for packaging film.

Ethylene-alpha-olefin copolymer and films obtained therefrom

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Masashi Hamba