Nippon Petrochemicals Company, Limited

Nippon Oil Company

Motokazu Watanabe

Kunimichi Kubo

Mamoru Yoshikawa

Yoshihisa Yamaguchi

Masatoshi Morikawa

Mituji Miyoshi

Yasunosuke Miyazaki

Shinjiro Suga

Yasuhiko Sano

A process for producing polyolefin with a vapor-phase fluidized-bed reactor, wherein the reaction is started after filling the reactor with particles which contain moisture and/or molecular oxygen and can form a fluidized bed in order to prevent the formation of molten resin which is liable to occur at the start of the reaction and to attain a smooth operation of the reactor.

Method for producing polyolefin

A process for feeding a powder catalyst with a gas intermittently to a high-pressure fluidized bed reactor for the vapor phase polymerization of olefin, wherein the cross section of a catalyst feed pipe is reduced midway through the pipe to thereby make continual catalyst feeding possible and prevent the formation of a lump polymer.

Process for feeding catalyst to fluidized bed for vapor phase

Provided is a method for vapor phase polymerization of olefins. An olefin gas is fed into a horizontal cylindrical vessel having a lower curved surface corresponding to 30 to 180 degrees of the circumference of the vessel and extending substantially the length of the vessel formed by a perforated plate having a multiplicity of holes spaced at intervals in the range of from 0.5 to 50 mm, through said plate from an olefin feed chamber mounted below and covering the plate. A polymer catalyst is fed into the horizontal cylindrical vessel through a polymerization catalyst inlet port located in a portion of the vessel other than the lower curved surface formed by the perforated plate. The olefin is reacted in the presence of a catalyst with agitation to form polymer. Unreacted olefin is removed through a discharge port located in a portion of the vessel other than the lower curved surface formed by the perforated plate. Polymer is removed through an outlet port located in a portion of the vessel other than the lower curved surface formed by the perforated plate.

Method for vapor phase polymerization of olefins

A horizontal agitation bed type vapor phase polymerization apparatus for olefins, having a lower curved surface constructed by a perforated plate so as to allow a olefin gas to be fed uniformly throughout the reaction system through the said perforated plate.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Motokazu Watanabe