Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology Corporation

Union Carbide Corporation

Union Carbide Chemicals and Plastics Company, Inc.

Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics

Robert J Bernier

Leonard Sebastian Scarola

Duan-Fan Wang

Robert Lorenz Boysen

Gary Harry Williams

Robert Cecil Brown

Mark Gregory Goode

Thomas Edward Spriggs

Robert Darrell Olson

John Henry Moorhouse

Richard W Wegman

George Ernest Keller, Ii

George N Foster

Edgar C Baker

David N Edwards

Urho S Haapala

Benjamin Roman Rozenblat

Jorge O Buhler-Vidal

Janice E Sanders

Raghunath G Menon

Albert L Legg

A process for producing polymer in a gas phase reactor by introducing a stream of monomer and gas into a polymerization zone while providing at least one liquid component in the polymerization zone.

Gas phase polymerization process

A process for producing polymers in a gas phase reactor by continuously introducing a stream of monomer and gas into a polymerization zone while maintaining the temperature within the polymerization zone below the dew point temperature of at least one monomer present in said polymerization zone.

A method for compounding at least one polymerized alpha-olefin resin in an extruder including a screw having a feeding section, a melting section, and a venting section, which method includes: (1) introducing the resin and a heat transfer medium into the feeding section such that the resin is maintained at a temperature below its melting point; (2) transporting the resin and heat transfer medium to the melting section such that the resin is at a temperature which is at or just above its melting point by sublimation or vaporization of the heat transfer medium and kneading the resin at a temperature which is at or just above its melting point; (3) passing a resin melt of step (2) through a melt seal into a venting section wherein the heat transfer medium is released from the extruder; and (4) pumping the resin melt out of the extruder.

Method for compounding a polymerized alpha-olefin resin

A finishing process for a polymer containing an active catalyst residue. Starting polymer has a crystallinity of less than 10 percent by weight and is maintained in an essentially oxygen free reaction zone at a temperature less than polymer sticking temperature. The polymer is stabilized and acids neutralized by adding 2, 6-di-tert-butyl-4-alkyl phenol and/or alkyl -3-(3-5 -di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxy phenyl)- propionate and zinc oxide, hydrotalcite, or a zeolite. Resulting polymer is then treated with catalyst deactivators including water, and then mixed with photo-oxidative stabilizers.

Polymer finishing process

A process for substantially removing and recovering unreacted diene monomer from ethylene propylene diene monomer resin produced in a fluidized bed reactor by purging the resin with steam in a purging zone, the resin being introduced in the purging zone at a temperature above the temperature of the steam in the purging zone.

Steam purging of granular EPDM resins

A process for removing diene from ethylene propylene diene monomer resin by subjecting said resin containing diene monomer to microwave energy in an amount for a time sufficient to evolve diene vapors while simultaneously passing a gas through said resin to removing said evolved diene vapors.

Process for removing dienes from ethylene propylene diene monomer resins

Method and apparatus for the post reaction treatment of resins produced by fluidized bed polymerization of alpha olefins wherein an extruder is coupled in communication with the reactor and all necessary devolatilization of monomer, deactivation of catalysts and addition of additives are performed in the extruder.

Fluidized bed product discharge process

A process for reducing the odor of ethylidene norbornene present in EPDM resin which comprises introducing a crystalline siliceous molecular sieve into said EPDM resin in an amount sufficient to reduce the odor produced by ethylidene norbornene present in said EPDM resin.

Process for reducing the odor of ethylidene norbornene present in EPDM

The deactivation of Ziegler-Natta catalyst and organometallic cocatalyst residues present in the olefin polymer resins produced by the fluidized bed polymerization process is accomplished in a purge vessel by contacting the olefin polymer resin with an inert purge gas containing water the latter being present in said inert purge gas in an amount to establish and maintain a moisture front region in the resin bed of said purge vessel as to create a region above said moisture front substantially free of water and wherein deactivation of said catalyst and cocatalyst are effected in said moisture front region.

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Flemington, NJ, United States of America

Robert J Bernier