Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP

Robert K Provence

Gary L Glass

Kent E Mitchell

Randall S Muninger

Leigh A Ford

L Matthew Kirchman

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.

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Robert K Provence