Tenneco Chemicals, Inc.

Robert S Miller

Donald Goodman

Robert J Stanaback

Marvin Koral

Martin L Feldman

Samuel Hoch

Mario Q Ceprini

William Frederick Cordes, Iii

Heat-stable vinyl halide resin compositions comprise (a) a vinyl halide resin prepared by the polymerization of a vinyl halide-containing monomer component in an aqueous medium in the presence of a free radical generating polymerization initiator and a chain-terminating agent that is an ortho-dihydric phenol and (b) a liquid antimony stabilizer composition.

Heat-stable vinyl halide resin compositions and a process for their

The polymerization of a monomer component that comprises vinyl chloride in an aqueous medium in the presence of a free radical generating polymerization initiator is terminated by introducing into the polymerization reaction mixture when from 70% to 95% of the monomer component has been polymerized from 0.01% to 0.10% by weight, based on the weight of the monomer component, of a chain-terminating agent that is a dialkylhydroxyphenylalkanoic acid ester of a neopentyl polyhydric alcohol, such as pentaerythritol tetrakis-[3-(3,5-di-tert.butyl-4-hydroxyphenyl)propionate].

Production of vinyl halide polymers with dialkyl, hydroxy phenyl

Vinyl chloride is removed from aqueous slurries prepared by the suspension polymerization of a monomer component that comprises vinyl chloride by heating the slurries at a temperature between 70.degree. C. and the boiling point of water at a pressure in the range of 30 mm Hg absolute to 3 atmospheres and removing the evolved vinyl chloride until the aqueous slurry contains less than 50 ppm and preferably less than 0.1 ppm of vinyl chloride, based on the weight of polymer in the slurry. The polymers that are recovered from the purified aqueous slurries contain less than 10 ppm, and in most cases less than 0.1 ppm of vinyl chloride.

Process for the removal of vinyl chloride from aqueous slurries of vinyl

Vinyl chloride is removed from polyvinyl chloride dispersions, latexes, and slurries by sparging them with an inorganic gas, such as air or ammonia, while they are maintained at subatmospheric pressure.

Process for the removal of vinyl chloride from polyvinyl chloride

Vinyl chloride is removed from polyvinyl chloride dispersions and latexes by adding to them from 2% to 8% by weight of a polar water-soluble organic compound that has a boiling point between about 50.degree. C. and 150.degree. C. and sparging the resulting mixtures with a gas, such as nitrogen, while they are maintained at subatmospheric pressure.

Vinyl chloride is removed from polyvinyl chloride dispersions, latexes, and slurries by sparging them with a gaseous organic compound, such as methane, while they are maintained at subatmospheric pressure.

Vinyl chloride is removed from a slurry or latex that contains from 100 to 15,000 parts per million of vinyl chloride and 5% to 50% by weight of a vinyl chloride polymer by adding to the slurry or latex from about 0.5% to 20% of its weight of a compound selected from the group consisting of vinyl acetate, methylene chloride, di-tert.butyl-p-cresol, and mixtures thereof, maintaining the resulting mixture at a temperature between 25.degree. C. and 125.degree. C. under vacuum, and removing the vinyl chloride vapor that is evolved until the slurry or latex contains not more than 50 ppm of vinyl chloride.

Manufacture of polyvinyl chloride of low vinyl chloride monomer content

Vinyl chloride is removed from wet cakes that comprise a vinyl chloride polymer, vinyl chloride, and water by contacting the wet cakes with steam, preferably at atmospheric pressure and at a temperature in the range of 100.degree. to 125.degree.C.

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