Basell Polyolefine Gmbh

Sven Wolfram

Dieter Littmann

Andre-Armand Finette

Christoph Wolf

Michael Deuerling

Georg Groos

Danir Khayrullin

Jürgen Peter Mohrbutter

Giulia Mei

Andrei Gonioukh

Thomas Herrmann

Juergen Mohrbutter

Claudio Fibla

Erich Neumann

Udo Backes

Hicran Cabuk

Jürgen Mohrbutter

A process for polymerizing ethylene to obtain an ethylene-based polymer in a plant, wherein the plant includes a reactor in fluid communication with a recycle connection, wherein the process includes a polymerization phase, a partial shutdown phase, and the steps of reducing the pressure in the reactor for entering into the partial shutdown phase from the polymerization phase; and increasing the pressure in the reactor for exiting from the partial shutdown phase and re-entering the polymerization phase.

Polymerization process with a partial shutdown phase

A process for polymerizing or copolymerizing ethylenically unsaturated monomers at pressures in the range of from 110 MPa to 500 MPa in a production line comprising a continuously operated polymerization reactor, wherein the process comprises monitoring the surrounding of the production line with respect to an occurrence of a leakage of monomers or of reaction mixture by an IR point detector arrangement of at least three groups of IR point detectors which are capable of detecting hydrocarbons and the groups of IR point detectors are operating according to a voting logic and starting automatically an emergency pressure release program when a group of IR point detectors of the IR point detector arrangement detects the presence of hydrocarbons.

High-pressure polymerization process of ethylenically unsaturated monomers

A process for polymerizing or copolymerizing ethylenically unsaturated monomers at pressures in the range of from 110 MPa to 500 MPa in a production line comprising a continuously operated polymerization reactor, wherein at least one of a pre-heater or pre-cooler, a polymerization reactor or a post reactor cooler is composed of tubes of a length from 5 m to 25 m which are flanged together, either directly or via bends, and the flanges are covered by a chimney construction, and wherein air is conveyed through the chimney construction and the air exiting the chimney construction is monitored with respect to the hydrocarbons concentration.

High-pressure polymerization process of ethylenically unsaturated monomers in a production line having flanges covered by a chimney construction

A process for separating polymeric and gaseous components of a polymer-monomer mixture at a pressure of from 0.12 MPa to 0.6 MPa and a temperature of from 120&#xb0; C. to 300&#xb0; C. in a separation vessel is provided. The separation vessel has a vertically arranged cylindrical shape with a ratio of length to diameter L/D of from 0.6 to 10 and an inlet pipe capable of introducing the polymer-monomer mixture into the separation vessel which the inlet pipe extends vertically from the top of the separation vessel into the separation vessel. Further a process for preparing ethylene homopolymers or copolymers from ethylenically unsaturated monomers in the presence of free-radical polymerization initiators at temperatures from 100&#xb0; C. to 350&#xb0; C. and pressures in the range of from 110 MPa to 500 MPa comprising such a process for separating a polymer-monomer mixture is provided.

Process for separating components of a polymer-monomer mixture obtained by high-pressure polymerization of ethylenically unsaturated monomers

A process for polymerizing or copolymerizing ethylenically unsaturated monomers in the presence of free-radical polymerization initiators, wherein the polymerization is carried out at temperatures from 100&#xb0; C. to 350&#xb0; C. and pressures in the range of from 110 MPa to 500 MPa in a continuously operated polymerization reactor which is controlled by a pressure control valve at the outlet of the polymerization reactor, the process comprising continuously monitoring the pressure within the polymerization reactor, feeding a pressure signal to a controller for controlling the control valve and having the controller altering the opening of the pressure control valve to control the pressure within the polymerization reactor, wherein the controller starts an emergency shutdown program when the pressure control valve closes more than a preset threshold value and the pressure within the polymerization reactor decreases below a preset pressure threshold.

The present technology relates to a process for polymerizing or copolymerizing ethylenically unsaturated monomers in the presence of free-radical polymerization initiators, wherein the polymerization is carried out in a continuously operated tubular reactor at temperatures from 100&#xb0; C. to 350&#xb0; C. and pressures from 180 MPa to 340 MPa, with a specific reactor surface area Aof 2 m/(t/h) to 5.5 m/(t/h), and the tubular reactor has a specific ratio RDof 0.0050 MPato 0.0069 MPaand an inner surface which has a surface roughness Ra of 2 &#x3bc;m or less.

High-pressure polymerization process of ethylenically unsaturated monomers in a tubular reactor

Process for the preparation of ethylene homopolymers or copolymers in a high pressure reactor with at least two spatially separated initiator injection points by polymerizing ethylene and optionally further monomers in the presence of at least two different mixtures of free-radical polymerization initiators at from 100&#xb0; C. to 350&#xb0; C. and pressures in the range of from 160 MPa to 350 MPa, wherein the process comprises the following steps:

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