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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 1977
Filed:
Dec. 18, 1975
Applicant:
Inventor:
Herman J Baumgartner, Cypress, CA (US);
Assignee:
Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C08F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2608 / ;
Abstract
A process for the removal of impurities from solvents utilized in a cyclic process for the production of block copolymers is provided which comprises separation of block copolymers from their polymerization solvent, the separated solvent having a stated temperature, and hydrotreatment of the solvent with a heterogeneous hydrogenation catalyst at a weight hour space velocity greater than about two, whereby the undesirable contaminents are reduced, and recycling the hydrotreated solvent to the polymerization reactor.