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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 1978
Filed:
Nov. 15, 1976
Friedrich Urban, Limburgerhof, DT;
Oskar Buechner, Dudenhofen, DT;
Ulrich Hartig, Neckargemuend, DT;
Hans Gropper, Ludwigshafen, DT;
BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen, DT;
Abstract
Ethylene polymers are manufactured in a tubular reactor under high pressure and at high temperatures in the presence of polymerization initiators. The polymerization is carried out in two different zones of the reactor, a mixture of ethylene, oxygen and regulator being fed into the first zone and a co-initiator having a half-life temperature, measured in benzene, of above 140.degree. C being additionally fed into the second zone. The co-initiator may be a peroxide or a hydroperoxide. The melt index, or the haze and gloss of a film produced from the resulting ethylene polymer, can be varied advantageously through the choice of the co-initiator.