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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 1983
Filed:
Feb. 12, 1982
Vincent A Aliberti, Wilbraham, MA (US);
Robert L Kruse, Belchertown, MA (US);
Eduardo M Valcarce, South Hadley, MA (US);
Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to a process for preparing ABS polymers by continuous mass polymerization wherein an alkenyl aromatic monomer having a diene rubber dissolved therein is charged continuously to a reactor simultaneously with a separate feed-stream of an alkenyl nitrile monomer. The reactor is stirred to maintain, in the reaction mixture contained therein, a substantially uniform composition and operates at a steady state polymer solids level above that at which phase inversion occurs and up to about 70% polymer solids such that the diene rubber added is dispersed as rubber particles having a particle size of about 0.1 to 10 microns. A partially polymerized reaction mixture is continuously removed from the reactor and an ABS polymer is recovered therefrom.