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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 1986
Filed:
Nov. 17, 1980
Hubert Sutter, Leverkusen, DE;
Karl-Uwe Haas, Victoria, TX (US);
Winston P Ledet, Victoria, TX (US);
E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
An improved continuous process for the manufacture of polymers of ethylene in autoclave reactors with practically complete back-mixing under pressure of from about 800 to about 2500 bars in the presence of free-radical-generating initiators is provided wherein (a) two autoclaves are connected in series in such a way that all the reaction product from the first reactor is fed to the second reactor, (b) each autoclave has a length/diameter (L/D) ratio of from about 1:1 to about 3:1, (c) the monomer(s) feed stream is divided between the two reactors such that when the temperature/concentration and/or pressure environment in the first reactor is different from that in the second reactor, the monomer(s) feed stream to the first reactor is equal to or greater than the monomer(s) feed stream to the second reactor, (d) the reaction temperatures in the two autoclaves are set such that when the temperature in the first reactor is different from that in the second reactor, the temperature in the first reactor is lower than the temperature in the second reactor, (e) the amount of initiator fed into each reactor being greater than 0.