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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:
Aug. 20, 1996
Filed:
Dec. 20, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kevin J Cann, Rocky Hill, NJ (US);
Fathi D Hussein, Cross Lanes, WV (US);
Daniel P Zilker, Jr, Charleston, WV (US);
Kiu H Lee, South Charleston, WV (US);
Assignee:
Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology Corporation, Danbury, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C08F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
526 62 ;
Abstract
A method for passivating internal surfaces of a reactor system during start-up and shutdown of an alpha olefin polymerization or copolymerization reaction by adding a passivation agent such as a dialkyl zinc compound, an alcohol, or an epoxide, to the reactor prior to exposing the internal reactor surfaces to air or moisture before reaction initiation and/or after reaction ceases.