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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:
May. 20, 1997
Filed:
Oct. 19, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Andreas Deckers, Flomborn, DE;
Albin Berger, Bobenheim, DE;
J urgen Hofmann, Ludwigshafen, DE;
Roger Klimesch, Alsbach-H ahnlein, DE;
Karl-Peter Farwerck, Worms, DE;
Hilmar Ohlig, Kaiserslautern, DE;
Assignee:
BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C08F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
528481 ; 5285 / ; 5285 / ;
Abstract
Polyolefins are thermomechanically degraded in a twin-screw extruder without a downstream degradation apparatus, at from 300.degree. to 550.degree. C. and from 1 to 100 bar and in average residence times of the reaction mixture of from 0.5 to 10 minutes, by a process in which the pressure in the twin-screw extruder is changed periodically or aperiodically with a fluctuation of from 0.5 to 30 bar. The novel process is particularly suitable for the degradation of polypropylene.