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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 19, 1997
Scott Ching-Sheng Hung, Houston, TX (US);
Kwok-Fu Lee, Houston, TX (US);
Joseph Michael Aubuchon, Houston, TX (US);
Daryl Henry Webster, Gainesville, GA (US);
James Hanawalt Lee, Naperville, IL (US);
BP Amoco Corporation, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus are described for continuous vapor phase polymerization of a polymerizable monomer or mixture thereof to produce normally solid polymer substances in two or more serially disposed vapor phase polymerization reactors, each containing a quench-cooled subfluidized particulate bed of polymerized monomer. More specifically, method and apparatus for transfer of polymer particles between high pressure, reactive gas-filled, continuous, vapor-phase polymerization reactors while maintaining each at independently selected operating conditions.