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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:
Jun. 20, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 12, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Duan-Fan Wang, Somerville, NJ (US);
Robert Lorenz Boysen, Lebanon, NJ (US);
Leonard Sebastian Scarola, Union, NJ (US);
Gary Harry Williams, Flemington, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology Corporation, Danbury, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C08F / ; C08F / ; C08F / ; C08F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
526 88 ; 526 88 ; 526282 ; 526341 ; 526335 ; 5263472 ; 5263487 ; 526901 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides a process and apparatus for feeding powders such as fine, cohesive, or powdery particulate materials from a low pressure system to a high pressure system. In a preferred embodiment a process and apparatus of pressurizing and feeding carbon black fluff to a polymerization reactor is provided particularly a gas phase fluidized polymerization reactor to provide for a close-coupling of a carbon black reactor to a polymerization reactor.