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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2007
Uwe Stueven, Bad Soden, DE;
Matthias Weismantel, Jossgrund-Oberndorf, DE;
Wilfried Heide, Freinsheim, DE;
Marco Krüger, Mannheim, DE;
Volker Seidl, Mannheim, DE;
Stefan Blei, Mannheim, DE;
Dennis Loesch, Altrip, DE;
Rüdiger Funk, Niedernhausen, DE;
Annemarie Hillebrecht, Künzell, DE;
Uwe Stueven, Bad Soden, DE;
Matthias Weismantel, Jossgrund-Oberndorf, DE;
Wilfried Heide, Freinsheim, DE;
Marco Krüger, Mannheim, DE;
Volker Seidl, Mannheim, DE;
Stefan Blei, Mannheim, DE;
Dennis Loesch, Altrip, DE;
Rüdiger Funk, Niedernhausen, DE;
Annemarie Hillebrecht, Künzell, DE;
BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, DE;
Abstract
A process for preparing water-absorbing polymer beads with high permeability by polymerizing droplets of a monomer solution in a gas phase surrounding the droplets, wherein the monomer solution comprises at least 0.5% by weight of a crosslinker, based on the monomer, the polymerization in the droplet takes place in homogeneous phase, and the polymer beads have a mean diameter of at least 150 μm.