Patents by Inventor Gabriele Mei
Gabriele Mei has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 7414098Abstract: Process for the gas-phase catalytic polymerization of olefins carried out in a plurality of interconnected polymerization zones, the process comprising feeding one or more monomers to said polymerization zones in the presence of a catalyst under reaction conditions and collecting the polymer product from said polymerization zones, in which process the polymer particles grow within a first polymerization zone where a fluidized bed is formed, at least a part of said polymer particles leave said first polymerization zone to enter a second polymerization zone through which they flow downward, leave said second polymerization zone and enter a third polymerization zone through which they flow upward under fast fluidization or transport conditions, leave said third polymerization zone and are reintroduced into the first polymerization zone, thus establishing a circulation of polymer between the different polymerization zones.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2003Date of Patent: August 19, 2008Assignee: Basell Polioefine Italia S.p.A.Inventors: Massimo Covezzi, Gerben Meier, Gabriele Mei
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Patent number: 7405260Abstract: A method for controlling the flowability of polymer particles flowing downward in a densified form inside a polymerization reactor, in which one or more monomers are gas-phase polymerized in the presence of a polymerization catalyst, the density of solid (Kg of polymer per m3 of reactor occupied by the polymer) being higher than 80% of the “poured bulk density” of the polymer, the method being characterized in that a liquid stream is continuously fed into the polymerization reactor at a mass flow rate per unity of reactor surface higher than 30 Kg/h m2.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2005Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Basell Poliolefine Italia s.r.l.Inventors: Gabriele Mei, Stefano Bertolini
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Patent number: 7381773Abstract: A propylene polymer composition having a melt flow rate (MFR) value from 3 to 30 g/10 min, comprising (percent by weight): A) 50-90% of one or more propylene copolymer(s) having a content of xylene-insoluble mojety at room temperature of not less than 85%, selected from the group consisting of propylene-ethylene random copolymers containing from 1 to 7%, of ethylene; propylene-C4-C8 ?-olefin copolymers containing 2-10% of the C4-C8 alpha-olefins; and propylene-ethylene-C4-C8 ?-olefin copolymers containing 0.5-5% of ethylene and 2-6% Of C4-C8 ?-olefins; and B) 10-50% of a copolymer of propylene containing from 8 to 40% of ethylene and optionally 1-10% of a C4-C8 alpha-olefin; the said MFR value (MFR (2)) being obtained by subjecting to degradation a precursor composition comprising the same components A) and B) in the above said proportions, but having the MFR value (MER (1)) from 0.1 to 5 g/10 min with a ratio MFR (2) to MFR (1) of from 1.5 to 20.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2002Date of Patent: June 3, 2008Assignee: Basell Poliolefine Italia S.p.A.Inventors: Anteo Pelliconi, Angelo Lonardo, Gabriele Mei
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Publication number: 20080058484Abstract: A method for controlling the flowability of polymer particles flowing downward in a densified form inside a polymerization reactor, in which one or more monomers are gas-phase polymerized in the presence of a polymerization catalyst, the density of solid (Kg of polymer per m3 of reactor occupied by the polymer) being higher than 80% of the “poured bulk density” of the polymer, the method being characterized in that a liquid stream is continuously fed into the polymerization reactor at a mass flow rate per unity of reactor surface higher than 30 Kg/h m2.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2005Publication date: March 6, 2008Applicant: Basell Poliolefine Italia s.r.l.Inventors: Gabriele Mei, Stefano Bertolini
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Publication number: 20070282083Abstract: A process for preparing a broad molecular weight polyethylene carried out in the presence of a catalyst system comprising (i) a solid catalyst component comprising Mg, Ti, halogen, and optionally an internal electron donor compound, and (ii) an Al-alkyl cocatalyst said process comprising at least two step of polymerization (a) and (b), in which: in a first step (a) ethylene is polymerized in the presence of a molecular weight regulator in order to produce a ethylene (co)polymer, and in a further step (b), which is carried out in the presence of an external electron donor compound added to this polymerization step as a fresh reactant, ethylene is copolymerized with an alpha olefin of formula CH2?CHR, in which R is a C1-C20 hydrocarbon group, to produce an ethylene copolymer having a molecular weight higher than that of the copolymer produced in step (b).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2004Publication date: December 6, 2007Applicant: Basell Polyolefine GmbHInventors: Pietro Baita, Massimo Covezzi, Gabriele Mei, Giampiero Morini, Joachim Pater
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Publication number: 20070270556Abstract: A process for preparing heterophasic propylene copolymers by polymerizing propylene in the presence of a polymerization catalyst and hydrogen as a molecular weight regulator, the process comprising the following steps: a) polymerizing in gas- or liquid-phase propylene to prepare a crystalline polymer fraction; b) copolymerizing ethylene with propylene and/or 1-butene, and optionally one or more alpha-olefin comonomers C5-C12, in a gas-phase reactor having interconnected polymerization zones, wherein the growing polymer particles flow upward through a first polymerization zone (riser) under fast fluidization or transport conditions, leave said riser and enter a second polymerization zone (downcomer) through which they flow downward under the action of gravity.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2005Publication date: November 22, 2007Applicant: Basell Poliolefine Italia s.r.l.Inventors: Gabriele Mei, Joachim Pater, Stefano Bertolini
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Publication number: 20070159628Abstract: Method for monitoring the velocity of growing polymer particles flowing in a two-phase stream during a polymerization process, said method comprising measuring the degree of attenuation in the propagation of light in said two-phase stream by means of a photometric instrument, said photometric instrument comprising: one or more transmitting optical waveguides connecting one or more light sources to said two-phase stream, one or more receiving optical waveguides connecting said two-phase stream to a light detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2004Publication date: July 12, 2007Applicant: BASELL POLIOLEFINE ITALIA S.r.l.Inventors: Christian Schmidt, Ziegler Stefan, Gabriele Mei, Stefano Bertolini, Gerben Meier
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Publication number: 20070093621Abstract: Process for preparing a broad molecular weight polyethylene by polymerizing ethylene in the presence of a polymerization catalyst, the process comprising the following steps, in any mutual order: a) polymerizing ethylene, optionally together with one or more ?-olefinic comonomers having from 3 to 12 carbon atoms, in a gas-phase reactor in the presence of hydrogen, b) copolymerizing ethylene with one or more ?-olefinic comonomers having from 3 to 12 carbon atoms in another gas-phase reactor in the presence of an amount of hydrogen less than step a), where in at least one of said gas-phase reactors the growing polymer particles flow upward through a first polymerization zone under fast fluidization or transport conditions, leave said first polymerization zone and enter a second polymerization zone through which they flow downward under the action of gravity.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2004Publication date: April 26, 2007Applicant: BASELL POLIOLEFINE ITALIA S.R.L.Inventors: Gerben Meier, Massimo Covezzi, Pietro Baita, Gabriele Mei
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Patent number: 7199163Abstract: Method for continuously removing the unreacted butene-1, and optionally other volatile components, from a polymeric solution obtained by liquid phase (co)polymerization of butene-1, the method comprising the steps of: subjecting the polymeric solution to heating and mixing conditions such that a mixture is formed consisting substantially of: (1) a polybutene melt containing entrapped butene-1 and (2) supercritical gaseous butene-1; subjecting the above mixture to a sequence of devolatilization steps operating at decreasing pressures.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2003Date of Patent: April 3, 2007Assignee: Basell Poliolefine Italia S.p.A.Inventors: Daniele Bigiavi, Nicolò Arich De Finetti, Gabriele Mei, Guiseppe Penzo, Massimo Covezzi, Pietro Baita, Maria Silvia Tonti
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Patent number: 7160964Abstract: A liquid-phase process for polymerizing ?-olefins of the formula CH2?CHR, where R is H or an alkyl radical C1–C6, to produce a polymer that is soluble in the reaction medium, comprising the steps of: a) continuously polymerizing in liquid phase the ?-olefin in the presence of a catalyst system based on a transition metal compound; b) continuously withdrawing from step a) a solution of polymer in the liquid reaction medium; c) mixing in one or more mixing stages said solution of polymer in the reaction medium with an organic deactivator having: at least a hydroxy group, a boiling point higher than 150° C., and a ratio between the molecular weight (MW) and the number of hydroxy groups (OH) comprised between 20 and 100.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2003Date of Patent: January 9, 2007Assignee: Basell Poliolefine Italia S.p.A.Inventors: Daniele Bigiavi, Gabriele Mei, Nicolo' Arich De Finetti, Giuseppe Penzo, Gianni Vitale, Massimo Covezzi
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Publication number: 20070004879Abstract: A continuous process for the olefin polymerization in a fluidized bed reactor, said process comprising continuously passing a gaseous stream comprising one or more ?-olefin monomers through the fluidized bed in the presence of a polymerization catalyst under reactive conditions, withdrawing polymeric product and unreacted fluids from the reactor, cooling part of said unreacted fluids below the dew point to form a two-phase mixture of gas and condensed liquid and reintroducing said two-phase mixture into the reactor, the process being characterized in that said twophase mixture is reintroduced under the distribution plate of the reactor so that a part of condensed liquid is separated from the gas and is successively fed above the fluidized bed through an external pipe connecting the bottom of the reactor to a point situated above the upper limit of the fluidized bed of polymer particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2004Publication date: January 4, 2007Applicant: Basell Poliolefine Italia s.r.l.Inventors: Giuseppe Penzo, Gabriele Mei, Gerben Meier
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Publication number: 20060058474Abstract: Process for the gas-phase catalytic polymerization of olefins carried out in a plurality of interconnected polymerization zones, the process comprising feeding one or more monomers to said polymerization zones in the presence of a catalyst under reaction conditions and collecting the polymer product from said polymerization zones, in which process the polymer particles grow within a first polymerization zone where a fluidized bed is formed, at least a part of said polymer particles leave said first polymerization zone to enter a second polymerization zone through which they flow downward, leave said second polymerization zone and enter a third polymerization zone through which they flow upward under fast fluidization or transport conditions, leave said third polymerization zone and are reintroduced into the first polymerization zone, thus establishing a circulation of polymer between the different polymerization zones.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2003Publication date: March 16, 2006Applicant: BASELL POLIOLEFINE ITALIA S.P.A.Inventors: Massimo Covezzi, Gerben Meier, Gabriele Mei
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Patent number: 6994915Abstract: Biaxially oriented polypropylene films (BOPP) having at least one layer of a propylene polymer containing at least 0.8% by weight of ethylene and, optionally, one or more C4-C10 ?-olefins, or a propylene polymer composition containing at least 0.8% by weight of one or more comonomers selected from the group consisting of ethylene and C4-C10 ?-olefins, and having I) a melting temperature of 155° C. or higher; and II) a xylene soluble fraction at room temperature lower than 3% by weight, and a value of the ratio of the polymer fraction collected at the temperature range from 25° C. to 95° C. (by TREF) to the said xylene soluble fraction higher than 8.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2001Date of Patent: February 7, 2006Assignee: Basell Poliolefine Italia s.r.l.Inventors: Anteo Pelliconi, Angelo Lonardo, Gabriele Mei
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Publication number: 20050250917Abstract: A liquid-phase process for polymerizing ?-olefins of the formula CH2?CHR, where R is H or an alkyl radical C1-C6, to produce a polymer that is soluble in the reaction medium, comprising the steps of: a) continuously polymerizing in liquid phase the ?-olefin in the presence of a catalyst system based on a transition metal compound; b) continuously withdrawing from step a) a solution of polymer in the liquid reaction medium; c) mixing in one or more mixing stages said solution of polymer in the reaction medium with an organic deactivator having: at least a hydroxy group, a boiling point higher than 150° C., and a ratio between the molecular weight (MW) and the number of hydroxy groups (OH) comprised between 20 and 100.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2003Publication date: November 10, 2005Applicant: DANIELE BIGIAVI, GABRIELE MEI, NICOLO' ARICH DE FINETTIInventors: Daniele Bigiavi, Gabriele Mei, Nicolo Arich De Finetti, Giuseppe Penzo, Gianni Vitale, Massimo Covezzi
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Publication number: 20050234217Abstract: Method for continuously removing the unreacted butene-1, and optionally other volatile components, from a polymeric solution obtained by liquid phase (co)polymerization of butene-1, the method comprising the steps of: subjecting the polymeric solution to heating and mixing conditions such that a mixture is formed consisting substantially of: (1) a polybutene melt containing entrapped butene-1 and (2) supercritical gaseous butene-1; subjecting the above mixture to a sequence of devolatilization steps operating at decreasing pressures.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2003Publication date: October 20, 2005Applicant: Basell Poliolefine Italia S.p.A.Inventors: Daniele Bigiavi, Nicolo Arich De Finetti, Gabriele Mei, Giuseppe Penzo, Massimo Covezzi, Pietro Baita, Maria Silvia Tonti
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Publication number: 20040266952Abstract: A propylene polymer composition having a melt flow rate (MFR) value from 3 to 30 g/10 min, comprising (percent by weight): A) 50-90% of one or more propylene copolymer(s) having a content of xylene-insoluble mojety at room temperature of not less than 85%, selected from the group consisting of propylene-ethylene random copolymers containing from 1 to 7%, of ethylene; propylene-C4-C8 &agr;-olefin copolymers containing 2-10% of the C4-C8 alpha-olefins; and propylene-ethylene-C4-C8 a-olefin copolymers containing 0.5-5% of ethylene and 2-6% Of C4-C8 &agr;-olefins; and B) 10-50% of a copolymer of propylene containing from 8 to 40% of ethylene and optionally 1-10% of a C4-C8 alpha-olefin; the said MFR value (MFR (2)) being obtained by subjecting to degradation a precursor composition comprising the same components A) and B) in the above said proportions, but having the MFR value (MER (1)) from 0.1 to 5 g/10 min with a ratio MFR (2) to MFR (1) of from 1.5 to 20.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2004Publication date: December 30, 2004Inventors: Anteo Pelliconi, Angelo Lonardo, Gabriele Mei
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Patent number: 6800710Abstract: Polypropylene sheet for thermoforming having at least one layer comprises a propylene polymer containing at least 0.8% by weight of ethylene and, optionally, one or more C4-C10 &agr;-olefins, or a propylene polymer composition containing at least 0.8% by weight of one or more comonomers selected from the group consisting of ethylene and C4-C10 &agr;-olefins, and having I) a melting temperature of 155° C. or higher; and II) a xylene soluble fraction at room temperature lower than 4% by weight, and a value of the ratio of the polymer fraction collected at 25° C. to 95° C. to the xylene soluble fraction higher than 8.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2002Date of Patent: October 5, 2004Assignee: Basell Poliolefine Italia S.p.A.Inventors: Anteo Pelliconi, Angelo Lonardo, Gabriele Mei
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Publication number: 20030165703Abstract: Bioriented polypropylene films (BOPP) wherein at least one layer comprises a propylene polymer containing at least 0.8 % by weight of ethylene and optionally one or more (C4-C10&agr;-olefins, or a propylene polymer composition containing at least 0.8% by weight of one or more comonomers selected from ethylene and more C4-C10&agr;-olefins, and having the following Icatures: 1) a melting temperature of 155° C. or higher; 2) a content of fraction soluble in xylene at room temperature lower than 3% by weight and a value of the ratio of the polymer fraction collected at the temperature range from 25° C. to 95° C. (by TREF) to the said xylene soluble fraction higher than 8.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2002Publication date: September 4, 2003Inventors: Anteo Pelliconi, Angelo Lonardo, Gabriele Mei
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Publication number: 20030162907Abstract: Polypropylene sheet for thermoforming wherein at least one layer comprises a propylene polymer containing at least 0.8% by weight of ethylene and optionally one or more C4-C10 &agr;-olefins, or a propylene polymer composition containing at least 0.8% by weight of one or more comonomers selected from ethylene and C4-C10 &agr;-olefins, and having the following features: 1) a melting temperature of 155 ° C. or higher; 2) a content of fraction soluble in xylene at room temperature lower than 4% by weight, and a value of the ratio of the polymer fraction collected at the temperature range from 25° C. to 95° C. to the said xylene soluble fraction higher than 8.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2002Publication date: August 28, 2003Inventors: Anteo Pelliconi, Angelo Lonardo, Gabriele Mei