Patents by Inventor Günter Weickert

Günter Weickert 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).

  • Publication number: 20100267915
    Abstract: The invention relates to a reactor system and process for the catalytic polymerization of olefin monomer and optionally comonomer(s), having one or more inlets for olefin monomer, catalyst, optionally for comonomer, chain growth controllers or chain transfer agents, and/or inert gas, an outlet for gas and an outlet for polymerized particles. The reactor system has at least one fluidized bed unit and at least one moving bed unit, wherein the fluidized bed unit has means for maintaining a fluidized bed in the fluidized bed unit and wherein the moving bed unit is provided with an inlet and an outlet which are connected to the fluidized bed unit, wherein the outlet of the moving bed unit is provided with means for displacing metered quantities of polymerized particles from the moving bed unit into the fluidized bed unit, and to the use of such reactor system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: BOREALIS TECHNOLOGY OY
    Inventors: Michiel Bergstra, Erik Eriksson, Gunter Weickert
  • Publication number: 20100267916
    Abstract: The invention relates to a reactor system and process for the catalytic polymerization of olefin monomer and optionally comonomer(s), having one or more inlets for olefin monomer, catalyst, optionally for comonomer, chain growth controllers or chain transfer agents, and/or inert gas, an outlet for gas and an outlet for polymerization particles. The reactor system has at least one fluidized bed unit and at least one moving bed unit, wherein the fluidized bed unit has means for maintaining a fluidized bed in the fluidized bed unit and wherein the moving bed unit is provided with an inlet and an outlet which are connected to the fluidized bed unit, wherein in the fluidized bed unit is positioned shielding means such that via the outlet of the moving bed unit inflow of fluidization gas is inhibited and outflow of polymerization particles is allowed and to a process and use thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: BOREALIS TECHNOLOGY OY
    Inventors: Michiel Bergstra, Erik Eriksson, Gunter Weickert
  • Patent number: 7781545
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the catalytic polymerization of olefins comprising the steps of; i) a first polymerization in a first reactor, wherein olefins are polymerized with a particulate catalyst, hydrogen and optional a comonomer in a fluidum of an inert low boiling hydrocarbon medium into an reaction mixture comprising polymerized olefins; and ii) a second polymerization in a second reactor, wherein the polymerized olefins are further polymerized in a fluidized bed and in a moving bed under such conditions that the residence time in the fluidized bed and the residence time in the moving bed are independently controlled to a reactor system for carrying out said process, to the use of the reactor system, the polyolefins obtainable with said method and to the use of these polyolefins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Borealis Technology Oy
    Inventors: Gunter Weickert, Bill Benjamin Rudolf Gustafsson
  • Patent number: 7776973
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the catalytic polymerization of olefins, wherein olefins are contacted with a particulate catalyst in a fluidized bed and in a moving bed such that the residence time in the fluidized bed and the residence time in the moving bed are independently controlled, to a reactor system comprising a fluidized bed reactor provided with a reactant inlet, a product outlet and means for maintaining a fluidized bed in the fluidized bed reactor and with a moving bed reactor provided with an inlet directly connected to the fluidized bed reactor and an outlet connected to the fluidized bed reactor such that the residence time in the fluidized bed reactor and the residence in the moving bed reactor are independently controlled, and to its use for the catalytic polymerization of olefins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Inventor: Gunter Weickert
  • Publication number: 20090215972
    Abstract: A process for the polymerisation of ethylene or the copolymerisation of ethylene and alpha-olefins in the presence of a catalyst system comprising—as components (a) a transition metal compound, (b) a non-aluminoxane activator, and (c) optionally a support, comprises the use of a prepolymer prepared by contact of the catalyst components with ethylene and/or one of more alpha-olefins at a temperature in the range 60° C. to 100° C. The prepolymer may be isolated or used in situ for the polymerisation of ethylene or the copolymerisation of ethylene and alpha-olefins in particular 1-hexene. By use of the process thermal stability of the catalyst is improved leading to increased activity without any deterioration in polymer morphology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2006
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Inventors: Yahya Ahmad Banat, Jean-Richard Llinas, Sergio Mastroianni, Gunter Weickert, Joelle Marie-Louise Collomb
  • Publication number: 20070100093
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the catalytic polymerization of olefins comprising the steps of; i) a first polymerization in a first reactor, wherein olefins are polymerized with a particulate catalyst, hydrogen and optional a comonomer in a fluidum of an inert low boiling hydrocarbon medium into an reaction mixture comprising polymerized olefins; and ii) a second polymerization in a second reactor, wherein the polymerized olefins are further polymerized in a fluidized bed and in a moving bed under such conditions that the residence time in the fluidized bed and the residence time in the moving bed are independently controlled to a reactor system for carrying out said process, to the use of the reactor system, the polyolefins obtainable with said method and to the use of these polyolefins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2004
    Publication date: May 3, 2007
    Applicant: Borealis Technology OY
    Inventors: Gunter Weickert, Bill Benjamin Gustafsson
  • Publication number: 20070032616
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the catalytic polymerization of olefins, wherein olefins are contacted with a particulate catalyst in a fluidized bed and in a moving bed such that the residence time in the fluidized bed and the residence time in the moving bed are independently controlled, to a reactor system comprising a fluidized bed reactor provided with a reactant inlet, a product outlet and means for maintaining a fluidized bed in the fluidized bed reactor and with a moving bed reactor provided with an inlet directly connected to the fluidized bed reactor and an outlet connected to the fluidized bed reactor such that the residence time in the fluidized bed reactor and the residence in the moving bed reactor are independently controlled, and to its use for the catalytic polymerization of olefins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2004
    Publication date: February 8, 2007
    Inventor: Gunter Weickert
  • Patent number: 6518372
    Abstract: In a process for the gas-phase polymerization of &agr;-olefins at from 20 to 130° C. and pressures of from 1 to 100 bar, the polymerization is carried out in a tubular reactor having a length:diameter ratio of >100 and the growing polymer particles pass through the tubular reactor in its longitudinal direction without a significant part of the polymer particle stream being circulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: Basell Polyolefine GmbH
    Inventor: Günter Weickert