Patents by Inventor Kaspar Evertz
Kaspar Evertz 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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Publication number: 20030008982Abstract: The invention relates to a method for polymerizing or copolymerizing ethylenically unsaturated monomers in the presence of radically decomposing polymerization initiators in a continuously operating polymerization device. Said polymerization device is composed of a fresh gas supply, a pre-compressor, a post-compressor, a reactor, a pressure maintaining valve, of a high-pressure circuit, which is provided with a high-pressure product separator and with a high-pressure circuit gas return, and of a product valve and a low-pressure circuit, which is provided with a low-pressure product separator and with a low-pressure circuit gas return. The inventive method is characterized in that nitrogen monoxide or oxygen is added in a dosed manner as an inhibitor into the high-pressure circuit, into the low-pressure circuit and/or into the pre-compressor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2002Publication date: January 9, 2003Inventors: Frank-Olaf Mahling, Andreas Deckers, Dieter Littmann, Heinz Friedrich Sutoris, Kaspar Evertz
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Patent number: 6472482Abstract: Polyolefins, preferably polyethylene, are prepared in a continuous gas-phase polymerization process in which the fluid monomeric component, preferably ethylene, and, optionally, one or more comonomers is/are polymerized in the polymerization zone of a fluidized-bed reactor in the presence of one or more catalysts, optionally with the addition of various auxiliaries, under reaction conditions where the fluidizing gas is circulated to remove the heat of polymerization or reaction and the polymerization product is taken from the circuit and the corresponding amount of monomer and, optionally, comonomers and optionally further auxiliaries are fed in, wherein the fluidizing gas discharged from the fluidized-bed reactor is cooled by means of a direct cooling apparatus in which the coolant is brought into direct contact with the fluidizing gas and heated coolant is passed to at least one further cooling stage in order to cool it and is, after cooling, wholly or partly returned to the direct cooling apparatus and/orType: GrantFiled: April 4, 2001Date of Patent: October 29, 2002Assignee: Basell Polyolefine GmbHInventors: Kaspar Evertz, Manfred Sandkühler, Walter Schicketanz
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Patent number: 6465608Abstract: The invention relates to a method for drying and degassing polyolefins in which the polymerization product leaving a polymerization reactor is brought into contact with a degassing medium and simultaneously decompressed. The degassing medium employed according to the invention is the monomer to be polymerized, which, in particular, flows through a decompression tank in a circulation process and which is preferably also enriched with ethylene or other low-boiling olefins in an amount in the range from 0 to 100 mol %, based on the total amount of circulating gas. A polymerization in an amount of up to 10%, based on the total polymerization conversion, takes place in accordance with the invention inside the decompression tank.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2001Date of Patent: October 15, 2002Assignee: Basell Polyolefine GmbHInventors: Michael Witt, Paulus De Lange, Thomas Perner, Andreas Deckers, Kaspar Evertz, Dieter Lilge
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Patent number: 6462150Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the isolation of olefins from a gas mixture comprising one or more olefins, inert gas and catalyst poison, where the gas mixture is fed to a separation unit (18) and separated into olefin and inert gas. The method according to the invention has the special feature that an apparatus (17) is installed upstream or downstream of the separation unit (18) and that i) in the case of an upstream apparatus (17), the catalyst poison is at least partially removed from the gas mixture, and ii) in the case of a downstream apparatus (17), the catalyst poison is at least partially removed from the separated-off olefin. The olefins here are preferably isolated from a gas mixture formed as offgas in catalytic gas-phase polymerization for the preparation of polyolefins. The recovery of the olefins from the offgas is of economic importance.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2001Date of Patent: October 8, 2002Assignee: Basell Polyolefine GmbHInventors: Stefan Bitterlich, Kaspar Evertz, Manfred Hecker, Hans-Jacob Feindt
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Patent number: 6180729Abstract: In a continuous gas-phase polymerization process for preparing ethylene and propene homopolymers and copolymers, in which ethylene, propene or a mixture of ethylene or propene and C3-C8-&agr;-monoolefins is polymerized in the polymerization zone of a gas-phase polymerization reactor at from 30 to 125° C. and a pressure of from 1 to 100 bar in the gas phase in a bed of finely divided polymer in the presence of a catalyst, where the reactor gas is circulated to remove the heat of polymerization, polymer deposits in the circulating gas line are prevented by metering a catalyst poison having a boiling point above the maximum temperature within the circulating gas line into this circulating gas line in at most such an amount that it does not significantly impair the productivity of the catalyst in the reactor.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 1998Date of Patent: January 30, 2001Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Armin Lange, Wolfgang Micklitz, Rainer Karer, Kaspar Evertz, Shahram Mihan, Hans-Jacob Feindt, Manfred Hecker, Peter Bauer, Philipp Rosendorfer
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Patent number: 5557021Abstract: A novel Phillips catalyst for the copolymerization of ethylene with .alpha.-olefins, contains, as a catalytically active component, a finely divided, aluminum silicate-supported, phosphorus-containing chromium catalyst. This can be prepared by applying at least one organic phosphorus(III), (IV) and/or (V) compound and at least one chromium(III) compound which does not react with said phosphorus compounds under the reaction conditions used, in succcession in any order or simultaneously, to a finely divided aluminum silicate hydrogel or xerogel with formation of a catalyst intermediate and activating the catalyst intermediate at elevated temperatures in an oxidizing atmosphere, with the result that the chromium catalyst is formed. The novel Phillips catalyst gives ethylene/.alpha.-olefin copolymers in which the comonomers are more uniformly distributed over the copolymer chains than is the case with ethylene/.alpha.-olefin copolymers which have been prepared with the aid of conventional Phillips catalysts.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 1995Date of Patent: September 17, 1996Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Hans-Joachim Mueller, Kaspar Evertz, Siegfried Weber, Guido Funk, Rainer Konrad, Roland Saive
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Patent number: 5527868Abstract: Catalyst systems for the polymerization of C.sub.2 -C.sub.10 -alk-1-enes contain, as active components,a) a metallocene complex of the general formula I ##STR1## where M is a metal of subgroup III, IV or V of the Periodic Table of Elements or a metal of the lanthanide group,X is halogen, hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 -alkyl, C.sub.3 -C.sub.10 -cycloalkyl, C.sub.6 -C.sub.15 -aryl, alkylaryl of 7 to 15 carbon atoms or --OR.sup.15,R.sup.15 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 -alkyl, C.sub.6 -C.sub.15 -aryl, alkylaryl, arylalkyl, fluoroalkyl or fluoroaryl, each having 1 to 10 carbon atoms in the alkyl radical and 6 to 20 carbon atoms in the aryl radical,n is the valency of M minus two,R.sup.1 to R.sup.14 are each hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 -alkyl or are each C.sub.3 -C.sub.10 -cycloalkyl which in turn may carry C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 -alkyl as substituent, or are each C.sub.6 -C.sub.15 -aryl or arylalkyl, where two adjacent radicals together may furthermore form a cyclic group of 4 to 15 carbon atoms, or are each Si(R.sup.16).sub.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 1994Date of Patent: June 18, 1996Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Kaspar Evertz, Rueger Schlund, Peter Jutzi, Ingrid Mieling
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Patent number: 5496902Abstract: Catalyst systems for the polymerization of C.sub.2 -C.sub.10 -alk-1-enes contain, as active components,a) a metallocene complex of the general formula I ##STR1## where M is a metal of the subgroup III, IV or v of the Periodic Table of elements or a metal selected from the group consisting of the lanthanides,X is fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 -alkyl, C.sub.6 -C.sub.15 -aryl or --OR.sup.7,R.sup.7 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 -alkyl, C.sub.6 -C.sub.15 -aryl, alkylaryl, arylalkyl, fluoroalkyl or fluoroaryl, in each case having 1 to 10 carbon atoms in the alkyl radical and 6 to 20 carbon atoms in the aryl radical,n is the valency of M minus two,R.sup.1 to R.sup.6 are each hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 -alkyl, 5-membered to 7-membered cycloalkyl which in turn may carry C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 -alkyl as a substituent, C.sub.6 -C.sub.15 -aryl or arylalkyl, where two adjacent radicals together may furthermore form a cyclic group of 4 to 15 carbon atoms, or Si(R.sup.8).sub.3,R.sup.8 is C.sub.1 -C.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 1994Date of Patent: March 5, 1996Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Kaspar Evertz, Ruerger Schlund, Guenther Schweier, Hans Brintzinger, Werner Roell, Peter Jutzi, Ingrid Mieling, Winfried Mengele
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Patent number: 5480852Abstract: A novel Phillips catalyst for the copolymerization of ethylene with .alpha.-olefins, contains, as a catalytically active component, a finely divided, aluminum silicate-supported, phosphorus-containing chromium catalyst. This can be prepared by applying at least one organic phosphorus(III), (IV) and/or (V) compound and at least one chromium(III) compound which does not react with said phosphorus compounds under the reaction conditions used, in succcession in any order or simultaneously, to a finely divided aluminum silicate hydrogel or xerogel with formation of a catalyst intermediate and activating the catalyst intermediate at elevated temperatures in an oxidizing atmosphere, with the result that the chromium catalyst is formed. The novel Phillips catalyst gives ethylene/.alpha.-olefin copolymers in which the comonomers are more uniformly distributed over the copolymer chains than is the case with ethylene/.alpha.-olefin copolymers which have been prepared with the aid of conventional Phillips catalysts.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 1994Date of Patent: January 2, 1996Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Hans-Joachim Mueller, Kaspar Evertz, Siegfried Weber, Guido Funk, Rainer Konrad, Roland Saive
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Patent number: 5453475Abstract: Low density ethylene copolymers are obtainable by adding an aromatic hydrocarbon solution of a catalyst system, containing, as active components, metallocene complexes of metals of subgroups IV and V of the Periodic Table and oligomeric alumina compounds, to a mixture containing ethylene, comonomers and aliphatic hydrocarbons.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 1994Date of Patent: September 26, 1995Assignee: Basf AktiengesellschaftInventors: Bernhard Rieger, Dieter Lilge, Kaspar Evertz, Rainer Konrad
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Patent number: 5352658Abstract: A novel Phillips catalyst for the homopolymerization of ethylene and the copolymerization of ethylene with .alpha.-olefins contains, as a catalytically active component, a chromium catalyst supported on a finely divided aluminum silicate gel, modified with a fluoride and activated in an oxidizing atmosphere at elevated temperatures. The finely divided aluminum silicate gel (carrier gel) used here has an alumina content of from 0.5 to 6% by weight, the alumina being concentrated in the surface region of the carrier gel particles. The novel Phillips catalyst has high productivity and gives high molecular weight ethylene homopolymers and copolymers which have excellent low temperature impact strength and do not tend to swell in the blow molding process on emergence from the extruder die.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 1993Date of Patent: October 4, 1994Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Kaspar Evertz, Roland Saive, Guido Funk, Peter Koelle, Rainer Konrad, Hans Gropper