Patents by Inventor Márcia Silva Lacerda Miranda

Márcia Silva Lacerda Miranda 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).

  • Patent number: 11780942
    Abstract: A process of producing a composition comprising a copolymer of ethylene and one or more C4-C8 ?-olefins, may include copolymerizing the ethylene and the one or more C4-C8 ?-olefins in the presence of a procatalyst and an alkylaluminum cocatalyst. The procatalyst may be a Ti-containing Ziegler Natta procatalyst and the polymerization may include the procatalyst and the alkylaluminum cocatalyst in amounts such that a molar ratio of Al:Ti ranges from about 0.5 to about 50.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Braskem S.A.
    Inventors: Márcia Silva Lacerda Miranda, Olavo Martins Junior, Yue Yu, Christophe Boisson, Timothy Frederick Llewellyn McKenna
  • Publication number: 20230167208
    Abstract: A heterogeneous catalyst composition for preparing a highly-reactive polyisobutylene from isobutylene may include a Lewis acid, a support, an initiator, and optionally an electron donor. A method of polymerizing isobutylene to a highly-reactive polyisobutylene may include a heterogeneous catalyst composition including include a Lewis acid, a support, an initiator, and optionally an electron donor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: Braskem S.A.
    Inventors: Jiahan Xie, Márcia Silva Lacerda Miranda, Cassandra Gallaschun, Marcio Andrade, Danniel Panza, Marcio Reboucas, Richard Caulkins, Alicia Brasselle, Jan Kalfus
  • Publication number: 20230036349
    Abstract: A process for preliminary polymerization may include washing a catalyst mud comprising a supported metallocene catalyst with at least one saturated hydrocarbon at a temperature from 0° C. to 40° C., a pressure from 20 to 40 kgf/cm2, and a residence time of at least 30 minutes; continuously feeding the washed catalytic mud to a continuous pre-polymerization reactor; and pre-polymerizing, in the continuous pre-polymerization reactor, ethylene and at least one C4 to C10 ?-olefin as comonomer, with the washed catalytic mud, to produce a pre-polymer; wherein an average residence time in the continuous pre-polymerization reactor is more than 90 minutes and less than 240 minutes, a reactor temperature is from 10° C. to 50° C., and a reactor pressure from 20 to 40 kgf/cm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Braskem S.A.
    Inventors: Olavo Martins Junior, Fabio Andre Kunrath, Márcia Silva Lacerda Miranda
  • Publication number: 20210122858
    Abstract: A process of producing a composition comprising a copolymer of ethylene and one or more C4-C8 ?-olefins, may include copolymerizing the ethylene and the one or more C4-C8 ?-olefins in the presence of a procatalyst and an alkylaluminum cocatalyst. The procatalyst may be a Ti-containing Ziegler Natta procatalyst and the polymerization may include the procatalyst and the alkylaluminum cocatalyst in amounts such that a molar ratio of Al:Ti ranges from about 0.5 to about 50.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicant: Braskem S.A.
    Inventors: Márcia Silva Lacerda Miranda, Olavo Martins Junior, Yue Yu, Christophe Boisson, Timothy Frederick Llewellyn McKenna
  • Patent number: 10774205
    Abstract: A polymer composition may include a plurality of ethylene-based polymers forming a multimodal composition distribution, each having a distinct crystallization peak in a CEF curve. A process of making a polymer composition may include melt blending a plurality of polyethylenes with different microstructural characteristics in the molten state. Another process of making a polymer composition may include polymerizing ethylene and an optional alpha olefin in combination with a plurality of metallocene catalysts in a polymerization reactor to form a plurality of ethylene based polymers. Yet another process of making a polymer composition may include polymerizing ethylene and an optional alpha olefin in combination with a multimetal catalyst in a polymerization process to form a plurality of ethylene based polymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Braskem S.A.
    Inventors: Marcia Silva Lacerda Miranda, Daiane Schilling de Vargas, Adriane Gomes Simanke, Rodrigo Brambilla, Arthur Alaim Bernardes
  • Publication number: 20190002676
    Abstract: A polymer composition may include a plurality of ethylene-based polymers forming a multimodal composition distribution, each having a distinct crystallization peak in a CEF curve. A process of making a polymer composition may include melt blending a plurality of polyethylenes with different microstructural characteristics in the molten state. Another process of making a polymer composition may include polymerizing ethylene and an optional alpha olefin in combination with a plurality of metallocene catalysts in a polymerization reactor to form a plurality of ethylene based polymers. Yet another process of making a polymer composition may include polymerizing ethylene and an optional alpha olefin in combination with a multimetal catalyst in a polymerization process to form a plurality of ethylene based polymers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: Braskem S.A.
    Inventors: Marcia Silva Lacerda Miranda, Daiane Schilling de Vargas, Adriane Gomes Simanke, Rodrigo Brambilla, Arthur Alaim Bernardes
  • Patent number: 9994648
    Abstract: The present invention describes a metallocene catalyst based on a transition metal of group 4 or 5 of the periodic table, supported on a hybrid catalytic support provided with aliphatic organic groups, and a process for supporting metallocene on the hybrid catalytic support. The supported metallocene catalyst provides an ethylene polymer with broad or bimodal molecular weight distribution, in the presence of only one metallocene complex on the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignees: Braskem S.A., Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
    Inventors: Rodrigo Brambilla, Marcia Silva Lacerda Miranda, Joao Henrique Zimnoch dos Santos, Fernando Silveira
  • Patent number: 9988465
    Abstract: The present invention describes a metallocene catalyst based on a transition metal of group 4 or 5 of the periodic table, supported on a hybrid catalytic support provided with aliphatic organic groups, and a process for supporting metallocene on the hybrid catalytic support. The supported metallocene catalyst provides an ethylene polymer with broad or bimodal molecular weight distribution, in the presence of only one metallocene complex on the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignees: Braskem S.A., Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
    Inventors: Rodrigo Brambilla, Marcia Silva Lacerda Miranda, Joao Henrique Zimnoch dos Santos, Fernando Silveira
  • Patent number: 9822199
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a metallocene catalyst based on a transition metal of groups 4 or 5 of the periodic table prepared by the immobilization of a metallocene complex on a support modified with hybrid soluble silica, prepared by a non-hydrolytic sol-gel process. There is also described a process for preparing said catalyst. The supported metallocene catalyst of the present invention has the advantages of high catalytic activity, morphology, besides the fact of producing copolymers of ethylene with alpha-olefins having molecular behavior that will bring benefits in mechanical properties, such as resistance to tearing, piercing and impact, as well as improved optical and weldability properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Braskem S.A.
    Inventors: Rodrigo Brambilla, Marcia Silva Lacerda Miranda, Ana Cristina Fontes Moreira, Etienne Marcos de Almeida Rocha, Maria Angelica Cardoso Gollmann
  • Publication number: 20170267789
    Abstract: The present invention describes a metallocene catalyst based on a transition metal of group 4 or 5 of the periodic table, supported on a hybrid catalytic support provided with aliphatic organic groups, and a process for supporting metallocene on the hybrid catalytic support. The supported metallocene catalyst provides an ethylene polymer with broad or bimodal molecular weight distribution, in the presence of only one metallocene complex on the support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Rodrigo Brambilla, Marcia Silva Lacerda Miranda, Joao Henrique Zimnoch dos Santos, Fernando Silveira
  • Publication number: 20170267790
    Abstract: The present invention describes a metallocene catalyst based on a transition metal of group 4 or 5 of the periodic table, supported on a hybrid catalytic support provided with aliphatic organic groups, and a process for supporting metallocene on the hybrid catalytic support. The supported metallocene catalyst provides an ethylene polymer with broad or bimodal molecular weight distribution, in the presence of only one metallocene complex on the support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Rodrigo Brambilla, Marcia Silva Lacerda Miranda, Joao Henrique Zimnoch dos Santos, Fernando Silveira
  • Patent number: 9695254
    Abstract: The present invention describes a metallocene catalyst based on a transition metal of group 4 or 5 of the periodic table; supported on a hybrid catalytic support with aliphatic organic groups and a process for supporting metallocene on the hybrid catalytic support. The supported metallocene catalyst provides an ethylene polymer with broad or bimodal molecular weight distribution in the presence of only one metallocene complex on the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Braskem S.A.
    Inventors: Rodrigo Brambilla, Marcia Silva Lacerda Miranda, Joao Henrique Zimnoch dos Santos, Fernando Silveira
  • Publication number: 20170107316
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a metallocene catalyst based on a transition metal of groups 4 or 5 of the periodic table prepared by the immobilization of a metallocene complex on a support modified with hybrid soluble silica, prepared by a non-hydrolytic sol-gel process. There is also described a process for preparing said catalyst. The supported metallocene catalyst of the present invention has the advantages of high catalytic activity, morphology, besides the fact of producing copolymers of ethylene with alpha-olefins having molecular behavior that will bring benefits in mechanical properties, such as resistance to tearing, piercing and impact, as well as improved optical and weldability properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Rodrigo Brambilla, Marcia Silva Lacerda Miranda, Ana Cristina Fontes Moreira, Etienne Marcos de Almeida Rocha, Maria Angelica Cardoso Gollmann
  • Patent number: 9458258
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of catalytic support and the supported bimetallic catalysts, used in the production of ethylene homopolymers and ethylene copolymers with ?-olefins, of high and ultra high molecular weight with broad molecular weight distribution, in gas or liquid phase polymerization processes, the latter being in slurry, bulk or suspension, and the products obtained from these processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Braskem America, Inc.
    Inventors: Marcia Silva Lacerda Miranda, Fernanda Oliveira Vieira da Cunha
  • Patent number: 9352308
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for obtaining a solid catalyst component for ethylene polymerization and copolymerization, wherein a carrier of particulate silica (65 to 85% by weight) is impregnated with a catalytically active portion (15 to 35% by weight) including titanium, magnesium, chlorine, alkoxy groups and at least one organometallic compound of the groups 1, 2, 12 or 13 of the periodic table. Further, the invention refers to the solid catalyst component thus obtained and to a process for ethylene polymerization and copolymerization wherein is used said catalyst. The catalyst obtained is suitable for the production of ethylene homo- and copolymers as narrow molecular weight distribution high density polyethylene (NMWHDPE) and linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) with controlled morphology and improved structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: BRASKEM S.A.
    Inventors: Antonio Luiz Duarte Braganca, Marcia Silva Lacerda Miranda, Leandro dos Santos Silveira, Richard Faraco Amorim
  • Patent number: 9212235
    Abstract: Process for the preparation of catalytic support and supported bimetallic catalysts for production of homopolymers and copolymers of ethylene with ?-olefins, of high and ultra high molecular weight and with broad molecular weight distribution in slurry, bulk and gas phase processes and products thereof. The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of catalytic support and the supported bimetallic catalysts, used in the production of ethylene homopolymers and ethylene copolymers with ?-olefins, of high and ultra high molecular weight with broad molecular weight distribution, in gas or liquid phase polymerization processes, the latter being in slurry, bulk or suspension, and the products obtained from these processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Braskem America, Inc.
    Inventors: Marcia Silva Lacerda Miranda, Fernanda Oliveira Vieira da Cunha
  • Publication number: 20150274852
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a metallocene catalyst based on a transition metal of group 4 or 5 of the periodic table, supported on a hybrid catalytic support provided with aliphatic organic groups. One also describes a process for supporting metallocene on said hybrid catalytic support of aliphatic organic groups. The supported metallocene catalyst of the present invention exhibits, as its main advantage, the fact of producing an ethylene polymer with broad or bimodal molar mass distribution, by using only one type of metallocene complex on the support. As a result, on obtains, better processability of the resin obtained and, therefore, a potential reduction of the processing cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Rodrigo Brambilla, Marcia Silva Lacerda Miranda, Joao Henrique Zimnoch dos Santos, Fernando Silveira
  • Patent number: 8324126
    Abstract: The present invention relates a process for the preparation of catalytic support and the supported metallocene catalysts used in the production of ethylene homopolymers and ethylene copolymers with ?-olefins, of high and ultra high molecular weight with broad molecular weight distribution, in gas or liquid phase polymerization processes, the latter being in slurry, bulk or suspension, and the products obtained from these processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Braskem S.A.
    Inventors: Marcia Silva Lacerda Miranda, Fernanda Oliveira Vieira da Cunha
  • Publication number: 20120190805
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for obtaining a solid catalyst component for ethylene polymerization and copolymerization, wherein a carrier of particulate silica (65 to 85% by weight) is impregnated with a catalytically active portion (15 to 35% by weight) including titanium, magnesium, chlorine, alkoxy groups and at least one organometallic compound of the groups 1, 2, 12 or 13 of the periodic table. Further, the invention refers to the solid catalyst component thus obtained and to a process for ethylene polymerization and copolymerization wherein is used said catalyst. The catalyst obtained is suitable for the production of ethylene homo- and copolymers as narrow molecular weight distribution high density polyethylene (NMWHDPE) and linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) with controlled morphology and improved structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Inventors: Antonio Luiz Duarte BRAGANCA, Marcia Silva Lacerda Miranda, Leandro dos Santos Silveira, Richard Faraco Amorim
  • Publication number: 20110160043
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of catalytic support and the supported bimetallic catalysts, used in the production of ethylene homopolymers and ethylene copolymers with ?-olefins, of high and ultra high molecular weight with broad molecular weight distribution, in gas or liquid phase polymerization processes, the latter being in slurry, bulk or suspension, and the products obtained from these processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: Braskem S.A.
    Inventors: Marcia Silva Lacerda Miranda, Fernanda Oliveira Vieira da Cunha