Abstract: A process for improving the fluidity of hydrocarbon fractions by dewaxing thereof. In the present process, hydrocarbon fractions are contacted with hydrogen in the presence of a specific type of catalyst, thereby lowering the pour point of the hydrocarbon fraction. The catalyst comprises a specific type of zeolite which is defined by a specific X-ray diffraction pattern and which has a predetermined range of mesitylene adsorption of not less than 1.6 wt %. The zeolite catalyst is obtained by providing an aqueous reaction mixture of SiO.sub.2, Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, an alkaline source as OH.sup.-, and a carboxyl group-containing organic compound having the following composition:______________________________________ SiO.sub.2 /Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 20-60 H.sub.2 O/SiO.sub.2 5-100 OH.sup.- /SiO.sub.2 0.1-0.35 ______________________________________and reacting the mixture until crystals are produced. Advantageously, the ratio of the carboxyl group-containing organic compound to aluminum oxide is about 1.0 to 100.

Abstract: A block copolymer comprising 60 to 95 parts by weight of a binary or tertiary random copolymer block A comprising propylene, ethylene and/or butene-1 and 5 to 40 parts by weight of a binary or tertiary random copolymer block B comprising butene-1, propylene and, optionally, ethylene. This block copolymer can be shaped into a film having excellent heat sealability, transparency and blocking resistance.

Abstract: A heavy hydrocarbon feed stock is, after being heat-treated in a first cracking zone, introduced into a second thermal cracking zone for obtaining a thermally cracked product and a pitch product. The second cracking zone has a plurality of cracking reactors which are connected in series, through which is successively passed the treated feed stock and to each of which is supplied a gaseous heat transfer medium to maintain the liquid phase therein at a temperature sufficient for effecting the thermal cracking and to strip the resulting distillable, cracked components from the liquid phase. The thermal cracking temperature in one reactor is so controlled as to become higher than that in its adjacent upstream-side reactor. The distillable, cracked components in respective reactors are removed overhead therefrom and separated into a heavy fraction and a light fraction, while the liquid phase in the downstream-end reactor is discharged therefrom for recovery as the pitch product.

Abstract: A crosslinked product is derived from an olefinic block copolymer comprising 5 to 70 parts by weight of at least one block (A), which is selected from homopolymer blocks of propylene and random copolymer blocks of propylene and ethylene or a C.sub.4-12 .alpha.-olefin and has a propylene content of 60 to 100% by weight, and 30 to 95 parts by weight of at least one block (B), which is a random copolymer of ethylene and at least one C.sub.3-12 .alpha.-olefin and has an ethylene content of 10 to 85% by weight. This crosslinked product is characterized in that:(1) the content therein of hot xylene insoluble components is from 5 to 75% by weight; and(2) the fluidity thereof, i.e., the quantity thereof flowing per second (cc/sec..times.10.sup.-3) out through the orifice of Koka flow tester, is 3 to 500 cc/sec..times.10.sup.

Abstract: A process for polymerizing an olefin which comprises causing the olefin to contact a catalyst comprising a combination of a component A which is a solid composition A obtained by causing:(a) a solid which contains a halogen-containing compound of a metal selected from the group consisting of magnesium, manganese, zinc and calcium,(b) a titanium compound,(c) a metal halide type Lewis acid which may be used as Friedel-Crafts catalyst, and(d) an organic compound selected from the group consisting of halohydrocarbons, halogen-containing organic acid esters and alcohols,to contact each other and a component B which is an organoaluminum compound.

Abstract: A propylene block copolymer comprising propylene, ethylene and a straight-chain .alpha.-olefin of 5 to 12 carbon atoms is characterized in that: its limiting viscosity is 0.3 to 15 dl/g (at 135.degree. C., in decalin); it comprises specified quantities of these monomers; and when it is subjected to successive extraction with o-dichlorobenzene at 40.degree. C. and 80.degree. C., the quantities, fusion peak temperatures, and content of the .alpha.-olefin of the resulting fractions are respectively within specific limits of values.

Abstract: A propylene copolymer, which comprises units of (A) propylene, (B) a monomer selected from the group consisting of branched alpha-olefins (i.e. 4-methyl-1-pentene), styrene and styrene derivatives (e.g. methyl styrene), and (C) an optional monomer selected from the group consisting of straight-chain alpha-olefins of 2 to 12 carbon atoms other than propylene (e.g. ethylene), and which is defined by its thermal analysis data on a differential scanning calorimeter; and a process for producing the copolymer. Block copolymers are preferable.

Abstract: A copolymer of propylene and a straight-chain .alpha.-olefin of 5 to 12 carbon atoms is characterized in that: its intrinsic viscosity is 0.3 to 15 dl./g. (at 135.degree. C., in decalin); it contains 3 to 30 percent by weight of the .alpha.-olefin; and when it is subjected to successive extraction with o-dichlorobenzene at 40.degree. C. and 80.degree. C., the quantities, fusion peak temperatures, and content of the .alpha.-olefin of the resulting fractions are respectively within specific limits of values. A preferred copolymer contains about 0.5 to 50 percent of a propylene homopolymer block and about 99.5 to 50 percent of a random copolymer block of propylene and a straight chain .alpha.-olefin having 5 to 12 carbon atoms.

Abstract: A new propylene copolymer comprises a propylene homopolymer block and a terpolymeric random copolymer block of propylene, ethylene, and hexene-1 and is further characterized in that: (a) the proportion therein of the propylene homopolymer block is 97 to 80 percent by weight; (b) the terpolymeric random copolymer block has been so copolymerized that the contents therein of the propylene, ethylene, and hexene-1 based on their respective monomers are 80 to 98 percent, 5 to 1 percent, and 15 to 1 percent, respectively, all percentages being by weight; and (c) the intrinsic viscosity thereof in a decalin solution at 135.degree. C. is 0.3 to 15 dl/g.

Abstract: Improvement in the weathering properties of polyolefin resins has been achieved by intimate compositions comprising Ziegler-process crystalline polyolefins containing halogen-magnesium compounds as catalytic carrier residues, and organic phosphorus compounds such as organic phosphites. The compositions may contain auxiliary components normally used in polyolefin resins; antioxidants and/or ultraviolet absorbers are especially useful.

Abstract: A solid catalyst component for forming, in combination with an organoaluminium compound, a catalyst for polymerization of .alpha.-olefins is provided, whereby .alpha.-olefin polymers having high stereoregularity or stereospecificity are produced in a high yield. The catalyst component is a product of contact of materials consisting essentially of a halogen-containing magnesium compound, a nucleus-substituted or unsubstituted benzoate ester and a titanium compound, and satisfies the conditions that the solid catalyst component contains 0.5 to 3.5% by weight of titanium atoms, and the highest absorption peak in the infrared absorption spectrum of the catalyst component among the absorption peaks appearing in the wave-number range of 1560 cm.sup.-1 to 1710 cm.sup.-1 appears in the wave-number region of 1665 cm.sup.-1 to 1710 cm.sup.-1.

Abstract: Crystalline polyolefins of high molecular weight and high crystallinity are produced in high yields by polymerizing an olefin in the presence of a catalytic system comprising a combination of an organoaluminum compound and a modified titanium composition which has been prepared by milling together a halogen compound of titanium of a valence lower than the maximum valence (e.g. titanium trichloride) and an .alpha., .beta.-unsaturated carboxylate ester.