Abstract: A process for homo or copolymerizing propylene, wherein propylene is polymerized in the presence of a catalyst at an elevated temperature in a reaction medium, in which a major part is formed by propylene. The polymerization is carried in at least one slurry reactor in the presence of liquid propylene at a temperature between 80° C. and the critical temperature of the reaction medium and a catalyst system producing within said temperature range a high productivity and essentially constant isotacticity within wide melt index range.

Abstract: In the invention a catalyst composition intended for the polymerization of olefins has been provided, which has been prepared by bringing together magnesium chloride, a lower alcohol, a titanium compound and an ester of phthalic acid. The procatalyst composition is active and stereospecific and it simultaneously has a titanium and phthalic acid content as low as possible. These good properties have been achieved by carrying out a transesterification between the lower alcohol and the ester of the phthalic acid, whereby the alkoxy group of the phthalic acid comprises at least five carbon atoms.

Abstract: In the polymerization of C3-C12-&agr;-olefins, the activity of the catalyst and the isotacticity and molecular weight of the polymer product can be adjusted and improved in a controlled manner by a new process wherein A) a catalyst system is prepared by bringing a support which comprises magnesium chloride, a derivative thereof or a reagent forming it into contact with at least titanium tetrachloride or a reagent forming it, in order to produce a titanated support; by bringing the titanated support into contact with at least a group 1, 2 or 13 metal compound which contains a C1-C10-alkyl and activates titanium tetrachloride to a catalytically active titanium group, in order to produce an activated support; and by bringing a substance selected from among the said support, titanated support and activated support into contact with at least one donor or a reagent forming it, in order to produce a catalyst system B) polymerization is carried out using the catalyst system by bringing it into contact with at least

Abstract: The invention relates to a new process for the preparation of an olefin polymerization catalyst component, as well as a new polymerization catalyst component and its use. In the process, a magnesium dialkyl or diahlide or alkyl alkoxide is reacted with an alcohol and the reaction product is reacted with an unsaturated dicarboxylic acid dihalide and a titanium tetrahalide. Especially good catalyst activity and morphology are achieved by using a polyhydric alcohol such as ethylene glycol.

Abstract: Disclosed is the homogenous reaction at 40-200° C. of MgX12−nR1OH (where n=2.0-6.4) with TiX24 and a higher (C6-C20) alkyl ester of a carboxylic acid, optionally in the presence of a solvent. In such a completely homogenous reaction, no carrier appears. In order to obtain a product in the liquid stage, the molar ratio between the ester and the MgX12.nR1OH should be at least 0.8/j wherein j is the number of carboxyl groups in the ester. If the ester has two carboxyl groups, for instance, j is 2 and the molar ratio should be at least 0.8/2, that is, 0.4.

Abstract: A novel soluble composition containing magnesium, titanium, a halogen and a carboxylic acid ester has been invented. The composition has mainly the composition according to Formula (I): (MgX32)xTiX44(R(COOR′)n)y  (I) wherein X3 is a halogen, X4 is a halogen, R(COOR′)n is a carboxylic acid higher alkyl ester containing at least 8·n carbon atoms, wherein R is an n-valent substituted or unsubstituted C1-C34 hydrocarbon group, R′ is a C1-C20 alkyl group, and n is an integer from 1 to 4, x is between 0.5 and 4.0, and y is between 0.8/n and 2.4/n.

Abstract: Olefins or mixtures of olefins, particularly propene or mixtures of propene advantageously with ethene, can be polymerized using a Ziegler-Natta catalyst system containing, besides a transition-metal-based procatalyst and cocatalyst which is an organometallic compound, a compound particularly suited for controlling the stereospecificity of the produced polymer. Such a compound called an external donor may also have other effects. By using an acetal derivative of an aldehyde that has two ether groups for this purpose, advantageously selected from the group of dialkoxyphenylalkanes, e.g., dimethoxyphenylpropane, a good stereospecificity of the product is attained combined with the high hydrogen sensitivity of the catalyst system, whereby the use of hydrogen as the chain transfer agent offers an easy control method of the molecular weight of the product by means of adjusting the amount of hydrogen available in the polymerization reaction.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for preparing polyolefins. In the polymerization, a procatalyst composition is being used, which has been prepared by contacting MgCl.sub.2, a lower alcohol, a titanium compound and a phthalic acid ester. The polyolefin is given the adequate coarseness by using a procatalyst of the said type, which has been prepared by carrying out a transesterification between the lower alcohol and the phthalic acid ester and by selecting dioctyl phthalate (DOP) as phthalic acid ester.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for preparing polyolefins by polymerizing an olefin with a procatalyst composition prepared by bringing together MgCl.sub.2, a lower alcohol, a titanium compound and a phthalic acid ester. The invention also relates to a polyolefin obtained by polymerizing an olefin in the presence of a procatalyst prepared by bringing together MgCl.sub.2, a lower alcohol, a titanium compound and a phthalic acid ester, as well as to a procatalyst composition suitable for the preparation of a large-pore polyolefin, which composition has been prepared by bringing together MgCl.sub.2, a lower alcohol, a titanium compound and a phthalic acid ester.

Abstract: Olefin polymerization catalysts the procatalyst component of which comprises a transition-metal compound on a magnesium chloride support material are known to all. Now the procatalyst component has been improved by incorporating a manganese (II) halide into it at a rate of at minimum approx. 0.1% and at maximum approx. 50% of the total molar amount of magnesium chloride and manganese (II) halide. The new polymerization catalyst has, among other things, the excellent special property that it yields a polyolefin with a broad molecular weight distribution.

Abstract: It is known that an electron donor together with a compound of tetravalent titanium on a magnesium halide carrier is usable if it is a mono- or polyester of an unsaturated polycarboxylic acid in which at least two carboxyl groups are joined to contiguous carbon atoms which form double bonds. It has now been observed that activity and stereospecificity increase if at least one of the said carbon atoms, or a carbon atom joined thereto by a double bond, is substituted by a hydrocarbon group having 1-20 carbon atoms. Maleic and fumaric acid esters substituted with the said hydrocarbon group can be mentioned as examples.

Abstract: When asymmetric olefins or a monomer mixture containing asymmetric monomers is polymerized by a catalyst composition containing esters of carboxylic acid e.g. as a so-called donor, and alcohol the ester group can be transesterified with the alcohol to an ester containing another alkyl group during the preparation and/or polymerization of the catalyst. This is advantageous particularly when an adduct of a so-called spray-crystallized Mg-halide and alcohol is used as the catalyst carrier, because the alkoxy group of the alcohol of the carrier and the alkoxy group of the ester of the donor can be transesterified and thus obtain the preferable effects of both esters on the run of the polymerization reaction. Hereby, a solvent having a high boiling point should be used as the intermediate agent, so that the transesterification reaction can take place. Most preferable have been found hydrocarbons having high boiling points, especially nonane and decane.

Abstract: The invention relates to the improving of a particle structure of carrier compounds for polymerization catalysts, and thereby to the improving of the activity of the entire catalyst, by jet grinding one or more carrier compounds (4), or a mixture of the same, in a grinding chamber in which one or more gas jets (2) transport particles (4) of the material to be ground finely, at such a force against each other and/or against one or more anvils (5) of the jet mill that the particles are pulverized into a finely-divided chemically active carrier.