Abstract: Process for the preparation of ethylene copolymers, and their use as additives to mineral oil and mineral oil distillates. The invention relates to a process for the preparation of terpolymers of ethylene and at least 2 further olefinically unsaturated compounds by polymerization in a tubular reactor fitted with at least one side branch, wherein the fresh monomer components, which are introduced into the tubular reactor via the reactor inlet (the primary stream) or via the side branch or side branches (secondary stream or secondary streams), in each of the streams contain ethylene and at most one further olefinically unsaturated compound.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing ethylene homopolymers and ethylene copolymers in a tube reactor at pressures above 1000 bar and temperatures in the range from 120 to 400° C. by free-radical addition polymerization, in which first small amounts of free-radical chain initiator are supplied to a streaming flow medium comprising ethylene, molar mass regulator, and, if desired, polyethylene, after which the polymerization takes place. The invention takes place at a pressure in the range from 2000 to 3500 bar and comprises reaction mixture within the tube reactor passing through a temperature profile in the range from 100 to 350° C.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing ethylene homopolymers and ethylene copolymers in a tube reactor at pressures above 1000 bar and temperatures in the range from 120 to 400° C. by free-radical addition polymerization, in which first small amounts of free-radical chain initiator are supplied to a streaming flow medium comprising ethylene, molar mass regulator, and, if desired, polyethylene, after which the polymerization takes place. The invention takes place at a pressure in the range from 2000 to 3500 bar and comprises reaction mixture within the tube reactor passing through a temperature profile in the range from 100 to 350° C.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of terpolymers of ethylene and at least 2 further olefinically unsaturated compounds by polymerization in a tubular reactor fitted with at least one side branch, wherein the fresh monomer components, which are introduced into the tubular reactor via the reactor inlet (the primary stream) or via the side branch or side branches (secondary stream or secondary streams), in each of the streams contain ethylene and at most one further olefinically unsaturated compound.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of terpolymers of ethylene and at least 2 further olefinically unsaturated compounds by polymerization in a tubular reactor fitted with at least one side branch, wherein the fresh monomer components, which are introduced into the tubular reactor via the reactor inlet (the primary stream) or via the side branch or side branches (secondary stream or secondary streams), in each of the streams contain ethylene and at most one further olefinically unsaturated compound.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of terpolymers of ethylene and at least 2 further olefinically unsaturated compounds by polymerization in a tubular reactor fitted with at least one side branch, wherein the fresh monomer components, which are introduced into the tubular reactor via the reactor inlet (the primary stream) or via the side branch or side branches (secondary stream or secondary streams), in each of the streams contain ethylene and at most one further olefinically unsaturated compound.

Abstract: Process for the preparation of ethylene copolymers, and their use as additives to mineral oil and mineral oil distillates.

Abstract: Copolymers of ethylene, a vinyl ester of a tertiary saturated monocarboxylic acid and optionally a further monomer, and a process for making them. The copolymers are suitable for producing films of high mechanical strength and excellent optical properties.

Abstract: Copolymers of ethylene, a vinyl ester of a tertiary saturated monocarboxylic acid and optionally a further monomer, and a process for making them. The copolymers are suitable for producing films of high mechanical strength and excellent optical properties.

Abstract: Separation of volatile components from the polymer melts formed during the homopolymerization of ethylene or the copolymerization of ethylene with other copolymerizable compounds at elevated pressures and elevated temperatures by countercurrent treatment with ethylene. Superior separations are obtained by the process.

Abstract: Copolymers consisting of 95 to 50 weight percent of ethylene and 5 to 50 weight percent of methoxyacetic acid vinyl ester and having a molecular mass from 500 to 10,000 g.times.mole.sup.-1. Methods for preparation and use are also disclosed. The copolymers are used as flow improvers for mineral oil distillates, in particular mineral oil middle distillates.

Abstract: Copolymers consisting of 95 to 50 weight percent of ethylene and 5 to 50 weight percent of methoxyacetic acid vinyl ester and having a molecular mass from 500 to 10,000 g.times.mole .sup.-1. Methods for preparation and use are also disclosed. The copolymers are used as flow improvers for mineral oil distillates, in particular mineral oil middle distillates.

Abstract: A method for avoiding decomposition of ethylene during polymerization in a tube form reactor having one or more side branches opening into the reactor wherein the diameter of the side branches is made to be not greater than about 12 mm and a flow number is maintained at between about 0.20 m.sup.2 /sec. and 0.55 m.sup.2 /sec, the flow number being defined as the product of the internal diameter of the tube reactor and the rate of flow of the reactant through the reactor. Flow numbers greater than 0.55 m.sup.2 /sec can be used as long as the diameter of the side branches is reduced to not more than 10 mm.