Including Plural Sequential Reaction Stages Patents (Class 422/134)
  • Patent number: 11358114
    Abstract: A continuous tubular reactor includes a rotary reaction tube having a reactant inlet and a product outlet, and including a ceramic; a heating device disposed outside the rotary reaction tube; and an angle adjuster adjusting an angle of a rotation axis of the rotary reaction tube. The angle of the rotation axis is 75° or less with respect to a horizontal surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Changyeon Baek, Won Sik Jung, Jin Seong Kim, Hyojin Kim, Gahee Hyun
  • Patent number: 10563060
    Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition comprising: a block copolymer (a) having 60 to 80% by mass of a vinyl aromatic monomer unit and 40 to 20% by mass of a conjugated diene monomer unit; and a copolymer (b) having 60 to 90% by mass of a vinyl aromatic monomer unit and 40 to 10% by mass of an unsaturated nitrile monomer unit, wherein the block copolymer (a) has at least one polymer block (S) primarily having a vinyl aromatic monomer unit, the block copolymer (a) has at least one tan ? peak of dynamic viscoelasticity at a temperature in a range of ?73 to ?10° C., and a mass ratio (a)/(b) of the block copolymer (a) to the copolymer (b) is 1/99 to 80/20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naohiko Sato, Yoshifumi Araki
  • Patent number: 9968897
    Abstract: This mixing machine comprises a mixing head that attaches to a container, forming a closed mixing receptacle. The head is pivotably supported in a frame such that the closed mixing receptacle can pivot to perform the mixing. The mixing head also has a rotationally driven tool which cleans the bottom of the head, supplying a low-energy transport stream for material to at least one second tool carried by the head. The second tool performs the mixing and is located inside the movement path of the bottom-cleaning first tool. The first tool has a scoop positioned in the direction of rotation of the tool with its edge facing in the direction of rotation and outward in the radial direction. The first tool comprises a first scoop section, a second, wall-cleaning scoop section and a recess open toward its closure more remote from the wall through which the second tool passes during rotation of the first tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: DR. HERFELD GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Ulrich Tölle
  • Patent number: 9670323
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for separating volatile substances, particularly iodine, diiodised aromatic compounds and/or mixtures thereof, from material mixtures containing said compounds. The invention further relates to a device for producing polyarylene sulphides, by means of which volatile substances, particularly iodine and diiodised aromatic compounds, can be separated from the polymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: SK CHEMICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Clifford Schaferskupper, Thomas Hille, Theodor Jurgens, Andre Schumann, Lars Gierszewski, Il Hoon Cha, Sung Gi Kim, Yoon Cheol Kim
  • Patent number: 9649617
    Abstract: A continuous solid-state polymerization device according to the present invention comprises: a feeder for injecting a prepolymer continuously; a transverse reactor connected to the feeder via a first connector to receive the prepolymer from the feeder and to perform solid-state polymerization, the reactor itself rotating; and a chamber connected to the transverse reactor via a second connector to receive a polymer, which has been discharged from the transverse reactor, and solid-state polymerization of which has been completed, and to discharge the polymer, wherein the transverse reactor has a demolding coating film formed on the inner wall thereof, and the feeder, the transverse reactor and the chamber are in a vacuum state. The continuous solid-state polymerization device can prevent formation of an interval, in which the prepolymer stagnates, and can perform solid-state polymerization continuously in a vacuum state without using inert gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Lotte Advanced Mateirals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Kyun Im, Ki Yon Lee, Shin Hyo Bae, Young Jun Kim, Kyoung Kyun Park, Young Sub Jin, Sang Hyun Jeon
  • Patent number: 9475896
    Abstract: Method for preparing olefin polymer in a loop reactor, said loop reactor comprises a first outlet for withdrawing polymer slurry from the loop reactor, and a second outlet for withdrawing a polymer slurry from the loop reactor, wherein the first outlet is located such that polymer slurry is withdrawn having a concentration of polymer which is equal or higher than the average concentration of polymer in the loop reactor, and the second outlet is located such that polymer slurry is withdrawn having a concentration of polymer which is lower than the average concentration of polymer in the loop reactor, the method comprises the steps of supplying olefin monomers and a catalytic system to the loop reactor to form a polymer slurry in the loop reactor, and controlling the total amount of polymer and/or the total amount of polymer slurry withdrawn from the loop reactor by adjusting the ratio of polymer slurry withdrawn through the first outlet and polymer slurry withdrawn through the second outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Borealis AG
    Inventors: Pauli Leskinen, Sameli Hakola, Kauno Alastalo, Klaus Nyfors
  • Patent number: 9346009
    Abstract: A column structure is described for the containment of high surface area packing and absorbent liquid reagent for the removal of a target gas from a gas stream. The column structure comprises at least one vessel having an elongate upright wall structure to define an absorption process volume for the containment of high surface area packing and for the countercurrent flow of absorbent liquid reagent and target gas in use; and a column perimeter structure comprising an elongate upright wall structure disposed around the at least one vessel in such manner that an inner wall of the elongate upright wall structure and an outer wall of a vessel cooperably define and fluidly enclose at least one secondary fluid volume fluidly isolated from the absorption process volume(s). A method of assembly of such a column and to a method of removal of a target gas from a gas phase using such a column are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: DOOSAN BABCOCK LIMITED
    Inventor: Dewan Shamsuz Zaman
  • Patent number: 9260355
    Abstract: A process for production of propylene can include simultaneously subjecting isobutanol to dehydration and skeletal isomerization to make a mixture of n-butenes and iso-butene. The n-butenes can be subjected to methathesis. The process can include introducing isobutanol into a dehydration/isomerization reactor and contacting the isobutanol with a catalyst at conditions effective to dehydrate and skeletal isomerase the isobutanol to make a mixture of n-butenes and iso-butene. A mixture of n-butenes and iso-butene can be recovered and fractionated to produce an n-butenes stream. The n-butenes stream can be sent to a methathesis reactor and contacted with a catalyst at conditions effective to produce propylene. A stream can be recovered from the methathesis reactor that includes propylene, unreacted n-butenes, heavies, and optionally unreacted ethylene. The stream can be fractionated to recover propylene, and the unreacted n-butenes and unreacted ethylene can optionally be recycled to the methathesis reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: TOTAL RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY FELUY
    Inventors: Walter Vermeiren, Cindy Adam, Delphine Minoux
  • Patent number: 9180459
    Abstract: One aspect of the invention provides container for thermal cycling a plurality of samples in a microfluidic array. The container includes a plurality of walls defining an interior volume and a conductive member for heating the interior volume. Another aspect of the invention provides container for thermal cycling a plurality of samples in a microfluidic array. The container includes a plurality of walls defining an interior volume and a plurality of conductive members for heating an interior volume. Another aspect of the invention provides a container for thermal cycling a plurality of samples in a microfluidic array. The container includes a plurality of walls defining an interior volume and a first conductive member located in the interior volume and adapted to contact a first end of the microfluidic array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Colin J. H. Brenan, Thomas B. Morrison, Tanya S. Kanigan
  • Patent number: 9056926
    Abstract: A process for preparing aqueous solutions of homo- or copolymers of acrylic acid by means of free-radical polymerization of acrylic acid and optionally water-soluble, monoethylenically unsaturated comonomers in an aqueous medium in the presence of at least one water-soluble initiator and of at least one water-soluble regulator, wherein the polymerization is conducted by means of a continuous process, and wherein, after the polymerization, low molecular weight components are at least partly removed from the resulting aqueous polymer solution. For the polymerization, preference is given to using microstructured mixers and reactors. Preference is given to using at least one reactor and/or mixer with microstructures for the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Matthias Kleiner, Wolfgang Loth, Markus Brym, Elke Gütlich-Hauk, Bolette Urtel, Ruth Wirschem, Jürgen Detering
  • Patent number: 9034994
    Abstract: Polymerization reactor systems providing real-time control of the average particle size of catalyst system components are disclosed. Methods for operating such polymerization reactor systems also are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP
    Inventors: Max P. McDaniel, Joel A. Mutchler
  • Publication number: 20150126705
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for separating volatile substances, particularly iodine, diiodised aromatic compounds and/or mixtures thereof, from material mixtures containing said compounds. The invention further relates to a device for producing polyarylene sulphides, by means of which volatile substances, particularly iodine and diiodised aromatic compounds, can be separated from the polymers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Clifford Schaferskupper, Thomas Hille, Theodor Jurgens, Andre Schumann, Lars Gierszewski
  • Publication number: 20150126693
    Abstract: A system and method for polymerizing olefin in the presence of a chain transfer agent in a first reactor to form a first polyolefin, discharging from the first reactor a transfer shiny having the first polyolefin and the chain transfer agent, and processing the transfer slurry in a separator to remove chain transfer agent and to provide a fluff slurry having the first polyolefin and a lower content of chain transfer agent than in the transfer slurry. The system and method provide for feeding the fluff slurry to a second reactor, polymerizing olefin in the second reactor to form a second polyolefin, and discharging from the second reactor a slurry having the second polyolefin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Maruti Bhandarkar, Elizabeth A. Benham, Rebecca A. Gonzales, Scott E. Kufeld, Joel A. Mutchler, Catherine M. Gill, Thanh T. Nguyen, Timothy O. Odi
  • Patent number: 9000106
    Abstract: In a process for making a copolymer, a first product stream comprising a semi-crystalline polymer and a chain terminating agent is produced in a first reactor system. The first product is provided to a second reactor system wherein a low crystallinity polymer is produced in the presence of the semi-crystalline polymer. At least a portion of the chain terminating agent is removed from the second reactor system by an in-situ process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin W. Lawson, Rodney S. Smith
  • Patent number: 8992840
    Abstract: Multiple components are selected, conveyed, and measured in a polymerization system. A control system adjusts the system variables to the desired values. Portions of the components can be fed to a pre-contactor before introduction into the polymerization reactor. The catalyst component concentrations and residence times are tightly controlled in the pre-contactor to affect product properties. The pre-contactor can be a single or multiple combinations of a CSTR or plug flow pre-contactors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP
    Inventors: David H. Burns, Donald W. Verser, Elizabeth A. Benham, Max P. McDaniel, John D. Hottovy, Clay K Thurman, David A. Lockman, John O. Lawmaster, Matthew T. Haberly, Thomas H. Smith, Jerry T. Lanier, Matthew G. Thorn, Penny A. Zellers
  • Patent number: 8991294
    Abstract: An armor plate comprising alternating protection layers of light-weight high-strength fiber and reinforcing layers of high tensile strength oblong bodies, and a method for production of armor plates, the method comprising: arranging alternating protection layers of light-weight high-strength fabric and reinforcing layers of high tensile strength oblong bodies; and fastening the layers of the construction together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Plystone Ltd.
    Inventors: Victor Shkatov, Zigmund Bluvband
  • Publication number: 20150087779
    Abstract: Methods of forming a polyarylene sulfide and systems as may be utilized in carrying out the methods are described. Included in the formation method is a filtration process for treatment of a mixture, the mixture including a polyarylene sulfide, a salt byproduct of the polyarylene sulfide formation reaction, and a solvent. The filtration process includes maintaining the downstream side of the filter medium at an increased pressure. The downstream pressure can such that the boiling temperature of the mixture at the downstream pressure can be higher than the temperature at which the polyarylene sulfide is insoluble in the solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Hendrich Chiong, Michael Haubs, Damian Feord, Mark Shatzer, Jacob Grayson
  • Publication number: 20150087778
    Abstract: A method and system for formation of a polyarylene sulfide is described. The method includes a first stage in which a complex is formed in a reactor. The complex includes the hydrolysis product of an organic amide solvent and an alkali metal hydrosulfide. The complex formation reaction also forms hydrogen sulfide as a by-product. The method also includes treating a fluid stream that is pulled off of the reactor. The treatment includes scrubbing the fluid stream to recover hydrogen sulfide from the stream and return the hydrogen sulfide to the reactor. The recovery and recycle of the hydrogen sulfide can prevent loss of sulfur from a polyarylene sulfide formation process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventor: Hendrich Alvarez Chiong
  • Publication number: 20150087776
    Abstract: A multi-stage process and system for formation of a polyarylene sulfide is described. The multi-stage process can include at least three separate formation stages that can take place in three different reactors. The first stage of the formation process can include reaction of an alkali metal sulfide with an organic amide solvent to form a complex including a hydrolysis product of the solvent and an alkali metal hydrogen sulfide. The second stage of the formation process can include reaction of the complex formed in the first stage with a dihaloaromatic monomer to form a prepolymer, and the third stage can include further polymerization of the prepolymer with additional monomers to form the final product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Hendrich Chiong, Michael Haubs, Damian Feord, Stanley Leonard, Jacob Grayson, Venkata Nekkanti
  • Patent number: 8987390
    Abstract: A system and method for polymerizing olefin in the presence of a chain transfer agent in a first reactor to form a first polyolefin, discharging from the first reactor a transfer slurry having the first polyolefin and the chain transfer agent, and processing the transfer slurry in a separator to remove chain transfer agent and to provide a fluff slurry having the first polyolefin and a lower content of chain transfer agent than in the transfer slurry. The system and method provide for feeding the fluff slurry to a second reactor, polymerizing olefin in the second reactor to form a second polyolefin, and discharging from the second reactor a slurry having the second polyolefin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, LP
    Inventors: Maruti Bhandarkar, Elizabeth A Benham, Rebecca A. Gonzales, Scott E. Kufeld, Joel A Mutchler, Catherine M. Gill, Thanh T. Nguyen, Timothy O. Odi
  • Publication number: 20150051359
    Abstract: Continuous polymerization apparatus including a first reactor of a complete mixing type and a second reactor of a complete mixing type (10, 20). Each of the reactors (10, 20) is provided with a supply port (11a, 21a), an effluent port (11b, 21b), and a temperature detecting means (T) for detecting a temperature in the reactor, wherein the supply port (11a) of the first reactor (10) is connected to the supply sources (1, 3) of a raw material monomer and a polymerization initiator, and the effluent port (11b) of the first reactor is connected through a connection line (15) to the supply port (21a) of the second reactor (20). Connection line (15) is combined with a secondary line (15?) for supplying a raw material monomer at a combining part (M) located between the effluent port (11b) of the first reactor (10) and the supply port (21a) of the second reactor (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Masakazu Sumida, Kazuhiro Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 8957166
    Abstract: A method for producing a propylene-based polymer, including polymerizing propylene or propylene and an ?-olefin except propylene in the presence of a catalyst with a horizontal polymerization reactor equipped with stirring vanes rotating around a horizontal axis therein by a continuous vapor-phase polymerization, which removes heat of polymerization by heat of vaporization of a liquefied propylene, wherein the reactor can set a plurality of area sections different in temperature in a horizontal direction inside the reactor, and satisfies at least one of i) a temperature difference, ?T1=T??T?, between an area section including an upstream end of the reactor (T?) and a downstream end (T?) thereof is 0.1 to 20° C. and ii) a temperature difference, ?T2=Tx?Tz, between an area section including a catalyst feed part (Tx) and dew point (Tz) of a mix gas in the reactor is 0 to 5° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Polypropylene Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Kobayashi, Takanori Nakashima, Kiyoshi Yukawa, Yusuke Yamada, Hajime Aoyama, Nobuhiro Iwai
  • Publication number: 20150011814
    Abstract: A system and method for a first reactor to produce a transfer slurry having a first polyolefin polymerized in the first reactor, a heat-removal zone to remove heat from the transfer slurry, and a second reactor to receive the transfer slurry cooled by the heat-removal zone, the second reactor to produce a product slurry having a product polyolefin which includes the first polyolefin and a second polyolefin polymerized in the second reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Maruti Bhandarkar, Elizabeth A. Benham, Rebecca A. Gonzales, Joel A. Mutchler, Catherine M. Gill, Timothy O. Odi, Thanh T. Nguyen, Scott E. Kufeld
  • Publication number: 20140378629
    Abstract: Method for preparing olefin polymer in a loop reactor, said loop reactor comprises a first outlet for withdrawing polymer slurry from the loop reactor, and a second outlet for withdrawing a polymer slurry from the loop reactor, wherein the first outlet is located such that polymer slurry is withdrawn having a concentration of polymer which is equal or higher than the average concentration of polymer in the loop reactor, and the second outlet is located such that polymer slurry is withdrawn having a concentration of polymer which is lower than the average concentration of polymer in the loop reactor, the method comprises the steps of supplying olefin monomers and a catalytic system to the loop reactor to form a polymer slurry in the loop reactor, and controlling the total amount of polymer and/or the total amount of polymer slurry withdrawn from the loop reactor by adjusting the ratio of polymer slurry withdrawn through the first outlet and polymer slurry withdrawn through the second outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Pauli Leskinen, Sameli Hakola, Kauno Alastalo, Klaus Nyfors
  • Publication number: 20140377137
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for recycling product streams that have been separated from a hydrocarbon-containing feed stream comprising olefin monomer, olefin co-monomer, hydrocarbon diluent and components such as H2, N2, O2, CO, CO2, and formaldehyde. In accordance with the present process a hydrocarbon-containing feed stream is separated into a) a first side stream comprising hydrocarbon diluent and olefin monomer; b) a second side stream which is substantially hydrogen-free and comprises hydrocarbon diluent and olefin monomer, c) a bottom stream comprising substantially olefin-free hydrocarbon diluent, and d) an overhead vapor stream comprising olefin monomer, hydrocarbon diluent and components such as formaldehyde, H2, N2, O2, CO and CO2. The present process further includes recycling said first and said second side streams in a polymerization process for preparing bimodal polyolefin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Denis Mignon, David Vandewiele, Bernard Van Der Schrick, Camille Vercruysse
  • Patent number: 8916098
    Abstract: A continuous emulsion aggregation process for the production of particles is presented including a plurality of continuous stirred-tank reactors (CSTR). The plurality of continuous stirred-tank reactors includes at least one feed tank of raw materials, at least one reactor for facilitating cold addition, at least two reactors for facilitating an aggregation process, at least one reactor for facilitating a shell addition process; at least one reactor for facilitating a freeze process, at least one reactor for facilitating a chelating process, at least one reactor for facilitating a ramp-up process and at least one reactor for facilitating a coalescence process, wherein the reactors are sequentially assembled in a series configuration and separated by short conduits to produce toner particles that are narrowly distributed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Santiago Faucher, Kimberly Nosella, David Thomas Borbely, Gaetano Lavigne, Simon Burke
  • Patent number: 8883955
    Abstract: PROBLEM There is provided a method for producing polylactic acid, which is capable of obtaining polylactic acid at low cost, and having high molecular weight. SOLUTION A method for producing polylactic acid by polymerizing molten lactide using at least one reactor having plug flow characteristics with ?(?), calculated from the following FORMULA (1), of 0.3 or smaller: ?(?)=?0?(E(?)×ABS(1??))d???(1) in the Formula (1), E(?) is a residence time distribution function determined by impulse response by starch syrup having a viscosity of 3 Pa·s, and ? is ratio of elapsed time ? and mean residence time ?0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignees: Toyo Engineering Corporation, Masashino Chemical Laboratory, Ltd
    Inventors: Kenichiro Matsuba, Tsuyoshi Aoki
  • Patent number: 8883918
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for recycling product streams that have been separated from a hydrocarbon-containing feed stream comprising olefin monomer, olefin co-monomer, hydrocarbon diluent and components such as H2, N2, O2, CO, CO2, and formaldehyde. In accordance with the present process a hydrocarbon-containing feed stream is separated into a) a first side stream comprising hydrocarbon diluent and olefin monomer; b) a second side stream which is substantially hydrogen-free and comprises hydrocarbon diluent and olefin monomer, c) a bottom stream comprising substantially olefin-free hydrocarbon diluent, and d) an overhead vapor stream comprising olefin monomer, hydrocarbon diluent and components such as formaldehyde, H2, N2, O2, CO and CO2. The present process further includes recycling said first and said second side streams in a polymerization process for preparing bimodal polyolefin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Total Research & Technology Feluy
    Inventors: Denis Mignon, David Vandewiele, Bernard Van De Schrick, Camille Vercruysse
  • Publication number: 20140329981
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel continuous polymerization apparatus which is able to efficiently produce a polymer composition suitable for obtaining a resin composition with high quality. In a continuous polymerization apparatus, at least, a first reactor of a complete mixing type and a second reactor of a complete mixing type (10, 20) are used. Each of the reactors (10, 20) is provided with a supply port (11a, 21a), an effluent port (11b, 21b), and a temperature detecting means (T) for detecting a temperature in the reactor, wherein the supply port (11a) of the first reactor (10) is connected to the supply sources (1, 3) of a raw material monomer and a polymerization initiator, and the effluent port (11b) of the first reactor is connected through a connection line (15) provided with a cooling means (16) to the supply port (21a) of the second reactor (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshinori Sato, Kazuhiro Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 8877879
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for producing a high-quality methacrylic polymer with good productivity, comprising a complete mixing type reactor 11, tubular reactors 12 and 13 which have been serially connected, and a volatile removing instrument 14, wherein at least two of the tubular reactors 12 and 13 are connected via a cooler 15 for cooling the reaction mixture. It is preferable that the cooler 15 is a multitubular cooler and the tubular reactors 12 and 13 are plug flow reactors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Hayashida, Hisaaki Yoshimura, Daisuke Nonaka, Yusuke Morita, Mitsuhiro Matsuo
  • Publication number: 20140316097
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for recovering lactide from polylactide (PLA) or glycolide from polyglycolide (PGA), in which, in a first step, PLA or PGA is contacted with a hydrolysing medium and hydrolytically degraded to oligomers. In a further step, a cyclising depolymerisation of the oligomers obtained in the first step is effected to give lactide or glycolide. In addition, the present invention relates to an apparatus based on the combination of a hydrolysis apparatus with a depolymerisation reactor, with which the above-described process can be performed. The core of the process according to the invention is a partial hydrolysis of the polymeric materials originally used in combination with a cyclising depolymerisation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: UHDE INVENTA-FISCHER GMBH
    Inventor: Rainer Hagen
  • Publication number: 20140316066
    Abstract: Provided are a polyester production apparatus and a method, which can rapidly exhaust water produced by the dehydration condensation reaction, from the reaction system. The polyester production apparatus includes: an esterification reactor producing polymer by the dehydration condensation reaction between 1,3-propanediol and dicarboxylic acid to volatilize a volatile component including eliminated water produced in said dehydration condensation reaction, a plurality of polymerization reactors increasing the polymerization degree by carrying out polycondensation reaction between polymers, and to volatilize the volatile component including the eliminated product generated by said polycondensation reaction, a wet-type condenser condensing said eliminated water and exhausting the condensed component and non-condensed component, and a decompression apparatus reducing a pressure in said esterification reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki KAMIKAWA, Takeyuki KONDO, Kenichiro OKA, Toshiaki MATSUO, Yasunari SASE
  • Publication number: 20140301903
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process of forming a polymer, the process comprising polymerizing olefin monomers to form a reaction mixture, treating the reaction mixture to form a first polymer-rich phase, treating the first polymer-rich phase to form a second polymer-rich phase, and devolatilizing the second polymer-rich phase, the process further comprising at least one step of adjusting the temperature of a first and/or the second polymer-rich phase before the devolatilization. The present invention also relates to a plant that is useful for the process provided above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Inventor: Yu Feng Wang
  • Patent number: 8846816
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process and an apparatus for the preparation of a crosslinkable rubber mixture for vehicle tires, lines, drive belts and other industrial rubber articles, which can be carried out at least semicontinuously. The present invention is based on the discovery that the experiments known from the prior art to carry out the batchwise process usually used at least partly continuously have failed in particular because of the problem that the crosslinking agents have to be mixed rapidly and homogeneously with the base mixture, also referred to as rubber base mixture, without the mixture consisting of the base mixture and the crosslinking agents heating up too strongly. According to the invention, attention was therefore focussed on reliably mixing the base mixture homogeneously with the crosslinking agents and minimizing the mixing time. A first measure for achieving the desired aim consists in first mixing the crosslinking agents with one another before they are mixed with the base mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Rhein Chemie Rheinau GmbH
    Inventors: Anno Borkowsky, Andreas Schröder, Hans-Martin Issel, Florian Fischer, Reinhard Uphus
  • Publication number: 20140275450
    Abstract: A system and method for producing polyolefin, including a polyolefin reactor system having: a first reactor to produce a first reactor discharge stream having a first polyolefin and a first diluent; and a second reactor to receive at least a portion of the first reactor discharge stream and to produce a second reactor discharge stream having a second polyolefin and a second diluent, wherein the second diluent is different than the first diluent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: CHEVRON PHILLIPS CHEMICAL COMPANY, LP
    Inventors: Maruti Bhandarkar, Elizabeth A. Benham, Rebecca A. Gonzales, Scott E. Kufeld, Joel A. Mutchler, Catherine M. Gill, Thanh T. Nguyen, Timothy O. Odi
  • Patent number: 8835594
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for the processing of plastic material, with a receptacle or cutter-compactor (1) into which the material to be treated can be introduced, in the lower region of which a discharge opening (10) is provided, through which the processed material can be ejected from the receptacle (1), for example into an extruder (11). According to the invention, the receptacle (1) is divided into at least two chambers (6a, 6b, 6c, . . . ) separated from each other by an intermediate base (2?, 2?, . . . ), wherein at least one mixing or comminution tool (7a, 7b, 7c, . . . ) is arranged which acts upon the material in each chamber (6a, 6b, 6c, . . . ), with which the material can be converted into a softened but permanently lumpy or particle-shaped and not melted state and wherein means (5?, 5?, . . . ) are provided which effect or permit an exchange or a transfer of the softened, lumpy, not melted material between each directly adjacent chamber (6a, 6b, 6c, . . . ).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: EREMA Engineering Recycling Maschinen und Anlagen Gesellschaft m.b.H
    Inventors: Manfred Hackl, Gerhard Wendelin, Klaus Feichtinger
  • Publication number: 20140256900
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and process for olefin polymerization. The inventive system and process for olefin polymerization facilitate lower operating vacuum pressures in the polymer recovery system by requiring at least two sequential condensing units, wherein at least one of the condensing units operates at significantly lower temperature ranges than the temperature ranges at which the current systems operate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Gary A. Camp, Mitch Juneau, Robert D. Swindoll
  • Publication number: 20140256889
    Abstract: A manufacturing system for producing polyolefin includes a polymerization reactor, a flash chamber, and a purge column. In certain embodiments, the purge column may receive a solids stream directly from the flash chamber. Further, the purge column may function as a feed tank for an extruder within an extrusion/loadout system. According to certain embodiments, the manufacturing system may be configured to consume less than 445 kilowatt-hours of energy per metric ton of polyolefin produced based on consumption of electricity, steam, and fuel gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP
    Inventors: Robert R. McElvain, John D. Hottovy, Ralph W. Romig, Donald W. Verser, David H. Burns, John H. Tait, Richard Peacock, James E. Hein, Scott E. Kufeld, Carl W. Fenderson, Anurag Gupta, Dale A. Zellers
  • Patent number: 8821800
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for catalyst preparation. A system for catalyst preparation may include an agitator disposed inside a polymerization catalyst tank and configured to mix a polymerization catalyst and a solvent to generate a polymerization catalyst solution. The system may also include a heating system coupled to the polymerization catalyst tank and configured to maintain a temperature of the polymerization catalyst solution above a threshold. The system may also include a precontactor configured to receive feed streams comprising an activator and the polymerization catalyst solution from the polymerization catalyst tank to generate a catalyst complex. The system may also include a transfer line configured to transfer the catalyst complex from an outlet of the precontactor to a reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP
    Inventors: Elizabeth A Benham, Albert P Masino, Qing Yang, Randy S Muninger, Rebecca A Gonzales
  • Patent number: 8822609
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for transforming a single reactor line into a double reactor line wherein the existing single reactor line is equipped with a flash tank for separating the solid polymer product from the flash vapor and wherein the vapor is sent to a system of at least two separating columns allowing the separation of its constituents into monomer, diluent and comonomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Total Research & Technology Feluy
    Inventors: Louis Fouarge, Eric Duchesne
  • Publication number: 20140228526
    Abstract: The present invention provides a melt polymerization reactor system and method of producing polycarbonate using a late-addition catalyst formulation having a melt transesterification catalyst dispersed in a liquid carrier system which preferably includes less than 10 wt % water. The formulation also preferably includes a liquid carrier system having phenol and a cosolvent. The melt transesterification catalyst can be present in the formulation in a range of 50 ppm to 60,000 ppm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: SABIC INNOVATIVE PLASTICS IP B.V.
    Inventors: Jorge A. Garcia Agudo, Ignacio Vic Fernandez, Kazutoyo Uno, Fernando Olmedo Fernandez, Isabel Macian Aviles
  • Patent number: 8796401
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new polymerization process which is suitable for polymerizing high molecular weight products of high viscosity such as polycarbonates and polystyrenes in reasonable time. The present invention achieves the above-identified object by means of a polymerization process, wherein at least in the final stages of the polymerization reaction, two different types of mechanical mixing means are employed as alternatives, designated first and second mixing means. The first mixing means do generate new surfaces in the material to be treated by means of mechanical mixing and by means of gravity driven mixing, while the second mixing means do generate new surfaces in the material to be treated not by means of mechanical mixing and only by means of gravity driven mixing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Princo Middle East FZE
    Inventor: Yi-Lin Chu
  • Patent number: 8785573
    Abstract: The invention provides a method and apparatus for continuously feeding wet gel polymers into a drying step of a dry polymer synthesis operation. A number of pistons are arranged having inner chambers through which monomers and other reagents are fed and polymerized into wet gel polymers. Each piston operates according to a coordinated schedule so that as one piston finishes extruding polymer into the drying step, a second piston has completed polymerizing more polymer and continues to feed more polymer without interruption. The then finished is re-fed more reagents so as to be ready again when needed next. As a result, cost effective continuous feeding can be achieved without the contamination and impurity problems that have plagued previous attempts to accomplish this.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc
    Inventor: Jeffrey R. Cramm
  • Patent number: 8758630
    Abstract: A method for reducing fecal coliforms in waste water wherein the flow of water is directed through a reactor having removable cover, inlet and outlet, two UV lamps, six irradiating chambers, each interconnected by apertures, a UV lamp control box, and a heat a conducting pipe to transfer heat from the control box into the flowing water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Britenstine Incorporated
    Inventor: Eric Britenstine
  • Publication number: 20140170028
    Abstract: A process and apparatus are disclosed for recovering a product stream by fractionation perhaps with compression of a C5? hydrocarbon stream. The C5? hydrocarbon stream may be taken from an overhead of a fractionation column. Fractionation includes a depentanizer column followed by a depropanizer column for producing a C4 and C5 stream. The recovered product stream may be oligomerized to produce larger oligomers. Oligomers may be delivered to a cracking reactor which may produce the C5? hydrocarbon stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Christian D. Freet, Todd M. Kruse, Christopher P. Nicholas
  • Publication number: 20140171603
    Abstract: A system and method for polymerizing olefin in the presence of a chain transfer agent in a first reactor to form a first polyolefin, discharging from the first reactor a transfer slurry having the first polyolefin and the chain transfer agent, and processing the transfer slurry in a separator to remove chain transfer agent and to provide a fluff slurry having the first polyolefin and a lower content of chain transfer agent than in the transfer slurry. The system and method provide for feeding the fluff slurry to a second reactor, polymerizing olefin in the second reactor to form a second polyolefin, and discharging from the second reactor a slurry having the second polyolefin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: CHEVRON PHILLIPS CHEMICAL COMPANY, LP
    Inventors: Maruti Bhandarkar, Elizabeth A. Benham, Rebecca A. Gonzales, Scott E. Kufeld, Joel A. Mutchler, Catherine M. Gill, Thanh T. Nguyen, Timothy O. Odi
  • Patent number: 8735513
    Abstract: A propylene polymerization reaction apparatus and a production method of a propylene-based polymer are capable of producing a continuous multi-stage polymer in low cost, high productivity and stably, and significantly reducing generation amount of an off-specification product accompanying change of polymerization condition, in multi-stage continuous vapor phase polymerization method of a propylene-based polymer using a catalyst for olefin polymerization. A reaction apparatus for producing a propylene-based polymer by a multi-stage continuous vapor phase polymerization method is used. One or more reactor of a horizontal-type reactor having inside a stirring machine which rotates around a horizontal axis, and a continuous stirred tank reactor to be connected to the horizontal-type reactor are provided, and a production method of a propylene-based polymer using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Japan Polypropylene Corporation
    Inventors: Takanori Nakashima, Katsuhiko Oono, Kenji Mitsutani, Takao Tayano, Tomoyuki Yoshida, Shigeo Mizukami, Yusuke Yamada
  • Publication number: 20140140894
    Abstract: A polyolefin production system including: a first reactor configured to produce a first discharge slurry having a first polyolefin; a second reactor configured to produce a second discharge slurry having a second polyolefin; and a post-reactor treatment zone having at least a separation vessel configured to receive the second discharge slurry or both the first discharge slurry and the second discharge slurry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, LP
    Inventors: Maruti Bhandarkar, Elizabeth An Benham, Rebecca A. Gonzales, Scott E. Kufeld, Joel A. Mutchler, Catherine M. Gill, Thanh T. Nguyen, Timothy O. Odi
  • Patent number: 8710161
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for transforming a single reactor line into a double reactor line wherein the existing single reactor line is equipped with a flash tank for separating the solid polymer product from the flash vapor and wherein the vapor is sent to a system of at least two separating columns allowing the separation of its constituents into monomer, diluent and comonomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Total Research & Technology Feluy
    Inventors: Louis Fouarge, Eric Duchesne
  • Publication number: 20140114092
    Abstract: A system and method for producing polyoxymethylene dimethyl ethers (DMMn) using an aqueous formaldehyde solution as the initial reaction material. The process system has a polymerization reaction unit, an acetalation unit, a product separation unit, and a catalyst regeneration unit. Both polymerization and acetalation reaction are conducted in the presence of an ionic liquid as a catalyst, which can achieve the effect that two different reactions may be catalyzed by the same ionic liquid. The present invention employs a simple catalyst system, and achieves the efficient separation of the catalyst, the byproduct water, the product and the reaction materials in a separation manner combining the extraction and the rectification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Chungu XIA, Heyuan Song, Jing Chen, Fuxiang Jin, Meirong Kang