At Least Two Claimed Distinct Temperature Or Pressure Gradients Patents (Class 528/308.5)
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Patent number: 8557882Abstract: A method for preparing contaminated plastics ground into flakes, such as RPET or such polymers, having at least decontamination and SSP treatment steps, with at least one reactor, with heating to the process temperature taking place essentially outside the reactor. Also, a device for carrying out the method, and having at least one decontamination reactor and at least one SSP reactor, a device for heating plastic flakes to the process temperature being arranged upstream of the decontamination reactor. Also an SSP reactor having at least two individual reactors, and preferably between 3 and 7 individual reactors.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2013Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Krones AGInventors: Thomas Friedlaender, Thomas Rieckmann, Frank Marx
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Patent number: 8394866Abstract: A method for preparing contaminated plastics ground into flakes, such as RPET or such polymers, having at least decontamination and SSP treatment steps, with at least one reactor, with heating to the process temperature taking place essentially outside the reactor. Also, a device for carrying out the method, and having at least one decontamination reactor and at least one SSP reactor, a device for heating plastic flakes to the process temperature being arranged upstream of the decontamination reactor. Also an SSP reactor having at least two individual reactors, and preferably between 3 and 7 individual reactors.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2006Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Krones AGInventors: Thomas Friedlaender, Thomas Rieckmann, Frank Marx
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Patent number: 8324339Abstract: Method and apparatus for thermally processing polyester pellets, e.g., polyethylene terephthalate pellets, in order to achieve a partial crystallization, whereby the polyester melt is fed to an underwater pelletizer and pelletized, the pellets obtained are fed to a water/solids separating device and the dried pellets are fed at a pellet temperature of greater than 100°C. to an agitation device that the pellets leave at a pellet temperature of over 100°C.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2004Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventor: Theodor Bruckmann
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Patent number: 8299203Abstract: A melt phase process for making a polyester polymer melt phase product by adding an antimony containing catalyst to the melt phase, polycondensing the melt containing said catalyst in the melt phase until the It.V. of the melt reaches at least 0.75 dL/g. Polyester polymer melt phase pellets containing antimony residues and having an It.V. of at least 0.75 dL/g are obtained without solid state polymerization. The polyester polymer pellets containing antimony residues and having an It.V. of at least 0.70 dL/g obtained without increasing the molecular weight of the melt phase product by solid state polymerization are fed to an extruder, melted to produce a molten polyester polymer, and extruded through a die to form shaped articles. The melt phase products and articles made thereby have low b* color and/or high L* brightness, and the reaction time to make the melt phase products is short.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2011Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Grupo Petrotemex, S.A. DE C.V.Inventors: Mary Therese Jernigan, Michael Paul Ekart, Richard Gill Bonner
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Publication number: 20110257357Abstract: A multistage method for solid-phase polycondensation to prepare polyethylene terephthalate having an intrinsic viscosity of 0.70 dL/g, comprising continuous polycondensation is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2011Publication date: October 20, 2011Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Hisashi KIMURA, Michiko Yoshida
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Patent number: 7786247Abstract: A melt phase process for making a polyester polymer melt phase product by adding an antimony containing catalyst to the melt phase, polycondensing the melt containing said catalyst in the melt phase until the It.V. of the melt reaches at least 0.75 dL/g. Polyester polymer melt phase pellets containing antimony residues and having an It.V. of at least 0.75 dL/g are obtained without solid state polymerization. The polyester polymer pellets containing antimony residues and having an It.V. of at least 0.70 dL/g obtained without increasing the molecular weight of the melt phase product by solid state polymerization are fed to an extruder, melted to produce a molten polyester polymer, and extruded through a die to form shaped articles. The melt phase products and articles made thereby have low b* color and/or high L* brightness, and the reaction time to make the melt phase products is short.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2006Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Mary Therese Jernigan, Michael Paul Ekart, Richard Gill Bonner
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Patent number: 7211634Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the preparation of high molecular weight polyesters by reacting one or more dicarboxylic acids directly with 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol and, optionally, one or more diols. The process uses an overall diol to dicarboxylic acid molar ratio of about 0.97 to about 1.2 and an incremental addition of either the diacid or diol components. The process provides a shorter total reaction time and, thus, lessens the thermal degradation of polyester which may result in high color and reduced molecular weight.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2006Date of Patent: May 1, 2007Assignee: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Daniel Lee Martin, Joseph Franklin Knight, Benjamin Fredrick Barton, Damon Bryan Shackelford
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Patent number: 7196159Abstract: A process for the production of polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTT), wherein the process comprises: (i) one or more esterification steps, wherein terephthalic acid (TPA) or an alkyl diester of terephthalic acid is reacted with 1,3-propanediol (PDO); and (ii) one or more subsequent polycondensation steps, wherein the process further comprises the addition of a protic acid, other than terephthalic or isophthalic acid, before and/or during the one or more esterification steps, wherein the protic acid has a dissociation constant of at most 4 (pKa measured in water at 25° C.), and wherein the total amount of protic acid added before and/or during the one or more esterification steps is in the range of from 0.001 to 10 millimole of acid per kilogram of polytrimethylene terephthalate produced.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2005Date of Patent: March 27, 2007Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Donald Ross Kelsey, Cecilia Zuqi Tse, Emery Don Johnson
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Patent number: 7153927Abstract: Process for producing polyesters and copolyesters, wherein a continuous esterification of dicarboxylic esters and diols or a continuous transesterification of dicarboxylic esters with diols is effected in “n” reaction pressure stages connected in series, the pressure in the first reaction pressure stage is higher than that of the remaining reaction pressure stages, and successively decreases from reaction pressure stage to succeeding reaction pressure stage, the combined vapor flows of the individual reaction pressure stages are rectified in a rectifying column, and the diol component obtained at the bottom of the rectifying column is recirculated at least to the first reaction pressure stage, and wherein at least the last reaction pressure stage operates at a vacuum, the pressure in the rectifying column is greater than that of the last reaction pressure stage, and the vapors discharged from the last reaction pressure stage are condensed to the pressure existing in the rectifying column.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2001Date of Patent: December 26, 2006Assignee: Zimmer AGInventors: Fritz Wilhelm, Michael Reisen
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Patent number: 6872460Abstract: The invention relates to biaxially oriented, co-extruded polyester films. Said films comprise a base layer which consists of at least 70% by weight of a thermoplastic polyester, preferably polyethylene terephthalate (PET) with a diethylene glycol and/or polyethylene glycol content greater than 1.3% by weight and have at least one matt outer layer and optionally additional intermediate layers. The films also contain at least one UV-absorber, preferably hydroxy benzotriazoles and triazines. The films are characterized by high UV-stability, no embrittlement after exposure to temperature, a matt surface devoid of unwanted clouding and excellent thermoforming properties and are, together with the molded bodies produced therefrom, suitable for numerous interior and exterior applications.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2001Date of Patent: March 29, 2005Assignee: Mitsubishi Polyester Film GmbHInventors: Ursula Murschall, Ulrich Kern, Guenther Crass
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Patent number: 6872461Abstract: The invention relates to a co-extruded, biaxially oriented polyester films containing a flame-retardant agent which can be dissolved in the polyester. The film has a matt outer layer which contains a mixture and/or a blend of two components (I) and (II), whereby component (I) is a polyethylene terephthalate homopolymer, or a polyethylene terephthalate copolymer, or a mixture of polyethylene terephthalate homopolymers or copolymers and component (II) is a polymer containing at least one sulphonate group.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2001Date of Patent: March 29, 2005Assignee: Mitsubishi Polyester Film GmbHInventors: Ursula Murschall, Ulrich Kern, Guenther Crass, Gottfried Hilkert