At Least Two Claimed Distinct Temperature Or Pressure Gradients Patents (Class 528/309.1)
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Publication number: 20130018165Abstract: A method is disclosed herein for the preparation of polytrimethylene terephthalate with sustained-release crystallinity. The method reduces crystallization rate and crystallinity-saturation ratio of polytrimethylene terephthalate during spinning, through addition of a third monomer during the esterification reaction step. The third monomer acts as copolymerization component generating intermolecular steric hindrance; the identity of which selects from one or more as combinations of the following: trimellitic anhydride, non-para aromatic dicarboxylic acid, C4-C10 aliphatic dicarboxylic acid having branched chains or naphthenic group and C3-C10 aliphatic dihydric alcohol having branched chains or naphthenic group, the molar ratio of carboxyl to hydroxyl is 1:1.16˜1.85, with the third monomer constituting 0.5˜6.5% of the total weight of the beginning raw materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2011Publication date: January 17, 2013Inventor: Shuchang Bian
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Publication number: 20120065342Abstract: A method for producing a crystallized polyester comprises the crystallization step of applying a shear and/or a pressure to a polyester selected from an aliphatic polyester and a polyalkylene terephthalate at a temperature of (Tm?70° C.) to (Tm+20° C.), where Tm is a melting point of the polyester, thereby converting the polyester into a state having a crystallinity of 10% or more and fluidity.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2010Publication date: March 15, 2012Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Mitsushige Hamaguchi, Takuma Naotsuka, Yoshitake Takahashi, Toru Takahashi, Hiroyuki Ome
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Publication number: 20110003964Abstract: The invention relates to a process for making modified polybutylene terephththalate random copolymers from a polyethylene terephthalate component. The invention relates to a three step process in which a diol component selected from the group consisting of ethylene glycol, propylene glycol, and combinations thereof reacts with a polyethylene terephthalate component under conditions sufficient to depolymerize the polyethylene terephthalate component into a first molten mixture; and where the first molten mixture is combined with 1,4-butanediol under conditions that create a second molten mixture that is subsequently placed under subatmospheric conditions that produce the modified polybutylene terephthalate random copolymers. The invention also relates to compositions made from the process.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventors: Parminder AGARWAL, Kristen COHOON, Sandeep DHAWAN, Robert Russell GALLUCCI, Ganesh KANNAN, Kenneth Frederick MILLER, Deepak RAMARAJU, Gomatam Raghavan RAVI, Dhaval SHAH
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Patent number: 7799892Abstract: A process for making modified polybutylene terephthalate random copolymers from a polyethylene terephthalate component includes reacting an oligomeric diol component selected from the group consisting of bis(hydroxybutyl) terephthalate, bis(hydroxybutyl)isophthalate, hydroxybutyl-hydroxyethyl terephthalate, and combinations thereof to a reactor; (i) a polyethylene terephthalate component selected from the group consisting of polyethylene terephthalate and polyethylene terephthalate copolymers with (ii) a diol component selected from the group consisting of 1,4-butanediol, ethylene glycol, propylene glycol, and combinations thereof, in the reactor under conditions sufficient to depolymerize the polyethylene terephthalate component into a first molten mixture; combining the first molten mixture is combined with 1,4-butanediol under conditions to form a second molten mixture; and placing the second molten mixture under conditions sufficient to produce the modified polybutylene terephthalate random copolymers.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2008Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Sabic Innovative Plastics IP B.V.Inventors: Gomatam Raghavan Ravi, Deepak Ramaraju, Srinivasan Krishnaswami
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Publication number: 20100184940Abstract: Described as one aspect of the invention are polyester compositions containing: (I) at least one polyester which comprises: (a) a dicarboxylic acid component comprising: (i) 70 to 100 mole % of terephthalic acid residues; (ii) 0 to 30 mole % of aromatic dicarboxylic acid residues having up to 20 carbon atoms; and (iii) 0 to 10 mole % of aliphatic dicarboxylic acid residues having up to 16 carbon atoms; and (b) a glycol component comprising: (i) 1 to 99 mole % of 2,2,4,4-tetramethyl-1,3-cyclobutanediol residues; and (ii) 1 to 99 mole % of cyclohexanedimethanol residues; and (II) at least one thermal stabilizer chosen from at least one of alkyl phosphate esters, aryl phosphate esters, mixed alkyl aryl phosphate esters, reaction products thereof, and mixtures thereof; wherein the total mole % of the dicarboxylic acid component is 100 mole %, and wherein the total mole % of the glycol component is 100 mole %.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2007Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicant: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Ted Calvin Germroth, Gary Wayne Connell, Emmett Dudley Crawford, Thomas Joseph Pecorini, Douglas Stephen McWilliams, Benjamin Fredrick Barton, Damon Bryan Shackelford
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Patent number: 7259227Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing high-molecular weight polyesters, such as e.g. polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polybutylene terephthalate (PBT), polynaphthalene terephthalate (PEN), polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTT) and/or polyesters of other dicarboxylic acids and diols including copolymers thereof. The invention relates likewise to a device for implementing this method. The latter concerns a single-stage tower reactor with which a method, comprising only two reactors, is made available for the total process.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2006Date of Patent: August 21, 2007Assignee: Uhde Inventa-Fischer GmbHInventors: Eike Schulz Van Endert, Rainer Hagen, Thomas Hille, Christian Atlas, Ulrich Thiele
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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: 6812321Abstract: In a process for the continuous preparation of polybutylene terephthalate from terephthalic acid and 1,4-butanediol comprising: a) direct esterification of terephthalic acid with 1,4-butanediol in a reactor cascade comprising at least two reactors, b) precondensation of the esterification product obtained in stage a), and c) polycondensation of the precondensate obtained in stage b), the reaction pressure decreases and the temperature does not increase along the reactor cascade in stage a).Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2001Date of Patent: November 2, 2004Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas Heitz, Martin Klatt, Ralf Neuhaus