Abstract:
Film having improved transparency prepared from a mixture of an ethylene polymer and from 0.05 to 1.0 percent by weight (based on the mixture) of a copolymer of styrene, a graft copolymer of styrene, a homopolymer of propylene or a copolymer of propylene and ethylene; the film may be used as packaging material.
Abstract:
Production of polyethylene by polymerizing ethylene at elevated temperatures and elevated pressure under the action of a polymerization initiator, consisting of oxygen and t-butyl hydroperoxide, and of a polymerization regulator. The process of the invention is characterized in that temperature ranging from 310* to 400*C are used and that the polymerization initiator consists of from 1 to 12 molar parts of oxygen and from 1 to 5 molar parts of t-butyl hydroperoxide per million molar parts of the ethylene being polymerized. The process of the invention is preferably carried out continuously in a tubular reactor. The process permits easy control of the reaction with high yields and provides products with high flexibility and elongation.
Abstract:
A process for the production of ethylene copolymers containing hydroxyl groups which contain polymerized units of ethylene, an alkenol and if desired other monomers copolymerizable with ethylene, by copolymerization of a mixture of ethylene, alkenol and the other copolymerizable monomer(s), if any, at superatmospheric pressure and elevated temperature under the action of a free-radical polymerization initiator in the presence or absence of a polymerization regulator. 3-methyl-3-buten-1-ol is used as the alkenol. The process has the advantage that it is more easily carried out than comparable prior art methods and that it gives copolymers containing a relatively high proportion of polymerized units of alkenol.
Abstract:
A process for the continuous high pressure polymerization Or ethylene in a polymerization system which comprises a polymerization zone (A) a high pressure product isolation zone (B), a throttling and control system (C), a low pressure product isolation zone (D), a second throttling and control system (E) and a discharge extruder (F), and wherein, according to the invention, the level Or the ethylene polymer in the high pressure product isolation zone (B) and in the low pressure product isolation zone (D) is carried periodically. The process gives an ethylene polymer Or improved homogeneity, which when used to manufacture films does not tend to form specks or fisheyes.