申请人:MITSUI PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
公开号:EP0021700A1
公开(公告)日:1981-01-07
Ethylene polymer wax has been prepared by polymerizing ethylene, optionally with up to 10 mole% of an alpha-olefin having 3 to 20 carbon atoms, in the presence of a catalyst composed of (A) a highly active titanium catalyst component activated by a magnesium compound and (B) an organoaluminum catalyst component. With known catalysts ethane is formed to an undesirable extent by the hydrogenation of ethylene and it can be difficult to obtain a wax of the desired low viscosity average molecular weight.
These problems are overcome or mitigated by a process in which the organoaluminum catalyst component (B) is composed of (B-1) an organoaluminum compound free from halogen bonded directly to the aluminum atom and (B-2) a halogen compound of an element of Group III or IV of Men- delejeffs periodic table, the atomic ratio of halogen to aluminum in the organoaluminum catalyst component (B) being from 1:6 to 9:10, provided that when said halogen compound is a halogen compound of carbon, this atomic ratio is from 1:6 to 10:1, and the polymerization is carried out under such conditions that the concentration of ethylene polymer wax in the polymerization system is 200 to 600 g/liter of solvent, a wax being formed having a viscosity average molecular weight of up to 6000.
乙烯聚合蜡的制备方法是:乙烯(可选择加入不超过 10 摩尔%的具有 3 至 20 个碳原子的 α-烯烃)在由以下两种催化剂组成的催化剂存在下进行聚合:(A) 由镁化合物活化的高活性钛催化剂组分;(B) 有机铝催化剂组分。在使用已知催化剂的情况下,乙烯在氢化过程中会形成乙烷,但乙烷的程度并不理想,而且很难获得所需的低粘度平均分子量的蜡。
这些问题可以通过一种工艺来克服或减轻,在这种工艺中,有机铝催化剂组分(B)是由(B-1)直接与铝原子结合的不含卤素的有机铝化合物和(B-2)门-德列杰弗元素周期表第Ⅲ或Ⅳ族元素的卤素化合物组成,有机铝催化剂组分(B)中卤素与铝的原子比为 1:聚合是在这样的条件下进行的,即聚合体系中乙烯聚合蜡的浓度为 200 至 600 克/升溶剂,形成的蜡的粘度平均分子量高达 6000。