Disclosed is an anti-fouling agent which is superior in viscosity stability, water resistance of its film and ability of preventing a scale from depositing on the inner wall of a polymerization reactor and which can prevent the contamination of foreign substances into a polymeric product caused by exfoliation of a scale depositing on the inner wall of a polymerization reactor and exfoliation of the anti-fouling agent itself,
the anti-fouling agent comprising an aqueous solution containing a polyvinyl alcohol that is obtained through saponification of a polyvinyl ester that contains monomer units having a specific silyl group and that satisfies the following formulae (I) and (II):
370 < P × S < 9000 (I)
wherein P indicates the viscosity-average degree of polymerization of the polyvinyl alcohol,
and S indicates the content (mole%) of the monomer units having a silyl group of formula (1) in the polyvinyl alcohol;
0.2/100 ≤ (A-B)/(B) ≤ 75/100 (II)
wherein A indicates the content (ppm) of silicon atoms in the polyvinyl alcohol,
and B indicates the content (ppm) of silicon atoms in the polyvinyl alcohol that was washed with sodium hydroxide-containing methanol and then washed with methanol by Soxhlet extraction.
本发明公开了一种防污剂,该防污剂在粘度稳定性、膜的耐
水性和防止
水垢沉积在聚合 反应器内壁上的能力方面均优于其他防污剂,可防止因沉积在聚合反应器内壁上的
水垢剥 落和防污剂本身剥落而导致异物污染聚合物产品、
该防污剂包括含有聚
乙烯醇的
水溶液,该聚
乙烯醇是通过皂化聚
乙烯醇酯而得,该聚
乙烯醇酯含有具有特定
硅基的单体单元,并满足下式(I)和(II):
370 < P × S < 9000 (I)
其中 P 表示聚乙烯醇的粘度平均聚合度、
S 表示聚乙烯醇中具有式(1)硅烷基的单体单元的含量(摩尔%);
0.2/100 ≤ (a-b)/(b) ≤ 75/100 (ii)
其中 A 表示聚乙烯醇中硅原子的含量(ppm)、
B 表示聚乙烯醇中硅原子的含量(ppm),该聚乙烯醇先用含氢氧化钠的甲醇洗涤,然后用索氏提取法用
甲醇洗涤。