Highly active Ziegler-Natta catalyst for propylene polymerization

Abedi, S. and Daftari-Besheli, Majid and Shafiei, S. (2005) Highly active Ziegler-Natta catalyst for propylene polymerization. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 97 (40). pp. 1744-1749. ISSN 0021-8995

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Abstract:	Polymerization of propylene was carried out by using a MgCl2-EtOH-TiCl4-ID-TEA-ED catalyst system in n-heptane, where ID (internal donor) was an organic diester, ED (external donor) was a silane compound, and TEA (triethyl aluminum) was the activator. The influences of temperature, pressure, time, hydrogen, and the molar ratios of Al/Ti and ED/Ti on polymer isotacticity and catalyst activity were studied by solubility in boiling n-heptane and measuring the polymer produced, respectively. The morphology of the polymers was evaluated through scanning electron microscopy and particle size distribution. The rheological properties of the poly(propylene) were determined by the melt flow index. It was found that the catalyst showed good morphology and high activity and also the produced polymers were characterized by high isotacticity and globulelike shapes.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2005 Wiley
Research Group:	Industrial Polymerization Processes (IPP/HT)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/61494
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/app.21906
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