Olefin plastic

It has been discovered that styrene forms a linear alternating copolymer with carbon monoxide using palladium II—phenanthroline complexes. The polymers are syndiotactic and have a crystalline melting point - 280° C (59). Shell Oil Company is commercializing carbon monoxide a-olefin plastics based on this technology (60). 

An increase in the number of worldwide players in many chemical segments, new low cost entrants, and increasing opportunities for global price arbitrage have increased the pressure on chemical companies, particularly those with a heavy exposure to the commodity chemicals such as olefines, plastics, and fertilizers, which represent approximately one third of all chemical sales. 

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Polyolefin - Polyolefins are a large class of carbon-chain elastomeric and thermoplastic polymers usually prepared by addition (co)polymerization of olefins or alkenes such as ethylene. The most important representatives of this class are polyethylene and polypropylene. There are branched and linear polyolefins and some contain polar pendant groups or are halogenated. Unmodified polyolefins are characterized by relatively low thermal stability and a nonporous, nonpolar surface with poor adhesive properties. Processed by extrusion, injection molding, blow molding, and rotational molding. Other thermoplastic processes are used less frequently. This class of plastics is used more and has more applications than any other. Also called olefinic resin, olefinic plastic. 

ASTM D 3575. Flexible cellular materials from olefin plastics. 1993. 

Olefin o-b-fon [ISV, fr. F gaz) olefiant ethylene, fr. L oleum] (1860) n. ) Any of the class of monounsaturated, aliphatic hydrocarbons of the general formula Cn 2w nd named after the corresponding paraffins by changing their -ane endings to -ene or -ylene. Examples are ethylene (ethene), propylene, and butanes. The class of polymers of olefins is called polyolefins or olefin plastics. (2) The term is sometimes taken to include aliphatics containing more than one double bond in the molecule such as a diolefin or diene. Butadiene is a typical member and an important comonomer for plastics. (3) A... 

ASTM D1603 1994 Standard Test Method for Carbon Black In Olefin Plastics Standard Test Method for Environmental Stress-Cracking of Ethylene Plastics... 

Hydrogenated S-EB-S block-copolymers can be used with olefinic plastics such as PP and PE because of their higher temperature allowance, and even with engineering plastics that usually need melt temperatures well above 275°C. But for polar engineering plastics, such as PA 6 and 66, maleic anhydride functionalized polymers have been developed and commercialized. Systems available to improve impact resistance of high-performance plastics are given in the table below. 

Ethylene glycol is commonly used as antifreeze in automobiles. The feedstock includes pure water and refined ethylene oxide. This system combines a blending feed tank, glycol reactor, and a series of distillation columns. Olefin manufacturing includes three major processes the first converts natural gas to ethylene, propylene, or butane the second produces isobutylene and isoamy-lene from hydrocarbon feedstocks the third converts gas oil feedstocks into high-octane gasoline, distillates, and C2-C5 olefins. Plastics manufacturing employs a number of polymer processes that handle polyethylene, polypropylene, and butyl polymers. 

Polyolefin plastic Also called olefin, olefinic plastics or olefinic resins. They represent a very large class of carbon-chain TPs and elastomers. The most important are polyethylenes and polypropylenes. They all have extensive use in many different forms and applications. 

Polygas Olefins. Refinery propylene and butenes are polymerized with a phosphoric acid catalyst at 200°C and 3040—6080 kPa (30—60 atm) to give a mixture of branched olefins up to used primarily in producing plasticizer alcohols (isooctyl, isononyl, and isodecyl alcohol). Since the olefins are branched (75% have two or more CH groups) the alcohols are also branched. Exxon, BASE, Ruhrchemie (now Hoechst), ICl, Nissan, Getty Oil, U.S. Steel Chemicals (now Aristech), and others have all used this olefin source. 

Other Dimer Olefins. Olefins for plasticizer alcohols are also produced by the dimerization of isobutene [115-11-7] 4 8 codimerization of isobutene and / -butene [25167-67-3]. These highly branched octenes lead to a highly branched isononyl alcohol [68526-84-1] product. BASE, Ruhrchemie, ICl, Nippon Oxocol, and others have used this source. 

A.luminum Jilkyl Chain Growth. Ethyl, Chevron, and Mitsubishi Chemical manufacture higher, linear alpha olefins from ethylene via chain growth on triethyl aluminum (15). The linear products are then used as oxo feedstock for both plasticizer and detergent range alcohols and because the feedstocks are linear, the linearity of the alcohol product, which has an entirely odd number of carbons, is a function of the oxo process employed. Alcohols are manufactured from this type of olefin by Sterling, Exxon, ICI, BASE, Oxochemie, and Mitsubishi Chemical. 

Styrene plastics Acrylonitrile polypous Olefin polypous). 

Hydrocarbon resin is a broad term that is usually used to describe a low molecular weight thermoplastic polymer synthesized via the thermal or catalytic polymerization of coal-tar fractions, cracked petroleum distillates, terpenes, or pure olefinic monomers. These resins are used extensively as modifiers in the hot melt and pressure sensitive adhesive industries. They are also used in numerous other appHcations such as sealants, printing inks, paints, plastics, road marking, carpet backing, flooring, and oil field appHcations. They are rarely used alone. 

Although most aromatic modified C-5 resins are typically higher softening point resins, certain appHcations, such as adhesives, require lower softening points. Copolymerization of a C-8—C-10 vinyl aromatic fraction with piperylenes in the presence of a C-4—C-8 mono-olefin chain-transfer stream yields resins with softening points ranging from 0—40°C (44). A particular advantage of these Hquid resins is the fact that they eliminate the need for plasticizers or oils in some pressure sensitive adhesive appHcations. 

LPG recovered from natural gas is essentially free of unsaturated hydrocarbons, such as propylene and butylenes (qv). Varying quantities of these olefins may be found in refinery production, and the concentrations are a function of the refinery s process design and operation. Much of the propylene and butylene are removed in the refinery to provide raw materials for plastic and mbber production and to produce high octane gasoline components. 

Second, in the early 1950s, Hogan and Bank at Phillips Petroleum Company, discovered (3,4) that ethylene could be catalyticaHy polymerized into a sohd plastic under more moderate conditions at a pressure of 3—4 MPa (435—580 psi) and temperature of 70—100°C, with a catalyst containing chromium oxide supported on siUca (Phillips catalysts). PE resins prepared with these catalysts are linear, highly crystalline polymers of a much higher density of 0.960—0.970 g/cnr (as opposed to 0.920—0.930 g/cnf for LDPE). These resins, or HDPE, are currentiy produced on a large scale, (see Olefin polymers, HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE). 

High density polyethylene (HDPE) is defined by ASTM D1248-84 as a product of ethylene polymerisation with a density of 0.940 g/cm or higher. This range includes both homopolymers of ethylene and its copolymers with small amounts of a-olefins. The first commercial processes for HDPE manufacture were developed in the early 1950s and utilised a variety of transition-metal polymerisation catalysts based on molybdenum (1), chromium (2,3), and titanium (4). Commercial production of HDPE was started in 1956 in the United States by Phillips Petroleum Company and in Europe by Hoechst (5). HDPE is one of the largest volume commodity plastics produced in the world, with a worldwide capacity in 1994 of over 14 x 10 t/yr and a 32% share of the total polyethylene production. 

Physical Properties. LLDPE is a sernicrystaUine plastic whose chains contain long blocks of ethylene units that crystallize in the same fashion as paraffin waxes or HDPE. The degree of LLDPE crystallinity depends primarily on the a-olefin content in the copolymer (the branching degree of a resin) and is usually below 40—45%. The principal crystalline form of LLDPE is orthorhombic (the same as in HDPE) the cell parameters of nonbranched PE are a = 0.740 nm, b = 0.493 nm, and c (the direction of polymer chains) = 0.2534 nm. Introduction of branching into PE molecules expands the cell slightly thus a increases to 0.77 nm and b to around 0.50 nm. 

Physical Properties. Table 3 Hsts physical properties of stereoregular polymers of several higher a-olefins. Crystal ceU parameters of these polymers ate available (34—36). AU. stereoregular polyolefins have helix conformations ia the crystalline state. Their densities usually range from 0.90 to 0.95 g/cm. Crystalline PMP, however, represents an exception its density is only 0.812—0.815 g/cm, lower even than that of amorphous PMP (0.835—0.840 g/cm ), thus making it one of the lowest densities among plastics. 

The even-numbered carbon alpha olefins (a-olefins) from through C q are especially useful. For example, the C, C, and Cg olefins impart tear resistance and other desirable properties to linear low and high density polyethylene the C, Cg, and C q compounds offer special properties to plasticizers used in flexible poly(vinyl chloride). Linear C q olefins and others provide premium value synthetic lubricants linear 145 olefins are used in... 

The Cg—0 2 branched, odd and even, linear and internal olefins are used to produce improved flexible poly(vinyl chloride) plastics. Demand for these branched olefins, which are produced from propylene and butylene, is estimated to be increasing at a rate of 2% per year. However, the growth of the linear a-olefins is expected to slow down to a rate of 5% per year from 1992 to 1997 (3), as opposed to growth rates of 7—10% in the 1980s. 

The stringency of the conditions employed in the unmodified cobalt 0x0 process leads to formation of heavy trimer esters and acetals (2). Although largely supplanted by low pressure ligand-modified rhodium-catalyzed processes, the unmodified cobalt 0x0 process is stiU employed in some instances for propylene to give a low, eg, - 3.3-3.5 1 isomer ratio product mix, and for low reactivity mixed and/or branched-olefin feedstocks, eg, propylene trimers from the polygas reaction, to produce isodecanol plasticizer alcohol. 

Plastic. A plastic bag usuaUy consists of a single heavy waU of plastic film, woven sheets of plastic tape, or laminates. Principal materials of constmction are polyethylene and polypropylene (see Fibers, olefin). Both transparent and opaque sheeting are used, and printabUity usuaUy is exceUent. Plastic bags can be fiUed and closed with conventional equipment beat-sealing is essential for open-mouthed bags to effect a moisture barrier. 

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