Robert F Jorgensen

US Patent:

6617405, Sep 9, 2003

Filed:

Jul 14, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/353207

Inventors:

Robert James Jorgensen - Belle Mead NJ

Assignee:

Union Carbide Chemicals Plastics Technology Corporation - Danbury CT

International Classification:

C08F 444

US Classification:

5261231, 5261242, 526153, 526160, 5263486, 526352, 502104, 502106, 502132

Abstract:

A process of polymerizing ethylene or ethylene and one or more comonomers in one or more fluidized bed reactors with a catalyst system comprising (i) a supported or unsupported magnesium/titanium based precursor in slurry form, said precursor containing an electron donor; and (ii) an activator containing aluminum in an amount sufficient to essentially complete the activation of the precursor is disclosed. In the process, the precursor and the activator are mixed prior to introduction into the reactor in at least one mixing procedure, and then the mixture is contacted again with additional activator to essentially complete activation of the precursor. In the method, the atomic ratio of aluminum to titanium is in the range of about 1:1 to about 15:1 and the mole ratio of activator to electron donor is about 1:1 to about 2:1, and no additional activator is introduced into the reactor(s).

US Patent:

6780808, Aug 24, 2004

Filed:

Jul 15, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/196704

Inventors:

Burkhard Eric Wagner - Highland Park NJ
Robert James Jorgensen - Belle Mead NJ
Cynthia Anne Hepburn - Edison NJ

Assignee:

Univation Technologies, LLC - Houston TX

International Classification:

B01J 3100

US Classification:

502103

Abstract:

A magnesium halide composition comprising and/or made from a magnesium halide, a solvent suitable for an electron donor compound and an electron donor compound. The composition is characterized by enhanced solubility whereby it has a solubility in the solvent that does not decrease as a function of temperature up to the boiling point of the solvent and the solubility of the magnesium halide in the solvent is greater than 0. 7 mol/liter. A polymerization catalyst precursor composition can be made from magnesium halide composition by mixing the magnesium halide composition with a transition metal compound.

US Patent:

6806221, Oct 19, 2004

Filed:

Jul 15, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/196663

Inventors:

Burkhard Eric Wagner - Highland Park NJ
Robert James Jorgensen - Scott Depot WV
Mark Wilton Smale - Midland MI

Assignee:

Dow Global Technologies Inc. - Midland MI

International Classification:

B01J 3100

US Classification:

502103, 502104, 502 87, 526351, 5261231, 526138, 526129, 526158, 5261243

Abstract:

A method of making a spray-dried composition using a solution or mixture comprising the reaction product of a magnesium halide, a solvent, an electron donor compound, and a transition metal compound and an inert filler comprising substantially spherical particles having an average particle size ranging from 1 m to about 12 m.

US Patent:

6982237, Jan 3, 2006

Filed:

Jul 15, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/196705

Inventors:

Burkhard Eric Wagner - Highland Park NJ, US
Robert James Jorgensen - Scott Depot WV, US

Assignee:

Univation Technologies, LLC - Houston TX

International Classification:

B01J 31/00
B01J 37/00
C08F 4/02
C08F 4/60
C08F 4/44

US Classification:

502125, 127128, 127132, 127134, 5261231, 5261249, 5261253, 5261256, 5261258, 526134

Abstract:

A spray-dried catalyst precursor composition and method of making a spray-dried catalyst precursor composition with an inert filler, magnesium, a transition metal, solvent, and one electron donor compound. The catalyst precursor composition is substantially free of other electron donor compounds, the molar ratio of the electron donor compound to magnesium is less than or equal to 1. 9, and comprises spherical or substantially spherical particles having a particle size of from about 10 to about 200 μm. Catalysts made from the spray-dried catalyst precursors and polymerization methods using such catalysts are disclosed.

US Patent:

6982304, Jan 3, 2006

Filed:

Dec 22, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/743500

Inventors:

Cliff Robert Mure - Hillsborough NJ, US
Guylaine St. Jean - Somerset NJ, US
Stephen Paul Jaker - Colonia NJ, US
Robert J. Jorgensen - Scott Depot WV, US
Karen Breetz - Morgantown WV, US

Assignee:

Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology Corporation - Danbury CT

International Classification:

C08F 4/69
C08F 4/78
C08F 210/16

US Classification:

526106, 526118, 526119, 526126, 526129, 526348

Abstract:

Polyethylene resins having improved environmental stress crack resistance, stiffness and impact resistance is made by a process comprising feeding both a chromium oxide catalyst and a silyl chromium catalyst into a polymerization reactor. The chromium oxide catalyst and the silyl chromium catalyst are on separate supports. The chromium oxide catalyst is 25–50 weight percent and the silyl chromium catalyst is 50–75 weight percent of the total weight of catalyst. The catalysts may be added separately or as a single mixture.

US Patent:

7160833, Jan 9, 2007

Filed:

Jul 13, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/889813

Inventors:

Burkhard Eric Wagner - Highland Park NJ, US
Mark Wilton Smale - Midland MI, US
Robert James Jorgensen - Scott Depot WV, US

Assignee:

Dow Global Technologies Inc. - Midland MI

International Classification:

C08F 4/02
B01J 31/00

US Classification:

502133, 502103, 502104, 502 87, 502121, 502122, 502125, 526348, 5261231, 526138, 526129, 526145, 526158, 5261243

Abstract:

A spray-dried composition comprising the reaction product of a magnesium halide, a solvent, an electron donor compound, and a transition metal compound and an inert filler comprising substantially spherical particles having an average particle size ranging from about 1 μm to about 12 μm, and a polymerization process using the same.

US Patent:

20110130271, Jun 2, 2011

Filed:

Aug 6, 2009

Appl. No.:

13/054965

Inventors:

Burkhard E. Wagner - Highland Park NJ, US
Robert C. Job - Livermore CO, US
Robert J. Jorgensen - Scott Depot WV, US

Assignee:

Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology LLC - Midland MI

International Classification:

C08F 4/60

US Classification:

502104, 502120, 502113

Abstract:

Methods of preparing a polymerization catalyst component is provided, in which a magnesium component, a Lewis acid solubilizing component, a titanium compound, optionally a transition metal compound different than the titanium compound, and typically an inert filler are combined in a slurrying agent and spray-dried to produce a catalyst precursor in the form of a substantially spherical and porous solid particle. The methods and catalysts of this disclosure can provide ethylene homopolymer and copolymer resins having a high molecular weight tail and a broadened molecular weight distribution as compared to more traditional Ziegler-Natta catalysts.

US Patent:

61173991, Sep 12, 2000

Filed:

Apr 23, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/842395

Inventors:

Robert James Jorgensen - Somerset NJ
Steven Paul Sawin - Bridgewater NJ

Assignee:

Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology Corporation - Danbury CT

International Classification:

B01J 818
B01J 828
C08F 234
C08F 1000

US Classification:

422142

Abstract:

The invention teaches a novel design for a fluidized bed polymerization reactor which utilizes a primary fluidization grid to provide mixing and fluidization of the polymer and at least one secondary distribution plate located above the first distribution plate to promote segregation of polymer particles by size, the larger particles falling into the lower fluidization zone and the smaller particles being entrained up from the primary fluidization grid and through the secondary distribution grid into an upper reaction zone.