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Supported Titanium–Magnesium Catalysts with Different Titanium Content: Kinetic Peculiarities at Ethylene Homopolymerization and Copolymerization and Molecular Weight Characteristics of Polyethylene Full article

Journal Journal of Applied Polymer Science
ISSN: 0021-8995 , E-ISSN: 1097-4628
Output data Year: 2006, Volume: 102, Number: 6, Pages: 5436-5442 Pages count : 7 DOI: 10.1002/app.25060
Tags Ethylene polymerization, Gel permeation chromatography (GPC), Molecular weight distribution (MWD), Polyethylene (PE), Size exclusion chromatography (SEC), Titanium-magnesium catalyst
Authors Echevskaya Ludmila G. 1 , Matsko Mikhail A. 1 , Mikenas Tatiana B. 1 , Nikitin Valentin E. 1 , Zakharov Vladimir A. 1
Affiliations
1 Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Prospekt Akademika Lavrentieva 5, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia

Abstract: The effect of Ti content on the activity of titanium–magnesium catalysts (TMC) and molecular weight distribution (MWD) of polyethylene (PE) produced has been studied. It was found that the activity enhances sharply as Ti content decreases from 0.6 to 0.07 wt %, and shows no significant changes in the Ti content range of 0.6–5.0 wt %. The maximum activity (36 kg PE/mmol Ti × h × bar C2H4) was observed for TMC with the lowest Ti content. The catalyst with low titanium content (∼ 0.1 wt % of Ti) produced PE with narrower MWD (Mw/Mn = 3.1–3.5) as compared to catalysts with higher titanium content (3–5 wt % of Ti; Mw/Mn = 4.8–5.0). New data on the effect of hydrogen on MWD of PE have been found. Increasing hydrogen concentration results in broadening the MWD of PE, especially in the case of TMC with high titanium content. The data presented indicate the heterogeneity of active centers of TMC in the reaction of chain transfer with hydrogen. The data on the ethylene–hexene-1 copolymerization over TMC with different titanium content are presented. Comonomer reactivity ratios were shown to be independent of the Ti content in TMC. Presumably the difference in activity of these catalysts is mainly caused by the difference in the number of active centers.
Cite: Echevskaya L.G. , Matsko M.A. , Mikenas T.B. , Nikitin V.E. , Zakharov V.A.
Supported Titanium–Magnesium Catalysts with Different Titanium Content: Kinetic Peculiarities at Ethylene Homopolymerization and Copolymerization and Molecular Weight Characteristics of Polyethylene
Journal of Applied Polymer Science. 2006. V.102. N6. P.5436-5442. DOI: 10.1002/app.25060 WOS Scopus РИНЦ OpenAlex ANCAN
Dates:
Submitted: Nov 14, 2005
Accepted: Jun 23, 2006
Published online: Sep 28, 2006
Published print: Dec 15, 2006
Identifiers:
≡ Web of science: WOS:000241593800045
≡ Scopus: 2-s2.0-33751320131
≡ Elibrary: 13533280
≡ OpenAlex: W2052428926
≡ Chemical Abstracts: 2006:1188761
≡ Chemical Abstracts (print): 146:82246
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