US 7,601,783 B2
Method of controlling olefin polymerization
Mark B. Davis, Hurricane, W. Va. (US); and James Daniel Madden, Pocatello, Id. (US)
Assigned to Dow Global Technologies, Inc., Midland, Mich. (US)
Filed on Apr. 05, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/99,328.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/560230, filed on Apr. 07, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2005/0228138 A1, Oct. 13, 2005
Int. Cl. C08L 23/00 (2006.01); C08L 23/04 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 525—191  [525/240] 28 Claims
 
1. A method of making polyolefin with a target flow index and melt flow ratio, comprising:
contacting one or more olefinic monomers in a single reactor containing a bicomponent catalyst system comprising a first catalyst component and a second catalyst component, wherein the bicomponent catalyst system comprises two different Ziegler-Natta catalysts each characterized by a catalyst productivity and a chain-transfer-agent response; the single reactor being characterized by a chain-transfer-agent concentration and a temperature; the productivity of the second catalyst component having a substantially different temperature dependence than that of the first catalyst component; the chain-transfer-agent response of the second catalyst component having a substantially different sensitivity than that of the first catalyst component;
effectuating the polymerization of the olefinic monomers to produce an olefin polymer characterized by a flow index, I21 and a melt flow ratio, I21/I2; and achieving in a coordinated manner the target flow index by controlling the chain transfer agent concentration and the melt flow ratio by controlling the reactor temperature.