US4391920A
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Porose, pulverformige polymerteilchen
Assignee: Akzo NV
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Filing: 1981-07-15
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Granted: 1983-07-05
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Expires: 2001-07-15
Abstract
Abstract The invention relates to a process producing porous powdery polymer particles. A homogeneous mixture having two components minimum, one a meltable polymer, the other fluid inert to the polymer, both forming a system having a range of complete miscibility and a miscibility gap are introduced to a bed of solid-substance particles, then cooling the mixture to below solidification of the polymer and comminuting the obtained cake-like mass. The polymer is separated then from the inert fluid and solid-like substance particles.
Inventors
- 👤 Wolfgang Lange
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-23 16:45
CPC Classifications
C; C09; C09K; C09K17/00; A; A01; A01N; A01N25/00; A01N25/08; A01N25/10; B; B01; B01J; B01J20/00; B01J20/22; B01J20/26; C04; C04B; C04B16/00; C04B16/04; C04B16/08; C08; C08J; C08J3/00; C08J3/12; C08J9/00; C08J9/28; C09D; C09D7/00; C09D7/40; C09D7/65; C09D7/70; C09K3/00; C09K3/32; C08J2201/00; C08J2201/04; C08J2201/044; C08J2201/0444; C08J2201/054; C08J2201/0542; C08J2201/0543; C08J2201/0545; C08J2201/0546; C08J2323/00; C08J2323/02; C08J2323/10; C08J2323/12; C08L; C08L23/00; C08L23/02; C08L23/10; C08L23/12
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 15
Claim 1
Independent Claim
118 words
Process for the production of powdery, porous polymer particles, characterized by the introduction into a bed of solid-substance particles at a temperature above the segregating temperature, of a homogenous mixture having a minimum of two components, one component therein being a meltable polymer and the other component a fluid inert to the polymer, both components forming a binary system which has in its liquid phase a range of complete miscibility and also a range with a miscibility gap, by subsequent cooling said mixture to a temperature below the solidification temperature of the polymer in the mixture, by comminution of the cake-like mass as obtained and by separation of the polymer substance from the inert fluid and solid-substance particles.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
118 words
Process for the production of powdery, porous polymer particles, characterized by the introduction into a bed of solid-substance particles at a temperature above the segregating temperature, of a homogenous mixture having a minimum of two components, one component therein being a meltable polymer and the other component a fluid inert to the polymer, both components forming a binary system which has in its liquid phase a range of complete miscibility and also a range with a miscibility gap, by subsequent cooling said mixture to a temperature below the solidification temperature of the polymer in the mixture, by comminution of the cake-like mass as obtained and by separation of the polymer substance from the inert fluid and solid-substance particles.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
21 words
Process as per claim 1, characterized by using a solid-substance-particle bed of particles with a size from 50 to 5000 μm.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
14 words
Process as per claim 1, characterized by using a solid-substance-particle bed of glass beads.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
12 words
Process as per claim 1, characterized by using salt as solid-substance particles.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
12 words
Process as per claim 4, characterized by using sodium sulfate as salt.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
19 words
Process as per claim 5, characterized by using sodium sulfate with a granule size from 50 to 400 μm.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
11 words
Process as per claim 1, characterized by using polypropylene as polymer.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
16 words
Process as per claim 7, characterized by using polypropylene as polymer and NN-bis-(2-hydroxyethyl)-hexadecylamine as inert fluid.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
33 words
Process as per claim 3, characterized by extracting the inert fluid from the cake obtained, comminuting the cake and separating the glass beads from the polymer particles by reason of their different densities.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
13 words
Process as per claim 9, characterized by size-separation being effected by hydraulic separation.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
18 words
Process as per claim 1, characterized by subjecting the obtained cake first to comminution and then to extraction.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
17 words
Process as per claim 1, characterized by subjecting the obtained cake to simultaneously performed comminution and extraction.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
24 words
Process as per claim 1, characterized by subjecting the obtained cake to simultaneously performed extraction, detaching of solid-substance particles and comminution of the cake.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
31 words
Process as per claim 1, characterized by gradation of the polymeric, powdery porous particles into granule-size fractions by screening, ensuing subsequent to separation of the inert fluid and the solid-substance particles.
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