IP Library Granted Patent US 10,040,883
Granted Patent B2
US 10,040,883 · App. 14/501,468 · Granted Aug 7, 2018

Multimodal polyolefin resin and molded product prepared therefrom

Inventors: Byung-Keel Sohn (Daejeon, KR); Seung-Tack Yu (Osan-Si, KR); Sang-Won Yoo (Daejeon, KR); Young-Jae Jun (Daejeon, KR); Sah-Mun Hong (Daejeon, KR)
Assignee: DAELIM INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
C08F210/16C08F10/02C08L23/04C08L23/06C08L23/0807C08L23/0815C08F4/65916C08F4/65925C08F4/65927C08L2205/025C08L2207/068C08L2308/00C08L2314/06Y10T428/139Y10T442/60
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Patent No.
US 10,040,883
App. No.
14/501,468
Granted
Aug 7, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

Multimodal polyolefin resin having excellent characteristics such as moldability, mechanical strength, external appearance and a polyolefin resin molded product are disclosed. The polyolefin resin satisfies all requirements of following (1) to (5), (1) density (d): 0.934 to 0.963 g/cm 3 , (2) melt flow index (MIE, 190° C., 2.16 kg load condition): 0.01 to 1.0 g/10 minutes, (3) ratio of weight-average molecular weight (Mw) and number-average molecular weight (Mn) measured by Gel Permeation Chromatography (GPC) (Mw/Mn, Molecular weight distribution (MWD)): 12 to 60, (4) at least two peaks appear when the molecular weight of the polyolefin resin is measured with GPC, and (5) amount of polyolefin having Mw of 10,000 or less exceeds 15 weight % and amount of polyolefin having Mw of 1,000,000 or more exceeds 1.5 weight %, when the molecular weight of the polyolefin resin is measured with GPC.

Claims (31)

1. A pipe including a polyolefin resin satisfying all of the following requirements (1) to (7),

(1) density (d): 0.934 to 0.963 g/cm 3 ,

(2) melt flow index (MIE, 190° C., 2.16 kg load): 0.01 to 1.0 g/10 minutes,

(3) ratio of weight-average molecular weight (Mw) and number-average molecular weight (Mn) measured by Gel Permeation Chromatography (GPC) (Mw/Mn, Molecular weight distribution (MWD)): 12 to 60,

(4) at least two peaks appear when molecular weight of the polyolefin resin is measured with GPC, wherein one peak (MLp) of the at least two peaks indicating the lowest molecular weight appears at 20,000 g/mol or less, and the other peak (MHp) indicating the highest molecular weight appears between 100,000 g/mol and 400,000 g/mol, and

(5) amount of polyolefin having molecular weight of 10,000 or less exceeds 15 weight % and amount of polyolefin having molecular weight of 1,000,000 or more exceeds 1.5 weight %, when measured with GPC,

(6) a fail time of the polyolefin resin exceeds 200 hours in a hydraulic pressure endurance test (KS M ISO 1167) and a PENT test (ASTM D1473) under a temperature of 95° C. and a pressure of 3.7 Mpa, and

(7) the weight-average molecular weight (Mw, measured by Gel Permeation Chromatography (GPC)) of the polyolefin resin is 100,000 to 400,000, and

wherein the polyolefin resin is prepared by a catalyst composition comprising at least one organometallic compound represented by the following Formula 1, a first at least one organic transition metal compound represented by the following Formula 2, a second at least one organic transition metal compound represented by the following Formula 3, and aluminoxane,

M 1 R 1 l R 2 m R 3 n   [Formula 1]

M 2 R 4 p X g   [Formula 2]

[R 5 -Q-R 6 ]M 2 X 2   [Formula 3]

wherein in Formulas 1, 2 and 3,

M 1 is an element of Group 1, 2, 12, 13 or 14 in the Periodic Table,

M 2 is titanium(Ti), zirconium(Zr) or hafnium(Hf),

R 1 , R 4 , R 5 and R 6 each is independently a cyclic hydrocarbyl group of 5 to 30 carbon atoms having at least 2 conjugated double bonds,

R 2 and R 3 are independently a hydrocarbyl group of 1 to 24 carbon atoms,

X is a halogen atom,

l is an integer of 1 to the valence of M 1 ,

m and n are independently an integer of 0 to 2, and

l+m+n is equal to the valence of M 1 ,

p is an integer of 0 to 2,

q is an integer of 2 to 4,

p+q is equal to the valence of M 2 ,

Q is a divalent group selected from (CR 7 2 ) b , (SiR 7 2 ) b , (GeR 7 2 ) b , NR 7 and PR 7 which connects R 5 and R 6 , wherein substituents R 7 are independently hydrogen atom, hydrocarbonyl group of 1 to 20 carbon atoms, b is an integer of 1 to 4, when Q is (CR 7 2 ) b , (SiR 7 2 ) b , (GeR 7 2 ) b , two substituents R 7 connected to carbon(C), silicon(Si), germanium(Ge) are connected to each other to form a ring of 2 to 7 carbon atoms.

2. The pipe as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the density (d) is 0.934 to 0.954 g/cm 3 , the melt flow index (MIE, 190° C., 2.16 kg load condition) is 0.03 to 0.8 g/10 minutes, the ratio of weight-average molecular weight (Mw) and number-average molecular weight (Mn) measured by Gel Permeation Chromatography (GPC) (Mw/Mn, Molecular weight distribution (MWD)) is 13 to 50, amount of polyolefin having molecular weight of 10,000 or less exceeds 20 weight % and amount of polyolefin having molecular weight of 1,000,000 or more exceeds 2.0 weight %.

3. The pipe as claimed in claim 1 , wherein at least two peaks appear in TREF (temperature rising elution fractionation) elution test when the polyolefin resin is analyzed by CFC (Cross-Fractionation Chromatography).

4. The pipe as claimed in claim 1 , wherein at least 10 weight % is eluted at 80° C. or less in TREF (temperature rising elution fractionation) elution test when the polyolefin resin is analyzed by CFC (Cross-Fractionation Chromatography).

5. The pipe as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a shear response (SR) of the polyolefin resin is 50 to 300, and a flow activation energy (Ea) of the polyolefin resin is 25 to 30 kJ/mol.

6. The pipe as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the polyolefin resin is a homo-polymer or a copolymer including at least one selected from the group consisting of ethylene, propylene, 1-butene, 1-pentene, 4-methyl-1-pentene, 1-hexene, 1-heptene, 1-octene, 1-decene, 1-undecene, 1-dodecene, 1-tetradecene, 1-hexadecene, 1-eitocene, norbornene, norbonadiene, ethylidene norbornene, phenyl norbornene, vinyl norbornene, dicyeclopentadiene, 1,4-butadiene, 1,5-butadiene, 1,5-pentadiene, 1,6-hexadiene, styrene, alpha-methylstyrene, divinylbenzene and 3-chloromethylstyrene.

7. The pipe as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a main component of the polyolefin resin is selected from the group consisting of ethylene, propylene and mixture thereof, and an auxiliary component of the polyolefin resin is a material containing 0.01 to 3.0 weight % of structural unit derived from α-olefin of 4 to 10 carbon atoms.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 16, 2021
From: DAELIM INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
To: DL CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 057189/0449 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 30, 2014
From: SOHN, BYUNG-KEEL; YU, SEUNG-TACK; YOO, SANG-WON; JUN, YOUNG-JAE; HONG, SAH-MUN
To: DAELIM INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 033849/0547 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2012-0033525 · Mar 30, 2012 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTKR2013002618 · Mar 29, 2013
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