FI Catalyst for Polymerization of Olefin

Abstract

Since the pioneering by Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta in the early 1950's on the polymerization of simple olefins, there has been intense interest in the application of early transition metal catalysts for the selective polymerization of inexpensive olefins. Following to Ziegler-Natta catalysts [1], metallocene catalysts were discovered in the late 1980's and resulted in numerous industrial processes for improving the properties of polyolefinic materials along with performance parameters. This field has been remarkably renewed with the use of catalysts based on early transition metals metallocene [2]. Development of new catalysts with transition metals has played a substantial role in the fast-growing polyolefins industry. Improvement of new, better performing, less costly polyolefins has often been a result of catalyst development. However, polymerization processes of olefins, beside the requirement of higher activity catalyst to control the particle size, particle size distribution, and morphology of the resultant polyolefin are quite important. In the other words, success in these developments requires an appropriate integration of catalyst selections with reactor type and process parameters [3-5].