Polyketones and polysulfones for conservation in the ethylene polymer market
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OSTI ID:7356841
Because of the increase in cost of foreign oil, ethylene costs have increased markedly within the last several years. There is a sizable incentive to reduce raw material cost for basic polymer manufacture. Polyketones, synthesized from ethylene and CO, and polysulfones, synthesized from ethylene and SO/sub 2/, utilizing high energy radiation, offers one such possibility. CO and SO/sub 2/, usually considered as wastes and pollutants from fossil fuel burning power plants, are converted to useful materials. The polyketones and polysulfones formed from the gas phase below 100/sup 0/C have found to be high molecular weight polymers which, depending on composition, either melt with difficulty, or decompose at temperatures of 250/sup 0/C or higher. The higher temperature (greater than 100/sup 0/C) catalyzed reaction produces low molecular weight waxes. Design calculations indicate that for a G value of 10,000 and 50 percent energy deposition efficiency, it would take 331 MCi of /sup 60/Co to conserve 2 billion pounds of ethylene or 25 percent of the overall U. S. consumption in the PE market by substituting CO and SO/sub 2/. This savings amounts to as much as $280 million at today's market price. Electron machine radiation with a 25 percent energy deposition efficiency requires a total beam power of 9800 kW. (DLC)
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, N.Y. (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- E(30-1)-16
- OSTI ID:
- 7356841
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-21341; CONF-760823-5
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
360401 -- Polymers & Plastics-- Preparation & Fabrication-- (-1987)
38 RADIATION CHEMISTRY, RADIOCHEMISTRY, AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY
400600* -- Radiation Chemistry
ALKENES
BEAMS
CARBON COMPOUNDS
CARBON MONOXIDE
CARBON OXIDES
CHALCOGENIDES
CHEMICAL RADIATION EFFECTS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CHEMISTRY
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
ELECTRON BEAMS
ETHYLENE
GAMMA RADIATION
HYDROCARBONS
IONIZING RADIATIONS
LEPTON BEAMS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC POLYMERS
ORGANIC SULFUR COMPOUNDS
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PARTICLE BEAMS
PHOTON BEAMS
POLYMERIZATION
POLYMERS
PRODUCTION
RADIATION CHEMISTRY
RADIATION EFFECTS
RADIATIONS
RESOURCE CONSERVATION
SULFONES
SULFUR COMPOUNDS
SULFUR DIOXIDE
SULFUR OXIDES
360401 -- Polymers & Plastics-- Preparation & Fabrication-- (-1987)
38 RADIATION CHEMISTRY, RADIOCHEMISTRY, AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY
400600* -- Radiation Chemistry
ALKENES
BEAMS
CARBON COMPOUNDS
CARBON MONOXIDE
CARBON OXIDES
CHALCOGENIDES
CHEMICAL RADIATION EFFECTS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CHEMISTRY
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
ELECTRON BEAMS
ETHYLENE
GAMMA RADIATION
HYDROCARBONS
IONIZING RADIATIONS
LEPTON BEAMS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC POLYMERS
ORGANIC SULFUR COMPOUNDS
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PARTICLE BEAMS
PHOTON BEAMS
POLYMERIZATION
POLYMERS
PRODUCTION
RADIATION CHEMISTRY
RADIATION EFFECTS
RADIATIONS
RESOURCE CONSERVATION
SULFONES
SULFUR COMPOUNDS
SULFUR DIOXIDE
SULFUR OXIDES