Professional Documents
Culture Documents
3390/molecules16108332
molecules
ISSN 1420-3049
www.mdpi.com/journal/molecules
Article
Effect of EtOH/MgCl
2
Molar Ratios on the Catalytic
Properties of MgCl
2
-SiO
2
/TiCl
4
Ziegler-Natta Catalyst
for Ethylene Polymerization
Supanan Patthamasang, Bunjerd Jongsomjit and Piyasan Praserthdam *
Center of Excellence on Catalysis and Catalytic Reaction Engineering, Department of Chemical
Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: piyasan.p@chula.ac.th;
Tel.: +66-2218-6711; Fax: +66-2218-6769.
Received: 22 August 2011; in revised form: 21 September 2011 / Accepted: 27 September 2011 /
Published: 29 September 2011
Abstract: MgCl
2
-SiO
2
/TiCl
4
Ziegler-Natta catalysts for ethylene polymerization were
prepared by impregnation of MgCl
2
on SiO
2
in heptane and further treatment with TiCl
4
.
MgCl
2