The Phillips catalyst, or the Phillips supported chromium catalyst, is the catalyst used to produce approximately half of the world's polyethylene. A heterogeneous catalyst, it consists of a chromium oxide supported on silica gel.[1] Polyethylene, the most-produced synthetic polymer, is produced industrially by the polymerization of ethylene:
n C2H4 → (C2H4)n
Although exergonic (i.e., thermodynamically favorable), the reaction requires catalysts. Three main catalysts are employed commercially: the Phillips catalyst, Ziegler–Natta catalysts (based on titanium trichloride), and, for specialty polymers, metallocene-based catalysts.
^Max P. McDaniel "A Review of the Phillips Supported Chromium Catalyst and Its Commercial Use for Ethylene Polymerization" Advances in Catalysis, 2010, Volume 53, p. 123. doi:10.1016/S0360-0564(10)53003-7
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and cation (e.g Na4Cr(CO)4). Chromium catalysts are important in ethylene polymerization. The Phillipscatalyst is prepared by impregnating chromium(VI)...
have been reported that can polymerize ethene, akin to the Phillipscatalyst. The catalyst can be easily activated with trimethylaluminum and typically...
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only manufactures polyethylene. Texas portal Chevron PhillipsPhillips Disaster of 1989 Phillips explosion of 1999 "The Aftermath of a Deadly Explosion:...
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often coloured. They form many useful alloys and are often employed as catalysts in elemental form or in compounds such as coordination complexes and oxides...
olefin metathesis, researchers at Phillips Petroleum Company in 1964 described olefin disproportionation with catalysts molybdenum hexacarbonyl, tungsten...
Ziegler-Natta catalysts. The first group of the catalysts encompasses solid (mostly supported) catalysts and certain types of soluble metallocene catalysts. Such...
situ catalyst regeneration. Instead, when needed, the aged catalyst was replaced by fresh catalyst and the aged catalyst was shipped to catalyst manufacturers...