Patent ID: 6610798
Filing Date: 2003-08-26
Classification: B01F,B01J,C08F,Y10S

Abstract:
A process comprising pressure atomizing from 0.01 to 60 volume % of a non-Newtonian immiscible liquid having a density Â±20% of the density of a continuous liquid phase, at a pressure of at least 5 bar, below the free surface of the continuous liquid phase which may be stationary or flowing, contained in a holding tank or a tank, pipe or loop reactor, to produce a dispersion of atomized droplets of the immiscible liquid having at least one controlled average diameter from 0.1 mm to 10 mm and processing/polymerizing the dispersed phase in a low shear flow pattern with a controlled low turbulence level created, without mechanical agitation, by continuously or periodically injecting at gauge pressure up to 15 bar into selected parts of the reactor one or more streams of gas inert to the reactor contents having a density lower than the continuous phase and immiscible with the reactor contents and recovering this gas from the top of reactor, above free surface of the continuous phase.