Polypropylene reinvented: Costs of using metallocene catalysts

摘要

This study develops scoping estimates of the required capital investmentand manufacturing costs to make a zirconocene catalyst/cocatalyst system((F6-acen)Zr (CH2CMe3)(NMe2Ph))(B(C6F5)4) immobilized on a silica support. Costs for this fluorine-based system are compared with estimates for two other metallocene catalysts using methylaluminoxane (MAO)-based cocatalysts.