Novel organometallic catalysts by resource-efficient material stream utilisation
Polyolefins are the largest group of plastics in terms of volume. They are produced using highly specialised catalyst systems. These consist of catalysts and so-called activators, which additionally promote the chemical reaction.
In ReMAOlution, the material cycle of the most modern activator for catalysers, abbreviated to “MAO”, is closed. The idea is to convert by-products into several new types of activators for modern catalyst systems in polyolefin production through chemical modification. The new activators will be tested within the project both in catalyst production and their application as well as compared with the systems established on the market. The new activators and catalyst systems will be fully characterised and their production scaled up so that they can be transferred to an industrial scale. Both the identification of the most efficient and optimal activator and each individual upscaling step will be accompanied by application tests along the commercial utilisation chain. Thanks to the close networking of the cooperation partners LANXESS and LIKAT, the unique expertise of the individual partners in the field of catalyst system development and industrial application is combined in the ReMAOlution project.
This joint and chemically innovative approach within the value chain enables a significant reduction in CO2 emissions and a maximisation of resource efficiency, which cannot be achieved through technical optimisation alone.
