Industrial Multimodal Processes

Abstract

Polyolefins are the most widely used plastics today due to their low production cost and wide range of applications (packaging and other disposables, building and construction, agriculture, appliances, transportation, electrics and electronics, furniture, communication, automotive industry, etc.). It is well acknowledged that the degree of technological and scientific sophistication in relation to the catalytic polyolefin manufacturing has no equal among other synthetic polymer production processes. Presently, the total polyolefin world-production exceeds 130 million tons per year covering around 45% of the total plastic production (about 1.5 times the steel consumption in volume).