Modeling and Experimental Studies of Aqueous Suspension Polymerization Processes. 2. Experiments in Batch Reactors

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 1993, Pages 1831-1838

  Kalfas, George ^a   Yuan, Huigen ^a   Ray, W Harmon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTORS; COPOLYMERIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONOMERS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; REACTION KINETICS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

BATCH REACTORS; SUSPENSION POLYMERIZATION;

FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION;

EID: 0027659489     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie00021a006     Document Type: Article

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