Miscibility of Polymer Blends with Engineering Models

AIChE Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 3170-3180

  Harismiadis, Vassilis I ^a   Van Bergen, A R D ^a   Saraiva, Ana ^b   Kontogeorgis, Georgios M ^b   Fredenslund, Aage ^b   Tassios, Dimitrios P ^c  

^a SHELL RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION EFFECTS; ENTROPY; EQUATIONS OF STATE OF LIQUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; PHASE INTERFACES; SOLUBILITY; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

COMPOSITION INDEPENDENT BINARY INTERACTION PARAMETER; GROUP CONTRIBUTION MODELS;

POLYMER BLENDS;

MISCIBILITY; PHASE EQUILIBRIUM MODEL; POLYMERS;

EID: 0030294751     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690421117     Document Type: Article

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