Mathematical Modeling of Emulsion Copolymerization of Acrylonitrile/Butadiene

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 4434-4448

  Dubé, Marc A ^a,c   Penlidis, Alexander ^a   Mutha, Rajendra K ^b   Cluett, William R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTADIENE; COMPOSITION; COPOLYMERIZATION; EMULSION POLYMERIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POLYBUTADIENES; REACTION KINETICS;

BAYESIAN SEQUENTIAL DESIGN; NITRILE RUBBER REACTORS; NONLINEAR MODEL BASED CONTROL SCHEMES;

COPOLYMERS;

EID: 0030397367     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie9502704     Document Type: Article

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