Nonequilibrium Modeling of Condensed Mode Cooling of Polyethylene Reactors

AIChE Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 13-24

  Jiang, Yan ^a   McAuley, Kim B ^a   Hsu, James C C ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; COOLING; CORRELATION METHODS; EVAPORATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; LAMINAR FLOW; POLYCONDENSATION; POLYETHYLENES; TURBULENT FLOW;

BUTTERWORTH METHOD; GAS PHASE POLYETHYLENE REACTORS; NEWTON METHOD; PARTIAL CONDENSING MODE;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

EID: 0030868040     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690430104     Document Type: Article

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