Living polymerisation reactors. Part II. Theoretical and experimental tests on an algorithm which predicts MWDS from CSTRS with perturbed feeds

Polymer Reaction Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 45-81

  Gosden, R G ^a   Meszena, Z G ^a,b   Mohsin, M A ^a   Auguste, S ^a,c   Johnson, A F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^c Plasto SA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; DESCRIBING FUNCTIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION;

CONTINUOUS STIRRED TANK REACTORS; LIVING POLYMERIZATION; POLYMERIZATION REACTORS;

ANIONIC POLYMERIZATION;

EID: 0031072586     PISSN: 10543414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10543414.1997.10662150     Document Type: Article

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