On-Line Control of a Semibatch Emulsion Polymerization Reactor Based on Calorimetry

AIChE Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1069-1081

  De Buruaga, Isabel Sáenz ^a   Echevarría, Antonio ^a   Armitage, Philip D ^a   De La Cal, José C ^a   Leiza, José R ^a   Asua, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALORIMETRY; CHEMICAL REACTORS; COPOLYMERIZATION; EMULSION POLYMERIZATION; POLYACRYLATES; POLYVINYL ACETATES;

ONLINE CALORIMETRY; POLYMERIZATION REACTOR; SEMIBATCH EMULSION COPOLYMERIZATION;

FEEDBACK CONTROL;

EID: 0031120355     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690430420     Document Type: Article

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