Reactive Extrusion of Polypropylene with Pulsed Peroxide Addition: Process and Control Aspects

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1067-1075

  Dickson, Steven B ^a   Tzoganakis, Costas ^a   Budman, Hector ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSIONS; EXTRUSION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OPTIMIZATION; PEROXIDES; POLYMERS; RHEOLOGY;

REACTIVE EXTRUSION;

POLYPROPYLENES;

EID: 0031122775     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie960288u     Document Type: Article

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