Why Are Polymerization Reactors Special?

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1158-1162

  Brooks, Brian W ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTORS; DROP FORMATION; EMULSIONS; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONOMERS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; REACTION KINETICS; SEDIMENTATION; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

POLYMERIZATION REACTORS;

POLYMERIZATION;

EID: 0031123685     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie960375m     Document Type: Article

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