Free radical polymerization - An elegant method of solving the population balance equations with chain transfer to polymer

Polymer Reaction Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 183-203

  Thomas, Sydney ^a   Hamielec, Archie ^b   Soares, João ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION;

POPULATION BALANCE EQUATION;

FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION;

EID: 0031271680     PISSN: 10543414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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