Application and validation of the pseudo-kinetic rate constant method to high pressure LDPE tubular reactors

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue SUPPL.1, 1998, Pages

  Baltsas, A ^a   Papadopoulos, E ^a   Kiparissides, C ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Free radical copolymerization; Polyethylene; Pseudo kinetic rate constant method; Tubular reactors

Indexed keywords

POLYETHYLENE; POLYMERIZATION; REACTOR;

EID: 0031843959     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0098-1354(98)00042-8     Document Type: Article

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