Operability of chemical reactors: Multiplicity behavior of a jacketed styrene polymerization reactor

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 27-45

  Russo, Louis P ^a   Bequette, B Wayne ^b  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^b Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Operability; Polymerization; Process design; Steady state multiplicity

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; DECOMPOSITION; INITIATORS (CHEMICAL); MACHINE DESIGN; NUMERICAL METHODS; POLYMERIZATION; POLYSTYRENES;

CONTINUOUS STIRRED TANK REACTORS (CSTR); DAMKOHLER NUMBER; MULTIPLICITY ANALYSIS; SINGLE INPUT SINGLE OUTPUT (SISO) SYSTEMS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

BIFURCATION; DESIGN; POLYMERIZATION; REACTOR;

EID: 0031884881     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(97)00281-9     Document Type: Article

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