Towards tailored Molecular Weight Distributions through controlled living polymerisation reactors: A simple predictive algorithm

Polymer Reaction Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 71-95

  Meszena, Z G ^b   Viczian, Z ^b   Gosden, R G ^a   Mohsin, M A ^a   Johnson, A F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; PROCESS CONTROL;

CONTINUOUS STIRRED TANK REACTOR (CSTR); ISOTHERMAL BATCH REACTOR; LIVING POLYMERIZATION;

POLYMERIZATION;

EID: 0033070792     PISSN: 10543414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10543414.1999.10744500     Document Type: Article

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