Dynamics of pressure-induced phase separation in polymer solutions. The dependence of the demixing pressures on the rate of pressure quench in solutions of poly(dimethylsiloxane) in supercritical carbon dioxide

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 4486-4490

  Li, Jintong ^a,b   Zhang, Ming ^a   Kiran, Erdogan ^a  

^a University of Maine   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; QUENCHING; SOLUTIONS; SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

DEMIXING PRESSURE; LOWER CRITICAL SOLUTION TEMPERATURE; POLYDIMETHYSILOXANE; PRESSURE INDUCED PHASE SEPARATION; SUPERCRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDE; UPPER CRITICAL SOLUTION TEMPERATURE;

PHASE SEPARATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE; DIMETICONE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; DYNAMICS; GAS-LIQUID SEPARATION; POLYMER SOLUTION; PRESSURE; SUPERCRITICAL FLUID;

ARTICLE; COOLING; PHASE SEPARATION; PRESSURE; SUPERCRITICAL FLUID EXTRACTION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0033229868     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie990392m     Document Type: Article

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