Monitoring latex reactors by ultrasonics

Polymer Reaction Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 77-94

  Storti, G ^a   Hipp, A K ^a   Morbidelli, M ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; ATTENUATION; CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPRESSIBILITY OF GASES; DENSITY OF GASES; LATEXES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENES; POLYVINYL CHLORIDES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

EMULSION POLYMERIZATION REACTORS; IONIC EMULSIFIER; LATEX REACTORS; PARAMETER SENSITIVITY ANALYSES;

EMULSION POLYMERIZATION;

EID: 0034138797     PISSN: 10543414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10543414.2000.10744539     Document Type: Article

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