SAFT modeling of inert-gas effects on the cloud-point pressures in ethylene copolymerization systems: Poly(ethylene-co-vinyl acetate) + vinyl acetate + ethylene and poly(ethylene-co-hexene-1) + hexene-1 + ethylene with carbon dioxide, nitrogen, or n-butane

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 541-546

  Kinzl, M ^a   Luft, G ^a   Adidharma, H ^b   Radosz, M ^b  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTANE; CARBON DIOXIDE; EQUATIONS OF STATE; ETHYLENE; NITROGEN; POLYETHYLENES; PRESSURE; STATISTICAL METHODS; VINYL RESINS;

CLOUD POINT PRESSURE; HEXENE; POLYETHYLENECOHEXENE; POLYETHYLENECOVINYL ACETATE; STATISTICAL ASSOCIATING FLUID THEORY; VINYL ACETATE;

COPOLYMERIZATION;

BUTANE; CARBON DIOXIDE; INERT GAS; NITROGEN; POLYETHYLENE; VINYL ACETATE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CHEMICAL REACTION; POLYMERIZATION; REACTION ANALYSIS; SUPERCRITICAL FLUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 0034143921     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie990627u     Document Type: Article

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