On-line conversion monitoring through ultrasound velocity measurements in bulk styrene polymerization in a recycle reactor - Part I: experimental validation

Polymer Reaction Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 201-223

  Cavin, L ^a   Meyer, Th ^a   Renken, A ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPRESSIBILITY OF SOLIDS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ELASTICITY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; MONOMERS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; STYRENE; THERMAL EFFECTS; ULTRASONIC PROPAGATION; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ADIABATIC COMPRESSIBILITY; LONGITUDINAL WAVES; MONOMER CONVERSION; RECYCLE REACTOR; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION;

POLYMERIZATION;

EID: 0034246135     PISSN: 10543414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10543414.2000.10744551     Document Type: Article

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