Polymerization reaction engineering: A personal overview of the state-of-art

Latin American Applied Research

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 351-356

  Giudici, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Mathematical model; Polymerization reaction engineering; Polymerization reactors

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034288226     PISSN: 03270793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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