Modeling LDPE tubular and autoclave reactors

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 40, Issue 23, 2001, Pages 5533-5542

  Zhou, W ^a,b   Marshall, E ^a   Oshinowo, L ^a  

^a ANSYS INC   (United States)

^b GE ENERGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; INITIATORS (CHEMICAL); METHOD OF MOMENTS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; MONOMERS; POLYMERIZATION; REACTION KINETICS;

AUTOCLAVE REACTORS;

LOW DENSITY POLYETHYLENES;

POLYETHYLENE;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; POLYETHYLENE; POLYMERIZATION; REACTOR;

AUTOCLAVE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISPERSION; GEOMETRY; POLYMERIZATION; REACTION ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME; REACTOR;

EID: 0034747288     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie0010823     Document Type: Conference Paper

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