The interaction between mass transfer effects and morphology in heterogeneous olefin polymerization

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 56, Issue 13, 2001, Pages 4015-4028

  Kittilsen, Pål ^a   McKenna, Timothy F ^b   Svendsen, Hallvard ^a   Jakobsen, Hugo A ^a   Fredriksen, Siw B ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UMR 5265   (France)

^c Borealis AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Mass transfer; Morphology; Olefin; Particle formation; Polymerization; Single particle modeling

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONOMERS; MORPHOLOGY; POLYMERIZATION;

MASS TRANSFER RESISTANCES;

OLEFINS;

KINETICS; MASS TRANSFER; MORPHOLOGY; OLEFIN COPOLYMER; POLYMERIZATION;

EID: 0035800552     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(01)00074-4     Document Type: Article

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