Degradation kinetics of polyethylene terephthalate in supercritical methanol

AIChE Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 136-144

  Goto, Motonobu ^a   Koyamoto, Hiroshi ^a   Kodama, Akio ^a   Hirose, Tsutomu ^a   Nagaoka, Shoji ^b   McCoy, Benjamin J ^c  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHANOL; MONOMERS; PLASTICS;

SECONDARY REACTIONS;

POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES;

ETHYLENE GLYCOL; METHANOL; PLASTIC; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE;

DEGRADATION; KINETICS; METHANOL; POLYTEREPHTHALATE; REACTOR; RECYCLING;

ARTICLE; BATCH REACTOR; DEGRADATION KINETICS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRESSURE; RECYCLING; REVERSED PHASE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; THEORY;

EID: 0036159786     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690480114     Document Type: Article

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