FBR for catalytic propylene polymerization: Controlled mixing and reactor modeling

AIChE Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1268-1283

  Meier, G B ^a   Weickert, G ^a   Van Swaaij, W P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR ENTRAINMENT; CATALYSTS; FLUIDIZED BED PROCESS; INITIATORS (CHEMICAL); MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ORGANIC POLYMERS; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY);

SOLID MIXING;

POLYMERIZATION;

HYDROGEN; PROPYLENE;

FLUIDIZED BED; MIXING; PARTICLE; POLYMERIZATION; REACTOR;

ARTICLE; BATCH REACTOR; BIOLISTIC TRANSFORMATION; CATALYSIS; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; FLUIDIZED BED REACTOR; GAS ANALYSIS; MEAN RESIDENCE TIME; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYMERIZATION; PRESSURE; PROCESS MODEL; REACTION ANALYSIS; SCALE UP; SOLID; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0036610392     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690480613     Document Type: Article

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