Steady-state and dynamic modeling of commercial slurry high-density polyethylene (HDPE) processes

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 41, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 5601-5618

  Khare, Neeraj P ^a   Seavey, Kevin C ^a   Liu, Y A ^a   Ramanathan, Sundaram ^b   Lingard, Simon ^b   Chen, Chau Chyun ^b  

^a State University   (United States)

^b ASPEN TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; REACTION KINETICS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

PRODUCT QUALITY;

SLURRIES;

POLYETHYLENE; POLYMER;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER APPLICATION; DYNAMIC MODELING; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION; POLYETHYLENE; SLURRY;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; DYNAMICS; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0037073311     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie020451n     Document Type: Article

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