Feasible Regions for Step-Growth Melt Polycondensation Systems

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 428-440

  Nisoli, Alberto ^a   Doherty, Michael F ^a   Malone, Michael F ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BYPRODUCTS; EVAPORATION; MASS TRANSFER; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NYLON POLYMERS;

PLUG-FLOW REACTORS; STIRRED TANK REACTORS; VAPOR REMOVAL;

POLYCONDENSATION;

EVAPORATION; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION; MIXING; PLUG FLOW; POLYMER; REACTOR; SEPARATION;

ARTICLE; EVAPORATION; MELTING POINT; MODEL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYMERIZATION; PRESSURE; REACTION ANALYSIS; REACTOR; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; VAPOR;

EID: 0345866701     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie030220w     Document Type: Article

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