Predicting the Molecular Weight Distribution of Polyethylene for Mixed Systems with a Constrained-Geometry Metallocene Catalyst in a Semibatch Reactor

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 36-50

  Iedema, Piet D ^a   Hoefsloot, Huub C J ^a   Smit, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYST ACTIVITY; HYDROGEN; MACROMOLECULES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MONOMERS; REACTION KINETICS;

SEMIBATCH REACTORS;

POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS;

HYDROGEN; POLYETHYLENE;

BATCH PROCESS;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DENSITY; EXPERIMENT; GEOMETRY; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; REACTION ANALYSIS; REACTOR;

EID: 0347362553     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie030321u     Document Type: Article

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