An improved general kinetic analysis of non-linear irreversible polymerisations

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 423-446

  Costa, Mário Rui P F N ^a   Dias, Rolando C S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE BRAGANÇA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Anionic; Free radical; Gels; Kinetics; Modelling; Polymerisation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; GELATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MONOMERS;

IRREVERSIBLE NON-LINEAR POLYMERIZATIONS; KINETIC ANALYSIS; VINYL MONOMERS;

POLYMERIZATION;

POLYMERIZATION;

EID: 10044289285     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2004.07.125     Document Type: Article

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