Modeling ethylene/1-butene copolymerizations in industrial slurry reactors

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2697-2715

  Neto, Antônio G Mattos ^a,b   Freitas, Marcelo F ^a,c   Nele, Márcio ^a   Pinto, José Carlos ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b Polibrasil Resinas S/A   (Brazil)

^c BR Distribuidora SA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTENES; ETHYLENE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POLYETHYLENES; SLURRIES;

COMONER CONTENT; ETHYLENE FEED FLOW RATE; INDUSTRIAL SLURRY REACTORS; LOW-DENSITY POLYETHYLENE SYNTHESIS;

COPOLYMERIZATION;

COPOLYMERIZATION;

EID: 18144390637     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie049588z     Document Type: Article

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