Assessment of particle agglomeration in catalytic olefin polymerization reactors using rheological measurements

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3800-3809

  Dompazis, Georgios ^a   Kanellopoulos, Vassileios ^a   Kiparissides, Costas ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; CATALYSTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OLEFINS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POLYMERIZATION; RHEOLOGY;

AGGLOMERATED PARTICLES; OLEFIN POLYMERIZATION; PARTICLE AGGLOMERATION; ZIEGLER-NATTA REACTIONS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

AGGLOMERATION; CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OLEFINS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POLYMERIZATION; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 33745741403     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie051105j     Document Type: Article

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