Simulation of a series of industrial slurry reactors for HDPE polymerization process using deconvolution of the GPC graph of only the first reactor

Iranian Polymer Journal (English Edition)

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 655-666

  Hakim, Shokoufeh ^a   Moballegh, Leila ^a  

^a IRAN POLYMER AND PETROCHEMICAL INSTITUTE   (Iran)

Author keywords

HDPE; Multi site model; Simulation; Slurry polymerization; Ziegler Natta

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYMERIZATION;

MULTI-SITE MODELS; SLURRY POLYMERIZATION; ZIEGLER-NATTA;

SLURRIES;

EID: 33751202716     PISSN: 10261265     EISSN: 10261265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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