Impact of initiation and deactivation on melting during gas-phase olefin polymerization

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 43, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 4789-4795

  Song, Hao ^a   Luss, Dan ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTORS; FLUIDIZED BEDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MELTING; POLYMERIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

DEACTIVATION; POLYMER PARTICLES;

OLEFINS;

ALKENE; POLYMER;

POLYMERIZATION;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CATALYSIS; DIFFUSION; FLUIDIZED BED REACTOR; GAS; HEATING; MELTING POINT; POLYMERIZATION; PREDICTION; REACTION ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME; REACTOR; SAFETY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

EID: 3543040006     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie049767g     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Song, H.; Luss, D. Bounds on operating conditions leading to melting during olefin polymerization. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2004, 43, 270.
2. Hutchinson, R. A.; Ray, W. H. Polymerization of olefin through heterogeneous catalysis: VII. Particle ignition and extinction phenomena. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 1987, 34, 657.
3. Zecca, J. J.; Debling, J. A. Particle population overheating phenomena in olefin polymerization reactors. Chem. Eng. Sci. 2001, 56, 4029.
4. Laurence, R. L.; Chiovetta, M. G. In Polymer reaction engineering: influence of reaction engineering on polymer properties; Reichert, K. H., Geiseler, W., Eds.; Hanser: Munich, 1984; Vol. 4, p 73.
5. McKenna, T. F.; Dupuy, J.; Spitz, R. Modeling of transfer phenomena on heterogeneous Ziegler catalysts: differences between theory and experiment in olefin polymerization (An introduction). J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 1995, 57, 371.
6. McKenna, T. F.; Spitz, R.; Cokljat, D. Heat transfer from catalysts with computational fluid dynamics. AIChE J. 1999, 45, 2392.
7. Meier, G. B.; Weikert, G.; Van Swaaij, W. P. M. Gas-phase polymerization of propylene: reaction kinetics and molecular weight distribution. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2001, 39, 500.
8. Xu, Z. G.; Chakavarti, S.; Ray, W. H. Kinetic study of olefin polymerization with a supported metallocene catalyst: I. Ethylene/propylene copolymerization in gas phase. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2001, 80, 81.
9. Chakavarti, S.; Ray, W. H. Kinetic study of olefin polymerization with a supported metallocene catalyst: II. Ethylene/1-Hexene copolymerization in gas phase. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2001, 80, 1096.
10. Chakavarti, S.; Ray, W. H. Kinetic study of olefin polymerization with a supported metallocene catalyst: III. Ethylene homopolymerization in slurry. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2001, 81, 2901.
11. Chakavarti, S.; Ray, W. H. Kinetic study of olefin polymerization with a supported metallocene catalyst: IV. Comparison of bridged and unbridged catalyst in gas phase. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2001, 81, 1451.
12. Zoellner, K.; Reichert, K.-H. Gas-phase polymerization of butadiene-Kinetics, particle size distribution, modeling. Chem. Eng. Sci. 2001, 56, 4099.
13. Floyd, S.; Choi, K. Y.; Taylor, T. W.; Ray, W. H. Polymerization of olefins through heterogeneous catalysts: IV: modeling of heat and mass transfer resistance in the polymer particle boundary layer. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 1986, 37, 2231.
14. Morbidelli, M.; Varma, A. A generalized criterion for parametric sensitivity: Application to thermal explosion theory. Chem. Eng. Sci. 1988, 43 (1), 91.
15. Morbidelli, M.; Varma, A. A generalized criterion for parametric sensitivity: Application to pseudo-homogeneous tubular reactor with consecutive or parallel reactors. Chem. Eng. Sci. 1989, 44 (8), 1675.
16. Bauman, E.; Varma, A.; Lorusso, J.; Dente, M.; Morbidelli, M. Parametric sensitivity in tubular reactors with co-current external cooling. Chem. Eng. Sci. 1990, 45 (5), 1301.
17. Morbidelli, M.; Wu, H. Critical transitions in reacting systems through parametric sensitivity. In From molecular dynamics to combustion chemistry; Carra, S., Rahman, N., Eds.; World Scientific: Singapore, 1992; pp 117-141.
18. Wu, H.; Morbidelli, M.; Varma, A. Parametric sensitivity in fixed bed catalytic reactors with reverse-flow operation. Chem. Eng. Sci. 1999, 54, 4579.
19. Varma, A.; Morbidelli, M.; Wu, H. Parametric sensitivity in chemical systems; Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, U.K., 1999.
20. Schmeal, W. R.; Street, J. R. Polymerization in expanding catalyst particles. AIChE J. 1971, 17, 1188.
21. Galvan, R.; Tirrell, M. Molecular weight distribution prediction for heterogeneous Ziegler-Natta polymerization using a two-site model. Chem. Eng. Sci. 1986, 41 (9), 2385.
22. Galvan, R.; Tirrell, M. Orthogonal collocation to analysis of heterogeneous Ziegler-Natta polymerization. Comput. Chem. Eng. 1986, 10 (1), 77.
23. Byne, G. D. The taming of copolymerization problem with VODE. Impact Comput. Sci. Eng. 1993, 5, 318.
24. Hoel, E. L.; Cozewith, C.; Byrne, G. D. Effect of diffusion on heterogeneous ethylene propylene copolymerization. AIChE J. 1994, 40, 1669.
25. Yiagopoulos, A.; Yiannoulakis, H.; Dimos, V.; Kiparissides, C. Heat and mass transfer phenomena during the early growth of a catalyst particle in gas-phase olefin polymerization: The effect of prepolymerization temperature and time. Chem. Eng. Sci. 2001, 56, 3979.
26. Deuflhar, P.; Haier, E.; Zugck, J. One step and Extrapolation methods for differential-algebraic systems. Numer. Math. 1987, 51, 1.