Modeling of branching density and branching distribution in low-density polyethylene polymerization

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2035-2046

  Kim, Dong Min ^a   Iedema, Piet D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Branching; Branching distribution; Modeling; Molecular architecture design; Polymerization; Reaction engineering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYMERIZATION;

BRANCHING DISTRIBUTION; MOLECULAR ARCHITECTURE DESIGN; REACTION ENGINEERING;

POLYETHYLENES;

COMPUTATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYETHYLENES; POLYMERIZATION;

EID: 40949125112     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2007.12.033     Document Type: Article

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