Particle formation in vinyl chloride emulsion polymerization: Reaction modeling

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 5193-5210

  Vale, Hugo M ^a,b   Mckenna, Timothy F ^a,c  

^a UMR 5265   (France)

^b Michelin   (France)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL DATA; MODELING PROCESS; PARTICLE FORMATIONS; PARTICLE NUCLEATION; POPULATION BALANCE EQUATION; VINYL CHLORIDE MONOMERS; VINYL CHLORIDES; ZERO-ONE;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; EMULSIFICATION; EMULSION POLYMERIZATION; FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 67650080516     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie801406n     Document Type: Article

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