Classical nucleation theory applied to homogeneous bubble nucleation in the continuous microcellular foaming of the polystyrene-co2 system

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 48, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 7603-7615

  Shukla, Shunahshep ^a   Koelling, Kurt W ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXISYMMETRIC CONTRACTION; BUBBLE NUCLEATION; CAPILLARITY APPROXIMATION; CLASSICAL NUCLEATION THEORY; CONTINUOUS PRODUCTION; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; EXTRUSION FOAMING; FIELD VALUES; HOMOGENEOUS NUCLEATION; MICROCELLULAR FOAMING; NUCLEATION RATE; PHYSICAL FOAMING; PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE; PRESSURE DROP MEASUREMENTS; THERMOPLASTIC FOAM;

DIES; DROPS; EXTRUSION; EXTRUSION DIES; FLUID DYNAMICS; POLYMERS; POLYSTYRENES; PRESSURE DROP; SURFACE TENSION; TENSILE STRENGTH;

NUCLEATION;

EID: 69249114562     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie8011243     Document Type: Article

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