High-pressure polymerization of ethylene in tubular reactors: A rigorous dynamic model able to predict the full molecular weight distribution

Macromolecular Reaction Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 398-411

  Asteasuain, Mariano ^a   Brandolin, Adriana ^a  

^a De Ingeniería Química ^*  (Argentina)

Author keywords

Dynamic model; Molecular weight distribution; Polyethylene (PE); Probability generating function; Tubular reactor

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE MOLECULAR WEIGHT; FUNCTION OF TIME; MATERIAL RECYCLE; MATHEMATICAL DESCRIPTIONS; MONOMER CONVERSIONS; PRESSURE POLYMERIZATIONS; PROBABILITY GENERATING FUNCTION; PROBABILITY GENERATING FUNCTIONS; PROCESS DYNAMICS; PROCESS VARIABLES; REACTOR MODELS; RIGOROUS DYNAMIC MODEL; TUBULAR REACTORS; WEIGHT DISTRIBUTIONS;

DYNAMIC RESPONSE; ETHYLENE; FORECASTING; FUNCTION EVALUATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; POLYETHYLENES; POLYMERIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUEUEING NETWORKS; THERMOPLASTICS; WELL DRILLING;

DYNAMIC MODELS;

EID: 77955766035     PISSN: 1862832X     EISSN: 18628338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mren.200900013     Document Type: Article

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