Development of a continuous emulsion copolymerization process in a tubular reactor

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 49, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 10262-10273

  Carvalho, Antonio C S M ^a   Chicoma, Dennis L ^a   Sayer, Claudia ^b   Giudici, Reinaldo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE PARTICLE SIZE; AXIAL-MIXING; BUTYL ACRYLATES; CO-POLYMER SYSTEMS; COPOLYMER COMPOSITIONS; DISPERSED PLUG FLOW; EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE; EMULSION COPOLYMERIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FEEDING PROFILE; FREE-RADICAL COPOLYMERIZATION KINETICS; MODEL EQUATIONS; MODEL PREDICTION; MONOMER CONVERSIONS; N-BUTYL ACRYLATE; RADIAL MIXING; REACTIVITY RATIO; SIEVE PLATES; TUBULAR REACTORS; VINYL ACETATES;

COPOLYMERIZATION; EMULSIFICATION; FREE RADICALS;

POLYVINYL ACETATES;

EID: 78049358664     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie100422v     Document Type: Conference Paper

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