Emulsion polymerization of styrene: Simulation the effects of mixed ionic and non-ionic surfactant system in the presence of coagulation

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 431-439

  Feiz, Samira ^a   Navarchian, Amir H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Coagulation; Emulsion; Particle size distribution; Polymerization; Population balance; Surfactant

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE PARTICLE SIZE; BINARY SURFACTANTS; DETAILED MODELS; DIFFERENT MASS; FINITE VOLUME ELEMENT; MASS FRACTION; NUCLEATION RATE; PARTICLE FORMATIONS; PARTICLE NUMBERS; PARTICLE POPULATION; POPULATION BALANCE EQUATION; POPULATION BALANCES; SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE; SURFACTANT; ZERO-ONE;

BATCH REACTORS; COAGULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMULSIFICATION; EMULSION POLYMERIZATION; EMULSIONS; ETHERS; NUCLEATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POLYMERIZATION; POLYMERS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SODIUM; SODIUM SULFATE; STYRENE;

SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

EID: 83955163622     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2011.10.063     Document Type: Article

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