Designing tubular reactors to avoid clogging in high solids miniemulsion photopolymerization

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 222, Issue , 2013, Pages 136-141

  Daniloska, Vesna ^a   Tomovska, Radmila ^a,b   Asua, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

Author keywords

High solids; Miniemulsion polymerization; Photoinitiation; Reactor clogging; Tubular reactor

Indexed keywords

HIGH-SOLIDS; MINI-EMULSION POLYMERIZATION; PHOTOINITIATION; REACTOR CLOGGING; TUBULAR REACTORS;

EMULSIFICATION; PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION;

POLYMERIZATION;

EID: 84875080783     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2013.02.015     Document Type: Article

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