Modeling and simulation of borstar bimodal polyethylene process based on a rigorous PC-SAFT equation of state model

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 53, Issue 51, 2014, Pages 19905-19915

  Chen, Keran ^a   Tian, Zhou ^b   Luo, Na ^b   Liu, Boping ^a  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b School of Information Science and Engineering   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIPHATIC COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; EQUATIONS OF STATE OF GASES; FLUIDIZED BEDS; GASES; MOLAR RATIO; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; POLYETHYLENES; POLYMERIZATION; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION;

BIMODAL POLYETHYLENE; CATALYTIC POLYMERIZATION REACTORS; GAS PHASE FLUIDIZED BED; MODEL AND SIMULATION; PERTURBED-CHAIN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATING FLUID THEORIES; STEADY-STATE OPERATION; SUPERCRITICAL SOLVENTS; ZIEGLER NATTA POLYMERIZATION;

PHASE EQUILIBRIA;

EID: 84919800498     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie503456e     Document Type: Conference Paper

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