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Copolymerization and terpolymerization in continuous nonideal reactors
Author(s) -
Szabo T. T.,
Nauman E. B.
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
aiche journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 167
eISSN - 1547-5905
pISSN - 0001-1541
DOI - 10.1002/aic.690150419
Subject(s) - copolymer , limiting , continuous stirred tank reactor , probabilistic logic , simple (philosophy) , distribution (mathematics) , composition (language) , thermodynamics , chemical engineering , chemistry , materials science , physics , mathematics , polymer , organic chemistry , engineering , mathematical analysis , statistics , mechanical engineering , philosophy , linguistics , epistemology
A simple means for predicting composition distributions in copolymers is used to illustrate the strong influence of segregation effects in the reactor. A recycle loop reactor can be used to produce uniform copolymers by narrowing the macroscopic composition distribution, but there is a limiting microscopic distribution which results from probabilistic effects.