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Polymerization in a tubular reactor
Author(s) -
Lynn Scott,
Huff James E.
Publication year - 1971
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.690170242
Subject(s) - polymerization , laminar flow , monomer , continuous stirred tank reactor , solvent , chemical engineering , materials science , flow (mathematics) , chemistry , polymer chemistry , thermodynamics , mechanics , composite material , organic chemistry , polymer , engineering , physics
A mathematical model has been developed to predict the variations in temperature, velocity, and composition which occur during anionic polymerization in laminar flow in a tubular reactor. It is found that very large radial gradients in all three are to be expected when a solution containing only solvent and monomer is polymerized. Recycle of part of the product or prepolymerization in stirred‐tank reactors may be used to reduce greatly the distortion of the radial profiles.