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Hierarchical data analysis of a replicate experiment in emulsion terpolymerization
Author(s) -
Dubé Marc A.,
Penlidis Alexander
Publication year - 1996
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.690420719
Subject(s) - butyl acrylate , vinyl acetate , methyl methacrylate , emulsion , replicate , copolymer , replication (statistics) , polymer , acrylate , chemical engineering , polymer chemistry , chemistry , materials science , organic chemistry , mathematics , engineering , statistics
A systematic study of the terpolymerization of butyl acrylate/methyl methacrylate/vinyl acetate (BA/MMA/VAc) was conducted. Complete replication of an emulsion terpolymerization experimental run was performed in a 5‐L stainless‐steel batch pilot‐plant reactor. The polymers produced were characterized for conversion, terpolymer composition, molecular weight averages, and average particle size. A hierarchical (nested) data analysis was performed on the experimental data to ascertain various sources of error and to allow for comments to be made regarding the data quality.