On-line monitoring of emulsion polymerization reactor dynamics

FJ Schork, WH Ray - 1981 - ACS Publications
The available data from emulsion polymerization systems have been obtained almost
exclusively through manual, off-line analysis of monomer conversion, emulsifier …

On‐line monitoring, modeling, and model validation of semibatch emulsion polymerization in an automated reactor control facility

V Liotta, ED Sudol, MS El‐Aasser… - Journal of Polymer …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
The modeling of the semibatch emulsion polymerization of styrene and its validation against
data obtained from a reactor facility is presented. The model, which describes the growth of …

Control of emulsion polymerization reactors

J Dimitratos, G Elicabe, C Georgakis - AIChE journal, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
The interest in emulsion polymerization is strong because it offers the possibility of
producing products with special properties not easily produced by other types of …

Densimetry for on‐line conversion monitoring in emulsion homo‐and copolymerization

S Canegallo, G Storti, M Morbidelli… - Journal of applied …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
The use of on‐line densimetry to monitor conversion in batch emulsion polymerization
reactors are investigated. Some characteristics of the sampling circuit connecting the reactor …

Monitoring of emulsion polymerisations: A study of reaction kinetics in the presence of secondary nucleation

N Othman, TF Mckenna, AM Santos… - The Canadian Journal …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
A non‐linear state estimator that provides on‐line information on residual monomer
concentration and radical concentration is experimentally validated under dynamic …

Online monitoring of polymerization reactions in inverse emulsions

AM Alb, R Farinato, J Calbick, WF Reed - Langmuir, 2006 - ACS Publications
Automatic continuous online monitoring of polymerization reactions (ACOMP) was adapted
to the monitoring of acrylamide polymerization in inverse emulsions. This is the first …

Simultaneous monitoring of polymer and particle characteristics during emulsion polymerization

AM Alb, WF Reed - Macromolecules, 2008 - ACS Publications
Emulsion polymerization reactions constitute complex, nonequilibrium systems in which
there is strong interaction between polymers, monomers, and the colloidal structures that …

The dynamics of the continuous emulsion polymerization of methylmethacrylate

FJ Schork, WH Ray - Journal of applied polymer science, 1987 - Wiley Online Library
Experimental data on the dynamics of the continuous emulsion polymerization of
methylmethacrylate are presented. Techniques for on‐line reaction monitoring and digital …

Molecular‐weight distribution control in emulsion polymerization

A Echevarria, JR Leiza, JC De La Cal, JM Asua - AIChE journal, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Emulsion polymers with well‐defined molecular‐weight distributions (MWD) were obtained
by using a control strategy based on on‐line measurements of both unreacted monomer and …

Modelling and control of sustained oscillations in the continuous emulsion polymerization of vinyl acetate

JM Pollock - 1983 - macsphere.mcmaster.ca
The population balance model of Kiparissides (1978) for the continuous emulsion
polymerization of vinyl acetate, has been extended to predict molecular weight moments …