CFD was employed to develop a rigorous model of an LDPE autoclave reactor. Different
numerical settings within the solver are evaluated to eliminate false diffusion and to reflect …

This work aims at exploring the effect of macro operating conditions on the distribution of
temperature field and chain microstructures of polymer in a gas phase ethylene …

The solubility of vapors within semicrystalline polyethylenes produced in the gas phase
process is examined. Experimentally measured solubilities of ethylene, 1‐butene …

Thermal polymerization of styrene in a lab-scale CSTR equipped with a pitched blade
turbine impeller was simulated using a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software …

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling of an industrial ethylene–vinyl acetate
autoclave copolymerization reactor was conducted to evaluate the effects of comonomer …

The optimization of polymerization reactors with nonideal mixing has been greatly hindered
by a tremendous computation burden. In this study, a global optimization framework to …

An integrated model combining computational fluid dynamics (CFD) with polymerization
kinetics was developed to investigate the industrial styrene thermal polymerization process …

This work investigates how typical impellers control flow and mixing behaviors within low-
density polyethylene (LDPE) autoclaves via well-verified CFD simulations. Results show that …

A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) approach coupled with polymerization kinetics is
implemented to investigate styrene polymerization using azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN) as …

In this paper, we present a multicompartment model of an ethylene–vinyl acetate autoclave
reactor including the mixing effects of the stirring device analyzed using computational fluid …