Kinetics history

The key polymer properties are heavily related to the polymer PSD and MWD, which are in turn highly sensitive to the process and kinetic history. 

Furthermore, as a consequence of the fact that the polymerization active species is the product of reversible equilibria reactions, the propagating process of a growing species is an intermittent process (Fig 7, right), which results in a particular development of the molar mass distribution of the polymers formed. This molar mass distribution is now an important additional tool for the elucidation of complex polymerization mechanisms. It is well known that the molar mass distribution contains and reflects the complete kinetic history. We will refer to this important relation in Sect. 2.3. 

In section 6.11.1, all main aspects of the FT synthesis will be covered, the reaction kinetics, history, current status, and perspectives of technical processes as well as the modeling of a multi-tubular fixed bed FT reactor. 

On-command polymer properties Product quality and product yield are much more complex issues in polymerization than in more conventional small molecule reactions. The key polymer properties are dependent on the polymer particle size distribution (PSD) and molecular weight distribution (MWD). These properties are sensitive to the process and kinetic history. The ACOMP platform, by directly monitoring these properties, will enable the production of polymers with desired properties on-command. ... 

With the plethora of competing events, process engineers often find it difficult to operate the polymerization reactor in a way that maintains the production of a polymer with specified PSD characteristics. This is due, in some cases, to the fact that the control of the PSD is practiced by controlling its characteristic variables (e.g., the mean and variance) or olha- easily measured process variables (e.g., temperature, convasion and concentrations). These formulations are not enough for fine PSD control and thus fail in most circumstances when iQiplied to the real process. Moreover, the properties of the polymer formed are influenced by the process/kinetic history. Any unprecedented disturbances in the operating conditions (e.g., tanperature, pressure, flow rates, etc.) may cause drastic irreversible changes in product quality. One should add to this the fact that any reactants (e.g., monomer, initiator, and surfactant) introduced to the process cannot be removed. 

A brief history of chemical kinetic methods of analysis is found in the following text. 

To provide a rational framework in terms of which the student can become familiar with these concepts, we shall organize our discussion of the crystal-liquid transition in terms of thermodynamic, kinetic, and structural perspectives. Likewise, we shall discuss the glass-liquid transition in terms of thermodynamic and mechanistic principles. Every now and then, however, to impart a little flavor of the real world, we shall make reference to such complications as the prior history of the sample, which can also play a role in the solid behavior of a polymer. 

Selection of pump for a given appHcation is not a trivial task. Often more than one pump type can accomplish the required job. Thus a final choice on a pump type is often a result of personal experience and usage history. As a rule of thumb, the choice of a kinetic, such as centrifugal, or a positive displacement pump is made on the basis of the specific speed. Whereas specific speed is appHcable primarily for centrifugal but not positive displacement pumps, the US value can be used as a guide. Generally, for calculated values of specific speed, eg, nS > 10 [NS > 500), kinetic-type pumps are usually selected. For nS < 10 [NS < 500), positive displacement pumps are typically appHed. 

A crystalline or semicrystalline state in polymers can be induced by thermal changes from a melt or from a glass, by strain, by organic vapors, or by Hquid solvents (40). Polymer crystallization can also be induced by compressed (or supercritical) gases, such as CO2 (41). The plasticization of a polymer by CO2 can increase the polymer segmental motions so that crystallization is kinetically possible. Because the amount of gas (or fluid) sorbed into the polymer is a dkect function of the pressure, the rate and extent of crystallization may be controUed by controlling the supercritical fluid pressure. As a result of this abiHty to induce crystallization, a history effect may be introduced into polymers. This can be an important consideration for polymer processing and gas permeation membranes. 

Effect of Thermal History. Many of the impurities present in commercial copper are in concentrations above the soHd solubihty at low (eg, 300°C) temperatures. Other impurities oxidize in oxygen-bearing copper to form stable oxides at lower temperatures. Hence, because the recrystallization kinetics are influenced primarily by solute atoms in the crystal lattice, the recrystallization temperature is extremely dependent on the thermal treatment prior to cold deformation. 

The energy which drives the fragmentation process (elastic plus kinetic) is determined by the dynamic loading conditions and does not directly depend on the properties of the material at issue. The fragmentation energy, on the other hand, is an intimate property of the material and can depend in a complex way on the thermal and dynamic conditions at spall, as well as on the deformation history of the material leading to spall. 

It is one of the wonders of the history of physics that a rigorous theory of the behaviour of a chaotic assembly of molecules - a gas - preceded by several decades the experimental uncovering of the structure of regular, crystalline solids. Attempts to create a kinetic theory of gases go all the way back to the Swiss mathematician, Daniel Bernouilli, in 1738, followed by John Herapath in 1820 and John James Waterston in 1845. But it fell to the great James Clerk Maxwell in the 1860s to take... 

Table 3.3 summarizes the history of the development of wave-profile measurement devices as they have developed since the early period. The devices are categorized in terms of the kinetic or kinematic parameter actually measured. From the table it should be noted that the earliest devices provided measurements of displacement versus time in either a discrete or continuous mode. The data from such measurements require differentiation to relate them to shock-conservation relations, and, unless constant pressures or particle velocities are involved, considerable accuracy can be lost in data processing. 

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