Mathematical modeling, of polymerization

The mathematical modeling of polymerization reactions can be classified into three levels microscale, mesoscale, and macroscale. In microscale modeling, polymerization kinetics and mechanisms are modeled on a molecular scale. The microscale model is represented by component population balances or rate equations and molecular weight moment equations. In mesoscale modeling, interfacial mass and heat transfer... 

Mathematical modeling of polymerization kinetics, including its application for the verification of kinetic schemes and the values of kinetic constants, as well as in the design of industrial processes. 

MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF POLYMERIZATION PROCESSES 255 TABLE 12.2 Reduced Kinetic Mechanism for Transfer to Polymer... 

MATHEMATICAL MODELLING OF POLYMERIZATION KINETICS Table 3.1 A table of generating functions... 

We consider a mathematical model of polymerization which in the language of chemistry is called emulsion polymerization. This type of polymerization takes place in an aqueous medium in the presence of appropriate auxiliary substances. The well-known polymer polyvinyl chloride (PVC) can be produced in this way starting from the monomer vinyl chloride. 

Temperature and free-radical concentration are important features that vary along the length of the plug-flow tubular reactor model of the polymerization of ethylene/ Stirred-tank reactor models of the anionic polymerization of styrene and of butadiene have been described and tested against experiments. Mathematical modelling of polymerization reactions receives some attention in the book by Froment and Bischoff. ... 

I began my professional career with the Rohm and Haas Company, working in the area of polymerization. In that environment, I had the opportunity to interact with a number of world-class chemists, including Dr. Newman Bortnick. I also had the opportunity to work with a contemporary. Dr. James White, in the mathematical modeling of polymerization reactors. My recent work in polymerization at North Carolina State University is an extension of what I learned at Rohm and Haas. 

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