ISSN:
0021-8995
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Polymer and Materials Science
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
,
Physics
Notes:
A novel experimental reactor system has been designed to study a variety of problems related to on-line measurements and computer control of batch polymerization reactors. A number of measuring devices such as densitometer, viscometer, size exclusion chromatograph, and torquemeter have been put on-line to a batch reactor and interfaced to a real time computer to monitor monomer conversion and molecular weight during polymerization. A new feature of the experimental setup is its microprocessor-based sampling system which automatically collects samples from the reactor and injects them into the SEC analyzer. Computer software has been developed for on-line acquisition and processing of SEC data. This work demonstrates the feasibility of on-line measurement of monomer conversion and molecular weight. Furthermore, it presents a comparative study of some common techniques employed for off-and on-line measurement of polymer quality.
Additional Material:
10 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/app.1986.070320127
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