A kinetic model for industrial gas‐phase ethylene copolymerization Journal Articles

abstract

• AbstractA dynamic kinetic model describing gas‐phase olefin copolymerization using a multiple active site Ziegler‐Natta catalyst is presented. This model is capable of predicting production rate, molecular weight, and copolymer composition changes observed in an industrial reactor. The model also explains how broad molecular weight distributions and bimodal copolymer compositions can occur as has been observed for commercial linear polyethylenes.

authors

• McAuley, KB
• Macgregor, John Frederick
• Hamielec, AE

status

• published 

publication date

• June 1990

has subject area

• 0904 Chemical Engineering (FoR)
• 0914 Resources Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy (FoR)
• Chemical Engineering (Science Metrix)

published in

• AIChE Journal  Journal

keywords

• Engineering
• Engineering, Chemical
• Science & Technology
• Technology

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1002/aic.690360605

start page

• 837

end page

• 850

volume

• 36

issue

• 6