Polymerization Kinetics

Chemical Routes, Mathematical Modelling Tools, and Reactor Behaviour Troubleshooting
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-0-443-26544-0
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm

This book provides a much-needed resource for the Polymer Reaction Engineering (PRE) field covering polymerization kinetics, mathematical modelling, and polymer reactor design. Literature on this topic has historically been very fragmented; for example, information on crucial, recently developed areas such as Controlled Radical Polymerization (CRP) or Reversible-Deactivation Radical Polymerization (RDRP) and its variants in particular have been historically poorly documented and explained. The chapters are designed to assist the reader in understanding the problems encountered in the design and operation of polymerization reactors, giving them a knowledge of polymerization reaction kinetics and the ability to model these processes effectively. They show the aspiring modeler how to construct a reaction mechanism, create determination system parameters such as rate coefficients, (numerically) integrate sets of chemical kinetic equations, and effectively analyze the results. The book has a particular emphasis on mathematical modelling and its application to polymer reactors; while there are many courses and texts on numerical techniques, the application of these to a particular area can be a challenge. This text, with its explicit focus on polymer kinetics, will greatly ease the path to an effective and accurate model. Polymerization Kinetics is written primarily for upper undergraduate/graduate level students and researchers/academics in polymer chemistry and chemical engineering as well as materials/polymer science and engineering, with relevance to adjacent and overlapping fields where polymerization issues are addressed including biochemistry, biochemical engineering, physics, and general engineering areas.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Penlidis, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Technologie der Textilverarbeitung und Faserverarbeitung
• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Physikalische Chemie
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Verfahrenstechnik, Chemieingenieurwesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction/Motivation + a brief history of main developments of PRE
2. Engineering kinetic mechanisms of main polymerization routes
3. General Mathematical Modelling
4. Experimental methods and models
5. Polymerization processes and models (Part I)
6. Polymerization processes and models (Part II)
7. Polymerization reactor design remarks/tips
8. Polymerization reactor design remarks/tips: Special cases
9. Special topics (A)
10. Special Topics (B)
11. Special Topics (C)
12. Special Topics (D)
13. Concluding remarks/References/Appendices Notes on book outline

Über Autor(innen)

Penlidis, Alexander
Alexander Penlidis is a Professor and Former Director at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Institute for Polymer Research (IPR), University of Waterloo, Canada. He has well over 40 years of experience in Polymer Engineering and Mathematical Modelling. He received the 1993 Albright and Wilson Americas Award of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering for distinguished contributions before the age of 40. He is a Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada and of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He held a Canada Research Chair, CRC Tier 1, for two terms (2002-2016). He has published about 400 refereed publications and has completed the supervision of 33 PhD and 53 MASc students. He was previously the Director of the Institute for Polymer Research (1994-2010) at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and the founding co-editor of the Polymer Reaction Engineering Journal (1991-2003).