Code
3E019107
Duration
01 October 2007 → 31 July 2009
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Engineering and technology
- Catalysis and reacting systems engineering
- Chemical product design and formulation
- General chemical and biochemical engineering
- Process engineering
- Separation and membrane technologies
- Transport phenomena
- Other (bio)chemical engineering
- Polymeric materials
Keywords
sediment transport phenomena
free radical polymerization
intrinsic kinetics
Project description
The aim of this project is to account for the interaction between transport phenomena and chemical reactions in free radical polymerization processes. In the framework of this project, the evolution of the particle size distribution in a suspension polymerization process and the importance of mixing effects in high-pressure olefin polymerization processes will be modeled.