Modeling and control of continuous stirred tank reactor for thermal copolymerization
β Scribed by Woo-Hyeon Hwang; Jung In Chey; Hyun-Ku Rhee
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 268 KB
- Volume
- 67
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-8995
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β¦ Synopsis
A mathematical model is developed for solution copolymerization in a continuous stirred tank reactor. For the thermal copolymerization of styrene and acrylonitrile (SAN), the kinetic rate expression for thermal initiation is derived by applying the pseudo-steady-state hypothesis to the intermediates, and the kinetic parameters are estimated by experimental investigation. The moment equations of living and dead polymer concentrations are derived by applying the pseudokinetic rate constant method. The model is used to calculate the conversion, the copolymer composition, the weight-average molecular weight, and the polydispersity. It is demonstrated that this model can predict the industrial data very well under various operating conditions. The dynamic analysis of the reaction system enables us to determine the polymer properties against the changes in the operation parameters. It is noticed that the monomer conversion is controlled to some extent by the reaction temperature and the feed monomer fraction. The monomer conversion control of a solution copolymerization reactor is treated with different control algorithms. The fuzzy/proportional-integralderivative controller shows satisfactory performances for both setpoint tracking and disturbance rejection and can be easily applied to continuous polymerization processes.
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ating parameters e.g. flow rate and current density is of minor significance on the results. The process developed appears to be promising for the treatment of concentrated wastes with suspended matter e.g. oil suspensions.