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Modeling the Effects of Reactor Backmixing on RAFT Polymerization

✍ Scribed by Boris Bitsch; Christopher Barner-Kowollik; Shiping Zhu

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
977 KB
Volume
5
Category
Article
ISSN
1862-832X

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The effects of reactor backmixing on the outcome of RAFT polymerizations are examined. The kinetic model for the RAFT reaction is based on the first principle of mass balances and the method of moments. Two reactor models were applied for the simulation of backmixing, i.e., a PFTR with loop and multiple CSTRs in series. The models predict the behavior of monomer conversion, molecular weights, their distributions as well as the polydispersities for various chain types at different levels of backmixing. Both models demonstrated that a significant impact of reactor backmixing on RAFT kinetics and polymer molecular weight development exists. magnified image

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