## Abstract The kinetics of vinyl chloride and vinyl acetate emulsion polymerization are reexamined. The validity of Ugelstad's model for systems with high desorption rate is confirmed by simulating conversion histories for both systems at different initiator concentrations and particle numbers. On
Reaction kinetics of vinyl acetate emulsion polymerization
โ Scribed by Chorng-Shyan Chern; Gary W. Poehlein
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 913 KB
- Volume
- 33
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-8995
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โฆ Synopsis
Transport of free radicals out of latex particles into the aqueous phase plays an important role in the emulsion polymerization of vinyl acetate. This so-called "desorption" process involves chain transfer to monomer which generates a mobile an8 rather stable monomer-unit free radical followed by the difFusion of this free radical out of the latex particle. A kinetic model is developed based on the reaction mechaniws of such an emulsion system. The experimental data available in the literature are used to test the model under various polymerization conditions. Reasonable agreement between the model predictions and experimental data is observed.
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The emulsion polymerization of vinyl acetate was studied a t 50ยฐC. It was found that the rate of polymerization was proportional to the 0.5 power of the initiator concentration and the 0.25 power of the number of particles. The number of particles was proportional to the power 0.5 f 0.05 of the emul
Kinetics and mechanism of the emulsion polymerization of vinyl acetate by redox initiation ## 2. L.cperittwnlrt1 'l'lie experimental riiethods crnployt:tl wen: itlentical with ttiosc described previously [17, IS]. The image analyzer (Biltlanalyse IBAS 1 arid 3) was used to measure t h e average d
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