Unsteady stirring method staged used in suspension polymerization of styrene

✍ Scribed by Bin Yang; Koji Takahashi; Makoto Takeishi

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 214 KB
• Volume: 82
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-8995
• DOI: 10.1002/app.2031

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The results of an unsteady stirring method staged, used in the suspension polymerization of styrene in a lab‐scale batch reactor, are presented. Variation of droplet size during the whole polymerization process under the unsteady stirring condition, compared with that under a steady stirring condition, was found to be small. According to the variable droplet size character, two methods were used to divide the polymerization process into four stages and the unsteady stirring method was used in only one stage of each experimental run. By these operations, the optimum operation of obtaining large particle product with uniform particle size distribution was achieved. The results suggest that controlling the droplet coalescence process is more important than controlling the initial droplet size distribution to obtain uniform final particle products. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 82: 1873–1881, 2001