Modeling of a multizone gas‐phase polyethylene reactor with a cluster‐based approach |
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| Authors: | H Adli N Mostoufi S M Ghafelebashi |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Process Design and Simulation Research Centre, Oil and Gas Processing Centre of Excellence, School of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, P.O. Box 11155/4563, Tehran, Iran;2. Polymer Research Group, Petrochemical Research and Technology Company, National Petrochemical Company, P.O. Box 14358/84711, Tehran, Iran |
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| Abstract: | A circulating fluidized reactor of polyethylene was modeled with the proper hydrodynamics for a riser and downer and combined with a kinetic model based on the moment equations. The hydrodynamic model was able to predict the profiles of the following parameters through the riser and downer: cluster velocity, bed porosity, concentration of potential active sites, active sites, gas‐phase components, molecular weights, and reactor temperature. It was shown that one could control the monomer consumption and molecular weight, which are crucial in the reactor behavior and production properties, respectively, by setting different operating hydrodynamic conditions, such as the gas velocity in the riser and the solid circulation rate. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci, 2011 |
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| Keywords: | modeling polyethylene (PE) reactive processing |
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