Modelagem, simulação e analise de desempenho de reatores tubulares de polimerização com deflectores angulares internos

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2004

RESUMO

Deterministic model and emulsion homopolymerization process of styrene are applied in continuous tubular reactor without and with internal angular baffles under isothermic and no isothermic conditions. The modeling and simulation results were approximate to steady state, one-dimensional model, cylindrical coordinate, fully developed laminar plug flow, Smith-Ewart model to estimate the monomer conversion, Arrhenius chemical kinetics as laminar finite-rate model to compute chemical source. The objective is to model, simulate and to analyze the emulsion homopolymerization reactor performance of styrene with internal-inc1ined angular baffles, and to compare with continuous tubular reactor. The experimental and mathematical-deductive methods were applied to obtain results, by means of computational programming, using Computational Fluid Dynamics (program code), finite volume method. The following variables such as constant and variable reaction temperature, tubular reactor without and with baffles, feed temperature, reactor diameter, adiabatic and exothermic process, constant reaction heat and fully developed axial velocity were investigated. The monomer conversion, internal transversal are a, axial temperature, concentration of polymer, radicals and initiator, others as density of polymer and monomer, head loss and pressure drop effects were determined and simulated. The products were characterized by partic1es number (homogeneous and heterogeneous nuc1eation), molecular weight distribution, polymer partic1es size and polymer viscosity distribution. These results were validated with literature results under same or approximate condition. The results under no isothermic conditions were better than isothermic results in terms of polymer characterization. It is shown that the proposed alternative design (with baffles) allow to obtain the polymer with better properties in terms of number of partic1es, molecular weight distribution, particle size distribution and viscosity

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polimerização em emulsão fortran (computer program language) emulsion polymerization engineering models styrene digital computer simulation chemical reactors simulação (computadores digitais) fortran (linguagem de programação de computador) finite volume method metodo dos volumes finitos computer simulation reatores quimicos - simulação por computar estireno engenharia - modelos

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