Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.20, No.1, 338-344, January, 2014
Modeling of molecular weight distribution of propylene slurry phase polymerization on supported metallocene catalysts
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A mathematical model of the molecular weight distribution (MWD) based on a particle growth model and the kinetic scheme is developed to simulate the MWD of the slurry phase propylene polymerization on a silica-supported metallocene catalyst by means of the equations of moments. The model is used to predict molecular weight distribution, including the number-average molecular weight, the weight-average molecular weight, and the polydispersity index. The results show that the mass transfer has great influence on the polymerization reaction, and it can broaden the MWD especially; moreover, the MWD can be evaluated by simulation; the average molecular weight increases as pressure or temperature, and MWD shifts to long chain lengths as the effective diffusion coefficient increasing thought the influence is not remarkable; furthermore, the MWD’s simulation results are calculated, which fit greatly with the experimental data.
Keywords:Particle growth model;Propylene polymerization;Molecular weight distribution;Metallocene catalyst
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