Bárkányi A., Németh S., Lakatos B., 2014, Temperature Control of Batch Suspension Polyvinyl Chloride Reactors, Chemical Engineering Transactions, 39, 1285-1290.
A simulation program was developed to analyze the influence of temperature profiles of the continuous phase on the polymer properties and monomer conversion in suspension polymerization reactors of vinyl chloride. Polymerization reactions are highly exothermic and the quality of polymer products is really sensitive to the temperature of polymerization so that processing of batch suspension polymerization reactors by proper temperature control is an important requirement. The developed simulation program is suit-able to compute the required cooling energy exactly to avoid the unnecessary energy consumption, and to determine the proper cooling profile of temperature inside the polymerization reactor that is needed to produce high quality end-use polymers.
