Mathematical modeling of homopolymerization on supported metallocene catalysts

Alexiadis, Alessio, Andes, Cecily, Ferrari, Daniela, Korber, Frank, Hauschild, Klaus, Bochmann, Manfred ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7736-5428 and Fink, Gerhard (2004) Mathematical modeling of homopolymerization on supported metallocene catalysts. Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, 289 (5). pp. 457-466. ISSN 1438-7492

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Abstract

In this paper, a mathematical model describing olefin polymerization with metallocene catalysts is presented. It is an improvement of a previous model, the “particle growth model” (PGM) proposed by, among others, one of the authors of the present work and derives from the so-called “multigrane model” (MGM). The main differences between this work and others is a more sophisticated approach to fragmentation with respect to the MGM. Additionally, there is a more specific modeling for the unfragmented core with respect to the PGM. The numerical results obtained by the model are compared with experimental data. The results of this work allow to extend the PGM to catalysts with lower activity. The importance of those catalysts depends on the fact that high activity catalysts could bring, in some cases, too poor polymer morphology.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Chemistry
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Synthetic Chemistry (former - to 2017) Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Chemistry of Light and Energy Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Chemistry of Materials and Catalysis
Depositing User:	Rachel Smith
Date Deposited:	02 Nov 2010 17:48
Last Modified:	27 Oct 2023 00:40
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/10507
DOI:	10.1002/mame.200400011

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