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Online monitoring of vinyl chloride polymerization in a microreactor using raman spectroscopy

Dorobantu, Ioana-Miruna and Prat, Laurent E. and Xuereb, Catherine and Gourdon, Christophe and Lasuye, Thierry Online monitoring of vinyl chloride polymerization in a microreactor using raman spectroscopy. (2012) Chemical Engineering & Technology - CET, 35 (4). 705-712. ISSN 0930-7516

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ceat.201100564

Abstract

A novel capillary-based microfluidic device has been designed to follow the vinyl chloride polymerization reaction. The use of a co-flow generation system enabled obtaining monodisperse vinyl chloride droplets within 200 µm in diameter, each one being considered as a polymerization reactor. During polymerization VCM droplets were visualized with a high speed camera. At the end of the reaction PVC grains were observed with a Scanning Electron Microscopy technique. Real-time non-invasive Raman measurement has been performed on stationary vinyl chloride monomer droplets and has provided values of effective reaction orders n and effective rate constants k. This microdevice allowed the investigation in difficult conditions (pressure, temperature) with a minimal amount of reagents and consequently under safe conditions.

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Additional Information:Thanks to Wiley editor. The definitive version is available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/. The original PDF of the article can be found at Chemical Engineering & Technology website : http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1521-4125
HAL Id:hal-00743489
Audience (journal):International peer-reviewed journal
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Institution:French research institutions > Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS (FRANCE)
Other partners > INEOS (SWITZERLAND)
Université de Toulouse > Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - Toulouse INP (FRANCE)
Université de Toulouse > Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier - UT3 (FRANCE)
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Laboratoire de Génie Chimique - LGC (Toulouse, France) - Réaction, mélange & séparation (RMS)
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Deposited On:15 Oct 2012 09:17

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