Reaction Engineering of Step Growth Polymerization

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-17

3. Linear Step Growth Polymerization Following the Equal Reactivity Hypothesis

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   Pages 19-62

4. Linear Step Growth Polymerization Violating the Equal Reactivity Hypothesis

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   Pages 63-91

5. Nonlinear Step Growth Polymerization

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   Pages 93-128

6. Mass Transfer in Step Growth Polymerization

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   Pages 129-165

7. Optimal Control of Step Growth Polymerizations

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   Pages 167-185

8. Nylon Reactors

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   Pages 187-239

9. Polyester Reactors

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   Pages 241-318

10. Urethane Polymers and Reaction Injection Molding

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    Pages 319-363

11. Epoxy Polymers

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    Pages 365-385

12. Polymerization with Formaldehyde

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    Pages 387-425

13. Back Matter

    Pages 427-430

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The literature in polymerization reaction engineering has bloomed sufficiently in the last several years to justify our attempt in putting together this book. Rather than offer a comprehensive treatment of the entire field, thereby duplicating earlier texts as well as some ongoing bookwriting efforts, we decided to narrow down our aim to step growth polymerization systems. This not only provides us the lUxury of a more elaborate presentation within the constraints of production costs, but also enables us to remain on somewhat familiar terrain. The style and format we have selected are those of a textbook. The first six chapters present the principles of step growth polymerization. These are quite general, and can easily be applied in such diverse and emerging fields as polymerization applications in photolithography and microelec­ tronics. A detailed discussion of several important step growth polymeriz­ ations follows in the next five chapters. One could cover the first six chapters of this book in about six to eight weeks of a three-credit graduate course on polymerization reactors, with the other chapters assigned for reading. This could be followed by a discussion of chain-growth and other polymeriz­ ations, with which our material blends well. Alternately, the entire contents of this book could be covered in a course on step growth systems alone.

• Aldehyde
• Polyurethan
• engine
• flow
• growth
• material
• polyester
• polymer
• polymerization
• production
• reaction
• reading

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

  Santosh K. Gupta, Anil Kumar

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