期刊
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
卷 450, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2022.138110
关键词
Acrylate polymerization; Thermal runaway; Method of moments; Process safety; Runaway prevention
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21625603, 22078195]
- Center for High Performance Computing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
This study investigates the non-isothermality of acrylate polymerization process using a deterministic moment-based modeling approach combined with the divergence criterion. The operating parameters of the polymerization reactor were optimized through simulation, which provided a safe operating window and demonstrated the suitability of a pseudo-isothermal process for tuning the molecular properties of the resulting polymers. This research proposes a deterministic simulation method for both process safety and molecular properties control.
Acrylate polymerizations with high exothermicity exhibit strongly non-isothermal characteristics. The presence of side reactions involved in the polymerization mechanisms makes process safety as well as polymer properties more sensitive to operation parameters. In this study, a deterministic moment-based modeling approach combining with the divergence criterion was developed to investigate the non-isothermality of acrylate poly-merization process. In silico design of non-adiabatic processes was achieved by the modeling approach involving reaction mechanism, energy balance, and mass balance. The safe and unsafe states of the reactor under a wide range of process operating conditions were identified by a divergence criterion. From the perspective of process intensification, optimization of operating parameters was carried out. Afterwards, the pseudo-isothermal oper-ation was mimicked by using stepwise jacket temperature profiles to investigate the effects of temperature and monomer content on molecular properties. The simulation results provide a safe operating window for the polymerization reactor under the given feed schemes and process conditions. Additionally, a pseudo-isothermal process is more suitable to tune the molecular properties of the resulting polymers during polymerization. The current work puts forward deterministic simulations in terms of both process safety and molecular properties control compared to the previous works.
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