Author:
Law Chew-Sang,Hussain Mohd Azlan
Abstract
A study was performed to improve the model for metallocene catalyzed polyolefin polymerization in fluidized bed reactor by adapting multi-scale modeling approach. Monomer concentration and reactor temperature was predicted using kinetic model of polypropylene homopolymerization coupled with well mixed reactor models of fluidized bed reactor. Well mixed model typically used for Ziegler-Nata was selected as supported homogeneous metallocene exhibited heterogeneous property similar to ZN catalyst. Result of simulation showed that model was able to predict reaction temperature accurate with around 3% over-prediction of reactor temperature, which is more accurate than previous model. Model predicted decrease in final monomer concentration from 0.9929 mol/s to 0.986 mol/s when initial reactor was raised from 25C to 75C.
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