[article]
Titre : |
Strategies to estimate the pressure drop threshold of nucleation for polystyrene foam with carbon dioxide |
Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
Auteurs : |
Siu N. Leung, Auteur ; Anson Wong, Auteur ; Chul B. Park, Auteur |
Année de publication : |
2009 |
Article en page(s) : |
pp. 1921–1927 |
Note générale : |
Chemical engineering |
Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
Mots-clés : |
Pressure drop threshold Polymer foaming processes Bubble nucleation |
Résumé : |
Two methods to predict the pressure drop threshold (ΔPthreshold) to initiate bubble nucleation in polymer foaming processes are developed. One method uses the modified nucleation theory developed in our previous work, while the other utilizes computer simulations to model the growth profiles of the first observable bubbles in batch foaming experiments. These two approaches have shown reasonably good agreement qualitatively with each other in their ΔPthreshold predictions. Moreover, the effects of the pressure drop rate, the gas content, and the processing temperature on ΔPthreshold are demonstrated. It was found that the pressure drop rate does not have a significant effect on ΔPthreshold, while increasing the gas content or the processing temperature leads to a decrease in ΔPthreshold. |
En ligne : |
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ie800079x |
in Industrial & engineering chemistry research > Vol. 48 N°4 (Février 2009) . - pp. 1921–1927
[article] Strategies to estimate the pressure drop threshold of nucleation for polystyrene foam with carbon dioxide [texte imprimé] / Siu N. Leung, Auteur ; Anson Wong, Auteur ; Chul B. Park, Auteur . - 2009 . - pp. 1921–1927. Chemical engineering Langues : Anglais ( eng) in Industrial & engineering chemistry research > Vol. 48 N°4 (Février 2009) . - pp. 1921–1927
Mots-clés : |
Pressure drop threshold Polymer foaming processes Bubble nucleation |
Résumé : |
Two methods to predict the pressure drop threshold (ΔPthreshold) to initiate bubble nucleation in polymer foaming processes are developed. One method uses the modified nucleation theory developed in our previous work, while the other utilizes computer simulations to model the growth profiles of the first observable bubbles in batch foaming experiments. These two approaches have shown reasonably good agreement qualitatively with each other in their ΔPthreshold predictions. Moreover, the effects of the pressure drop rate, the gas content, and the processing temperature on ΔPthreshold are demonstrated. It was found that the pressure drop rate does not have a significant effect on ΔPthreshold, while increasing the gas content or the processing temperature leads to a decrease in ΔPthreshold. |
En ligne : |
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ie800079x |
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