Phase Behavior and Phase Separation Kinetics in Polymer Solutions under High Pressure

The phase behavior and phase separation kinetics in polymer solutions in binary mixtures of supercritical carbon dioxide (CO2) and organic solvents were studied for two systems. Solutions of polyethylene (PE) in CO2 + n-pentane were selected as one model system to study both the solid-fluid (S-F) an...

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Main Author: Zhang, Wei
Other Authors: Chemical Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26963
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04182005-115303/