Preliminary Program subject to change
20027 Polymerization Reaction Engineering, Kinetics and Catalysis II
OverviewTBA
Primary SponsorCatalysis and Reaction Engineering Division (20)
Co-Sponsor(s)Polymers (08a)

Chair

Sanjeev Katti
Director, Pharmaceutical Development Sciences
Genzyme
Drug Discovery & Development
153 Second Avenue
Waltham, MA 02451
Phone Number: 781-434-3496
Fax Number: 781-434-3636
Email: sanjeev.katti@genzyme.com

CoChair

Michael A. Henson
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Massachusetts Amherst
686 N. Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01003
Phone Number: 413-545-1426
Fax Number: 413-545-1476
Email: henson@ecs.umass.edu
Self-Initiation in High-Temperature Polymerization of Alkyl Acrylates - a Theoretical Study of the Mechanism
Sriraj Srinivasan1, Myung Won Lee2, Andrew M. Rappe2, Masoud Soroush1 and Michael C. Grady3, (1)Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, (2)Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, (3)DuPont Marshall Lab, 3401 Grays Ferry Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19146
Kinetic Modeling Of Acrylate Polymerization At High Temperature
Xinrui Yu, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60201 and Linda J. Broadbelt, Northwestern University, Department of Chemical Engineering, 2145 Sheridan Road E136, Evanston, IL 60208-3120
A Robust Bayesian Approach for Model Discrimination in Copolymerization Kinetics
Ali Habibi and Juray De Wilde, Materials and Process Engineering, UCL, Place Sainte Barbe, 2, Louvain-la-Neuve, B - 1348, Belgium
Methodology Of Kinetic Modeling Of Single-Site Olefin Polymerization
Krista A. Novstrup1, Grigori Medvedev1, Nicholas E. Travia2, Corneliu Stanciu2, Thomas A. Manz1, W. Nicholas Delgass1, Mahdi M. Abu-Omar2 and James M. Caruthers1, (1)School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 480 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2100, (2)Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 480 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2100

Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division