In-situ fiber-optic Raman study of emulsion polymerization
- Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
Emulsion polymerization is a major commercial process for the production of various polymers. The unique nature of the reaction offers the possibility of producing products with special properties not easily made by other types of polymerization process. The reaction is heterogeneous, with the reactants and products dispersed as a separate phase in the main aqueous medium. Since water is a weak Raman scatterer and does not interfere with the analytical peak of the reactant, Raman scattering should be an effective method for in-line monitoring of the reaction progress. Recent advances in fiber-optic Raman have attracted great attention in developing methods for monitoring chemical processes in remote and hostile environments. This work describes in-situ monitoring of the emulsion polymerization of vinyl acetate using remote Raman spectroscopy.
- OSTI ID:
- 602914
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-961108-; TRN: 98:001968-0056
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Annual meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), Chicago, IL (United States), 10-15 Nov 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of 1996 First joint topical conference on processing, structure and properties of polymeric materials; PB: 594 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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