BULK POLYMERIZATION KINETICS BY THE ADIABATIC REACTOR METHOD.

Results of an experimental study are presented which show that the adiabatic reactor method (A. R. M. ) is useful to measure bulk polymerization kinetics. The choice of an adequate model is fundamental to represent the kinetics and for use in modeling and processing applications. The definitions of differential and integral errors have been introduced. It has been shown that these definitions lead to different objective functions and minimization problems. With an adequate model, one must be able to find a single set of parameters to minimize both errors simultaneously. It is shown that the n-th order and autocatalytic models are particular cases of a generalized phenomenological model.