UWPREL '96 CONFERENCE


PROGRAM

Monday, June 10, 1996

12:00 PM    Noon Registration, Buffet Lunch
             Engineering Hall

 1:00 PM    Lab Tour and POLYRED Demonstrations

 2:30 PM    Welcome
             Prof. W. Harmon Ray

 2:45 PM    Recent Emulsion Polymerization Modeling and 
           Control Results
             Enrique Saldívar and Petros Dafniotis

 3:45 PM    Emulsion Copolymerization Under Pressure 
          Conditions
            Odair Araujo

 4:15 PM    Suspension Polymerization
            Simon Zhang

 4:45 PM    Discussion Period

 6:00 PM    Reception at the Edgewater Hotel
 
 7:00 PM    Dinner

 8:00 PM    Rubber Toughened Polymers
             Guest Speaker: Prof. Paul Nealey

Tuesday, June 11, 1996

 7:30 AM    Coffee

 8:00 AM    Introduction (Edgewater Hotel)
             Prof. W. Harmon Ray

 8:15 AM    Kinetics and Phase Behavior in the 
          Polymerization of Liquid-Crystal Polymers
             Ken Beers

 8:45 AM    Behavior of Condensates in Melt and Solid 
          State Polymerization
             Fred Mallon

 9:15 AM    Mass Transfer Effects in Olefin Solution 
          Polymerization
             Jiaying Li

 9:45 AM    Coffee

10:30 AM    Gas Phase Polymerization of Olefins
             Chris Han-Adebekun and Masashi Hamba

11:00 AM    Reactor Residence Time Distribution Effects 
          in Olefin Polymerization
             Jon Debling and Jorge Zacca

11:45 AM    Fluidized Bed Reactor for Polyolefin Research
             Tom Palionis

12:05 PM    Lunch

 1:45 PM    Group Photo

 2:00 PM    Modeling of Polymerization Reactor Mixing 
          Effects and Runaway Phenomena
             Simon Zhang and Gene Xu

 2:30 PM    POLYRED - A Progress Report
             Carlos Villa and Jirka Kosek

 3:15 PM    Future Directions in UWPREL Research
             W. H. Ray

 3:45 PM    Refreshments, Informal Discussions, 
          POLYRED Demonstrations 


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