UWPREL '96 CONFERENCE
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
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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