UWPREL '99 CONFERENCE


PROGRAM

Monday, June 7, 1999

6:00 PM Reception (Edgewater Hotel)
7:00 PM Dinner
8:00 PM Guest Speaker: Prof. Wolfgang Marquardt, Chair for Process Technology, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Optimization-based Operation of Semi-Batch Reactors

Tuesday, June 8, 1999

7:30 AM Coffee
8:00 AM Introduction and Overview
Prof. W. Harmon Ray
8:15 AM Modeling Polymerization Induced Phase Separation
Min Zhang
8:45 AM Dynamic Behavior of Loop Reactors for Free-Radical Polymerization
Priamo Melo
9:15 AM Modeling and Analysis of New Processes for Nylon and Polyester Production
Zhen Yao
9:45 AM Coffee
10:15 AM Mixing MOdels for LDPE Autoclave Reactors
Shem Ogadhoh
11:15 AM The Effects of Catalyst Reaction Rate Profiles on Chemical Reactor Dynamics
Jimmy Wells
10:45 AM New Developments in POLYRED
Carlos Villa, Sanjeev Naik, Pavel Pinkas, Shem Ogadhoh, and Min Zhang
12:15 PM Lunch
1:30 PM Group Photo
1:45 PM Kinetics and Particle Morphology for Olefin Polymerization with Ziegler-Natta and Metallocene Catalysts
Sanjeev Naik
2:15 PM Olefin Polymerization Kinetics in Gas-Phase and Slurry Reactors
Shreyas Chakravarti
2:45 PM Particle Thermal Stability for Supercritical Fluidized Bed Reactors
Thor Mejdell
3:15 PM Wrap-up Discussion
3:30 PM POLYRED Workshop


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