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Fine chemicals & polymers — reaction meets rigorous separation

Synthesis and purification on one canvas: free-radical polymerization with molecular-weight kinetics, Arrhenius reactors, and high-purity solvent-recovery distillation.

Free-radical CSTR kineticsMethod-of-moments Mn/Mw/PDICoupled reaction + distillation
Monomer
Polymerization
Polymer
Reactants
Reactor
Distillation
Product
Recovered solvent

A free-radical polymerization CSTR reporting molecular weight, alongside a reactor + distillation solvent-recovery loop — reaction and separation on one editable canvas.

Polymer kinetics (method of moments) + separation

The radical balance and monomer conversion feed a moment closure for the number/weight-average molecular weight and polydispersity — steady-state averages, not a full chain-length distribution — and the column resolves the solvent-recovery split.

[R]=2fkd[I]/kt,Rp=kp[M][R][R^\bullet] = \sqrt{2 f k_d [I]/k_t}, \qquad R_p = k_p [M] [R^\bullet]
ν=kp[M]2fkdkt[I],DPn=ν,    PDI2\nu = \dfrac{k_p [M]}{2\sqrt{f k_d k_t [I]}}, \quad \overline{DP}_n = \nu,\;\; \text{PDI}\approx 2
Mn=DPnM0,yi,j=Ki,jxi,jM_n = \overline{DP}_n M_0, \qquad y_{i,j} = K_{i,j}\, x_{i,j}

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Polymerization reactor

Free-radical CSTR with method-of-moments Mn, Mw, and PDI.

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Kinetic reactor

General rate-law CSTR/PFR for reaction-plus-separation trains.

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Distillation column

Wang-Henke MESH column solver — the same rigorous solve at any scale.

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Live plant integration

Stream conversion, Mn/Mw, and column composition tags from your reactor/column train into this flowsheet's twin comparison — deviations from the solved kinetics are flagged automatically.

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  • Free-radical polymerization — Mn / Mw / PDI via method of moments
  • Reaction kinetics — Arrhenius CSTR / PFR, equilibrium and stoichiometric reactors
  • High-purity distillation and solvent-recovery columns (rigorous MESH)

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