Simulation of Emulsion Copolymerization of Acrylonitrile-Butadiene

The detailed non-isothermal model based on monodisperse particle size distribution has been used in order to simulate the production of NBR via emulsion copolymerization of acrylonitrile (AN) and butadiene (Bd) in batch and semi-batch reactors. Thus, the model provides average properties for typical emulsion characteristics, such as monomer conversion and the average size of polymer latex particles.Model comparisons are made between two different approaches for radical absorption/desorption of batch operation and representative simulation profiles are shown for a batch reactor