4. The Settling of the Polymer in the Settling Legs

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Contents ix
4. 1. Introduction to the Slurry Loop Process 1
5. 2. The Loop Reactor Circulation Pump Power 4
6. 3. The Functioning of the Settling Legs 19
7. 4. The Settling of the Polymer in the Settling Legs 36
8. 5. Catalyst Activity and Productivity 51
9. 6. The 1/1 Hypothesis 62
10. 7. Catalyst Residence Time Distribution 73
11. 8. Catalyst Activity Profiles from Full Scale Loop Data 88
12. 9. Conversions of the Reactants 98
13. 10. The Ethylene Concentration Profile in the Loop Reactor 120
14. 11. A Simple Model for the Slurry Loop Reactor 132
15. 12. Establishing Correlations from Loop Reactor Data by Linear Regression 147
16. 13. Scaling-Up from Bench Reactor to Loop Reactor 161
17. 14. The Operation of Two Loop Reactors in Series 177
18. Index 193