The periodic method for the production of suspension polymethylmethacrylate of injection molded grades has a number of significant drawbacks: it does not ensure the stability of the properties of the finished product in various batches, it involves significant manual labor. The designs of reactors for carrying out the process in a continuous mode are proposed. These designs allow ensuring the stability of the properties of the finished product, excluding the granulation operation in the manufacture of polymethylmethacrylate products. A mathematical model of the structure of flows in the reactor using the mathematical apparatus of stationary processes and Markov chains has been developed. The proposed reactor can be used by factories of the chemical industry for the polymerization of methyl methacrylate and its copolymers, as well as, possibly, for the polymerization of other monomers that form similar reaction systems.
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Translated from Khimicheskoe i Neftegazovoe Mashinostroenie, Vol. 56, No. 8, pp. 11−15, August, 2020.
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Galkin, P.A., Selivanov, Y.T. & Lazarev, S.I. Hardware Design of Continuous Polymerization of Methyl Methacrylate in Suspension using Pulsating Mixing. Chem Petrol Eng 56, 616–625 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10556-020-00818-4
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