Modeling and Simulation of an Isothermal Suspension Polymerization Reactor for PMMA Production Using Python

• 作者: Aldo Okullo Joshua Barasa Noah Tibasiima
• 来源期刊: 化学工程与科学期刊(英文)
• 学科: 化学
• 关键词: SUSPENSION POLYMERIZATION MODELING Simulation PYTHON
• 年，卷（期）: 2017,（4）
• 页码范围: 408-419
• 页数: 12页
• 分类号: O6

摘要

This paper presents the modeling and simulation of a suspension polymerization for methyl methacrylate in an isothermal reactor to produce poly methyl methacrylate using Python 3.5. The numeral solution to the stiff ordinary differential equations was performed by building a custom module which was used with the inbuilt NumPy and matplotlib modules that come with the Anaconda python distro. Python was used in order to obtain a realistic solution that considers the gel, glass and cage effects that affect the non-linear polymerization kinetics established in literature. The results showed that a maximum monomer conversion of about 92.8% at a minimum batch time of about 2.2 hours could be achieved at the specified conditions to obtain a polydisperse polymer with an index of 27. It is further concluded that Python can be employed to perform similar studies with equal success as any other programming language.