Effects of acrylonitrile water solubility on limiting conversion and copolymer composition in suspension polymerization |
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| Authors: | Qun Lu Zhixue WengShuxue Zhou Zhiming HuangZuren Pan |
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| Affiliation: | a Department of Chemistry, Jiujiang Teachers' College, Jiujiang 332000, China
b Institute of Polymer Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China |
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| Abstract: | The effects of acrylonitrile (AN) water solubility on the limiting conversion and copolymer composition of the AN and AN/vinylidene chloride (VDC) suspension polymerization were investigated. It was found that AN dissolved in aqueous phase does not transfer back to oil phase in AN suspension homopolymerization but partially does in AN/VDC suspension copolymerization, and thus the limiting conversion is lowered and decreases with water/oil ratio increasing in both AN and AN/VDC suspension polymerization. For the continuous transport of AN in aqueous phase to oil phase during suspension polymerization, the composition distribution of AN/VDC copolymer prepared by suspension polymerization is narrower than that by bulk polymerization. The calculated composition of AN/VDC suspension copolymer with considering AN water solubility is consistent with the experimental data. |
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| Keywords: | Acrylonitrile Vinylidene chloride Suspension polymerization Limiting conversion Copolymer composition |
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