Design and Implementation of a Pulse-Flow Reactor for the Study of Gas Phase Olefin Polymerization

A microreactor-based experimental setup (denoted here as a pulse-flow reactor) was developed to study the polymerization kinetic of heterogeneous catalysts to synthesize polypropylene. Gas preheating unit was designed to heat the gas inlet stream equal to the reaction temperature. The pulse technique was used to evaluate the rate of polymerization at high precisions in heterogeneous gas-phase propylene polymerizations