Design and Evaluation of a Plug Flow Reactor for the Reaction of Epoxy Resins with Acrylic Acid

A comparative study of the reaction of diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A (DGEBA) with Acrylic Acid (AA) in a continuous microstructured system and semi-batch reactor was carried out and extent of side reactions was evaluated in two different systems. The results indicated that microstructured reactor system could increase the rate of the reaction considerably almost 8 times more than semi-batch reactor. In addition a nonideal plug flow in the microstructured system could improve the selectivity of the reaction to produce a linear intermediate before occurring of branching reactions causing the gel formation

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Microstructured system ، Epoxy acrylate ، Side reaction ، Semi-batch