1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910688588603321

Autore

Soroush Masoud

Titolo

Polymer Reactor Modeling, Design and Monitoring / / Masoud Soroush

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel : , : MDPI, , 2016

ISBN

3-03842-255-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 204 pages)

Disciplina

660.283

Soggetti

Chemical reactors

Polymerization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

List of Contributors -- About the Guest Editor -- Preface to "Polymer Reactor Modeling, Design and Monitoring" -- Model-Based Reactor Design in Free-Radical Polymerization with Simultaneous -- Optimal Design for Reactivity Ratio Estimation: A Comparison of Techniques for AMPS/Acrylamide and AMPS/Acrylic Acid Copolymerizations -- Modeling of the Copolymerization Kinetics of n-Butyl Acrylate and D-Limonene Using PREDICI® -- State Observer Design for Monitoring the Degree of Polymerization in a Series of Melt Polycondensation Reactors -- Combining On-Line Characterization Tools with Modern Software Environments for Optimal Operation of Polymerization Processes -- Surrogate Models for Online Monitoring and Process Troubleshooting of NBR Emulsion Copolymerization -- Gaussian Mixture Model-Based Ensemble Kalman Filtering for State and Parameter Estimation for a PMMA Process -- Modeling and Optimization of High-Performance Polymer Membrane Reactor Systems for Water-Gas Shift Reaction Applications -- Study of n-Butyl Acrylate Self-Initiation Reaction Experimentally and via Macroscopic Mechanistic Modeling.

Sommario/riassunto

Polymers range from synthetic plastics, such as polyacrylates, to natural biopolymers, such as proteins and DNA. The large molecular mass of polymers and our ability to manipulate their compositions and molecular structures have allowed for producing synthetic polymers with attractive properties. new polymers with remarkable characteristics are synthesized. Because of the huge production volume of commodity



polymers, a little improvement in the operation of commodity-polymer processes can lead to significant economic gains. On the other hand, a little improvement in the quality of specialty polymers can lead to substantial increase in economic profits.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786893703321

Autore

Brunström Conrad <1968->

Titolo

Thomas Sheridan's career and influence : an actor in earnest / / Conrad Brunström

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-61148-039-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (169 p.)

Collana

Transits : Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850

Disciplina

792.0/28092

Soggetti

Actors - Ireland

Theatrical managers - Ireland

Educators - England

Theater - Ireland - History - 18th century

Oratory - History - 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Thomas Sheridan''s Career And Influence; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 An Earnest Life; 3 An Actor in Charge: The (Mis?)Management of the Smock Alley Theatre, and the Scandal of Siddonolatory; 4 Education, Rhetoric, and the Rise and Fall of Empires and Republics; 5 An Actor for Ireland; 6 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book considers the varied careers of controversial Irish adventurer Thomas Sheridan (1719-1788) in terms of a continuum of phonocentrist obsession. Variously employed as an actor-manager, elocutionist, lecturer and educational theorist, Sheridan believed that the key to Irish national renewal and European cultural revival was the



cultivation of the spoken word. His stewardship of the Smock Alley Theater in Dublin was marked by considerable innovation along with bitter controversy. His lectures on oratory provoked admiration and ridicule in roughly equal measure, yet he would have a profou