RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
For all cases that will be described in this work, Aspen Plus generated
the result data of mass distribution, temperature profile and pressure
profile. This data was exported and treated in order to generate the
plots of all the graphs that will be presented below.
For the simulation, it was generated four programs considering 1, 2, 3
and 4 catalytic sites. The kinetic rate constants of each case were
selected as reported in Table 3. All cases have different results of
mass distribution of polybutadiene as expected.
In cases 2, 3 and 4, the mass distribution’s graphs show the curve of
the composite generated and the curves below indicates the mass
distribution of each catalytic site. For case 1, there is only one curve
because there is just one catalytic site. Thus, the curve of catalytic
site matches with the curve of polymer. The data was treated and
normalized to be presented in this work.