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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2017
Advanced Polymer Monitoring Technologies, Inc., New Orleans, LA (US);
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund, New Orleans, LA (US);
Wayne Frederick Reed, New Orleans, LA (US);
Rick D. Montgomery, New Orleans, LA (US);
Michael Felix Drenski, New Orleans, LA (US);
Aide Wu, New Orleans, LA (US);
ADVANCED POLYMER MONITORING TECHNOLOGIES, INC., New Orleans, LA (US);
THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, New Orleans, LA (US);
Abstract
Devices and methods for determining the cumulative distribution of a polymer property in a reactor without physical separation of reaction subcomponents. The device includes a means of measuring an instantaneous property of the polymers being produced in a reaction vessel a plurality of times during a polymerization reaction as well as a means of determining the corresponding change in polymer concentration in the reaction vessel between measurements of the instantaneous polymer property The device also includes a means of computing a statistical distribution appropriate to the polymer characteristic and applying the statistical distribution to a recently measured instantaneous value of the polymer property so as to have an instantaneous distribution of the polymer property and a means of adding together the instantaneous distributions of the polymer property in order to obtain the cumulative distribution of the polymer property in the reactor.