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Cloud Points of Polystyrene and Poly(4-methyl styrene) in Propane

by: Sugata P. Tan, Dong Meng, Henry Plancher, Hertanto Adidharma, Maciej Radosz

(Fluid Phase Equilibria 2004, vol. 226, pp. 189-194)

Abstract

Cloud-point pressures are measured and correlated with the SAFT1 equation of state for polystyrene/propane and poly(4-methyl styrene)/propane. The SAFT1 parameters for polystyrene are then used to correlate polystyrene solutions in other solvents, for example, n-butane and n-pentane.