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Title : Assignment No-5 Date: 28/04/2023

Academic Year : 2022-23
Semester : VI
Course Name : CRE-II
Class : B. Tech. Chemical Engineering/ Technology
Last date of Submission : 05/05/2023

Que 1) Short notes on.

a) Pseudo steady - state hypothesis used in polymerization kinetics.
b) Polydispersity index
c) Moments of the distribution in polymers.
d) Modeling of batch polymerization reactor
e) Long chain approximation used in polymerization kinetics.

Que 2) Discuss the mechanism of step growth polymerization in brief and hence determine the
concentration and mole fraction of polymers of chain length j in terms of initial concentration of
unreacted functional groups M, the propagation constant k and time t.

Que 3) For step growth polymerization determine concentration and of mole fraction of polymers
of chain length. In terms of initial concentration of A → R + B
Mo the concentration of unreacted functional group M. The propagation constant K and time t and hence
show that P = Mo (1-p2)P1-I.

Que 4) Discuss the mechanism of free radical polymerization in brief and hence derive the expression for
rate of disappearance of monomer.

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