Abstract
An automated reaction calorimeter was used to directly monitor the rate of emulsion polymerization of styrene using different emulsifier (sodium lauryl sulfate) and initiator (potassium persulfate) concentrations. By using this technique in conjunction with off-line measurements of the evolution of the particle size distributions, important details of the process were observed. The classical constant rate period (Interval II) often reported for the batch emulsion polymerization of styrene was not seen in this work. Instead, the experimental results suggest that the end of nucleation and the disappearance of monomer droplets take place at approximately the same conversion (36–40%). From the polymerization rate data, important parameters such as the monomer concentration in the polymer particles and the average number of radicals per particle were calculated. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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