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I'm curious about this popcorn polymer. I went looking, and found some papers on how it forms, but no pictures of what it looks like, or videos of it forming.
by twic 3y ago
I'm curious about this popcorn polymer. I went looking, and found some papers on how it forms, but no pictures of what it looks like, or videos of it forming.
EDIT I looked again and found some tiny pictures:
https://www.shilohsciences.com/blog/popcorn-polymer-in-steam-crackers https://www.shilohsciences.com/blog/popcorn-polymer-in-steam... (at the end - this is a great article)
https://www.hydrocarbonengineering.com/special-reports/14072021/increased-reliability-in-butadiene-production/ https://www.hydrocarbonengineering.com/special-reports/14072...
https://epsc.be/epsc_media/Learning+Sheets/2020/20_05+EPSC+Learning+Sheet+_+Polymerised+pipe-p-1485.pdf https://epsc.be/epsc_media/Learning+Sheets/2020/20_05+EPSC+L...
- lamontcg 3y agoThis comment covers how the popcorn forms and produces localized pressure in a dead leg pipe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36797295 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36797295