What are Initiators? Give its examples.
[3 marks]What are different steps in the polymer dissolution process?
[4 marks]Write down the detailed classification of polymers with suitable examples of each.
[7 marks]Mention the essential conditions for polymerization reaction to occur.
[3 marks]What do you mean by bifunctional monomers? Write down minimum four examples of it.
[4 marks]What are the major types of polymerization? Explain it in detail.
[7 marks]Explain the solution technique and state advantages of the technique over other techniques of polymerization.
[7 marks]Explain in short about the industrial importance of inhibitors.
[3 marks]Explain in detail about free radical polymerization with suitable examples.
[4 marks]Write down the difference between Cationic and Anionic polymerization.
[7 marks]Give two examples each with chemical reaction of chain and step growth polymerization.
[3 marks]How does a free radical carry forward the polymerization reaction? Explain with a specific example.
[4 marks]Explain in detail about manufacturing method for butadiene along with suitable diagram.
[7 marks]Name two processes for manufacturing ethylene and propylene on a large scale.
[3 marks]Draw a diagram showing a conventional distillation tray column equipped with condenser, reboiler, reflux, side streams, trays, etc., and write importance of each.
[4 marks]Explain in detail about the concept of number average and weight average molecular weight of polymers.1
[7 marks]How you will decide whether the process is feasible or not?
[3 marks]Compare and contrast cryoscopy and ebulliometry methods for mol. wt determination.
[4 marks]List out the various polymerization techniques. Explain in detail about bulk polymerization along with its engineering features.
[7 marks]What do you mean by auto-acceleration?
[3 marks]How to synthesis ethylene glycol? Give its detailed information with diagram.
[4 marks]Discuss in detail advantages and disadvantages of emulsion polymerization technique.
[7 marks]Explain steam cracking of hydrocarbons (HC) in short.
[3 marks]Why dissolution of polymers in solvents is very slow?
[4 marks]Why does polydispersity exist? Explain with respect to chain growth and step growth polymerization reactions. Give pertinent examples with values.
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