RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

For all cases that will be described in this work, Aspen Plus generated the result data of mass distribution, temperature profile and pressure profile. This data was exported and treated in order to generate the plots of all the graphs that will be presented below.
For the simulation, it was generated four programs considering 1, 2, 3 and 4 catalytic sites. The kinetic rate constants of each case were selected as reported in Table 3. All cases have different results of mass distribution of polybutadiene as expected.
In cases 2, 3 and 4, the mass distribution’s graphs show the curve of the composite generated and the curves below indicates the mass distribution of each catalytic site. For case 1, there is only one curve because there is just one catalytic site. Thus, the curve of catalytic site matches with the curve of polymer. The data was treated and normalized to be presented in this work.