Monitoring of Vinyl Acetate–Ethylene Processes: An Industrial Perspective

Poly(vinyl acetate-co-ethylene) particles prepared by surfactant-free emulsion polymerization in the presence of a hydrophilic RAFT/MADIX macromolecular chain transfer agent

“…1 Industrially, VAEs are mostly produced by aqueous emulsion polymerization at temperatures below 100°C between 20 and 120 bar of ethylene pressure (mainly up to 30 bar). 6 Whereas the patent literature on VAE synthesis is quite large, the number of papers available in the open literature is comparatively rather limited. This is likely due to the fact that special equipment is required to work with ethylene (high pressure reactor).…”