Patent ID: 11940384
Assignee: THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B  C | IPC B  C  G

Claim 14:
15. A device comprising:
a means of monitoring an instantaneous weight average molecular weight of polymers being produced in a reaction vessel a plurality of times during a polymerization reaction;
a means of determining the corresponding change in polymer concentration in the reaction vessel between values of the instantaneous weight average molecular weight;
a means of computing an instantaneous molecular weight distribution corresponding to a recently instantaneous weight average molecular weight and applying the statistical distribution to a recent value of the polymer property to obtain the instantaneous molecular weight distribution of the polymer property; and
a means of adding together each instantaneous molecular weight distribution of the polymer property to obtain a cumulative molecular weight distribution, wherein each instantaneous weight average molecular weight that is added is weighted by the polymer concentration interval produced since the previous instantaneous weight average molecular weight.