For the manufacturing of either monomer or polymer:

• Know in details the ideal reactor types used for single & multiple-phase reactions: batch reactor, CSTR, PFR, packed bed reactors, slurry reactors, fluidized bed reactors; 
• Master the calculations of mass & energy balances of ideal reactors dedicated to gas-phase and liquid-phase reactions of any order, including multiple-step reactions as encountered in polymerization reactors; 
•  Master the heat balance calculations for reactors involving viscous media in single-phase reactors;