Ashish Shukla is a heat transfer engineer at Fluor Corp. in New Delhi, India (Email: ashish.shukla1@fluor.com). His areas of expertise include fired equipment and heat exchangers. He holds a B-Tech in mechanical engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Allahabad. He is a member of Process Industry Practices (PIP) and the American Petroleum Institute (API). He holds an API 936 Refractory Personnel certification. He is also a PMP certified professional.Read more
Heat transfer to initiators, monomers, and other unstable materials can quickly become hazardous. This article proposes a simplistic model to analyze the temperature-time profile of an unstable chemical.