In this work, Raman and Near InfraRed (NIR) spectroscopies are evaluated for the monitoring of different semicontinuous emulsion homo‐ and co‐polymerization reactions. Important process variables, namely monomer concentrations and average particle sizes, were monitored by both techniques under realistic conditions that would be found in an industrial environment ( e.g. low signal/noise ratio, probe placed in the reaction medium). Results suggest that Raman and NIR are suitable for on‐line monitoring of emulsion polymerization reactions and that the success of their application is mainly related to representative calibration models used for the estimation of the properties of interest.
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