Abstract:
Iron phosphate conversion coatings that are well adapted to serve as carriers for metal cold working lubricants, particularly such lubricants that contain polyoxyethylene adducts of long chain primary alcohols as a major lubricating component, can be formed on ferriferous surfaces within practical time such as 5 to 10 minutes by contact with an aqueous solution of almost neutralized phosphoric acid that has sufficient Free Acid and/or Total Acid content to form a heavier phosphate conversion coating than do conventional iron phosphating compositions. The phosphate conversion coating forming aqueous liquid composition advantageously also contains an accelerator component such as chlorate or hydroxylamine.
Abstract:
A method of preparing a self-dispersing epoxy resin composition is provided. The method comprises reacting a polyepoxide with a polyoxyalkylene polyol wherein the equivalent ratio of epoxide groups of said polyepoxide to hydroxyl groups of said polyoxyalkylene polyol is greater than 10:1, to form a polyol-epoxy adduct and reacting said polyol-epoxy adduct with a polyepoxide and a polyhydric alcohol to form a self-dispersing epoxy resin. Also provided are aqueous dispersions of the self-dispersing epoxy resin and coating compositions comprising the same. The coating compositions are particularly useful as industrial maintenance coatings.
Abstract:
A solid hard-surface cleaning composition contains from about 20 to about 40 % by weight of a fatty acid component; from about 10 to about 25 % by weight of a polyol component; from about 2 to about 6 % by weight of a base component; from about 2 to about 15 % by weight of a foaming agent; and remainder, water, all weights being based on the total weight of the composition. The cleaning composition is particularly useful in combination with an abrasive substrate such as in abrasive scouring pads, providing lubricity, sudsing and improved detergency over untreated pads.
Abstract:
Laminates made with an adhesive comprised of a polymerizable composition containing compounds based on N-acylamido-piperazines are provided. Such compounds have formula (I) wherein R , R , and R are each independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and lower alkyl, B is a linking group selected from the group consisting of carbonyl, sulfonyl, amide, and carboxyl; n is one or zero; R is a radical selected from the group consisting of a higher aliphatic group (i.e. at least four carbon atoms, preferably from about 6 to about 50 carbon atoms), a substituted higher aliphatic group, an alicyclic group, a heterocyclic group, a non-benzenoid aromatic group, and a substituted aromatic group. The adhesive coating is exposed to ultra-violet radiation sufficient to cause the compound to polymerize and thus cure the adhesive.
Abstract:
A process of preparing a concentrate which is useful as a thickener for aqueous compositions is provided. The process comprises obtaining a solution of an associative thickener compound in an organic solvent capable of forming a low boiling azeotrope with water. The solution is essentially free of water at this point and is at a temperature above the boiling point of said low boiling azeotrope. Water is added to said solution and an azeotrope of water and said organic solvent is distilled. The rate of addition of water is sufficient to replace said azeotrope with water, but is insufficient to cause a second phase to form in the resulting mixture of said solution and said water. The process yields a concentrate of an associative thickener in water, which concentrate is essentially free of volatile organic solvents.
Abstract:
Described is a process for making acrylic resins suitable as polymeric surfactants used in emulsion polymerization, as pigment grinding resins and for preparing dispersions used as overprint varnishes. The feedstock is styrene, alpha -methyl styrene, acrylic acid and a polymerization initiator and is preferably free of solvent. This mix is passed through a continuous tube reactor run at a controlled range of pressure and relatively low residence time and temperature. Optimally, when the polymer/unreacted monomers blend exits the reactor and is devolatilized, the recovered monomers are used to make up part of the feedstock.
Abstract:
A process for the recovery of nickel from a nickel containing ore in which the ore, particularly a laterite ore, is initially leached with an aqueous acid solution, after which the nickel is precipitated as nickel hydroxide by adding a hydroxide to the aqueous acid leach solution containing the nickel, followed by a re-leaching of the nickel with an aqueous ammoniacal solution and recovery of the nickel by a solvent extraction of the nickel from the aqueous ammoniacal solution with an organic phase of a water insoluble oxime extractant dissolved in a water-immiscible hydrocarbon solvent and the nickel recovered by electrowinning the nickel from the aqueous acid stripping solution employed to strip the nickel from the organic phase.
Abstract:
An emulsifier for emulsifying pesticide concentrates, the emulsifier consisting essentially of: (i) a sulfate as represented by general formula (I) wherein R1 is an alkyl group having 8 or 9 carbon atoms, R2 is an alkyl radical having from 8 to 22 carbon atoms, x is a number from 4 to 10 and, y is a number from 2 to 20; and (ii) a nonionic surfactant selected from the group consisting of alkoxylated block copolymers of C8-12alkylphenols, castor oil ethoxylates, mono- and di-esters of ethylene glycol, ethoxylated C8-22alcohols, sorbitan esters, ethoxylated sorbitan esters, ethylene oxide-propylene oxide block copolymers, propoxylated-ethoxylated butanols, and mixtures thereof.
Abstract:
A process for making alkyl ether glycerols involving: (a) providing a feedstock component having at least one terminal hydroxyl group selected from the group consisting of glycerides and polyols; (b) providing a heavy metal catalyst; and (c) contacting the feedstock component with the heavy metal catalyst.
Abstract:
A composition that is useful in the preparation of radiation curable coatings is provided. The composition comprises the reaction product of an epoxy component and an acid component comprised of an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid or reactive derivative thereof, reacted in the presence of, or post-reaction blended with, a polyamide based on a polymerized fatty acid. The polyamide preferably has a number average molecular weight of less than about 10,000 g/mole. Also provided is a polymerizable composition comprised of the reaction product, the polyamide, and a reactive diluent. A method of coating a substrate is also provided which comprises applying to a substrate a composition comprised of the reaction product and the polyamide and exposing said composition to radiation to cure said composition.