Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for producing expandable polystyrene with a molecular weight Mw in excess of 170,000 g/mol. According to the invention, a styrene polymer melt containing an expanding agent and having a temperature of at least 120 DEG C is passed through a spinneret comprising bores, whose diameter at the spinneret exit measures a maximum 1.5 mm, and is then granulated. The invention also relates to expandable styrene polymers (EPS) with a molecular weight Mw of more than 170,000 g/mol and between 0.05 and 1.5 wt. % inherent moisture.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for the production of flameproof, expandable styrol polymers (EPS) by extruding a styrol polymer melt containing a propellant and flameproof agents through a nozzle plate with subsequent under water granulation. The residence time of the flameproof agent is less than 30 minutes at a melting temperature in the region of between 140 to 220 °C.
Abstract:
Expandable styrene polymer granules with halogen-free flame retardancy, comprising a) from 5 to 50% by weight of a filler selected from pulverulent inorganic substances such as talc, chalk, kaolin, aluminum hydroxide, aluminum nitrite, aluminum silicate, barium sulfate, calcium carbonate, titanium dioxide, calcium sulfate, silica, quartz flour, aerosil, alumina or wollastonite, and b) from 2 to 40% by weight of expandable graphite having a mean particle size in the range from 10 to 1000 mum, c) from 0 to 20% by weight of red phosphorus or an organic or inorganic phosphate, phosphite or phosphonate, d) from 0 to 10% by weight of carbon black or graphite, and processes for their preparation and use for preparing self-extinguishing polystyrene particle foams.
Abstract:
Halogen-free, flame-retardant polymer foams, in particular molded polystyrene foams, composed of expandable polystyrene (EPS) or extruded polystyrene foam sheets (XPS), which comprise, as flame retardant, a phosphorus compound of the general formula (I) where R 1 , R 2 , and R 3 , independently of one another, are H, substituted or unsubstituted C 1 -C 15 -alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted C 1 -C 15 -alkenyl, substituted or unsubstituted C 3 -C 8 -cycloalkyl, substituted or unsubstituted C 6 -C 18 -aryl, or substituted or unsubstituted C 7 -C 30 -alkylaryl, or the hydrolysis product or metal salt of a phosphorus compound of the general formula (I), and processes for their production.
Abstract:
Halogen-free, flame-retardant polymer foams, in particular molded polystyrene foams, composed of expandable polystyrene (EPS) or extruded polystyrene foam sheets (XPS), which comprise, as flame retardant, a phosphorus compound of the general formula (I) where R 1 , R 2 , and R 3 , independently of one another, are H, substituted or unsubstituted C 1 -C 15 -alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted C 1 -C 15 -alkenyl, substituted or unsubstituted C 3 -C 8 -cycloalkyl, substituted or unsubstituted C 6 -C 18 -aryl, or substituted or unsubstituted C 7 -C 30 -alkylaryl, or the hydrolysis product or metal salt of a phosphorus compound of the general formula (I), and processes for their production.
Abstract:
Moldable-foam moldings whose density is in the range from 8 to 200 g/l, obtainable via fusion of prefoamed foam beads composed of expandable pelletized filled thermoplastic polymer materials, and a process for preparing the expandable pelletized polymer materials.
Abstract:
Halogen-free, flame-retardant polymer foams, in particular molded polystyrene foams, composed of expandable polystyrene (EPS) or extruded polystyrene foam sheets (XPS), which comprise, as flame retardant, a phosphorus compound of the general formula (I) where R 1 , R 2 , and R 3 , independently of one another, are H, substituted or unsubstituted C 1 -C 15 -alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted C 1 -C 15 -alkenyl, substituted or unsubstituted C 3 -C 8 -cycloalkyl, substituted or unsubstituted C 6 -C 18 -aryl, or substituted or unsubstituted C 7 -C 30 -alkylaryl, or the hydrolysis product or metal salt of a phosphorus compound of the general formula (I), and processes for their production.
Abstract:
A process for producing expandable styrene polymers (EPS) having improved expandability, wherein from 0.1 to 1% by weight, based on the styrene polymer, of a free-radical former is metered into a styrene polymer melt containing blowing agent at a melt temperature in the range from 150 to 220° C. and the melt is extruded through a die plate with subsequent underwater pelletization.