Polymer Processing with Supercritical Fluids
- ISBN-10
- 1859574947
- ISBN-13
- 9781859574942
- Category
- Polymers
- Pages
- 138
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- iSmithers Rapra Publishing
- Authors
- Vannessa Goodship, Erich Okoth Ogur
Description
SCFs are currently the subjects of intense research and commercial interest. Applications such as the RESS (rapid expansion of supercritical fluid solutions) process are part of standard industrial practice. In view of their ever-growing importance in the polymer industry there is a need to fully comprehend how supercritical fluids interrelate with polymeric materials to realise the potential that can be gained from their use. The authors review the basic principles of SCFs and their application within the polymer industry: characteristics and properties, extraction of unwanted residual products, polymerisation solvents, and polymer impregnation. Processing applications such as plasticisation, foaming and blending are also considered. There is discussion of the potential within the polymer recycling industry for use of SCFs as cleaning agents or within supercritical oxidation processes. Around 400 references with abstracts from recent global literature accompany this review, sourced from the Polymer Library, to facilitate further reading. A subject index and a company index are included.
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