More products are nowadays waterbased such as coatings, adhesives, industrial mixtures and additives. Contaminations increase as well. Consequences of contaminated products can be severe, like product recalls, eradition, brand image damages. Physicochemical parameters are closely monitored but microbiological tests are less.
When coatings are applied to industrial equipment, they have to be able to stand the heat produced by solar energy and/or by different conditions on the process. An analysis of the aged films shows what effects occur.
HTE ("High Throughput Experimentation") stands for fully optimised product development. Dr. Matthias Creutz, Heinz-Günter Lux and Andreas Stüttgen of Evonik Degussa comment on this new technology for the global colorants business of the company.
Parameters derived from the isoconversional kinetic analysis of liquid resins are not only theoretical descriptors but also have direct practical relevance in the modeling of product propertiesderived from these liquid resins when used to supplement technological databases. Dr. Andreas Kandelbauer of Reutlingen University explains the benefits of this method for the coatings industry.By Kirsten Wrede
