Du Pont Company

Because of projected nylon-6,6 growth of 4—10% (167) per year in the Far East, several companies have announced plans for that area. A Rhc ne-Poulenc/Oriental Chemical Industry joint venture (Kofran) announced a 1991 startup for a 50,000-t/yr plant in Onsan, South Korea (168,169). Asahi announced plans for a 15,000-t/yr expansion of adipic acid capacity at their Nobeoka complex in late 1989, accompanied by a 60,000-t/yr cyclohexanol plant at Mizushima based on their new cyclohexene hydration technology (170). In early 1990 the Du Pont Company announced plans for a major nylon-6,6 complex for Singapore, including a 90,000-t/yr adipic acid plant due to start up in 1993 (167). Plans or negotiations for other adipic acid capacity in the area include Formosa Plastics (Taiwan) (171) and BASF-Hyundai Petrochemical (South Korea) (167). Adipic acid is a truly worldwide... 

Since successful commercialization of Kapton by Du Pont Company in the 1960s (10), numerous compositions of polyimide and various new methods of syntheses have been described in the Hterature (1—5). A successful result for each method depends on the nature of the chemical components involved in the system, including monomers, intermediates, solvents, and the polyimide products, as well as on physical conditions during the synthesis. Properties such as monomer reactivity and solubiHty, and the glass-transition temperature,T, crystallinity, T, and melt viscosity of the polyimide products ultimately determine the effectiveness of each process. Accordingly, proper selection of synthetic method is often critical for preparation of polyimides of a given chemical composition. 

In September 1964 the Du Pont company announced materials that had characteristics of both thermoplastics and thermosetting materials. These materials, known as ionomers, are prepared by copolymerising ethylene with a small amount (1-10 % in the basic patent) of an unsaturated carboxylic acid such as acrylic acid using the high-pressure process. Such copolymers are then treated... 

The early development of the nylons is largely due to the work of W. H. Carothers and his colleagues, who first synthesised nylon 66 in 1935 after extensive and classical researches into condensation polymerisation. Commercial production of this polymer for subsequent conversion into fibres was commenced by the Du Pont Company in December 1939. The first nylon mouldings were produced in 1941 but the polymer did not become well known in this form until about 1950. 

In the early 1940s an intensive research programme on the polymerisation of formaldehyde was initiated by the Du Pont Company. As a consequence of this work polymers, both tough and adequately stable to processing conditions, were prepared and eventually marketed " (Delrin). 

The following extract is taken from an example in British Patent 770,717 to the Du Pont Company as an illustration of a typical method of esterification ... 

Another approach has been adopted by the Du Pont Company with Adiprene C. This is a urethane-type polymer with unsaturated groups in the polymer. Because of the unsaturation the polymer may be vulcanised with sulphur, the standard vulcanising agent of the rubber industry. This is a clear-cut example of a product being modified to suit the processor rather than that of a processor adapting himself to meet new products. Whereas Adiprene C has poor tensile strength when unfilled, the use of carbon black leads to appreciable reinforcement (as is the case with SBR and to some extent natural rubber. 

Based on Sampling and Analytical Cuide for Airborne Health Hazards, Du Pont Company, Applied Technology Division. Sampling methods... 

It should be noted that although ASTM A262 1986 provides details of test procedures no information is given on typical corrosion rates or acceptable limits for various heat-treated alloys, which are regarded as outside the province of a specification that describes test procedures. Table 19.4, taken from a paper by Brown, shows the maximum acceptable evaluation test rates specified by the Du Pont Company for various alloys tested by the acid... 

The name Nylon was given by the Du Pont company of America to their first synthetic condensation polymer formed by the reaction of difuncfional acids with difuncfional amines, ft had been made as part of the fundamental programme of W. H. Carothers to investigate the whole topic of polymerisation. The term has gradually been extended to other related polymers. These materials are strictly polyamides, but this term includes that otherwise distinct class of natural macromolecules, the proteins. The term nylon is retained for its usefulness in distinguishing synthetic polyamides from the broader class of such polymers. 

A variety of ionomers have been described in the research literature, including copolymers of a) styrene with acrylic acid, b) ethyl acrylate with methacrylic acid, and (c) ethylene with methacrylic acid. A relatively recent development has been that of fluorinated sulfonate ionomers known as Nafions, a trade name of the Du Pont company. These ionomers have the general structure illustrated (10.1) and are used commercially as membranes. These ionomers are made by copolymerisation of the hydrocarbon or fluorocarbon monomers with minor amounts of the appropriate acid or ester. Copolymerisation is followed by either neutralisation or hydrolysis with a base, a process that may be carried out either in solution or in the melt. 

Viton Free Flow, Material Safety Data Sheet, VIT027, Du Pont Company. 

The Jackson laboratory of the du Pont Company soon became interested in the catalytic power of hydrogen fluoride. The results of its work are recorded in three excellent papers. Using acrolein as the alkylating agent and hydrogen fluoride as the catalyst, peri syntheses have been performed (Calcott et al, 32), both those that are catalyzed by sulfuric acid and others that are not. By appropriate condensation, dehydration, and reduction, perylene was obtained from phenanthrene... 

In another paper from the Jackson Laboratories of the du Pont Company (Calcott et al., 34) there is reported a repetition of some of the reactions of Simons and Archer, as well as additional ones. Mono-, di-, and 1,2,4,5 tetraisopropylbenzene were obtained from propylene and benzene both l -chloro-i-butylbenzene and di-(l/-chloro)-d-butylben-zene were obtained from 3-chloro-2-methyl-propene-l and benzene p-f-butyltoluene and di-i-butyltoluene were obtained from diisobutylene and toluene tetraisopropylnaphthalene was obtained from propylene and naphthalene naphthyl-stearic acid was obtained from oleic acid and naphthalene mixed isopropyltetrahydronaphthalene was obtained from propylene and tetrahydronaphthalene 2,4,6-triisopropylphenol was obtained from propylene and phenol a mixture of monoisopropylated m-cresols was obtained from propylene and wi-cresol and di-(s-hexyl)-diphenyl oxide was obtained from hexene-3 and diphenyl oxide. 

According to du Pont Company [10], ammonia can be used for the neutralization of the dilute solution of dinitroglycerine in nitric acid, thus producing a solution of ammonium nitrate which is recoverable. 

The du Pont company has developed a nitrometer, an apparatus for the rapid routine analysis of nitrates, which measures the volume of NO liberated by... 

Central Research and Development Experimental Station The Du Pont Company Wilmington, DE 19880-0328... 

The ethyl oxomalonate must be of good quality. It has been found possible to use nitrogen peroxide (now available in cylinders from the du Pont Company) in the preparation of this reagent. The general conditions are the same as in the previous method in Organic Syntheses 1 except that the generating flask... 

HPLC system fitted with a Zorbex Bio series GF250 column (Du Pont Company, Wilmington, DE) or equivalent gel-permeation column capable of fractionation up to 250,000 Mr... 

Composition EL-387A EL-387B. The Eastern Laboratory of the Du Pont Company developed two slurry-type expls which could be poured on or pumped into continuous tubes of varying sizes down to 1 in diam. The compn props... 

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