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Although phenolic resins are too dark for use in the surface layers of decorative laminates these resins are employed in impregnating the core paper. In the.se cases a melamine-formaldehyde resin is used for impregnating the top decorative layer. Phenolic laminates have also been used in aircraft construction and in chemical plant. 

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A reaction vessel explosion at BASF s resins plant in Cincinnati (July 19, 1990) killed one and injured 71. The BASF facility manufactures acrylic, alkyd, epoxy, and phenol-formaldehyde resins used as can and paper-cup liner coatings. The explosion occurred when a flammable solvent used to clean a reaction vessel vented into the plant and ignited. The cleaning solvent that was not properly vented to a condenser and separator, blew a pressure seal, and fdled the 80-year-old building with a white vapor cloud. 

In a cohort-mortality study of workers from five phenol-formaldehyde resin plants, Dosemeci et al. 

Another use of urea is for resins, which are used in numerous applications including plastics, adhesives, moldings, laminates, plywood, particleboard, textiles, and coatings. Resins are organic liquid substances exuded from plants that harden on exposure to air. The term now includes numerous synthetically produced resins. Urea resins are thermosetting, which means they harden when heated, often with the aid of a catalyst. The polymerization of urea and formaldehyde produces urea-formaldehyde resins, which is the second most abundant use of urea. Urea is dehydrated to melamine, which, when combined with formaldehyde, produces melamine-formaldehyde resins (Figure 96.2). Melamine resins tend to be harder and more heat-resistant than urea-formaldehyde resins. Melamine received widespread attention as the primary pet food and animal feed contaminant causing numerous cat and dog deaths in early... 

Some report that over 50 percent of the urea-formaldehyde resins consumed went into particleboard. This is brought out because there may be a shift away from urea resin for certain types of oriented particleboard used in structural plywood constructions. Historically, particleboard has been used for inner plies as previously mentioned in some hardwood plywood. There is now one plant in production in Idaho which produces mechanically oriented strand particleboard for use specifically as core for softwood plywood production. It is anticipated that this trend to some degree will increase in the future, and phenolic resins appear to be the mechanism with which this particleboard will be bonded. 

After EA evaporation, a novolak formulation with 50% phenol and 50% of the P/N fraction was successfully prepared. Gel times for the P/N fractions suitably prepared are intermediate between resorcinol and traditional phenol-formaldehyde resins. Preliminary projected amortized production costs for the P/N fraction are 10(16) cents per pound for a 1,000(250) tons per day plant ( 10/dry ton feedstock,... 

After cooling the resin in the reactor, the resin is pumped to the buffer tank of the connected spray dryer plant. Usually, the complete batch processing takes 4-5 h. The urea-formaldehyde resin solution can be dried in a spray dryer based on co-current flow principle. 

Formox [Formaldehyde by oxidation] A process for oxidizing methanol to formaldehyde, using a ferric molybdate catalyst. Based on the Adkins-Peterson reaction. Developed jointly by Reichold Chemicals and Perstorp (a company in the Swedish town of Perstorp). Perstorp has been making formaldehyde since the 1900s and the first Formox plant was built in 1959. The process is now owned by Perstorp Holding AB and has been licensed to more than 100 plants worldwide. Some of these use a continuous Formox process to make urea-formaldehyde resins continuously. Several other companies operate similar processes. 

We learned much from nature with these early attempts to produce useful polymer products based on modified, or reconstituted ( semisynthetic ) natural polymers, and many of these processes are still in use today. The first of the purely synthetic commercial polymers came with the small-scale introduction of Bakelite in 1907. This phenol-formaldehyde resin product was developed by Leon Baekeland. It rapidly became a commercial reality with the formation of The General Bakelite Company by Baekeland, and construction of a larger plant at Perth Amboy, New Jersey, in 1910. At about this time styrene was being combined with dienes in the early commercialization of processes to produce synthetic rubber. Polystyrene itself was not a commercial product in Germany until 1930 and in the U.S.A. in 1937. The only other purely synthetic polymers that made a commercial appearance during this early development period were polyvinyl chloride and polyvinyl acetate, both in the early 1920s. 

It was first synthesized by Friedrich Wohler in 1828 by evaporating a solution of ammonium cyanate. Urea is found in small amounts in the blood of mammals. Its principal industrial usage is in the manufacture of plastics (specifically, urea-formaldehyde resin) and is also a component of many fertilisers, providing a nitrogen source for plants. 

Orcoffesb. [Organic Dyestuffs] Odor control agent for formaldehyde resins in textile finishing plants. 

Urea is the sixteenth most important chemical in the United States, based on the amount produced annually. In 2004, the chemical industry produced 5.755 million metric tons (6.344 million short tons) of urea. Almost 90 percent of that output was used in the manufacture of fertilizers. An additional 5 percent went to the production of animal feeds. In both fertilizers and animal feeds, urea and the compounds from which it is made provide the nitrogen needed by growing plants and animals for their good health and survival. The other major use of urea is in the manufacture of various types of plastics, especially urea-formaldehyde resins and melamine. 

Isophorone [14.268], [14.269] is an unsaturated cyclic ketone. It consists of a-isophorone [78-59-1] (3,5,5-trimethyl-2-cyclohexen-l-one), which contains about 1-3% of the isomer P-isophorone [471-01-2] (3,5,5-trimethyl-3-cyclohexen-l-one). Isophorone is a stable, water-white liquid with a mild odor that is miscible in all proportions with organic solvents. It dissolves many natural and synthetic resins and polymers, such as poly(vinyl chloride) and vinyl chloride copolymers, poly(vinyI acetate), polyacrylates, polymethacrylates, polystyrene, chlorinated rubber, alkyd resins, saturated and unsaturated polyesters, epoxy resins, cellulose nitrate, cellulose ethers and esters, damar resin (dewaxed), kauri, waxes, fats, oils, phenol-, melamine-, and urea-formaldehyde resins, as well as plant protection agents. However, isophorone does not dissolve polyethylene, polypropylene, polyamides. 

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Phenol-formaldehyde resins are among the most important polymeric adhesives used in the wood based composite panel manufacturing industries [1]. Phenolic resins are prepared by the reaction of phenol or any substituted phenol with formaldehyde or other aldehydes, in the presence of acidic or basic catalyst. The price of phenol depends on the oil price and is likely to ever increase due to shortage of fossil resources. Hence, several lignin substitute products based on renewable materials derived from annual plants such as flax [2, 3] or kenaf [4], agricultural waste such as sugar cane bagasse [5] and wheat straw [6] or by-products from the... 

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