Plastic range

Most higher alcohols of commercial importance are primary alcohols secondary alcohols have more limited specialty uses. Detergent range alcohols are apt to be straight chain materials and are made either from natural fats and oils or by petrochemical processes. The plasticizer range alcohols are more likely to be branched chain materials and are made primarily by petrochemical processes. Whereas alcohols made from natural fats and oils are always linear, some petrochemical processes produce linear alcohols and others do not. Industrial manufacturing processes are discussed in Synthetic processes. 

Plasticizer Range Alcohols. Commercial products from the family of 6—11 carbon alcohols that make up the plasticizer range are available both as commercially pure single carbon chain materials and as complex isomeric mixtures. Commercial descriptions of plasticizer range alcohols are rather confusing, but in general a commercially pure material is called "-anol," and the mixtures are called "-yl alcohol" or "iso...yl alcohol." For example, 2-ethyIhexanol [104-76-7] and 4-methyl-2-pentanol [108-11-2] are single materials whereas isooctyl alcohol [68526-83-0] is a complex mixture of branched hexanols and heptanols. Another commercial product contains linear alcohols of mixed 6-, 8-, and 10-carbon chains. 

Table 4. Prices and Manufacturers of Plasticizer Range Alcohols...

Most manufacturers sell a portion of their alcohol product on the merchant market, retaining a portion for internal use, typically for the manufacture of plasticizers. Sterling Chemicals linear alcohol of 7, 9, and 11 carbons is all used captively. Plasticizer range linear alcohols derived from natural fats and oils, for instance, octanol and decanol derived from coconut oil and 2-octanol derived from castor oil, are of only minor importance in the marketplace. 

The 13—carbon tridecyl alcohol is usually considered to be a plasticizer range alcohol because of its manufacture by the oxo process and its use in making plasticizers. On the other hand, some types of linear 9- and 11-carbon alcohols find major appHcation in detergents. 

The sales brochures of the manufacturers describe the plasticizer range alcohols available on the merchant market (18). Typical properties of several commercial plasticizer range alcohols are presented in Table 8. Because in most cases these ate mixtures of isomers or alcohols with several carbon chains, the properties of a particular material can vary somewhat from manufacturer to manufacturer. Both odd and even carbon chain alcohols are available, in both linear and highly branched versions. Examples of the composition of several mixtures are given in Table 9. 

The plasticizer range alcohols are utilized primarily in plasticizers, but they also have a wide range of uses in other industrial and consumer products, as... 

Other Plastics Uses. The plasticizer range alcohols have a number of other uses in plastics hexanol and 2-ethylhexanol are used as part of the catalyst system in the polymerization of acrylates, ethylene, and propylene (55) the peroxydicarbonate of 2-ethylhexanol is utilized as a polymerization initiator for vinyl chloride various trialkyl phosphites find usage as heat and light stabHizers for plastics organotin derivatives are used as heat stabHizers for PVC octanol improves the compatibHity of calcium carbonate filler in various plastics 2-ethylhexanol is used to make expanded polystyrene beads (56) and acrylate esters serve as pressure sensitive adhesives. 

A related property is the viscosity of coal ash. Ash viscosity affects the rate at which ash deposits may flow from the walls, and thus the requirements for ash removal equipment such as wall blowers and soot blowers. The preferred coal ash has a narrow temperature range through which it passes the plastic range, ca 25, 000-1,000, 000 mPa-s (=cP) (62). 

Sticky waxes are generally composed of resins and wax. A high resin content gives viscosity to the melt, a long plastic range, and a brittle fracture when cooled. No modem formulas are available, but the older recipes usually had rosin, beeswax, and gum dammar as the essential constituents. 

Piezoelectric Responses of Crystals in the Elastic-Plastic Range... 

Fliess-barkeit,/. flowing quality, fluidity fusibility. -bereich, m. plastic range, -betrieb, m. — Fliessarbeit. -druck, m. flow pressure hydraulic pressure, -eigenschaf /. rheologic property. 

Plastic Collapse Pressure Formula. The minimum collapse pressure for the plastic range of collapse is calculated by... 

Other elements of weather and outdoor exposure can interact with UV radiation to accelerate degradation in degradable types of plastics. They include humidity, salt spray, wind, industrial pollutants, and atmospheric impurities such as ozone, biological agents, and temperature. The wavelengths that have the most effect on plastics range from 290 to 400 nm (2,900 to 4,000 A). 

Parylene The melting point of these film and coating plastics ranges from 290 to 400° C (554 to 752°F), and Tg from 60 to 100°C (14 to 212°F). Their cryogenic performances are excellent. Physical properties are unaffected by thermal cycles from 2°K to room temperature. Good thermal endurance in air, absence... 

The plastic deformation of a member terminates with its rupture which normally occurs at the smallest section of the neck formed due to plastic instability. After being loaded into the plastic range, if the member is unloaded before plastic instability occurs then the elastic component of the strain can be recovered. This is a consequence of the atoms returning to... 

Figure 1.7 Representation of loading and unloading in the plastic range.

Alcohol(s), 10 488. See also C12 alcohol Detergent range alcohols Ethanol Fuel alcohol Higher aliphatic alcohols Plasticizer range alcohols Polyhydric alcohols... 

Transformation factors also change as the structural member progresses from the elastic to plastic ranges and back to elastic response range. The resistance also changes for the plastic range as shown by Equation 6.3. 

Rcsistancc-Dcflcction Function - The value of the stress in a structural element as the deformation is increased from zero through the elastic range, the clastic-plastic range, ultimate capacity, and finally to failure of the element. 

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