Polyacrylates Molecular weight

Low molecular weight (1000—5000) polyacrylates and copolymers of acryflc acid and AMPS are used as dispersants for weighted water-base muds (64). These materials, 40—50% of which is the active polymer, are usually provided in a Hquid form. They are particularly useful where high temperatures are encountered or in muds, which derive most of their viscosity from fine drill soHds, and polymers such as xanthan gum and polyacrylamide. Another high temperature polymer, a sulfonated styrene maleic—anhydride copolymer, is provided in powdered form (65,66). AH of these materials are used in relatively low (ca 0.2—0.7 kg/m (0.5—2 lb /bbl)) concentrations in the mud. 

Acrylate and acrylamide polymers have several uses in drilling fluids, one of which is for filtration control. Sodium polyacrylates [9003-04-7] having molecular weights near 250,000 are exceUent temperature-stable filtration control agents for both fresh- and salt water muds, provided the concentration of water-soluble calcium is <400 mg/L (83). The calcium ions are precipitated using a carbonate such as soda ash, before adding the polyacrylate at concentrations up to ca 6 kg/m (3 Ib/bbl). 

Sacrificial adsorption agents such as lignosulfonates (148—151) can be used to reduce the adsorption of more expensive polymers and surfactants. Other chemicals tested include poly(vinyl alcohol) (152), sulfonated poly(vinyl alcohol) (153), sulfonatedpoly(vinylpyrrohdinone) (153), low molecular weight polyacrylates (154), and sodium carbonate (155). 

Other Accelerators. Amine isophthalate and thiazolidine thione, which are used as alternatives to thioureas for cross-linking polychloroprene (Neoprene) and other chlorine-containing polymers, are also used as accelerators. A few free amines are used as accelerators of sulfur vulcanization these have high molecular weight to minimize volatility and workplace exposure. Several amines and amine salts are used to speed up the dimercapto thiadiazole cure of chlorinated polyethylene and polyacrylates. Phosphonium salts are used as accelerators for the bisphenol cure of fluorocarbon mbbers. 

Standard-grade PSAs are usually made from styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR), natural rubber, or blends thereof in solution. In addition to rubbers, polyacrylates, polymethylacrylates, polyfvinyl ethers), polychloroprene, and polyisobutenes are often components of the system ([198], pp. 25-39). These are often modified with phenolic resins, or resins based on rosin esters, coumarones, or hydrocarbons. Phenolic resins improve temperature resistance, solvent resistance, and cohesive strength of PSA ([196], pp. 276-278). Antioxidants and tackifiers are also essential components. Sometimes the tackifier will be a lower molecular weight component of the high polymer system. The phenolic resins may be standard resoles, alkyl phenolics, or terpene-phenolic systems ([198], pp. 25-39 and 80-81). Pressure-sensitive dispersions are normally comprised of special acrylic ester copolymers with resin modifiers. The high polymer base used determines adhesive and cohesive properties of the PSA. 

A wide range of polyacrylic acids (PAAs), polymethacrylic acids (PMAAs), polyacrylamides (PAMs), their salts and homo-, co-, and terpolymer derivatives are available from a great many manufacturers around the world today. Polyacrylates especially are a backbone of BW chemical formulations and are manufactured with an almost infinite variety of average molecular weights (MWs), MW distributions, activity strengths, and other characteristics. 

Polyacrylamides are nonionic polymers, usually with much higher molecular weights (MW from 100,000 up to 12 or 15 M). They often are copolymerized with polyacrylates. Depending on the MW ratios employed, they may act as colloidal dispersants, sludge conditioners, or flocculants. Nonionics such as polyacrylamides (and isobutylenes) are particularly useful at dispersing uncharged particles. 

For the most part, it is the provision of specific functional groups into certain positions on a backbone molecule, and its subsequent polymerization to form chains of particular molecular weight ranges, that gives the novel chemistry co- and terpolymers their beneficial and sometimes unique properties. Polyacrylates are commonly employed as backbone molecules. 

Lin, TH Phillies, GDI, Prohe Diffusion in Polyacrylic Acid Water—Effect of Polymer Molecular Weight, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 100, 82, 1984. 

Polyacrylic acid, or a water-soluble salt, having a molecular weight of 1500 to 5000, measured on the respective sodium salt and a polydispersity of 1.05 to 1.45, has been described as a dispersant for a drilling or packer fluid [576]. 

Table 7. Characterization of symplexes produced between chitosan and polyacrylic acid of various molecular weights...

Polyacrylic Acid Molecular Weight (kDaltons) Symplex Characteristics... 

In recent years, a new line of hydrophobic gangue depressants were developed, based on a mixture of guar gums and low-molecular-weight polyacrylates modified with organic acid, which are extremely effective. With the use of these depressants, the grade of the PGM concentrate could increase from 100 up to 40 g/t without any loss in recovery. 

The highest PGM recovery was achieved using collector PM443, which is an amine + ester-modified xanthate. Among the chromium slime depressants evaluated, modified mixtures of organic acids, RQ depressants and a low-molecular-weight polyacrylic acid + pyrophosphate mixture were there. The effect of different chromium depressants on chromium assays of the PGM concentrate are illustrated in Figure 18.7. 

Williams, D. J. A. and Ottewill, R. H. Kolloid-Z. u. Z. Polymere 243 (1971) 141. The stability of silver iodide solutions in the presence of polyacrylic acids of various molecular weights. 

The humates present in soil are polyelectrolytes and bear some similarity to polyacrylic acid and polymethacrylic acid (49, 50). The molecular weight distribution for the humates is considerable fulvic acid fractions of 1,000 daltons have been isolated (51) while humic acid molecular weights obtained by gel chromatography are in the range 17,000 to 100,000 daltons according to the type of soil from which it was extracted (52). However, ultracentrifugation analysis indicates a molecular range of 2,000 to 1,500,000 daltons for humic acids (55). 

Polyacrylic acid (PAA) was obtained from Scientific Polymers, Inc., Ontario, NY, as a secondary standard with a mass-averaged molecular weight of two million. The polyacrylamide (PAM) used was Separan MGL obtained from Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI. Its reported molecular weight was in the range of 500,000 to 5,000,000. The monomer structures of PAA and PAM are illustrated in Figure 1. 

Farther growth of the polymeric chain proceeds in the nsnal manner. Compared to the polymeric materials obtained by conventional methods, the mechanochemically synthesized polyacryl and polymethacrylamides have lower molecular weights (Simonescu et al. 1983). Acrylonitrile, styrene, e-caprolactam, and isoprene as well as aryl and methacrylamides have special optimal duration of the polymerization on grinding (Oprea and Popa 1980). In the case of the aryl and methacrylamides, the polymerization proceeds slowly, usually between 24 and 72 h. After that, some acceleration takes place and the process is completed in 96 h (in total). 

Fig. 13. Sedimentation of a Gd polyacrylic acid complex (25°C, molecular weight 85,000 D, one metal ion per carboxylic function). Higher values of the relaxivity are obtained after shaking the solution 10).

In this work, we have chosen several systems stabilized through hydrogen bonds. The homopolymer is a polybase, i.e. PEO, PVME or PVP, and the copolymer is polyacrylic acid with various degrees of neutralization a, in which the acrylates are the non active groups. Complex formation is studied by potentiometry (because complexation induces a variation of the solution pH) and by viscometry and polarized luminescence which respectively give information about the macroscopic and local structure of the complex in solution. The influence of parameters such as the degree of neutralization of PAA a, the concentration ratio r - [polybase]/[PAA], the concentration and the molecular weight of polymers is examined. 

The normal dispersants used for both kaolin and calcium carbonate pigments are aqueous solutions of sodium polyacrylate. These are prepared by free radical polymerisation using various combinations of initiators and terminators which may be proprietary to the manufacturer. Number average molecular weights are... 

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