Styrene sulfonate

The monomer recovery process may vary ia commercial practice. A less desirable sequence is to filter or centrifuge the slurry to recover the polymer and then pass the filtrate through a conventional distillation tower to recover the unreacted monomer. The need for monomer recovery may be minimized by usiag two-stage filtration with filtrate recycle after the first stage. Nonvolatile monomers, such as sodium styrene sulfonate, can be partially recovered ia this manner. This often makes process control more difficult because some reaction by-products can affect the rate of polymerization and often the composition may vary. When recycle is used it is often done to control discharges iato the environment rather than to reduce monomer losses. 

Sodium Poly(4-styrene sulfonate). The sol—gel processing of TMOS in the presence of sodium poly-4-styrene sulfonate (NaPSS) has been used to synthesize inorganic—organic amorphous complexes (61). These sodium siUcate materials were then isotherm ally crystallized. The processing pH, with respect to the isoelectric point of amorphous siUca, was shown to influence the morphology of the initial gel stmctures. Using x-ray diffraction, the crystallization temperatures were monitored and were found to depend on these initial microstmctures. This was explained in terms of the electrostatic interaction between the evolving siUcate stmctures and the NaPSS prior to heat treatment at elevated temperatures. 

Solvent Recovery. A mixture of methanol and methyl acetate is obtained after saponification. The methyl acetate can be sold as a solvent or converted back into acetic acid and methanol using a cationic-exchange resin such as a cross-linked styrene—sulfonic acid gel (273—276). The methyl acetate and methanol mixture is separated by extractive distillation using water or ethylene glycol (277—281). Water is preferred if the methyl acetate is to be hydroly2ed to acetic acid. The resulting acetic acid solution is concentrated by extraction or a2eotropic distillation. 

Sample Polyanillne/Poly(styrene sulfonic acid)... 

Acrylic acid terpolymers have appeared on the market in recent years. With their broad spectrum of functions, they offer the potential for excellent waterside conditions. In particular, the terpolymers have proved to be very effective particulate iron oxides dispersants and colloidal iron stabilizers. Examples include acrylic acid/sulfonic acid/sodium styrene sulfonate (AA/SA/SSS), such as Good-Rite K781, K797, K798. A further example is acrylic acid/ sulfonic acid/substituted acrylamide (AA/SA/NI), such as Acumer 3100. 

Acrylic add/sulfonic acid/sodium styrene sulfonate 447 Acrylic add/sulfonic acid/substituted acrylamide 447... 

AA/SA AA/SA/NI AA/SA/SSS sulfonate (polymer) aciylic acid/sulfonic acid aciylic acid/sulfonic acid/ nonionic (polymer) aciylic acid/sulfonic acid/sodium styrene sulfonate acrylic acid/sulfonic acid/substituted acrylamide (polymer)... 

In the sol-gel procedure for the preparation of hybrids, polymeric acid catalysts such as poly (styrene sulfonic acid) were also used instead of hydrogen chloride [14]. The polymeric acid catalyst was effective for the preparation of hybrids at a similar level to that of hydrogen chloride catalyst. In some cases, the increased modulus was observed due to the higher extent of reaction. No difference was observed in morphologies between the hybrids prepared with polymeric and small molecule acid catalysts. The method using polymeric acid catalyst may depress the ion-conductive property, characteristic to the mobile acidic small molecules. Polymeric catalyst may also influence the rheology of the resulting hybrids. 

The process of adsorption of polyelectrolytes on solid surfaces has been intensively studied because of its importance in technology, including steric stabilization of colloid particles [3,4]. This process has attracted increasing attention because of the recently developed, sophisticated use of polyelectrolyte adsorption alternate layer-by-layer adsorption [7] and stabilization of surfactant monolayers at the air-water interface [26], Surface forces measurement has been performed to study the adsorption process of a negatively charged polymer, poly(styrene sulfonate) (PSS), on a cationic monolayer of fluorocarbon ammonium amphiphilic 1 (Fig. 7) [27],... 

FIG. 7 Chemical structures of fluorocarbon ammonium amphiphile 1 and poly(styrene sulfonate) (PSS). 

FIG. 8 Si02 AFM image of six bilayers in situ self-assembled layer-by-layer films of polypyrrole coated with Si02 and poly(styrene sulfonate). 

Vaterite is thermodynamically most unstable in the three crystal structures. Vaterite, however, is expected to be used in various purposes, because it has some features such as high specific surface area, high solubility, high dispersion, and small specific gravity compared with the other two crystal systems. Spherical vaterite crystals have already been reported in the presence of divalent cations [33], a surfactant [bis(2-ethylhexyl)sodium sulfate (AOT)] [32], poly(styrene-sulfonate) [34], poly(vinylalcohol) [13], and double-hydrophilic block copolymers [31]. The control of the particle size of spherical vaterite should be important for application as pigments, fillers and dentifrice. 

Deflocculants have a relatively low molecular weight. Polymers composed of sodium styrene sulfonate, maleic anhydride, and a zwitterionic functionalized maleic anhydride [738,1411,1412,1415] are suitable. 

Lignite can be grafted with synthetic comonomers to obtain lignite fluid loss additives [873]. Comonomers can be AMPS, N,N-dimethylacrylamide, acrylamide, vinylpyrrolidone, vinylacetate, acrylonitrile, dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate, styrene sulfonate, vinyl sulfonate, dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate methyl chloride quaternary, and acrylic acid and its salts. 

A terpolymer from a family of intramolecular polymeric complexes (i.e., polyampholytes), which are terpolymers of acrylamide-methyl styrene sulfonate-methacrylamido propyltrimethylammonium chloride [106,1418], has been reported. 

Figure 10-5. Cumarone, hydroxypropyl acrylate, Indene, maleic anhydride, styrene sulfonate, 0-dimethyl benzene.

In copolymers containing the styrene sulfonate moiety and maleic anhydride units, the maleic anhydride units can be functionalized with alkyl amine [1411-1416]. The water-soluble polymers impart enhanced deflocculation characteristics to the mud. Typically, the deflocculants are relatively low-molecular-weight polymers composed of styrene sodium sulfonate monomer maleic anhydride, as the anhydride and/or the diacid and a zwitterionic functionalized maleic anhydride. Typically the molar ratio of styrene sulfonate units to total maleic anhydride units ranges from 3 1 to 1 1. The level of alkyl amine functionalization of the maleic anhydride units is 75 to 100 mole-percent. The molar concentrations of sulfonate and zwitterionic units are not necessarily equivalent, because the deflocculation properties of these water-soluble polymers can be controlled via changes in their ratio. 

Mori, S., Secondary effects in aqueous size exclusion chromatography of sodium poly(styrene sulfonate) compounds, Anal. Chem., 61, 530, 1989. 

Hydroxypropyl cellulose Poly(sodium styrene sulfonate)... 

Thinners and dispersants are used to prevent excessive flocculation of clay particles and maintain pumpability of the fluid. Tannins, various lignosulfonate salts, sodium tetraphosphate and other phosphates, and synthetic polymers such as sodium poly(styrene sulfonate-co-maleic anhydride) have been used. 

Certain mixtures of polymers have been shown to form complexes which exhibit substantially higher than expected solution viscosity under low shear conditions. Xanthan gum blends with guar gum (38, 39), sodium poly(styrene sulfonate) (40), polyacrylamide (41), sulfonated guar gum (38), sodium poly(vinylsulfonate) (40), hydrolyzed sodium poly(styrene sulfonate-co-maleic anhydride) (38), and poly(ethylene oxide) (41) and blends of xanthan gum and locust bean gum have exhibited substantially higher than expected solution viscosity (42, 43). 

Turner, S.R., Walker, T.O. and Thaler, W.A. "Sodium Styrene Sulfonate Co-Sodium N-(4-Sulfo Phenyl) Maleimide An Improved Viscosity Control Additive," US Patent 4,478,727(1984). 

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