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Table 4. Grades of Superior Processing Natural Rubber...

The third category of natural rubbers are the specialty materials, which include liquid low molecular weight rubber, methyl methacrylate grafted polymers, oil-extended natural rubber, deproteinized natural rubber, epoxidized natural rubber, and superior-processing natural rubber. 

Superior Processing natural rubber is a polymer in which a proportion of the latex used in its preparation has been vulcanized in the latex phase prior to coagulation of the rubber to form the sheet or bale. 

Processing aid-80, a masterbatch in the form of pressed crumb consisting of an 80 20 blend of crosslinked to ordinary natural rubber. The correct proportions of vulcanised latex and field latex are blended, coagulated and the resulting crumb pressed into 100 lb bales. The use of PA 80 confers Superior Processing properties on any natural or styrene-butadiene rubber with which it may be mixed. See Superior Processing Rubber. 

Butyl rubber is one product formed when isobutylene is copolymerized with a few percents of isoprene. In the Exxon process an isobutylene-methyl chloride mixture containing a small amount of isoprene is mixed at — 100°C with a solution of AICI3 in methyl chloride. An almost instantaneous reaction yields the product, which is insoluble in methyl chloride and forms a fine slurry. Molecular weight can be controlled by adding diisobutylene as a chain-transfer agent. Increased catalyst concentration and temperature also result in lowering molecular weight. The product can be vulcanized and is superior to natural rubber. A solution process carried out in C5-C7 hydrocarbons was developed in the former Soviet Union.471,472... 

H2S remediation in the oil industry, and in natural gas technology, seems to have found an economically superior process in the electrochemical version produced in the Center for Electrochemical Systems and Hydrogen Research at Texas A M University. However, its use as a cleanup tool to replace the chemical Claus process... 

Improved fiber matrbc adhesion and thereby improved mechanical properties can be accomplished by engineering a superior processing condition in preparing the bio-composites, by altering the polymer architecture of the matrix or by the surface treatment on the fiber [47]. Table 23.1 showed mechanical properties of natural fiber-reinforced PLA composites. 

The surge of national emotion sustained Mark Oliphant as well, and in that mood he found even less patience than usual for obstructive rules. When P. B. Moon questioned the assumption that gaseous thermal difiusion was the method of choice for isotope separation, he won no encouragement from the Thomson committee, but back in Birmingham Oliphant simply told him to go ahead and talk it over with Peierls. Within a week or two, writes Moon, Peierls identified ordinary difiusion as a logically superior process and wrote directly to Thomson on the matter. Peierls proposed that the Thomson committee consult with Simon, the best man around. The committee hesitated, even though Simon was a naturalized citizen. Oliphant then authorized Peierls out of hand to visit Simon at Oxford. 

Deployment of more people and inappropriate automation at times can lead to inefficiencies like too many cooks spoil the broth. Practitioners in many domains have recognized that extra people can actually reduce efficiency and productivity. Naturally, the efforts shall be there to improve the performance of the system by utilization of superior processes which can help elucidate how project work should be phased and sequenced, where parallel activities should be expected to help, and what the various members of teams should be doing at various times [3]. Detailed but precise, clear process descriptions help to identify the bottlenecks and inefficiencies. Therefore, process descriptions are always major tools to improve system performance and efficiencies. 

Still further modifications of natural rubber are the superior processing or SP rubbers. Here a portion of the latex is vulcanized before coagulation. In a sense, the vulcanized globules serve as small particle reinforcement of the rubber. Such rubbers help keep close dimensional tolerances or smooth finish requirements. Extrusion and/or calender output is improved, and die swell is lessened in lightly loaded compounds. In the interest of economical overseas shipments from the Far East, masterbatches of these rubbers, called Processing Aids (PA), are used. For example, PASO is a rubber that has 80 parts of vulcanized rubber and 20 parts of raw rubber. A softer material called PA57 has 57 parts of vulcanized rubber, 14 parts of raw rubber, and 29 parts of oil. 

With the exception of the four primary taste sensations— sweet, bitter, salty, and sour—food flavors are the result of our sense of smell. Today, chemists can make chemicals in the laboratory which alone or in various combinations can imitate many of the natural food flavors. These are synthetic flavors. In many cases the synthetic flavors are superior to natural flavors in terms of (1) withstanding processing, (2) cost, (3) availability, and (4) consistent quality. Synthetic flavors may be substances that are prepared in the laboratory but chemically identical to those found in nature, or substances prepared in the laboratory which as yet have not been found to occur in nature but which produce familiar aromas. 

Ammonium Ion Removal. A fixed-bed molecular-sieve ion-exchange process has been commercialized for the removal of ammonium ions from secondary wastewater treatment effluents. This application takes advantage of the superior selectivity of molecular-sieve ion exchangers for ammonium ions. The first plants employed clinoptilolite as a potentially low cost material because of its availability in natural deposits. The bed is regenerated with a lime-salt solution that can be reused after the ammonia is removed by pH adjustment and air stripping. The ammonia is subsequentiy removed from the air stream by acid scmbbing. 

If possible comparisons are focused on energy systems, nuclear power safety is also estimated to be superior to all electricity generation methods except for natural gas (30). Figure 3 is a plot of that comparison in terms of estimated total deaths to workers and the pubHc and includes deaths associated with secondary processes in the entire fuel cycle. The poorer safety record of the alternatives to nuclear power can be attributed to fataUties in transportation, where comparatively enormous amounts of fossil fuel transport are involved. Continuous or daily refueling of fossil fuel plants is required as compared to refueling a nuclear plant from a few tmckloads only once over a period of one to two years. This disadvantage appHes to solar and wind as well because of the necessary assumption that their backup power in periods of no or Httie wind or sun is from fossil-fuel generation. Now death or serious injury has resulted from radiation exposure from commercial nuclear power plants in the United States (31). 

In 1885, Charles Martin Hall invented his aluminum process and Hamilton Young Castner in 1890 developed the mercury-type alkali-chlorine cell, which produced caustic (sodium hydroxide) in its purest form. Edward G. Acheson in 1891, while attempting to make diamonds in an electric furnace, produced silicon carbide, the first synthetic abrasive, second to diamond in hardness. Four years later, Jacobs melted aluminum oxide to make a superior emeiy cloth. Within two decades, these two abrasives had displaced most natural cutting materials, including naturally occurring mixtures of aluminum and iron oxides. 

This, then, was the scene in which SCP projects were planned in Europe. The need for alternative foods and feedstuffs was clear and, in the UK and elsewhere, oil and gas seemed a plentiful and cheap resource from which to produce them. North Sea gas fields were being exploited and research had shown that natural gas or its derivatives could be used to produce SCP feed of superior protein content to conventional feedstuffs. The economics of such processes seemed very promising. In 1971 the European prices for fish meal and soya meal were 200 and 100 per ton respectively. In 1973 oil price rises and a failure in the Peruvian fish meal supply pushed these prices up to 550 and 300 respectively. With such prices for the major feedstuffs it was considered that SCP feeds could be produced competitively. 

Associations can be of physical nature too. Chitosan blends with hydrophilic polymers including polyvinylalcohol, polyethyleneoxide and poly-vinylpyrrohdone, were investigated as candidates for oral gingival delivery systems. Chitosan blends were superior to chitosan alone in terms of comfort, ease of processing, film quality, and flexibihty [325]. 

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