Thermal improvements

Monomers such as methyl methacrylate [80-62-6] are often used in combination with styrene to modify refractive index and improve uv resistance. Vinyltoluene [25013-15-4] and diaHyl phthalate [131-17-9] are employed as monomers in selective mol ding compositions for thermal improvements. 

Phenol extraction Solvent extraction Absorption/thermal Improve viscosity index, color Lube oil base stocks High-quality lube oils... 

The thermal improvement of the polyesters was achieved in an easy and cheap way by incorporating imide structures into the chain. For the synthesis of... 

In general, thermal improvements mean the minimization of the heat flux that is normally represented by the U-value. A constant and low heat transmission results in the heat built up inside being trapped due to internal heat loads. This makes it important to consider possibilities of ventilating the building, especially in a situation where the outside temperatures are suitable. Because of changing outside conditions, natural ventilation is not always possible, or the building simply does not provide window openings, which underpins the need for a variable U-value to balance the indoor temperature naturally. 

Baccei (21) discloses polymerizable adhesive and sealant compositions having as an important ingredient urethane-acrylate-capped oligomers based on liquid hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene or polybutadiene/ acrylonitrile copolymers. Properties associated with impact and thermal improvements are noted as well as the ability to cure adequately through the bondline gap. Model systems are largely triethylene glycol dimethacrylate based. Impressive adhesive performance properties are recorded. (Cf. Paper by Malofsky and Baccei in this... 

Cooling tower blowdown can be reduced by improving the energy efficiency of processes, thus reducing the thermal load on cooling towers. Alternatively, cooling water systems can be switched to air coolers, which eliminates the problem altogether. 

For gas oil sulfur and aromatics reduction serves to increase the cetane number and to improve color and thermal stability. 

Like steam injection, in-situ combustion is a thermal process designed to reduce oil viscosity and hence improve flow performance. Combustion of the lighter fractions of the oil in the reservoir is sustained by continuous air injection. Though there have been some economic successes claimed using this method, it has not been widely employed. Under the right conditions, combustion can be initiated spontaneously by injecting air into an oil reservoir. However a number of projects have also experienced explosions in surface compressors and injection wells. 

However, this approach is of limited predictive usefulness due to the difficulty in predicting Tg accurately. Methods have been proposed for computing the molar volume at 298 K and thus extrapolation to other temperatures, which results in some improvement. These use connectivity indices. Note that it is necessary to employ different thermal expansion equations above and below Tg. 

In other work, the impact of thermal processing on linewidth variation was examined and interpreted in terms of how the resist s varying viscoelastic properties influence acid diffusion (105). The authors observed two distinct behaviors, above and below the resist film s glass transition. For example, a plot of the rate of deprotection as a function of post-exposure processing temperature show a change in slope very close to the T of the resist. Process latitude was improved and linewidth variation was naininiized when the temperature of post-exposure processing was below the film s T. 

The properties of SAN resins depend on their acrylonittile content. Both melt viscosity and hardness increase with increasing acrylonittile level. Unnotched impact and flexural strengths depict dramatic maxima at ca 87.5 mol % (78 wt %) acrylonitrile (8). With increasing acrylonitrile content, copolymers show continuous improvements in barrier properties and chemical and uv resistance, but thermal stabiUty deteriorates (9). The glass-transition... 

Antioxidants have been shown to improve oxidative stabiHty substantially (36,37). The use of mbber-bound stabilizers to permit concentration of the additive in the mbber phase has been reported (38—40). The partitioning behavior of various conventional stabilizers between the mbber and thermoplastic phases in model ABS systems has been described and shown to correlate with solubiHty parameter values (41). Pigments can adversely affect oxidative stabiHty (32). Test methods for assessing thermal oxidative stabiHty include oxygen absorption (31,32,42), thermal analysis (43,44), oven aging (34,45,46), and chemiluminescence (47,48). 

Staged reactions, where only part of the initial reactants are added, either to consecutive reactors or with a time lag to the same reactor, maybe used to reduce dipentaerythritol content. This technique increases the effective formaldehyde-to-acetaldehyde mole ratio, maintaining the original stoichiometric one. It also permits easier thermal control of the reaction (66,67). Both batch and continuous reaction systems are used. The former have greater flexibiHty whereas the product of the latter has improved consistency (55,68). 

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