Thermodynamics engineering plastics

Design formulas for plastics engineers , Natti S. Rao Hanser Gardner Pubis (1991) ISBN 1569900841. The formulas in this book are classified for specific areas, including rheology, thermodynamic properties, heat transfer, plastic and part type. 

This volume provides an overview of polymer characterization test methods. The methods and instrumentation described represent modern analytical techniques useful to researchers, product development specialists, and quality control experts in polymer synthesis and manufacturing. Engineers, polymer scientists and technicians will find this volume useful in selecting approaches and techniques applicable to characterizing molecular, compositional, rheological, and thermodynamic properties of elastomers and plastics. 

Conductive plastics are a fascinating subject for polymer research. More than other fields of polymer research and applications, they call for interdisciplinary treatment in basic research from the point of view of the chemist (synthesis, analysis, structural research), physicist (surface structures, lattices), physical chemist (thermodynamics, especially of non-equilibrium states) and engineer (process technology) working with the relevant specialists with an applications-oriented background, in short what they require is genuine materials research. 

Goje, A.S. Thakur, S.A. Diware, V.R. Chauhan, Y.P. Mishra, S. Chemical Recycling, Kinetics, and Thermodynamics of Hydrolysis of Poly(Ethylene Terephthalate) Waste with Nonaqueous Potassium Hydroxide Solution. Polymer-Plastics Technology and Engineering. 2004, 43, 369-388. 

Consider now polymer-based materials from the point of view of a materials user. A user can be an industrialist who buys truckloads of polymer-based components for his plant, a housewife, a little girl playing with a plastic doll—in fact anybody. The user typically has no interest (and little knowledge) of chemical synthesis of polymers, thermodynamics, polymer processing— in fact of any of the areas of polymer science and engineering. There is only one aspect of interest... 

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