About the Book
This 7th international conference was dedicated to blowing agents and process technology for foamed plastics and rubber. These proceedings provide excellent coverage of the key topics of interest to the industry. There are a good variety of papers on innovations in foaming technology and new applications of blowing agents, with sessions on foaming polyurethane and thermoplastics. There is also a very interesting overview paper on environmental issues and new legislation affecting the industry, particularly in construction applications.
Table of Contents:
SESSION 1: MARKETS AND LEGISLATION Paper 1 - Impact of regulatory developments on the demand for blowing agents in foams Paul Ashford, Caleb Management Services Limited, UK SESSION 2: DEVELOPMENTS IN FOAMING TECHNOLOGY Paper 2 - The nucleation mechanisms investigated on polystyrene / HFC-134a mixtures Dr Jacques Tatibouet & Richard Gendron, Industrial Materials Institute/National Research Council Canada, Canada Paper 3 - Customized interfaces to foam models for formulation advancement Dr Christian Ritter, Maria Key Prato & Jurgen Maebe, Shell Global Solutions, Belgium Paper 4 - Mould technology for Optifoam' Dr Sasan Habibi-Naini, Sulzer Chemtech Ltd, Switzerland Paper 5 - Repeatable processing and quality control systems for production of microcellular parts Dr Hartmut Traut, TREXEL GmbH, Germany & Levi Kishbaugh, Trexex Inc, USA Paper 6 - Nanostructured polymer foams Hans Luinge, E J Vorenkamp & A J Schouten, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Paper 7 - The new rotating roller die and its application to environmentally friendly foaming of plastics using liquid CO2 Professor Hadj Benkreira, M Gale, R Patel, M Cox & J Paragreen, University of Bradford, IRC Polymer Science & Technology, UK Paper 8 - Physics of plastic foams: an industrial perspective Dr Andre Moreira & Dr Volker Schadler, BASF AG, Germany SESSION 3: FOAMING THERMOPLASTICS Paper 9 - How to choose a polyolefin grade for physical foaming Henk Ruinaard, Sabic EuroPetrochemicals BV, The Netherlands Paper 10 - Flexible polypropylene foam solutions Dr Manfred Stadlbauer, Dr Rick Folland & Paul De Mink, Borealis GmbH, Austria Paper 11 - Effects of the convergent-filamentary die geometry on volume expansion of PS foams blown with CO2 Professor Chul B Park, Donglai Xu & R G Fenton, University of Toronto, Canada Paper 12 - The effect of extrusion conditions on the morphology of chemically foamed thermoplastic elastomers Dr Denis Rodrigue & Ramin Khodabashkh, Universite Laval, Canada SESSION 4: FOAMING POLYURETHANES Paper 13 - HFC blowing agents for rigid insulation foams Dr Lothar Zipfel & Christoph Meurer, Solvay Fluor, Germany Paper 14 - Recent developments in the use of HFC-245fa blowing agent for rigid polyurethane foam Dr Saskia Walraedt, Honeywell, Belgium Paper 15 - New developments of applications of methylal as blowing agent for rigid, flexible, integral skin and microcellular polyurethane foams Michel Beaujean, Lambiotte & Cie S.A, Belgium Paper 16 - Pentane spray system: an effective and safe technology Dr Claudio Chittolini & Dr Valentina Robles, Ediltec Srl, Italy Paper 17 - Cell structure and thermal conductivity of rigid polyurethane foams blown with cyclopentane in different moulds Dr Aleksander Prociak, Cracow University of Technology, Poland SESSION 5: BIODEGRADABLE AND NATURAL FIBRE-COMPOSITE FOAMS Paper 18 - Biodegradable foams based on PLA and PCL: how to improve the foaming process by means of nanocomposites and reactive processing Salvatore Iannace, & Yingwei Di, Institute of Composite & Biomedical Materials (IMCB-CNR), Italy & Prof Ernesto Di Maio Dept of Materials and Production Engineering, University of Naples, Italy Paper 19 - Natural fiber and wood foam composites - 2005 Michael E Reedy, Reedy International Corporation, Inc., USA Paper 20 - Microcellular wood - PP composites in extrusion, injection and compression moulding process Abu Nasher Omar Faruk & Prof Andrzej K Bledzki, University of Kassel, Germany SESSION 6: DEVELOPMENT IN FOAMED PRODUCTS Paper 21 - High-frequency coaxial cable - An application of microcellular foaming technology in extrusion Dipl.-Ing. Johannes Lorenz & Prof. Dr. Karl Audenaerde, Kabelwerk Eupen AG, Belgium Paper 22 - Development of an environmentally friendly thermoplastic printed circuit board manufactured by foam extrusion Dieter Langenfelder, J K W Sandler & V Altstadt, University of Bayreuth, Germany
