Handbook of industrial polyethylene and technology : definitive guide to manufacturing, properties, processing, applications and markets

1381 Pages·2017·22.836 MB·English

by  Chatterjee, Ananda M., Spalding, Mark A

Handbook of Industrial
Polyethylene and Technology
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Handbook of Industrial
Polyethylene and Technology
Definitive Guide to Manufacturing,
Properties, Processing,
Applications and Markets
Edited by
Mark A. Spalding and
Ananda M. Chatterjee
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Names: Spalding, Mark A., editor. | Chatterjee, Ananda M., 1946-2016, editor.
Title: Handbook of industrial polyethylene and technology : definitive guide
to manufacturing, properties, processing, applications and markets /
edited by Mark A. Spalding and Ananda M. Chatterjee.
Description: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2017. | Includes
bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2017030446 (print) | LCCN 2017037911 (ebook) | ISBN
9781119159773 (epub) | ISBN 9781119159780 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119159766
(cloth : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Polyethylene. | Polymers--Industrial applications.
Classification: LCC TP1180.P65 (ebook) | LCC TP1180.P65 H36 2017 (print) |
DDC 668.4/234--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017030446
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10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Dr. Ananda M. Chatterjee started his career at Celanese Plastics (1978) and worked
for Shell Development, Union Carbide, Dow Chemical, Kaneka Texas, and Ingenia
Polymers. He had extensive and in-depth experience in polymer research and
development, product commercialization, polymer film processing and products
technology, polymer additives technology, additive blends technology and processing,
customer technical service, intellectual property (patent) invention and licensing and
technology transfer of UNIPOL polypropylene technology worldwide. He was a Fellow
and Honored Service Member of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE). Dr. Chatterjee
held a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and held over 25 U.S.
patents. Dr. Chatterjee passed away in 2016 during the development of this book.

Contents
Foreword by Barry Morris xi
Preface xiii
List of Contributors xv
Part 1: Principles and Properties of Polyethylene
1 An Industrial Chronology of Polyethylene 3
Christopher Dobbin
2 Catalysts for the Manufacture of Polyethylene 25
Yury V. Kissin
3 Ethylene Polymerization Processes and Manufacture of Polyethylene 61
Ian D. Burdett and Ronald S. Eisinger
4 Types and Basics of Polyethylene 105
Rajen M. Patel
5 Molecular Structural Characterization of Polyethylene 139
A. Willem deGroot, David Gillespie, Rongjuan Cong, Zhe Zhou and Rajesh
Paradkar
6 Thermal Analysis of Polyethylene 217
Kevin Menard and Noah Menard
7 Rheology of Polyethylene 239
Gregory W. Kamykowski
8 Processing-Structure-Property Relationships in Polyethylene 283
Rajen M. Patel
9 Mechanical Properties of Polyethylene: Deformation and Fracture Behavior 309
Alexander Chudnovsky, and Kalyan Sehanobish
Part 2: Processing and Fabrication of Polyethylene
10 Single-Screw Extrusion of Polyethylene Resins 339
Mark A. Spalding
11 Twin-Screw Extrusion of Polyethylene 357
Yoshitaka Kumura, Amit K. Chaudhary and Mark A. Spalding
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viii Contents
12 Blown Film Processing 381
Thomas I. Butler
13 Cast Film Extrusion of Polyethylene 411
Hyunwoo Kim, Mark A. Spalding, Kurt A. Koppi, Wes Hobson
and Joseph Dooley
14 Extrusion Coating and Laminating 429
Thomas Bezigian
15 Injection Molding 443
Jon Ratzlaff and Thomas Giovannetti
16 Blow Molding of Polyethylene 475
Mohammad Usman and Abdul Sami Siddiqui
17 Rotational Molding 535
Jon Ratzlaff and Glenn E. Larkin, Jr.
18 Thermoforming Polyethylene 573
Roger C. Kipp
19 Polyethylene Pipe Extrusion 591
Pam Maeger, V. Rohatgi, D. Hukill, N. Koganti and B. Martinez
20 Polyethylene Foam Extrusion 603
N. S. Ramesh
21 Expanded Polyethylene Bead Foam Technology 637
Steven R. Sopher
22 Polyethylene Fiber Extrusion 669
Johannes Fink
23 Polyethylene Compounding Technologies 695
Charles D. Park II and Steven Blazey
24 Polyethylene Modification by Reactive Extrusion 715
Adriana I. Moncada, Wenyi Huang and Nicholas Horstman
Part 3: Additives for Polyethylene
25 Degradation and Stabilization of Polyethylene 753
Joseph J. Fay and Roswell E. King, III
26 Light Stabilization of Polyethylene 771
Feng Zuo and Tad Finnegan
27 Acid Scavengers for Polyethylene 793
Robert L. Sherman Jr. and Kimberly E. Kern
28 Slip Agents 821
John Gray and Thomas Breuer