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Handbook of Industrial Polyethylene and Technology Scrivener Publishing 100 Cummings Center, Suite 541J Beverly, MA 01915-6106 Publishers at Scrivener Martin Scrivener ([email protected]) Phillip Carmical ([email protected]) Handbook of Industrial Polyethylene and Technology Definitive Guide to Manufacturing, Properties, Processing, Applications and Markets Edited by Mark A. Spalding and Ananda M. Chatterjee This edition first published 2017 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, USA and Scrivener Publishing LLC, 100 Cummings Center, Suite 541J, Beverly, MA 01915, USA © 2018 Scrivener Publishing LLC For more information about Scrivener publications please visit www.scrivenerpublishing.com. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, except as permitted by law. 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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 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 Cover image: The Editor Cover design by Russell Richardson Set in size of 11pt and Minion Pro by Exeter Premedia Services Private Ltd., Chennai, India Printed in the USA 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 vii 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
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