Effect of cell structure on oil absorption of highly oil absorptive polyurethane foam for on-site use
✍ Scribed by Toshiki Shimizu; Satoru Koshiro; Yoshio Yamada; Koichi Tada
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 388 KB
- Volume
- 65
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-8995
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✦ Synopsis
This article reports the effect of cell structure on oil absorption of highly oil-absorptive polyurethane foam (ON-PUR), which is suitable for on-site foaming. We have developed ON-PUR as an oil absorbing polyurethane foam using a very reactive recipe. ON-PUR was synthesized by mixing polyol, water, additives, and polymeric diphenylmethane diisocyanate (P-MDI) using a high-pressure foaming machine. Density, airflow, oil absorption of this foam, and cell structure by microscopy were measured. From these results, it was found that the airflow of this foam increased by crushing, and the oil absorption of this foam increased sharply in a narrow airflow range (from 0.1 to 0.8 scfm). This increase is estimated to be due to the decrease of closed cell structures by crushing treatment. Furthermore, we constituted on-site foaming system in bench scale, which was expected to be applicable to on-site preparation of ON-PUR.