LIU Huajie, BU Yuhuan, WANG Chunyu. Preparation of water-absorbing microspheres by double dispersion inverse suspension polymerization and self-designed equipment[J]. CIESC Journal, 2013, (9): 3460-3466.
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LIU Huajie, BU Yuhuan, WANG Chunyu. Preparation of water-absorbing microspheres by double dispersion inverse suspension polymerization and self-designed equipment[J]. CIESC Journal, 2013, (9): 3460-3466.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0438-1157.2013.09.051.
Preparation of water-absorbing microspheres by double dispersion inverse suspension polymerization and self-designed equipment
In view of thermodynamic instability of inverse suspension polymerization
and the difficulty to clean dispersant adsorbed on the microsphere surface
the double dispersion inverse suspension polymerization method
in which mechanical stirring was used first and then natural sedimentation facilitated second dispersion
was established
and a preparation equipment was designed based on the theory of measuring viscosity coefficient by a falling sphere.The sphere diameter was determined from stirring speed and ratio of water phase volume and oil phase volume.Microspheres would polymerize when settling by gravity
and microsphere adhesion agglomeration could be avoided without adding dispersant. The preparation equipment with simple structure
easy processing could realize continuous production.The reactor height should be more than 2 m to provide microsphere sedimentation with a sufficient distance and ensure reaction time.The reactor was made of non-polar material to prevent microsphere from adsorbing on the inner wall.Polyacrylamide microspheres experiments showed that this preparation method with simple operation
absence of microsphere adhesion
repeated use of dispersion medium
low production cost
harmlessness and non pollution was convenient for industrial production.