Process for preparing a polyurethane material
AssigneeHuntsman International LLC
InventorsGerhard Jozef Bleys, Eric Huygens, Anja Vanhalle
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Abstract
Process for preparing a polyurethane material having no glass transition temperature below 25 C, which process involves using a polyoxyethylene polyoxypropylene polyol having a high oxyethylene content and a polyisocyanate having a high 4,4′-diphenylmethane diisocyanate (4,4′-MDI) content, wherein the reaction is conducted at an isocyanate index of 80 to 140.
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A process for preparing a polyurethane material having no glass transition temperature below 25° C., which process comprises reacting a polyisocyanate and an isocyanate-reactive composition, optionally in the presence of water in an amount of less than 5% by weight on the below isocyanate-reactive composition, wherein the reaction is conducted at an isocyanate index of 80 to 140, the polyisocyanate consists of a) 80-100% by weight of diphenylmethane dilsocyanate comprising at least 40% by weight of 4,4′-diphenylmethane diisocyanate and/or a variant of said diphenylmethane diisocyanate which variant is liquid at 25° C. and has an NCO value of at least 20% by weight (polyisocyanate a), and b) 20-0% by weight of another polyisocyanate (polyisocyanate b), and wherein the isocyanate-reactive composition consists of a) 90-100% by weight of a polyether polyol having an average nominal functionality of 3-8, an average equivalent weight of 200-2000, an average molecular weight of 600-8000, an oxyethylene (EO) content of 50-100% by weight and a primary hydroxyl content of 70-100% calculated on the number of primary and secondary hydroxyl groups in the polyol, b) a polyol chain extender and/or cross linker in an amount such that the hard block ratio is 0.60 or more and c) 10-0% by weight of one or more other isocyanate-reactive compounds excluding water, the amount of polyol a) and isocyanate-reactive compound c) being calculated on the total amount of this polyol a) and compound c).
A material having no glass transition temperature below 25° C., which is made according to a process that comprises reacting a polyisocyanate and an isocyanate-reactive composition, optionally in the presence of water in an amount of less than 5% by weight on the below isocyanate-reactive composition, wherein the reaction is conducted at an isocyanate index of 80 to 140, the polyisocyanate consists of a) 80-100% by weight of diphenylmethane diisocyanate comprising at least 40% by weight of 4,4′-diphenylmethane diisocyanate and/or a variant of said diphenylmethane diisocyanate which variant is liquid at 25° C. and has an NCO value of at least 20% by weight (polyisocyanate a), and b) 20-0% by weight of another polyisocyanate (polyisocyanate b), and wherein the isocyanate-reactive composition consists of a) 20-100% by weight of a polyether polyol having an average nominal functionality of 3-8, an average equivalent weight of 200-2000, an average molecular weight of 600°8000, an oxyethylene (EO) content of 50-100% by weight and a primary hydroxyl content of 70-100% calculated on the number of primary and secondary hydroxyl groups in the polyol, b) a polyol chain extender and/or cross linker in an amount such that the hard block ratio is 0.60 or more and c) 10-0% by weight of one or more other isocyanate-reactive compounds excluding water, the amount of polyol a) and isocyanate-reactive compound c) being calculated on the total amount of this polyol a) and compound c).
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