Method for producing dry ground calcium carbonate for use in thermoset polyester resin systems
AssigneeSpecialty Minerals (Michigan) Inc.
InventorsBrandon Keith Hucaluk, John Lawrence Finn, III
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Abstract
A dry ground calcium carbonate filler or additive made by dry grinding calcium carbonate in the presence of an organo-amine and then surface treating the ground calcium carbonate with a dispersant and the method of making the same is disclosed. Dry ground calcium carbonate filler or additive made by dry grinding calcium carbonate in the presence of an organo-amine such as triethanolamine and then surface treating the ground calcium carbonate with a dispersant such as sodium polyacrylate when added to a polyester polymer composition yields a lower viscosity of the polymer system than without the addition of triethanolamine followed by surface treating the ground calcium carbonate with a dispersant.
Claims10
A polymeric composition comprising:
- a thermosetting polyester component, and
- a dry ground calcium carbonate made by dry grinding calcium carbonate in the presence of an organo-amine and then surface treating the ground calcium carbonate with a dispersant polymer,
- wherein the dispersant is a polymer having a molecular weight range of between one thousand to twenty thousand atomic mass units,
- wherein the dispersant polymer is selected from the group consisting of acrylic based homopolymers, acrylic based polymers, polyacrylamides, polyphosphates, and polyphosphonates, in the form of a hompolymer, copolymer, an acid, ester, or salt thereof, and combinations thereof, and is present in an amount of 0.01 to 0.5 weight percent of the ground calcium carbonate;
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- wherein the organo-amine is a primary, secondary or tertiary methanolamine, ethanolamine, propanolamine or butanolamine, or any combination thereof, and is present in an amount of 0.01 to 2.0 weight percent of the ground calcium carbonate.
A method of reducing the viscosity of a thermosetting polyester resin composition having ground calcium carbonate additive comprising the steps of:
- providing a thermosetting polyester component, and
- compounding into the thermosetting polyester component a dry ground calcium carbonate made by dry grinding the ground calcium carbonate in the presence of an organo-amine and then surface treating the ground calcium carbonate with a dispersant polymer;
- wherein the dispersant polymer is a polymer having a molecular weight range of between one thousand to twenty thousand atomic mass units,
- wherein the polymer is selected from the group consisting of acrylic based homopolymers, acrylic based polymers, polyacrylamides, polyphosphates, and polyphosphonates, in the form of a hompolymer, copolymer, an acid, ester, or salt thereof, and combinations thereof, and is present in an amount of 0.01 to 0.5 weight percent of the ground calcium carbonate;
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- wherein the organo-amine is a primary, secondary or tertiary methanolamine, ethanolamine, propanolamine or butanolamine, or any combination thereof, and is present in an amount of 0.01 to 2.0 weight percent of the ground calcium carbonate.
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