Fraunhofer Pilot Plant Center for Polymer Synthesis and Processing PAZ
Fraunhofer Pilot Plant Center for Polymer Synthesis and Processing PAZ
© Fraunhofer IAP

© Fraunhofer IAP

Equipment | Polymer Synthesis

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Equipment for Polymer Synthesis

In the Polymer Synthesis Plant, 350 main items of equipment, 850 MSR-facilities and 940 pipelines are available on area of 600 square meters spread across three floors.

Personnel can ensure, through the available staff structure a short to middle term 24 h operation. This also makes it possible to produce sample batches in one digit tons.

Synthesis lines

With the available facilities, a variety of polymerization procedures can be depicted in our synthesis center, including:

Line

Example polymers

Solution polymerization (anionic, coordinative)

Synthetic rubber

Emulsion polymerization
(batch / continuous)

PVAE, PVC

Hetero phase polymerization(precipitation, emulsion, suspension)

Polystyrene,coating components, gels

Polyamide

Polyamide

High viscosity technology
(Single- and double shaft kneader, disc reactor)

Rubber regeneration
Special polycondensates

Gassing- / hydrogenationreactor
(BIAZZI)

Mass polymerization,
polystyrene successive products, hydrated polydiene

Continuous polyester line

PET/ PBT

Design parameters of selected reactors

Main equipment

No.

Pressure [bar]

Temperature [°C]

Volume [L]
         

Solution polymerization        

       

Reactor

C2110

−1 bis 20  

5 bis 300

610

Coupler

C3110

−1 bis 20

5 bis 300

610

Single shaft kneader

C2610

−1 bis 6

5 bis 350

100

Double shaft kneader

C3610

−1 bis 6

5 bis 350

200
         

Mass polymerization

        

Pre polymerization

C2210

-1 bis 30

5 bis 350

810

Esterification reactor (PET)

C3210

-1 bis 10

5 bis 350

  

Post condensator

C4610

-1 bis 10

5 bis 350

559

Finisher

C5610

-1 bis 1

5 bis 350

110
         

Hydrogenation

        

Hydrogenation reactor

C2710

-1 bis 110

-5 bis 300

880

Analytics

For the analytical determination and evaluation of polymers we carry out the process related analytics on-site. Furthermore, both the Fraunhofer-Institute IAP and IMWS have extensive analytics experts.

 

Measuring methods available on-site

  • automatic dilution viscometry
  • particle size measurements (laser diffraction)
  • rheology measurement (rotational rheometer −120 to 400 °C)
  • double bond and group determination through titration
  • GPC in various solvents (amongst others HIFP)
  • GC to residual monomer / solvent determination