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• the present invention relates to a process for preparing unsaturated polyester resin, suitable to be used in the manufacturing of structural parts, comprising itaconate ester units as reactive unsaturations in the resin.
• Unsaturated polyester resin compositions currently applied for obtaining structural parts often contain considerable quantities of styrene as copolymerizable reactive diluent.
• styrene may escape during the preparation and curing, but also even during the envisaged long-term use thereof, and causes an undesirable odour, and possibly even also toxic effects.
• the unsaturated polyester resin is only copolymerizable, the amount of styrene in styrene containing resins can not be reduced further without detrimentally affecting the mechanical properties of the cured composites.
• an unsaturated polyester resin comprising itaconate ester units as reactive unsaturations is considered homopolymerizable in case at least 25 wt. % of the unsaturated dicarboxylic acid building blocks are capable of homopolymerization, i.e. are itaconic acid building blocks.
• homopolymerizable unsaturated polyester resins tend to gel (i.e. to polymerize) during its preparation, in particular when applying the standard UP synthesis procedure in which all the raw materials for the resin are mixed and condensed at higher temperatures.
• the unsaturated polyesters For unsaturated polyesters to be used in the manufacturing of structural parts, the unsaturated polyesters must be able to free radical polymerise (I.e to cure) after having diluted the resin with reactive diluent. This means that gelation during preparation of the unsaturated polyester resin needs to be avoided.
• WO-A-9727253 describes the synthesis of itaconic based powder coating resins.
• the homopolymerizable itaconic based unsaturated polyesters have been prepared by either using the prepolymer approach, in which a hydroxyl functional polymer or oligomer is modified in the second step with itaconic acid and condensed to low acid values, or by using the anhydride approach, in which hydroxyl functional polymers are modified with itaconic anhydride resulting in high acid value resins.
• the unsaturated polyesters as described in this patent application the amount of itaconic acid on the total amount of multifunctional carboxy acids is at most 54%.
• FR-A-1295841 discloses the preparation of unsaturated polyester comprising itaconate ester units as reactive unsaturations applying the standard unsaturated polyester synthesis procedure in the presence of hydroquinone.
• a disadvantage of the use of hydroquinone is the viscosity of the obtained resin is relatively high. Lowering the viscosity of the neat resin can be achieved by producing resin with lower molecular weights. However, this may result in a deterioration of the mechanical properties of the cured object.
• the object of the present invention is to provide a process for preparing unsaturated polyester comprising itaconate ester units as reactive unsaturations, in which the standard unsaturated polyester synthesis procedure can be applied and in which the viscosity of the prepared resin can be decreased compared to when using hydroquinone, while maintaining or even improving the mechanical properties of the cured object.
• the process comprises reacting at least itaconic acid and/or itaconic anhydride and at least one diol in the presence of an inhibitor having a gelation activity factor less than or equal to 0.5 and having an efficiency factor of from (and including) 0.55 up to 1.
• an additional advantage of the process of the present invention is that the mechanical properties of a cured object based on a resin prepared with the process according to the invention can be improved, such as tensile strength, tensile modulus, flexural strength, flexural modulus, Barcol hardness and/or HDT.
• the process of the present invention preferably comprises:
• gelation activity factor of an inhibitor is defined as the ratio mass gel particles/(mass liquid+mass gel particles), whereby the masses are in g and determined after the resin preparation, whereby the resin preparation is effected using 100 ppm of inhibitor at the start of the resin synthesis.
• the gelation activity factor is less than or equal to 0.3, more preferably less than or equal to 0.2. Most preferably the gelation activity factor is 0. In case the gelation activity factor is 0, no gel particles are visually observed in the resin. This visual inspection is an easy way to determine if the gelation activity factor is 0.
• inhibitors with gelation activity factors of 0 are hydroquinone and methyl substituted hydroquinones, such as for example 2-methylhydroquinone.
• efficiency factor of an inhibitor is defined as the ratio ⁇ 500 / ⁇ 100 in which ⁇ 500 is the viscosity, measured at 125° C. using a cone and plate set-up, of a resin prepared with 500 ppm inhibitor and ⁇ 100 is the viscosity, measured at 125° C. using a cone and plate set-up, of a resin prepared with 100 ppm inhibitor.
• the inhibitor having a gelation activity factor less than or equal to 0.5 and having an efficiency factor of from 0.55 up to 1 is preferably a methyl substituted hydroquinone, more preferably 2-methyl hydroquinone.
• the process according to the invention is therefore preferably effected in the presence of 2-methyl hydroquinone.
• the process according to the invention is preferably effected in the presence of a further inhibitor having an efficiency factor of from 0.3 up to 0.55 (0.55 not included).
• This further inhibitor preferably has a gelation activity factor less than or equal to 0.5.
• a preferred further inhibitor is hydroquinone.
• the process according to the invention is therefore more preferably effected in the presence of 2-methyl hydroquinone and hydroquinone.
• the invention also relates to a process for preparing an unsaturated polyester resin comprising itaconate ester units as reactive unsaturations by reacting at least itaconic acid and/or itaconic anhydride and at least one diol, wherein the process is effected in the presence of a methyl substituted hydroquinone, preferably in the presence of 2-methyl hydroquinone.
• the process is effected in the presence of also hydroquinone
• the process comprises:
• the inventors found an additional synergistic effect when using a combination of at least one inhibitor with a medium efficiency factor (from (and including) 0.3 up to 0.55) and at least one inhibitor with a high efficiency factor (from (and including) 0.55 up to 1). It has surprisingly been found that using the combination of at least one inhibitor with a medium efficiency factor, such as for example hydroquinone, and at least one inhibitor with a high efficiency factor, such as for example 2-methyl hydroquinone, very good mechanical properties can be obtained of a cured object based on a resin composition comprising reactive diluent and an unsaturated polyester resin comprising itaconate ester as reactive unsaturations.
• a medium efficiency factor such as for example hydroquinone
• a high efficiency factor such as for example 2-methyl hydroquinone
• the molar ratio of the amount of inhibitors with a medium efficiency factor and inhibitors with a high efficiency factor is in the range from 0.2 to 5, more preferably in the range from 0.5 to 2.
• the process of the present invention is preferably effected in the presence of at least 25 ppm and more preferably at least 50 ppm of inhibitor.
• the process of the present invention is preferably effected in the presence of at most 2000 ppm, more preferably at most 750 ppm of inhibitor (relative to the amount of raw materials used to prepare the resin).
• the unsaturated polyester according to the invention comprises itaconate ester units as building blocks having the following structural formula.
• the itaconic ester units (also referred to as itaconic acid building blocks) contain an ethylenic unsaturation that is able to copolymerize with copolymerizable monomer in which the unsaturated polyester may be diluted.
• the unsaturated polyester according to the invention can be manufactured by polycondensation of at least a diol and itaconic acid or itaconic acid anhydride as unsaturated dicarboxylic acid.
• the polycondensation may also be effected in the presence of other dicarboxylic acids containing reactive unsaturations, such as for example maleic acid or anhydride and fumaric acid and/or in the presence of saturated aliphatic dicarboxylic acids or anhydrides, like for example oxalic acid, succinic acid, adipic acid, sebacic acid and/or in the presence of aromatic saturated dicarboxylic acids or anhydrides like for example phthalic acid or anhydride and isophthalic acid.
• other dicarboxylic acids containing reactive unsaturations such as for example maleic acid or anhydride and fumaric acid and/or in the presence of saturated aliphatic dicarboxylic acids or anhydrides, like for example oxalic acid, succinic acid, adipic acid, sebacic acid and/or in the presence of aromatic saturated dicarboxylic acids or anhydrides like for example phthalic acid or anhydride and isophthalic acid.
• a diol such as for example 1,2-propylene glycol, ethylene glycol, diethylene glycol, triethylene glycol, 1,3-propanediol, dipropylene glycol, tripropylene glycol, neopentyl glycol, hydrogenated bisphenol-A. or ethoxylated/propoxylated bisphenol A.
• the molecular weight of the diol in the unsaturated polyester resin is in the range from 60 to 250 Dalton.
• at least part of the diols is selected from either isosorbide or 1,3-propanediol or both, preferably derived from a non fossil source like for example corn.
• the total amount of diacids ranges from 20 to 80 mol % and the total amount of diols ranges from 20 to 80 mol % (in which 100 mol % is sum diols and diacids).
• the unsaturated polyester according to the invention is preferably homopolymerizable.
• the unsaturated polyester resin according to the invention preferably at least 25 wt. % of the dicarboxylic acid building blocks are itaconic acid building blocks. More preferably, at least 55 wt. % of the dicarboxylic acid building blocks in the unsaturated polyester according to the invention are itaconic acid building blocks.
• the unsaturated polyester according to the invention is preferably homopolymerizable.
• At least part of the itaconic acid or itaconic anhydride is derived from a non-fossil source, for example from corn.
• the unsaturated polyester comprising itaconate ester units as reactive unsaturations is preferably composed of from 33 to 66 mol % glycol monomers, from 10 to 66 mol % itaconic acid monomers, from 0 to 65 mol % unsaturated diacid monomers (other than itaconic acid monomers, like for example fumaric and maleic acid monomers) and from 0 to 65 mol % diacids other than unsaturated diacid monomers, preferably from 0 to 50 mol % diacids other than unsaturated diacid monomers.
• the acid value of the itaconate containing unsaturated polyester resin is preferably in the range from 30 to 100 mg KOH/g resin, more preferably from 35 to 75 mg KOH/g resin. As used herein, the acid value of the resin is determined titrimetrically according to ISO 2114-2000.
• the molar ratio of hydroxyl end groups and carboxylic acid end groups in the unsaturated polyester resin according to the invention is in the range from 0.33 to 0.9. In another embodiment, the molar ratio of hydroxyl end groups and carboxylic acid end groups in the unsaturated polyester resin according to the invention is in the range from 1.1 to 3.
• the hydroxyl value of the itaconate containing unsaturated polyester resin is preferably higher than 25 and more preferably higher than 40 mg KOH/g resin.
• the hydroxyl value of the itaconate containing polyester is determined according to ISO 4629-1996.
• the molecular weight of the unsaturated polyester comprising itaconate ester units as reactive unsaturations is at least 300 Dalton, preferably at least 500 Dalton and more preferably at least 750 Dalton.
• the molecular weight Mn of the unsaturated polyester comprising itaconate ester units as reactive unsaturations is at most 10.000 Dalton, more preferably at most 5000 Dalton.
• the molecular weight (Mn) is determined in tetrahydrofurane using GPC according to ISO 13885-1 employing polystyrene standards and appropriate columns designed for the determination of the molecular weights. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the molecular weight Mn is in the range from 750 to 5000 Dalton.
• the glass transition temperature T g of the unsaturated polyester is preferably at least ⁇ 70° C. and at most 100° C.
• the glass transition temperature T g of the unsaturated polyester resin present in the resin composition according to the invention is preferably at least ⁇ 70° C., more preferably at least ⁇ 50° C. and even more preferably at least ⁇ 30° C.
• the T g of the unsaturated polyester resin present in the resin composition according to the invention is preferably at most 70° C., more preferably at most 50° C. and even more preferably at most 30° C.
• the T g is determined by means of DSC (heating rate 5° C./min).
• the present invention further relates to an unsaturated polyester resin composition
• unsaturated polyester resin composition comprising unsaturated polyester resin that comprises itaconate ester as reactive unsaturations, and a methyl substituted hydroquinone.
• a preferred methyl substituted hydroquinone is 2-methyl hydroquinone.
• the resin composition comprises unsaturated polyester that comprises itaconate ester as reactive unsaturations, and a combination of a methyl substituted hydroquinone, preferably 2-methyl hydroquinone, and hydroquinone.
• the unsaturated polyester that comprises itaconate ester as reactive unsaturations is preferably homopolymerizable.
• the resin composition comprises homopolymerisable unsaturated polyester resin comprising itaconate ester units, hydroquinone and 2-methylhydroquinone.
• the amount of hydroquinone and/or methyl substituted hydroquinone is preferably at least 25 ppm, more preferably at least 50 ppm, preferably at most 2000 ppm, more preferably at most 750 ppm (relative to the total resin composition).
• the composition further comprises reactive diluent.
• the unsaturated polyester resin according to the invention can be applied as a powder coating resin.
• the preparation of powder coating compositions is described by Misev in “Powder Coatings, Chemistry and Technology” (pp. 224-300; 1991, John Wiley) hereby incorporated by reference. Therefore the present invention also relates to a powder coating composition comprising the unsaturated polyester prepared with the process according to the invention.
• the glass transition temperature T g of the unsaturated polyester resin is preferably at least 20° C., more preferably at least 25° C. and even more preferably at least 30° C. and at most 100° C., more preferably at most 80° C. and even more preferably at most 60° C.
• a common way to prepare a powder coating composition is to mix the separately weight-out components in a premixer, heat the obtained premix, for example in a kneader, preferably in an extruder to obtain an extrudate, cool down the obtained extrudate until it solidifies and crush it into granules or flakes that are further ground to reduce the particle size followed by appropriate classification to obtain a powder coating composition of the right particle size. Therefore, the invention also relates to a process for the preparation of a powder coating composition according to the invention comprising the steps of:
• the powder coating composition of the present invention may optionally contain the usual additives, such as for example fillers/pigments, degassing agents, flow agents, or (light) stabilizers.
• flow agents include Byk 361 N.
• suitable fillers/pigments include metal oxides, silicates, carbonates or sulphates.
• suitable stabilizers include UV stabilizers, such as for example phosphonites, thioethers or HALS (hindered amine light stabilizers).
• degassing agents include benzoin and cyclohexane dimethanol bisbenzoate.
• Other additives, such as additives for improving tribo-chargeability may also be added.
• the invention relates to a process for coating a substrate comprising the following steps:
• the powder coating composition of the present invention may be applied using the techniques known to the person skilled in the art, for example using electrostatic spray or electrostatic fluidized bed.
• the process according to the invention further comprises the step of diluting the unsaturated polyester resin comprising itaconate ester units with one or more reactive diluents to obtain a resin composition suitable to be applied for construction purposes.
• the unsaturated polyester comprising itaconate ester units is diluted in styrene, dimethyl itaconate and/or a methacrylate.
• the amount of reactive diluent in such a resin composition according to the invention is usually in the range from 5 to 75 wt. %, preferably in the range from 20 to 60 wt. %, most preferably in the range from 30 to 50 wt. % (relative to the total amount of unsaturated polyester and reactive diluent).
• a reactive diluent is a diluent that is able to copolymerize with the unsaturated polyester resin.
• Ethylenically unsaturated compounds can be advantageously used as reactive diluent.
• styrene, dimethyl itaconate and/or a methacrylate containing compound is used as reactive diluent.
• styrene, ⁇ -methylstyrene, 4-methylstyrene, (meth)acrylate containing compounds, N-vinylpyrrolidone and/or N-vinylcaprolactam is used as reactive diluent.
• styrene and/or (meth)acrylate containing compound is preferably used as reactive diluent and more preferably (meth)acrylate containing compound is used as reactive diluent.
• itaconic acid or an ester of itaconic acid is used as reactive diluent.
• the reactive diluent comprises an ester of itaconic acid and at least another ethylenically unsaturated compound, such as for example styrene, ⁇ -methylstyrene, 4-methylstyrene, (meth)acrylates, N-vinylpyrrolidone and/or N-vinylcaprolactam.
• the resin composition preferably comprises an ester of itaconic acid as reactive diluent and styrene as reactive diluent or a methacrylate containing compound as reactive diluent.
• a preferred ester of itaconic acid is dimethyl itaconate.
• the resin composition preferably further comprises a co-initiator for the radical curing of the resin composition, in an amount of from 0.00001 to 10 wt % (relative to the total amount of unsaturated polyester and reactive diluent).
• a preferred co-initiator is an amine or a transition metal compound.
• the amine co-initiator that may be present in the composition is preferably an aromatic amine and even more preferably a tertiary aromatic amine.
• Suitable accelerators include N,N-dimethylaniline, N,N-diethylaniline; toluidines and xylidines such as N,N-diisopropanol-para-toluidine; N,N-dimethyl-p-toluidine; N,N-bis(2-hydroxyethyl)xylidine and -toluidine.
• the amount of amine in the resin composition (relative to the total amount of unsaturated polyester and reactive diluent). is generally at least 0.00001 wt. % and preferably at least 0.01 wt. % and more preferably at least 0.1 wt. %. Generally, the amount of amine in the resin composition is at most 10 wt. %, preferably at most 5 wt. %.
• transition metal compounds as co-initiator are compounds of a transition metal with an atomic number of in the range from 22 to 29 or with an atomic number in the range from 38 to 49 or with an atomic number in the range from 57 to 79, such as vanadium, iron, manganese, copper, nickel, molybdenum, tungsten, cobalt, chromium compounds.
• Preferred transition metals are V, Cu, Co, Mn and Fe.
• radical inhibitors may be added.
• These radical inhibitors are preferably chosen from the group of phenolic compounds, benzoquinones, hydroquinones, catechols, stable radicals and/or phenothiazines.
• the amount of radical inhibitor that can be added may vary within rather wide ranges, and may be chosen as a first indication of the gel time as is desired to be achieved.
• radical inhibitors that can be used in the resin compositions according to the invention are, for instance, 2-methoxyphenol, 4-methoxyphenol, 2,6-di-t-butyl-4-methylphenol, 2,6-di-t-butylphenol, 2,4,6-trimethyl-phenol, 2,4,6-tris-dimethylaminomethyl phenol, 4,4′-thio-bis(3-methyl-6-t-butylphenol), 4,4′-isopropylidene diphenol, 2,4-di-t-butylphenol, 6,6′-di-t-butyl-2,2′-methylene di-p-cresol, hydroquinone, 2-methylhydroquinone, 2-t-butylhydroquinone, 2,5-di-t-butylhydroquinone, 2,6-di-t-butylhydroquinone, 2,6-dimethylhydroquinone, 2,3,5-trimethylhydroquinone, catechol, 4-t-
• the amount of radical inhibitor in the resin composition according to the invention is in the range from 0.0001 to 10% by weight (relative to the total amount of unsaturated polyester and reactive diluent). More preferably, the amount of inhibitor in the resin composition is in the range from 0.001 to 1% by weight. The skilled man quite easily can assess, in dependence of the type of inhibitor selected, which amount thereof leads to good results according to the invention.
• the present invention further relates to a process for radically curing the resin composition according to the invention, wherein the curing is effected by adding an initiator to the resin composition as described above.
• the curing is effected at a temperature in the range from ⁇ 20 to +200° C.
• the initiator is a photoinitiator, a thermal initiator and/or redox initiator.
• the initiator is a peroxide compound.
• a photo initiator is capable of initiating curing upon irradiation
• Photo initiation is understood to be curing using irradiation with light of a suitable wavelength (photo irradiation). This is also referred to as light cure.
• a photo-initiating system may consist of a photo initiator as such, or may be a combination of a photo initiator and a sensitizer, or may be a mixture of photo initiators, optionally in combination with one or more sensitizers.
• the photo initiating system that can be used in the context of the present invention can be chosen from the large group of photo-initiating systems known to the skilled person.
• a vast number of suitable photo initiating systems can be found in, for instance, Volume 3 of “Chemistry and Technology of UV and EB Formulations”, 2 nd Edition, by K. Dietliker and J. V. Crivello (SITA Technology, London; 1998).
• the thermal initiator can be selected from azo compounds like for example azo isobutyronitril (AlBN), C—C labile compounds like for example benzopinacole, peroxides, and mixtures thereof.
• the thermal initiator is preferably an organic peroxide, or a combination of two or more organic peroxides.
• the redox initiator is preferably an organic peroxide in combination with at least one of the above mentioned co-initiators.
• suitable peroxides are, for instance, hydroperoxides, peroxy carbonates (of the formula —OC(O)OO—), peroxyesters (of the formula —C(O)OO—), diacylperoxides (of the formula —C(O)OOC(O)—), dialkylperoxides (of the formula —OO—), etc.
• the present invention further also relates to cured objects or structural parts prepared from unsaturated polyester resin compositions as described above, by curing with an initiator as described above.
• structural resin compositions are capable of providing structural parts. Generally such resin compositions are non-aqueous systems. They contain at most 5% by weight of water, mainly resulting from the reactions during resin preparation. As meant herein, structural parts are considered to have a thickness of at least 0.5 mm and appropriate mechanical properties. End segments where the resin compositions according to the present invention can be applied are for example automotive parts, boats, chemical anchoring, roofing, construction, containers, relining, pipes, tanks, flooring and windmill blades.
• the present invention in particular relates to cured objects or structural parts obtained by curing of a resin composition according to the invention with an initiator, preferably comprising a peroxide.
• the curing is preferably effected by moulding, more preferably the curing is effected by compression moulding to obtain in particular a SMC or BMC part.
• the moulding is preferably effected at a temperature of at least 130° C., more preferably at least 140° C.; and at a temperature of at most 170° C., more preferably of at most 160° C.
• the diols, diacids and/or anhydrides, optionally inhibitor and catalyst were charged in a vessel equipped with a packed column, a temperature measurement device and inert gas inlet.
• the mixture was heated slowly by usual methods to 200° C.
• the mixture was kept at 200° C. until the distillation of water stopped.
• the packed column was removed and the mixture was kept under reduced pressure until the acid value reached a value below 50 mg KOH/g resin.
• the vacuum was relieved with inert gas, and the mixture was cooled down to 130° C. or lower.
• the solid UP resins were obtained in this way.
• the solid resin was dissolved in a reactive diluent at temperatures below 80° C.
• Curing was monitored by means of standard gel time equipment. This is intended to mean that both the gel time (T gel or T 25->35° C. ) and peak time (T peak or T 25->peak ) were determined by exotherm measurements according to the method of DIN 16945 when curing the resin with the peroxide as indicated.
• the viscosity of the dissolved resin was determined at 23° C. using a physica instrument.
• the viscosity of the neat resin was determined at 125° C. using a cone and plate setup (Brookfield CAP200+cone 3).
• Resins were prepared via the standard synthesis procedure with the ingredients and inhibitors as listed in table 1.
• Resins were prepared via the standard synthesis procedure with the listed ingredients in table 2. The resins were cured using 0.5 wt % of a cobalt solution (NL-49P) followed by 2 wt % Trigonox 44B as peroxide. The curing was monitored with the gel time equipment.
• NL-49P cobalt solution
• Trigonox 44B as peroxide
• an inhibitor with a high efficiency factor results in a resin with a lower viscosity, both as neat resin as diluted resin, as well as an improvement in mechanical properties such as tensile strength, tensile modulus, flexural strength and modulus, barcol hardness and thermal stability (as indicated by HDT).
• Example 4 compared to Comp Ex I and Example 3 shows that there is a synergistic effect regarding decrease of viscosity and further improvement of mechanical properties as exemplified by the thermal stability (HDT), when using a combination of inhibitors with different efficiency factors, i.e. one inhibitor with a high (0.55-1) and one inhibitor with a medium (0.3-0.55) efficiency factor.
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