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Description Author: T.R. Crompton ISBN 978-1-84735-055-8 A Guide for Analytical ChemistsSmithers Rapra TechnologySoft-backed, 255 x 190 mm, 325 pages. Summary Plastics are now being used on a large scale for the packaging of fatty and aqueous foodstuffs and beverages, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic. This is evident for all to see on the supermarket shelves, margarine is...
Description Author: Wernfried Heilein, Director of Technical Marketing, Evonik Tego Chemical GmbH, Essen, Germany ISBN 978-3-86630-850-3 Hardbound, 240 Pages Summary This book offers an overview of the most important aspects and applications of additives for waterborne systems in diverse market segments. Wernfried Heilein helps to understand how additives work and elucidates all kinds of mechanisms in...
Description Author: James J. Licari & Dale W. Swanson ISBN 978-1-4377-7889-2 512 pages Summary Key Features A complete guide for the electronics industry to adhesive types, their properties, and applications - this book is an essential reference for a wide range of specialists including electrical engineers, adhesion chemists, and other engineering professionals. Provides specifications of adhesives for particular...
Description Author: Arthur H. Landrock, PLASTEC (retired) Sina Ebnesajjad, Fluoroconsultants Group; (former DuPont), Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. ISBN 978-0-8155-1533-3 Second Edition Hardbound, 475 Pages Summary This book presents information that will allow practitioners of adhesion technology to select the right adhesive for bonding different materials. Early chapters cover basic principles of adhesion, such as adhesion...
Description Author: Güneri Akovali, Bireswar Banerjee, A.K. Sen, Dipak K. Setua ISBN 978-1-84735-497-6 Summary Polymer coated textiles are known as engineered composite materials at a macro scale. A coating can offer significant improvements to the substrate, mainly of the physical (like impermeability and fabric abrasion) and/or of overall chemical properties; as well as the appearance,...
Description Author: Edited by Ambikanandan Misra and Aliasgar Shahiwala ISBN 9781847358516 Published: 2014page 546 Summary Use of polymers has become indispensable in the field of drug delivery. Polymers play a crucial role in modulating drug delivery to exploit maximum therapeutic benefits and have been fundamental in the successful development of several novel drug delivery systems that...
Description Author: G. Polaski, J. Means, B. Stull, P. Warren, K. Allen, D. Mowrey and B. Carney, Lord Corporation ISBN 978-1-85957-495-9 Pages 150 Summary This review has been written as a practical approach to bonding various kinds of elastomers to substrates such as steel and plastics, as used in the manufacture of diverse products such as...
Description Author: Ottmar Brandau ISBN 978-1-4377-3526-0 180 pages Summary The book is a thoroughly practical handbook that provides engineers and managers with the toolkit to improve production and engineering aspects in their own businesses - saving money, increasing output and improving competitiveness by adopting new technologies. In this book, Brandau covers the engineering aspects of bottle...
Description Author: Martin J. Forrest ISBN 978-1-84735-079-4 Rapra Review ReportVol. 16, No. 6, Report 186, Soft-backed, 121 pages. Summary For many years, Smithers Rapra has carried out research projects for the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA). This review report has, as its origin, an FSA project on coatings and inks that was carried out at Smithers Rapra...
Description Author: Adrie Winkelaar ISBN 978-3-86630-851-0 140 pages Summary Key Features An overview of the scientific fundamentals and practical aspects of paints and coatings Provides readers with the knowledge needed to select the right paint products, and use them in a way that delivers excellent results Essential reading for non-specialists and business professionals - and a...
Description Author: Edited by Arthur A . Tracton ISBN 978-1-57444-649-4 936 pages Summary Completely revised and updated, the Coatings Technology Handbook, Third Edition supplies a broad cross-index of the different aspects involved in the discipline.Containing 14 new chapters, the book covers the composition of both organic and inorganic resins, pigments or fillers, and additives, from polymeric...
Description Author: Pallab Bhattacharya, Roberto Fornari and Hiroshi Kamimura ISBN 978-0-444-53143-8 Approx. 3608 pages Hardcover, Reference Summary Semiconductors are at the heart of modern living. Almost everything we do, be it work, travel, communication, or entertainment, all depend on some feature of semiconductor technology. Comprehensive Semiconductor Science and Technology captures the breadth of this important...
Description Author: Anna Wypych ISBN 978-1895198-63-8 Number of pages: 428 Summary Databook of Antiblocking, Release, and Slip Additives contains data on over 300 the most important additives. Its structure has 145 data fields to accommodate a variety of data available in source publications. The description of general sections below gives more detail on the composition of...
Description Author: Edited by Elizabeth A. Baldwin, Robert Hagenmaier, Jinhe Bai ISBN 9781138198937 Hard coverNumber of pages 460 Summary Since the publication of the first edition of this text, ever-increasing coatings research has led to many developments in the field. Updated and completely revised with the latest discoveries, Edible Coatings and Films to Improve Food Quality,...
Description Author: Peter Mischke, Michael Groteklaes, and Thomas Brock ISBN 978-3-86630-849-7 400 pages Summary This work is intended to fill a gap in the current specialist literature: as an accompanying handbook. An extremely broad knowledge base is a prerequisite for mastering this unique protective and finishing material. However, today’s coatings specialist also requires knowledge of process engineering...
Description Author: Laurence W McKeen ISBN 978-1-4557-2551-9 320 pages Summary This extensively revised second edition is the only data handbook available on the engineering properties of commercial polymeric films details many physical, mechanical, optical, electrical, and permeation properties within the context of specific test parameters, providing a ready reference for comparing materials in the same family...
Description Author: Rapra Conferences ISBN 978-1-84735-390-0 21-22 April 2009, Brussels, Belgium 18 papers Summary The worldwide food contact polymers market has seen the enormous change in recent years, a trend in part due to the shifting regulatory landscape. It is important, perhaps now more than ever, to keep abreast of regulatory matters and to identify...
Description Author: Salvatore Parisi ISBN 9781847356093 page 398 Summary Quality inspection of packaging materials is a difficult task for food producers because the technical tests for packaging are mainly designed to measure the 'performance' of materials in relation to their chemical formulation, processing data, and intended uses. This may be difficult for food producers because their knowledge...
Description Author: Salvatore Parisi ISBN 9871847356062 Soft or Hard Cover Summary The so-called HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) acronym is well known in the food industry in relation to the management of microbiological, chemical and physical risks. With relation to HACCP risks, packaging materials should be studied and recognized as one of the key...
Description Author: D.I. Cook ISBN 978-1-85957-375-4 120 pages Summary Geosynthetics are sheet polymeric materials used in civil engineering. They have been used since the 1970s in geotechnical (soil) structures for functions such as separation, reinforcement, drainage, filtration, liquid containment and as gas barriers. In practice, this has included applications as diverse as reinforcement in the walls...