Compositions: coating or plastic – Materials or ingredients – Pigment – filler – or aggregate compositions – e.g. – stone,...
Patent
1992-10-30
1994-03-01
Bell, Mark L.
Compositions: coating or plastic
Materials or ingredients
Pigment, filler, or aggregate compositions, e.g., stone,...
106453, 106456, 106462, C09C 136
Patent
active
052903524
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of a pigment suspension from of one or more inorganic pigments and water.
Ground pigment powders and water are generally used for preparing inorganic pigment suspensions. Small quantities of organic or inorganic dispersing agents must sometimes be added.
Pinned disc mills, impeller ring mills, pendulum mills or jet mills are customarily used for grinding the unfinished pigments for the preparation of TiO.sub.2 or iron oxide pigments (Ullmanns Encyclopadie der technischen Chemie, 4th new, revised and enlarged Edition, Volume 18, pages 576 and 601).
The ground pigment powders are then dispersed in stirrer vessels, in some cases with the aid of dispersing agents. These vessels may be fitted with intensive mixing devices. The finished suspension may then be marketed as trade product or subjected to further processing for more complete extraction, depending on the purpose for which the pigment is required (Winnacker, Kuchler--Chemische Technologie, Volume 3, Anorganische Technologie II, 4th Edition, pages 371 and 402).
A disadvantage of the usual procedure is that the ground pigments can in some cases only be dispersed with a great expenditure of energy as they tend to form lumps when they undergo dispersion. Additional measures such as screening are required for removing agglomerates or aggregates which have not been ground down. Further disadvantages lie in the fact that the pigment must be used as a powder, which produces such a great deal of dust when incorporated in the end product that additional measures must be carried out to prevent excessive dust formation.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a process for the preparation of pigment suspensions which is free from the above-mentioned disadvantages.
It is surprisingly found that this can be achieved by first compacting the unground crude pigment on a roller compacter by which it is ground at the same time, and then treating the resulting compacted granulate, which is relatively free from dust, with water in a wet grinding mill to form the pigment suspension.
This invention thus relates to a process for the preparation of a pigment suspension from one or more inorganic pigments and water, characterised in that the unground pigment is first compacted and ground on a roller compacter and the compacted pigment powder is then treated in a wet grinding mill with the addition of water to produce the finished pigment suspension.
Compacting is preferably carried out at linear forces of from 1 to 60 KN/cm. The wet grinding is preferably carried out in vibrating ball mills (intermittently or continuously) or pearl mills (upright or horizontal).
Exceptionally good results are obtained when the solids content of the suspension amounts to 5 to 75% by weight, preferably from 15 to 65% by weight.
It is particularly advantageous to carry out the process according to the invention in the presence of from 0.05 to 5% by weight of organic or inorganic additives as dispersing agents, preferably phosphates, based on the solids content.
It may also be advantageous to thicken the finished pigment suspension to a higher solids content than the starting suspension by filtration and/or sedimentation.
The pigment suspension obtained by the process according to the invention contains a very small proportion of particles greater than 40 .mu.m and has an improved particle size distribution. The particle size distribution is determined according to Ullmanns Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry, Fifth, Completely Revised Edition, Volume B 2, Unit Operations I, Kurt Leschonski, 2. Particle Size Analysis and Characterisation of a Classification Process (pages 2-30).
To determine the sieve residues, 1 liter of the suspension was introduced into a 40 .mu.m sieve which was then rinsed with 10-15 ml of water. The sieve was then dried and weighed. The percentages by weight refer to the weight differences of the sieve.
The process according to the invention is applicable to all inorganic pigments and filler
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Krockert Bernd
Linde Gunter
Bayer AG
Bell Mark L.
Thompson Willie J.
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