Emulsion Polymerization Of Vinyl Acetate

Polyvinyl acetate is prepared by the polymerization of vinyl acetate monomer free radical vinyl polymerization of the monomer vinyl acetate.

Emulsion polymerization of vinyl acetate.

The industrial importance of vinyl acetate latexes makes the mechanism and kinetics of their emulsion polymerization of practical as well as scientific interest. We manufacture these high performance emulsions in all three major regions of the world at our facilities throughout north america europe and asia. Therefore vinyl acetate runaway polymerization incidents are very serious and they occur with a high frequency. Vinyl acetate emulsion polymerization and copolymerization with acrylic monomers provides a collection and logical organization of the.

Persulfate metabisulfite initiated vinyl acetate vinyl. The emulsion polymerization of vinyl acetate possesses the rather typical properties in comparison the emulsion polymerizations of the comonomers. Thus more than 45 years after the first commercial production of vinyl acetate latexes their use is still growing both in actual quantities and different applications. As an emulsion in water pvac emulsions are used as adhesives for porous materials particularly for wood paper and cloth and as a consolidant for porous building stone in particular.

Emulsion polymerization is one of the most important methods for the polymerization of a large number of monomers like vinyl acetate vinyl chloride chloroprene acrylamide acrylates and methacrylates. The versatility of the emulsion copolymerization reaction and the ability to control the properties of the final latices have led to rapid expansion both in the quantity of polyvinylacetate and vinyl acetate acrylic copolymer latices and in their applications. T butyl hydroperoxide sodium formaldehyde sulfoxylate initiated vinyl acetate vinyl versatate copolymer latex e. Emulsion polymerization formulations a.

Persulfate initiated vinyl acetate vinyl versatate copolymer latex d. As a case study the emulsion polymerization of vinyl acetate has been investigated experimentally to assess the practical feasibility of the proposed procedure. The reason is that vinyl caproate which is less soluble in water but subject to the influences of retarders or chain transfer agents in the same degree as vinyl acetate follows the smith ewart equation in emulsion polymerization and styrene when polymerized in aqueous methanol in which the solubility of styrene increases shows a. Poly vinyl acetate latex b.

It is also used for the production of various copolymers like acrylonitrile butadiene styrene abs. Vinyl acetate has high water solubility a high monomer polymer swelling ratio and a high chain transfer constant. In order to perform a polyvinyl acetate laboratory synthesis as close as possible to that one carried out at industrial scale a rc1 equipment. The polymerization of vinyl acetate is probably the second most frequent cause of runaway reaction accidents in the chemical industry after the phenol formaldehyde runaway reaction.