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Switching from Solventborne to Waterborne Coatings in Industrial Applications

Switching from Solventborne to Waterborne Coatings in Industrial Applications
Language: English
Length: 90 min
Recorded on: 15 Sep 21

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Course Description

Smoothly switch from solvent-borne to waterborne coatings & meet the low VOC regulation requirements by understanding different techniques used to formulate waterborne coatings.

Keith Moody, who has successfully implemented many waterborne technologies replacing solvent-borne systems, will shed light on:

  • How waterborne polymers must be handled in plants
  • What equipment will be needed to process these systems
  • How coating polymers (alkyds, polyesters, acrylic-epoxy hybrids…) are made, formulated, and applied in industrial applications.
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Keith Moody
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Keith M. Moody is a consultant in the chemical and coatings industry. Keith's focus is designing and delivering training on polymers, solvents, inks, and coating formulations. He retired at the end of 2017 after working 30 years at Eastman Chemical Company in Kingsport, TN.

The expert received his BS in Chemistry from Kentucky Wesleyan College in 1976 and his MS in Polymer Chemistry from the University of Cincinnati in 1987. He has worked in the coatings industry since 1978. He has taught classes at the University of Louisville in Coating Science and is the author of both patents and technical articles on waterborne coatings. Keith has worked in resin production, polymer development, and emulsion research with BASF, Reliance Universal, and Celanese before coming to Eastman in 1988.

At Eastman Chemical Company, he retired as Senior Technical Service Associate in the Coatings Technical Service Lab. At Eastman, he also worked in technical service for fibers, polymer additives, and plasticizers. He worked in a variety of research, development, and sales positions at Eastman. He has held leadership positions as Vice President R&D Americas for Lawter International and R&D Technical Manager-Coatings Resins for McWhorter Technologies when both were subsidiaries of Eastman Chemical Company.

For the last several years, he has been the lead technical service representative for solvents. He has presented seminars on solvent technology to research groups at Akzo, Sherwin-Williams, BASF, PPG, and many other coating manufacturers and chemical distributors.

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Why should you view this course?

Regulatory restrictions in each region are pushing for healthier and cleaner coatings with lower and lower amounts of VOC. No doubt, waterborne coatings are the primary way to meet these regulations.

However, without guidance, making the shift from solvent-borne to waterborne can be tricky! Handling wetting and surface tension, corrosion and flash rusting… for waterborne coatings are far different from solvent-borne coatings.

Additionally, going for trial & error or hiring expensive consultants will only be time-consuming & costly. Join this course to:

  1. Understand how to formulate waterborne coatings using different techniques (use of external surfactants & emulsion polymerization, changing the backbone of the solvent borne resin…)

  2. Shorten your R&D time and swiftly shift to waterborne coatings by understanding how coating polymers (alkyds, polyesters, acrylic-epoxy hybrids…) are made, formulated and applied in industrial applications.

  3. Understand with examples from real-life industry applications: aqueous dispersions in metal, hybrid polymer systems in coil, container coatings for metal, general industrial applications of latex emulsion polymers…

  4. Learn how to tackle problems like wetting and surface tension, corrosion & flash rusting, curing, heating, rheology, which binders to choose for formulations…

Who should join this course?

  • This course is intended for Formulators, Scientists synthesizing resins for coatings, Development & Application Chemists, Brand Owners, OEMs, Marketers, End-product Manufacturers, QC Chemists, Technical & Research personnel of coatings and paint companies.

  • This course is suitable for intermediate level proficiency
    Intermediate
Course Outline

Introduction: Moving from Solventborne to Waterborne coatings

  • Problems and Challenges
  • Advantages of Waterborne coatings

Three different techniques used to make waterborne coatings

  • Changing the backbone of the solvent borne resin to make it more hydrophilic
    Examples in making water dispersible coatings
  • Incorporating waterborne resins through grafting and use of multi polymer systems
    Examples of hybrid polymer systems
  • Use of external surfactants and emulsion polymerization
    Examples of different surfactants and polymers that can be emulsified with surfactants

Three successful examples used in industrial coatings

  • Water-dispersible polyesters and alkyds
    Using both volatile and non-volatile hydrophilic groups
  • Waterborne epoxies used in container coatings
    Chemistry of thermoset epoxy-acrylics in can coatings
  • Industrial acrylic emulsions
    Evolution and examples of acrylic emulsions in industrial applications

Conclusions and Summary

  • How these three different methods compare?
  • Which technique is best for you?
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