Imperial Chemical Industries Limited

Guy Leon Biesmans

Rik De Vos

Martin C Barker

Karen Liliane Van Der Sande

Norman Washington Keane

Alain Luc Herssens

Andy Mertens

David Randall

Alan James Hamilton

Els Kinnaes

Els Van Isterdael

Process for making polyisocyanate based xerogels by trimerisation of an organic polyisocyanate in an organic solvent in the presence of a (co)polymer containing an isocyanate-reactive group, gellation and drying of the obtained sol-gel.

Polyisocyanate based xerogels

Process for making polyisocyanate based aerogels by trimerisation of an organic polyisocyanate in an organic solvent in the presence of a (co)polymer containing an isocyanate-reactive group, gellation and supercritically drying of the obtained sol-gel.

Polyisocyanate based aerogel

Organic aerogels

Thermal insulating device with an open celled polyurethane foam core, evacuated and refilled with an insulating gas.

Method of forming a thermal insulating device

Non-planar integral evacuated insulation panels and a method for making these by providing grooves in the filler material prior to enveloping said filler and forming by evacuating, which method allows to make evacuated insulation panels of specific non-planar shapes depending on the depth and shape of the grooves.

Non-planar evacuated insulation panels and a method for making same

Microvoid polyurethane materials having densities below 300 kg/M.sup.3 and void sizes below 5 micron which are suitable for use as insulating filler in evacuated insulation panels.

Microvoid polyurethane materials

Microvoid polyurethane materials having densities below 300 kg/m.sup.3 and void sizes below 5 micron which are suitable for use as insulating filler in evacuated insulation panels.

Process for the preparation of a rigid polyurethane or urethane-modified polyisocyanurate foam in the presence of a blowing agent mixture comprising cyclopentane and a certain amounts of other organic compounds as co-blowing agenrts, the the saturated vapor pressure of said co-blowing agents in bar at T.sub.use (v.p.) complying with the following equation (I) ##EQU1## wherein C is the mole % of said co-blowing agent in gaseous form on the total blowing agent mixture in the gaseous phase after foaming and T.sub.use is the temperature in .degree.K. at which the foam is used.

Process for rigid polyurethane foams

Polyisocyanate based organic aerogels having pore sizes less than 100 nm, densities in the range 10 to 800 kg/m.sup.3 and surface areas in the range 10 to 1500 m.sup.2 /g are provided.

Process for the preparation of a rigid polyurethane or urethane-modified polyisocyanurate foam in the presence of a blowing agent mixture comprising cyclopentane and a certain amounts of other organic compounds as co-blowing agenrts, the the saturated vapour pressure of said co-blowing agents in bar at T.sub.use (v.p.) complying with the following equation (I) ##EQU1## wherein C is the mole % of said co-blowing agent in gaseous form on the total blowing agent mixture in the gaseous phase after foaming and T.sub.use is the temperature in .degree.K. at which the foam is used.

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Everberg, Belgium

Guy Leon Biesmans