Scm Corporation

Millennium Inorganic Chemicals, Inc.

Scm Chemicals, Inc.

Millenium Inorganic Chemicals, Inc.

Leon Weber

Robert J Kostelnik

Charles A Wheddon

Modasser El-Shoubary

Modasser El-Shoulbary

The present invention provides a treatment method for rendering inorganic oxide particles, such as TiO pigment, hydrophobic by predispersing a suitably reactive organohalosilane into an aqueous media, using intensive mixing means (such as a rotor stator emulsifier or inline static mixer) to form a reactive dispersion. When this dispersion is combined with inorganic oxide particles, such as TiO pigment, under sufficient agitation, a hydrophobic inorganic oxide can be formed. The oxides formed by the present invention have good mechanical properties, such as dispersibility in nonpolar substances (i.e., plastics), and they do not degrade physical properties of the pigmented nonpolar substance, such as lacing resistance of thermoplastics.

Processes for preparing hydrophobic inorganic oxide pigments

The present invention provides a process for the production of hydrophobic inorganic oxide products which comprises reacting the inorganic oxide particles with organohalosilanes, preferably organochlorosilanes, to produce hydrophobic organosilane coated inorganic oxides. It is preferred that the organohalosilane compounds be reacted with the inorganic oxide particles in an aqueous slurry and subjected to intense mixing. The inorganic oxide pigments prepared by the processes of this invention have essentially quantitative retention of the organosilanes and contain no adsorbed aldehydes on their surface. The by-products produced in the preferred embodiments of the invention are innocuous salts, which are environmentally safe and readily disposable.

Silane treated inorganic pigments

The present invention provides a process for the production of hydrophobic inorganic oxide products which comprises reacting the inorganic oxide particles with organohalosilanes, preferably organochlorosilanes, to produce hydrophobic organosilane coated inorganic oxides. It is preferred that the organohalosilane compounds be reacted with the inorganic oxide particles in an aqueous slurry. The inorganic oxide pigments prepared by the processes of this invention have essentially quantitative retention of the organosilanes and contain no adsorbed aldehydes on their surface. The by-products produced in the preferred embodiments of the invention are innocuous salts, which are environmentally safe and readily disposable.

An aqueous slurry of titanium dioxide characterized by the presence therein of amorphous aluminum hydroxide, and a process for producing the same.

Production of an optically efficient titanium slurry

Improved inorganic pigments, such as pigmentary titanium dioxide, are made by treating such pigments with a treating agent comprising the reaction product of a phosphorylating agent and a polyolefin.

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