Imperial Chemical Industries Limited

Rik De Vos

David Randall

Guy Leon Biesmans

Herbert R Gillis

Jan Willem Leenslag

Anthony Cunningham

Dirk Stanssens

Aaldrik Roelf Postema

David Thorpe

Alan James Hamilton

Philip Cornet

Maria Vittoria Franco

N Washington Keane

Gonda Van Essche

Use of a mixture of at least two different polyoxyethylene polyether monols to solubilise hydrocarbon blowing agents in polyol compositions for rigid polyurethane foams.

Process for rigid polyurethane foams

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

A method the preparation of rigid foams by reacting an organic polyisocyanate with an isocyanate-reactive material in the presence of a blowing promoter characterised in that the isocyanate-reactive material comprises at least one isocyanate-reactive cyclic carbonate or isocyanate-reactive cyclic urea, the reaction being performed in the presence of an inert insoluble organic liquid which is present as the dispersed phase of an emulsion or a microemulsion, and in the presence of a metal salt catalyst.

Polymeric foams

A method for the preparation of rigid foams by reacting an organic polyisocyanate with an isocyanate-reactive material in the presence of a blowing promoter characterized in that the isocyanate-reactive material comprises at least one isocyanate-reactive cyclic carbonate or isocyanate-reactive cyclic urea, the reaction being performed in the presence of an inert insoluble organic liquid which is present as the disperse phase of an emulsion or a microemulsion, and in the presence of a metal salt catalyst.

A process for the preparation of a fine celled, closed celled rigid polyurethane or urethane-modified polyisocyanate foam is disclosed which comprises reacting a polyfunctional isocyanate-reactive composition with a polyisocyanate composition, characterized in that the foam-forming composition comprises carbon black.

The invention provides a process for the preparation of a cellular polymeric product which comprises reaction of a polyisocyanate composition with an isocyanate-reactive composition having a functionality of at least 2, in the presence of a blowing agent and in the presence of an inert, organic liquid which is substantially insoluble in the reaction mixture and which is present as the disperse phase of an emulsion or a microemulsion, characterized in that the polyisocyanate composition comprises polymethylene polyphenylene polyisocyanate having a functionality of at least 2.5 and a urethane-modified, isocyanate-ended prepolymer, wherein the isocyanate functionality of the polyisocyanate composition is at least 2.3 and wherein the concentration of urethane linkages in the polyisocyanate composition is in the range from 1 millimole to 150 millimoles per 100 grams thereof. The invention also provides a novel polyisocyanate composition for use in the process and cellular polymeric products prepared according to the process.

Process for cellular polymeric products

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.

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.

Organic aerogels

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.

Process for the preparation of rigid polyurethane foam by reaction of a polyfunctional isocyanate-reactive composition with a polyisocyanate composition comprising the reaction product of a stoichiometric excess of an organic polyisocyanate and a substantially fluorinated isocyanate-reactive compound, optionally in the presence of an inert, insoluble fluorinated compound.

Process for rigid foams

The use of a liquid for the preparation of a rigid polyurethane and/or polyisocyanurate foam by reacting a polyisocyanate and a polyol in the presence of a blowing agent characterised in that the liquid is an inert, insoluble, non-blowing liquid. CFC-free foams may be obtained showing good insulating properties.

Manufacture of rigid foams and compositions therefor

A method for the preparation of a flexible foam, an integral skin foam or a microcellular elastomer by reacting an organic polyisocyanate and an isocyanate-reactive composition comprising at least one isocyanate-reactive compound of molecular weight of 1000 to 10000 and a functionality of 2 to 4 in the presence of a blowing agent, characterized in that the reaction is conducted in the presence of an inert, insoluble, organic liquid which has a boiling point of at least 60.degree. C. at 1 bar. CFC-free foams and elastomers of good quality are obtainable.

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