Mitsubishi Oil Co., Ltd.

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Dai-ichi Kogyo Seiyaku Co., Ltd.

Yoshio Takahashi

Shigeto Hatanaka

Hideto Umekawa

Masatoshi Watanabe

Masayuki Ueda

Takeshi Shoji

Kinya Yokota

Akinobu Ichihara

Michikazu Sakurai

Manabu Ogishima

Yohichiroh Mukunoki

Tetsuya Miharada

Yasuharu Tanakamaru

Takaaki Katoh

Hiroyuki Shiratori

Junji Okazaki

Toshihiro Tahara

An external storage device of a component cost estimation system stores various cost information representing a component material and its cost in association with each other, and a component manufacturing step and a cost involved in the step in association with each other. An information processing apparatus specifies a material of a component to be manufactured, and a plurality of manufacturing steps. Then, the information processing apparatus retrieves a cost of the specified material, and costs corresponding to the specified manufacturing steps from the cost information, and estimates a cost of the component based on the retrieved costs. The cost of the component is computed by adding up the cost of the material and the costs involved in all the manufacturing steps.

Component cost estimation system, component cost estimation method, cost standard data providing system, cost standard data providing method, recording medium, and computer data signal

Disclosed is an emulsified alkenylsuccinic acid sizing agent useful for acid papermaking. The sizing agent has a solid concentration of at least 25% by weight and comprises an alkenylsuccinic acid which is the reaction product of a branched internal olefin and maleic anhydride and which has been dispersed in water by an emulsifying and dispersing agent comprising polyvinyl alcohol. The sizing agent results in good storage stability and has an excellent sizing effect at a low addition ratio immediately after completion of high-temperature papermaking and over a wide pH range.

Emulsified alkenylsuccinic acid sizing agent

An alkenylsuccinic anhydride type paper sizing agent composition which causes little contamination of a paper machine and exhibits an excellent sizing effect is provided. The paper sizing agent composition contains addition reaction products obtained from an addition reaction between a straight-chain internal olefin comprising 16 to 20 carbon atoms and maleic anhydride, any unreacted olefin and maleic anhydride having been removed from said addition reaction products; said addition reaction products comprising as a main component alkenylsuccinic anhydride (1:1 adduct) represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein both of R and R' are alkyl groups or either one of R and R' is an alkyl group while the other is a hydrogen atom; and a 1:2 adduct (2 moles maleic anhydride per mole of olefin), and a decarbonated product of said 1:2 adduct in a total amount, based on said addition reaction products, of from about 7 to about 12 mol%.

Paper sizing agent composition

The present invention relates to a sizing agent which exerts excellent sizing efficiency even under severe conditions, namely, at an elevated temperature in the papermaking step, or at high conditions with a limited aluminum sulfate addition. The sizing agent for paper of the present invention is derived from i) dehydration condensation of an alkenylsuccinic anhydride and an organic carboxylic acid with a polyalkylene polyamine and ii) saponification of the remaining carboxyl groups with alkali following the dehydration condensation. More particularly, the present invention relates to a water-soluble sizing agent which is obtained by mixing an alkenylsuccinic anhydride with 1 to 20 times by molar equivalent, based on said alkenylsuccinic anhydride, as much as an organic carboxylic acid, adding 0.1 to 2.0 times by molar equivalent, based on said alkenylsuccinic anhydride, as much as a polyalkylene polyamine thereto so as to perform dehydration condensation. An then, to make the reacted material soluble to water, the remaining carboxyl groups are saponified with an alkali in an amount almost corresponding to the saponification equivalent.

Sizing agent for paper

An emulsified alkenylsuccinic acid sizing agent having a solid content of not less than 25% by weight is disclosed, which comprises a composition having not less than 25 parts by weight of alkenylsuccinic acid derived from the reaction product of a branched internal olefin of 12-18 carbon atoms with maleic anhydride, and being dispersed in water with an anionic polymer type dispersant or with an anionic polymer type dispersant and an emulsifier.

A sizing agent for paper making is described, comprising (A) a reaction product obtained by an addition reaction of an olefin having 14 to 20 carbon atoms or a mixture thereof with maleic anhydride and (B) one or more emulsifiers selected from polyoxyalkylene aralkylaryl ether phosphoric acid esters or salts thereof.

Sizing agent for paper making

A composition useful as a paper sizing agent comprising a substituted succinic anhydride of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R is a hydrocarbon group having at least 6 carbon atoms selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aralkyl group or an aralkenyl group,

Sizing agent suitable for use in paper making

A paper sizing agent is disclosed. The sizing agent is obtained by alkali saponification of a reaction product which is obtained by reacting a propylene oligomer with maleic anhydride under heating in the absence of a catalyst. The propylene oligomer contains substantially no oligomers having 10 or less carbon atoms. Further, the content of oligomers having 11 to 12 carbon atoms is 0 to 30% by volume, the content of oligomers having 13 to 15 carbon atoms is 20 to 95% by volume and the content of oligomers having 16 to 21 carbon atoms is 5 to 50% by volume. The paper sizing agent provides a homogeneous transparent sizing agent, which restrains the amount of the foaming and also has improved sizing effects.

Growing community of inventors

Kanagawa, Japan

Yoshio Takahashi