Melt Blowing: Equipment, Technology, and Polymer Fibrous Materials

by Leonid S. Pinchuk, Vladimir N. Kestelman, Anna V. Makarevich (Editor), Victor A. Goldade (Editor), V. N. Kestelman

Overview

This book is devoted to a nontraditional class of materials which are manufactured by the melt-blowing process - i.e. by extrusion of polymer melt followed by fiber stretching with a gas stream. For the first time extensive data on classical and modern modifications of this technology are generalized and a review is given of extrusion head dies and subsidiary equipment. The text examines the structure and main properties of melt-blown materials as conditioned by peculiarities of overheated polymer melt spraying in an oxidizing medium. Information is given about filtering mechanisms and the main types of polymer fibrous filtering materials: electret, magnetic, adsorptional, bactericidic, and about carriers of microorganisms in biofilters. Social and ecological aspects of the application of melt-blown materials are analyzed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540432234
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	06/28/2002
Series:	Series in Materials Processing
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	9.40(w) x 6.30(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction.- Melt Blowing Techniques.- Equipment.- Structure of Melt-Blown Polymer Fibrous Materials (PFM).- Specific Properties of Melt-Blown PFM.- Fibrous Materials in Filtration Systems.- Electret Filtering PFM.- Magnetic Filtering PFM.- Adsorptive and Microbicidal PFM.- PFM as Carriers of Microorganisms.- Other Applications of PFM.- Ecological and Social Problems.