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Thursday, July 27, 2006

Problems with milling of rubber chemical dispersions for medical gloves


Manufacturer:We are a medical glove manufacturer and have been plagued with countless nightmarish problems with some problems with our bead mills. The final grind and particle size of our rubber chemicals (accelerators, ZnO, sulphur and antioxidants) have been very erratic since we began making our own dispersions. We would appreciate if you could give us some guidance for us to conduct our investigation.

JohnWoon:The variables you need to look into are dwell time, beads to mill-base ratio, temperature, and dispersion formulation.

Generally, accept may be for ZnO, the longer the milling time (dwell time), the finer the grind. Charging of the mill-base at a slower speed and/or reducing the pumping rate would have similar effect. The quantity of your beads in relation to that of the base should be accessed and predetermined for each chemical, for instance, a higher or lower quantity of the beads could lead to good or bad results. If you have only a small charge, a large quantity of beads would only result in an increase in your energy cost unnecessarily to drive the dead weight!

Check the temperature. For some dispersions like those encountered in the paint industry, the advice is to run at maximum temperature allowable before the chemistry of the ingredients start to change while others require lowest temperatures possible.

Last but not least, be careful in the formulation design for the dispersions in terms of particles re-agglomeration, phase separation and viscosity. A wrong formulation would not work even with a wide spectra of dwell times and bead:mill ratios.

I suspect that your problem is due to misguided formulations since the milling part could be quite straight forward if you follow the instruction of the mill manufacturer. To cut short your study and investigation time and therefore your cost, guide formulations for all the chemicals you need for your gloves can be made available to you if you e-mail me your request. Needless to say, you'd get lesser nightmares a lot quicker this way!



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