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Process for granulating a water-absorbent resin employing (a) water (b) inorganic powder & (c) surfactant in an inert solvent
Assignee: Sumitomo Seika Chemicals Co Ltd
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Filing: 1986-12-03
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Granted: 1988-03-22
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Expires: 2006-12-03
Abstract
Abstract A water-absorbent resin having an appropriate particle size and a narrow particle size distribution can be obtained by adding a powdered inorganic material in a proportion of 0.000005-0.2 part by weight to 1 part by weight of a water-absorbent resin containing therein a carboxylate as a component of the polymer with agitation in an inert solvent in the presence of 0.1-5.0 parts by weight of water and 0.005-0.2 part by weight of a surfactant and then removing water and the inert solvent by distillation.
Inventors
- 👤 Shigeji Obayashi
- 👤 Morio Nakamura
- 👤 Takushi Yamamoto
- 👤 Hitoshi Tanaka
- 👤 Yuji Sakamoto
- 👤 Yasuhiro Shimada
Bibliographic Details
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Jurisdiction
US
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2026-11-05 16:24
CPC Classifications
C; C08; C08J; C08J3/00; C08J3/12; A; A61; A61L; A61L15/00; A61L15/16; A61L15/42; A61L15/60; C08J2300/00; C08J2300/14
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 12
Claim 1
Independent Claim
76 words
A process for granulating a water-absorbent resin, characterized in that 0.000005-0.2 part by weight of a powdery inorganic material is added with agitation in an inert solvent in the presence of 0.1-5.0 parts by weight of water and 0.005-0.2 part by weight of a surface active agent to 1 part by weight of a water-absorbent resin containing a carboxylate as a constituent of the polymer, and the water and the inert solvent are removed by distillation.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
76 words
A process for granulating a water-absorbent resin, characterized in that 0.000005-0.2 part by weight of a powdery inorganic material is added with agitation in an inert solvent in the presence of 0.1-5.0 parts by weight of water and 0.005-0.2 part by weight of a surface active agent to 1 part by weight of a water-absorbent resin containing a carboxylate as a constituent of the polymer, and the water and the inert solvent are removed by distillation.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
57 words
A process according to claim 1, wherein said water-absorbent resin is one or more of resins selected from the group consisting of crosslinked acrylic acid salt polymers, saponification products of crosslinked acrylic acid ester-vinyl acetate copolymers, crosslinked starch-acrylic acid salt graft copolymers, saponification products of crosslinked starch-acrylonitrile graft copolymers and crosslinked polyvinyl alcohols grafted with maleic anhydride.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
80 words
A process according to claim 1, wherein said surface active agent is one or more of surface active agents selected from the group consisting of sorbitan fatty acid esters or sorbitan fatty acid ester ethers having an HLB value of 8-12, saccharose fatty acid esters having an HLB value of 2-16, cellulose esters or cellulose ethers, low molecular weight monoolefin polymers or low molecular weight diolefin polymers grafted with maleic anhydride and monoolefin polymers having an acid value of 10-100.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
32 words
A process according to claim 1, wherein the amount of the inert solvent used is in a proportion of 2-50 parts by weight to 1 part by weight of the water-absorbent resin.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
15 words
A process according to claim 1, wherein said inert solvent is a petroleum oil solvent.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
13 words
A process according to claim 5, wherein said petroleum oil solvent is n-heptane.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
14 words
A process according to claim 1, wherein said inert solvent is a lower alcohol.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
12 words
A process according to claim 7, wherein said lower alcohol is methanol.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
21 words
A process according to claim 1, wherein a powdery inorganic material having a particle size of 100μ or less is used.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
14 words
A process according to claim 1, wherein said powdery inorganic material is silicon dioxide.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
41 words
The process of claim 1 wherein said water-absorbent resin is at least one crosslinked acrylic acid salt polymer; said surface active agent is saccharose fatty acid ester having an HLB value of 2-16, and said powdery inorganic material is silicon dioxide.
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