Biopolymers and Bioplastics

Polymer manufacturing

Polymer production requires manufacturing equipments that possess a wide range of flexibility in operation. Reactors are needed to be operated at various temperatures that require a heat transfer fluid system around that is used for both heating and cooling. This type of heat transfer system configuration works best when a single fluid can be used to effectively transfer heat over the complete temperature range specified. Thermoset polymer matrix is a polymer that is used for reinforcing therefore has structural applications, it includes glass-reinforced plastic radar domes on aircrafts and payload bay doors of space shuttles made of graphene-epoxy. Within the polymer matrix composites, polymers are used as binders to hold the infused particles and fibres in place.