Objective
The type and concentration of a catalyst plays a crucial part in improving the performance and cost effectiveness of the Polyurethane end product. The challenge for greater technical, commercial and environmental advancement, such as the need for faster formulation to boost production targets, the requisite for catalysts to support more environmental safe product offerings, and the diverse reactive nature of Polyurethanes, is placing great demands not only on the catalysts, but on those involved in the development of Polyurethane products. The objective of this project is to derive a predictive method' to take the value judgements out of the process of selecting the optimum catalyst for Polyurethane systems and replace it with sound scientific and technical predictions. Once the model is formulated it will be validated by SME's via comparison between prediction and experimentation. The two year project when complete will result in a powerful and cost effective system allowing SME's to gain a significant commercial and technical advantage. The consortium seeks to be as broad as possible to ensure a wide range of catalysed Polyurethane systems, equipment complexities in addition to SME cultures are covered in order to give a widely acceptable methodology. Successful introduction and use of this technology in the European SME community could give savings in the order of 20M ECU/year.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences chemical sciences polymer sciences polyurethane
- natural sciences chemical sciences catalysis
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Coordinator
S41 9SB Chesterfield
United Kingdom
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