In Nigeria, the foam industries basically use CaCO3 as filler in polyurethane (PU) foam manufacture. This has contributed to the high importation of this mineral, thereby, increasing dependency on imported goods. It is for this reason that, kaolin, a clay deposit commonly found o...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2017/31143
Monitoring and evalution of exotherms as temperature rises were investigated using various foam formulations from two types of polyols with variations in blow indices as volume of water added. It was observed that exotherms increase linearly with blow index. The results also sh...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/11361
Commercial kaolin (Al2Si2O5(OH)4), a clay mineral obtained on the Upper Plateau (Jos, Central Nigeria) was characterized for physical properties such as moisture content (= 1.30%), sieved particle size (= 150µm) and (Apparent Bulk Density (= 0.40g/cm3) and compared to CaCO3, a r...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2014/11156
The polyurethane foam industry in Nigeria depends largely on imported feedstocks based on fossil sources at exorbitant cost and high foreign exchange. Furthermore, emissions from some of these chemicals during processing have been reported to cause negative environmental impact e...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/7396
There is no doubt that in Nigeria, the change to mis-using and counterfeiting of the paper bank notes have given cause for concern by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), prompting the introduction of the polymer bank notes to address some of these problems. This research work inve...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/7395