Title

Research And Development On Advanced Graphite Materials. Volume XXXII - Studies Of Binder Systems For Graphite

Date

1964

Index Abstract

Contrails and DTIC

Photo Quality

Incomplete

Report Number

WADD TR 61-72 Volume 32

Creator

Edstrom, T.

Racicot, R. L.

Stout, C. F.

Lewis, I. C.

Corporate Author

Advanced Materials Laboratory, National Carbon Company

Laboratory

Air Force Materials Laboratory

Extent

52

NTRL Accession Number

AD601754

Identifier

AD0601754

AD0601754

Access Rights

OTS

Distribution Classification

1

Contract

AF 33(616)-6915

DoD Project

7350

DoD Task

735002

DTIC Record Exists

Yes

Distribution Change Authority Correspondence

None

Report Availability

Full text available

Date Issued

1964-05

Abstract

Binder systems were investigated with respect to their thermosetting characteristics both to replace pitch-sulfur combinations presently used in the pressure-curing process and to provide binders for development of new graphite grades. The binder systems included: (a) prepolymerized furfural-alcohol resin; (b) pitch, furfural, furfuryl-alcohol combinations; (c) pitch with a ferric chloride catalyst; and (d) pitch with oxidizers such as inorganic persulfates, chlorates and oxides. Acenaphthylene pitch, a new binder, was investigated with regard to thermosetting properties when used in the pressure-curing process. These binder systems were used in the fabrication of graphite articles and property determinations were made on the finished graphites

The binder modifications or systems investigated have produced no outstanding advantages over the pitch-sulfur system for use in the pressure-curing process. The most promising of the new systems was pitch combined with oxidizing agents other than sulfur, which produced a thermosetting binder of high coking value and which was comparable to the pitch-sulfur binder in other properties.

Publisher

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH : Air Force Materials Laboratory, Research and Technology Division, Air Force Systems Command

Distribution Conflict

No

Provenance

IIT

Lockheed Martin Missiles & Fire Control

Type

report

Subject

Thermosetting Plastics

Pyrolysis

Graphited Materials

Thermal Properties

Experimental Data

Oxides

Oxidizers

Furans

Pitch (Material)

Furan Resins

Naphthalenes

Chlorates

Alcohols

Thermoplastic Resins

Sulfur

Binders

Format

1 online resource