Use of Dispersing Agents For finest Product Performance Dispersing agents are used in a variety of applications within the chemical manufacturing industry. Paint, adhesive coatings, mineral processing, and even paper making industries often outsource some of their work to chemical manufacturers well-versed in creating these dispersants. Also called plasticizers, they could either be active non-surface polymers or even surface active materials typically added to a suspension liquid agent.
Defining a Dispersant A dispersant or plasticizer is basically an additive which can increase the fluidity of a material, preventing clumping or sediment settling. This kind of additive could be a gas but more often is likely an active non-surface polymer or even an active surface substance. The particle separation in a specific material is improved with this additive and can be used in a wide variety of chemical manufacturing instances. Dispersing agents can be used in plastics, concrete, cement, gypsum wall board, clay materials, adhesives, paints, specialty coatings, paper products and even mineral processing. While some of the same dispersants can be used in a variety of these different applications, they can and do act a bit different in each case. What are the potential advantages of using Aqueous pigment dispersions?
In physicochemical terms, Aqueous pigment dispersions can reduce interactions between pigment particles in a much more efficient than conventional dispersants. The most obvious is to reduce the viscosity of the formulation. The ability to reduce interactions between pigment particles also confers certain benefits associated with the optimization of tinting pigments. We can subdivide the advantages of these dispersants in productivity gains (higher concentrations of pigment), color power (more efficient use of color) and coating quality.