Polyurethanes from oil based polyols

MIRMA MOSIEWICKI; NORMA E. MARCOVICH; MIRTA I. ARANGUREN

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Congreso; XXII Interamerican Congress of chemical Engineering (ISSN: 1850-3527)? V Argentinian Congress of Chemical Engineering (ISSN: 1850-3500); 2006

Polyurethanes can be manufactured to offer a wide range of properties from those of flexible elastomers to rigid crosslinked polymers and thus, they can find use in different applications. Although the main polyols used for polyurethanes production are derived from the pertroleum industry [1], the use of renewable natural products as an alternative source for raw materials has gained increased importance in both basic research and industrial production during the last years....