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Offline silver923

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Starch based wood adhesive.
« on: May 22, 2018, 05:11:19 AM »
I am working on using starch as the major material blended with little portion of urea formaldehyde to produced a wood adhesive. I have started the work but I need some guidance in my steps to blend the starch with the urea formaldehyde.

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Re: Starch based wood adhesive.
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2018, 09:01:11 AM »
What sort of blending problems are you getting?  What have you tried, what result do you get, and what result do you need?

Starch-based glue?  Interesting.  What application is it for?  Seems ultra-green, for sure.  But also seems very prone to microbe attack.  Is this a bio-based glue meant to dissolve rapidly in the environment?

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Or not, given the concerns of the formaldehyde?
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Re: Starch based wood adhesive.
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2018, 09:54:16 AM »


Starch-based glue?  Interesting.  What application is it for?  Seems ultra-green, for sure.

...apart from the formaldehyde!  ;D

Does it HAVE to be urea formaldehyde?  Can't you use a friendlier binder? What is the application? Does it need to be environmentally friendly and be compliant to latest REACH regs and things?  If so - drop the binder and use a more modern one....  unless you need that specific one for strength or some other property it gives that you can't get from something else. 
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Re: Starch based wood adhesive.
« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2018, 09:54:57 AM »

Or not, given the concerns of the formaldehyde?


....sorry - was too quick and didn't read your edit.  :)
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Re: Starch based wood adhesive.
« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2018, 03:42:09 PM »
Actually the urea formaldehyde is for strength, because it is meant to be use as a glue for wood and furniture. But if you can refer me to a binder that is common and can be used I will love to give it a try too.
On the blending aspect,

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if the ratio of starch to the binder is 70/30, do I need to use cross linkers? And is there any calculation to get the specific amount of cross linker to add? Also the best cross linker to use in such case.
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