Polyplastics Co., Ltd. (President: Yasumasa Komura, Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan) has succeeded in the development of technologies capable of efficiently and accurately predicting the durability of acetal resin (POM) DURACON in biofuels.
Nowadays the fuel environment is rapidly changing, as industries worldwide seriously consider shifting from the systems for gasoline and diesel to ones for biofuels. Polyplastics is working to develop technologies to facilitate the use of new materials and designs compatible with a wide variety of biofuels.
As part of this commitment, Polyplastics has recently completed two technologies for predicting the long service life of the acetal resin DURACON in biofuels.
- Technology for predicting the levels to which binary mixtures of fuels penetrate resin
- Acetal resin has superb chemical resistance and is used for many fuel system parts. Industries therefore need a technology to predict the levels to which mixtures of fuels penetrate acetal resin. Our company has developed equations for predicting the fuel penetration quantitatively based on the polymer thermodynamic theory.
- Technology for predicting service life up to the point of destruction under stress
- Biofuels come in various types and mixing ratios, each of which takes a great deal of time to evaluate. The data on the activation energy and activation volume enables us to predict the long service life of DURACON immersed in biofuels.
Our research and development is thoroughly
customer-oriented. We make it our policy to identify future needs through direct contact with the development and design departments of users, to develop applications (fuel pump modules, door locks, clips, connectors, etc.) hand in hand with these departments, and thus to win their trust. Our new technology to predict the long service life of the acetal resin DURACON in biofuels will provide crucial guideline data for users as they design parts.
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