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Plant workers: Educate me on plastic polymerization
Posted on 1/21/18 at 3:40 pm
Posted on 1/21/18 at 3:40 pm
Specifically HPDE or PET production processes
What monomers and catalysts are used?
What monomers and catalysts are used?
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Posted on 1/21/18 at 3:43 pm to texag7
you gonna have to pull a permit baw, I'm busy stirring my gumbo
Posted on 1/21/18 at 3:44 pm to texag7
This thread will be liberally sprinkled with references to baws, truck nuts, and New Iberia haircuts.
Posted on 1/21/18 at 3:54 pm to texag7
The only thing that will happen in this thread is a bunch of guys making 50k/year will say baw and truck nuts a lot. Probably gonna be a few more cooking jokes too
Posted on 1/21/18 at 4:06 pm to UncleRuckus
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Plant workers
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making 50k/year
Really? And you wonder why everything is made for nothing in China.
Posted on 1/21/18 at 4:16 pm to texag7
I think you meant HDPE, which should lead you to "polyethylene", which would lead to the monomer ethylene. Everything you seek can be found on the Internet. Why are you asking here?
Posted on 1/21/18 at 4:29 pm to UncleRuckus
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50k/year
A real operator will have that by end of April, baw.
Posted on 1/21/18 at 4:32 pm to texag7
Ammonia and bleach. Stand downwind.
Posted on 1/21/18 at 4:33 pm to texag7
Polyethylene. Feedstock is Ethylene, injected into a reactor, injected with a catalyst which turns the gas into a washing detergent type powder. It is then put into an extrusion process where additives are added, then melted and cut by Set of knives on an electric motor into pellets.
ETA: Nobody is going to tell you what catalysts/monomers they use.....
ETA: Nobody is going to tell you what catalysts/monomers they use.....
This post was edited on 1/21/18 at 4:37 pm
Posted on 1/21/18 at 4:33 pm to texag7
Do your own homework Aggie.
Posted on 1/21/18 at 4:36 pm to texag7
Plastic Polymerization Board
Posted on 1/21/18 at 4:41 pm to PolyPusher86
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ETA: Nobody is going to tell you what catalysts/monomers they use.....
Ethylene is a monomer
Posted on 1/21/18 at 4:43 pm to PolyPusher86
I could but I'd have to kill you
Posted on 1/21/18 at 4:43 pm to HogBalls
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A real operator will have that by end of April, baw.
The 50k was referencing the jealous dudes that always say baw and truck nuts in every operator thread, not the operator baws
Posted on 1/21/18 at 4:45 pm to UncleRuckus
Damn wish I could work 80+ hours a week 
This post was edited on 1/21/18 at 4:45 pm
Posted on 1/21/18 at 4:47 pm to texag7
No shite, so is propylene, polypropylene
Posted on 1/21/18 at 4:48 pm to jimbeam
Not all operators work a ton of overtime. It varies unit to unit. You a farmer baw?
Posted on 1/21/18 at 4:55 pm to jimbeam
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Damn wish I could work 80+ hours a week
I'm guessing you work way more than that
Posted on 1/21/18 at 4:56 pm to texag7
I work 40 hours a week 
Posted on 1/21/18 at 5:07 pm to PolyPusher86
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Polyethylene. Feedstock is Ethylene, injected into a reactor, injected with a catalyst which turns the gas into a washing detergent type powder. It is then put into an extrusion process where additives are added, then melted and cut by Set of knives on an electric motor into pellets.
What he said. I just work extrusion. Im not required to know the upstream side of the process
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