Coating and Drying Defects: Troubleshooting Operating Problems - Hardcover

Gutoff, Edgar B.; Cohen, Edward D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471598100 ISBN 13: 9780471598107

Publisher: Wiley-Interscience, 1995

Synopsis

Using a non-mathematical approach, it offers all the tools needed to troubleshoot defects as well as the means to eliminate them. Contains brief descriptions of key coating processes. Presents a methodology to guide readers from the start of the troubleshooting procedure, when the defect is first discovered, to the finish where the mechanism for the formation of the flaw is defined and then eliminated.

About this title

From the Back Cover

A practical guide for ensuring a defect-free coating and drying process

For professionals in the coating and drying industry, the world is a demanding place. New, technically complex products such as fuel cell membranes, thin film batteries, solar cells, and RFID chips require coatings of extreme precision. With the bar raised so high, understanding how to troubleshoot and eliminate defects on a coating line is an essential skill for all personnel.

Coating and Drying Defects, Second Edition provides manufacturing and quality control personnel, equipment operators and supervisors, and plant engineers and scientists with the full complement of proven tools and techniques for detecting, defining, and eliminating coating defects and operating problems, and for ensuring that they do not recur.

Updating the valuable contents of the first edition, this practical Second Edition:

• Describes all major processes for coating and drying of continuous film on sheets or webs
• Covers technologies that have been recently developed to prevent defect formation and improve operating procedures
• Provides a rational framework within which to assess and analyze virtually any defect that may arise
• Offers step-by-step guidelines for conducting every phase of the troubleshooting process, including defect prevention

Going beyond simply describing a disparate set of troubleshooting techniques, this unique guide arms readers with a systematic, nonmathematical methodology encompassing the entire coating operation, becoming an indispensable resource for manufacturing and quality-control personnel as well as plant engineers, polymer scientists, surface scientists, organic chemists, and coating scientists.

About the Author

EDGAR B. GUTOFF, SCD, is a consultant in coating and drying. He coedited Modern Coating and Drying Technology (Wiley) and coauthored The Application of Statistical Process Control to Roll Products as well as the first edition of this book. He was the first secretary of the International Society of Coating Science and Technology and served until 2002. He is a Fellow of the AIChE and of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology and an adjunct professor at Northeastern University.

EDWARD D. COHEN, PhD, is a technical consultant in all aspects of the web coating process. He recently retired from DuPont Central Research and Development as a DuPont Fellow. Dr. Cohen is coeditor of Modern Coating and Drying Technology(Wiley) and coauthor of the first edition of this book.

GERALD I. KHEBOIAN (Chapter 11 author) is a consultant on web transport systems. He has over thirty-five years' experience applying web handling systems, electrical drives, tension controls, and machine controls. He is past chairman of the national TAPPI Electrical Engineering Committee and of the TAPPI Drive Seminar Series.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471598100
• ISBN 13: 9780471598107
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312