Liquid Film Coating: Scientific principles and their technological implications

by P.M. Schweizer (Editor), S.F. Kistler (Editor)

Overview

This multi-authored volume provides a comprehensive and in-depth account of the highly interdisciplinary science and technology of liquid film coating. The book covers fundamental principles from a wide range of scientific disciplines, including fluid mechanics aand transport phenomena, capillary hydrodynamics, surface and colloid science. The authors, all acknowledged eperts in their fields, represent a balance between industrial and academic points of view. Throughout the text, many case studies illustrate how scientific principles together with advanced experimental and theoretical methods are applied to develop and optimize manufacturing processes of eve increasing sophiatication and efficiency. In the first part of the book, the authors systematically recount the underlying physical principles and important material properties. The second part of the book gives a comprehensive overview of the most advanced experimental, mathematical and computational methods available today to investigate coating processes. The third part provides an overview and critical literature review for all major classes of liquid film coating processes of industrial importance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789401062466
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	10/26/2012
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997
Pages:	783
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x 0.07(d)

Table of Contents

1. Coating science and technology: an overview.- One: Physics and material interactions of coating processes.- 2. Capillary hydrodynamics and interfacial phenomena.- 3. Wetting: static and dynamic contact lines.- 4. Surfactants: static and dynamic surface tension.- 5. Coating rheology: component influence on the rheological response and performance of water-borne coatings in roll applications.- 6. The fate of thin liquid films after coating.- Two: Methods of investigating coating processes.- 7. Experimental methods.- 8. Asymptotic methods for the mathematical analysis of coating flows.- 9. Advances in computational methods for free-surface flows.- Three: Theory and practice of coating processes.- 10. Analysis and design of internal coating die cavities.- 11: Premetered coating processes.- 11a Slot coating.- 11b Slide coating.- 11c Curtain coating.- 11d Surfactant effects in coating processes.- 12: Self-metered coating processes.- 12a Knife and roll coating.- 12b Meniscus roll coating.- 12c Elastohydrodynamic coating systems.- 12d High-speed blade coating.- 13. Free-meniscus coating processes.- 14. Spin coating.- 15. Control and optimization of coating processes.