Question: ( 2 5 points ) You work for a shower stall manufacturer that uses polyester resin in their composite material to make the shower stall.
points You work for a shower stall manufacturer that uses polyester resin in their
composite material to make the shower stall. The company has been plagued with shower stall
failures during installation. You attribute these failures to rough handling, and you find that the
polyester resin formulation used contains only unsaturated diacids making the material very
brittle. In order to obtain a tougher polyester resin, you decide to try replacing weight
percent of the unsaturated diacids with adipic acid.
The current formulation has the following mix ratio:
PEST TP
styrene
initiator MEKP
inhibitor HQ
The ingredients have the following equivalent weights:
Current PEST:
Adipic acid:
Styrene:
For the first trial you also decide to keep the PEST TPtoRD stoichiometric ratio consistent
and the weight percentages of MEKP and HQ the same at and respectively
What is the new mix ratio in as shown above for the current formulation
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