Paint manufacturing lab

Head of laboratory: Bodo Müller

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Picture 1: Paint manufacturing

In the laboratory, students are assigned more or less complex tasks for which they have to find task-specific solutions independently, i.e. they learn to develop paint compositions. The paint is then manufactured with different dispersion aggregates (picture 1).

Picture 2: Application

Afterwards, the paint is applied on the base material (picture 2) and is dried or cured.

Picture 3: Light-optical microscopy

After testing the coatings, the students recognize, for example, that an increasing pigmentation strongly reduces the brightness and flexibility of the coatings. Thus, they get to know the dependency of the coating characteristics on the paint composition (components). Or they observe the segregation of pigments (picture 3); this damage can be cleared by adding an appropriate silicone additive. Students thus become acquainted with the effects of paint additives.

The students particularly manufacture the following types of paint:

Physically drying emulsion paint (e.g. house coatings)
Oxidative curing paint (e.g. coatings)
Enamel (e.g. automotive base coating)
2K polyurethane paint (e.g. automotive refinishing paint)
2K epoxy finishing paint (e.g. excellent corrosion protection)

Emulsion paint only contains water as a solvent. The other paints are manufactured as environment-friendly aqueous compounds and sometimes also as solvent-based products.

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Hochschule Esslingen
Angewandte Naturwissenschaften
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73728 Esslingen

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