In coated paper production, the high solid-high speed coating is the main stream of the recent coating technology with respect to productivity, final coated properties and cost of energy consumption for drying.
Bleeding phenomena including stalagmite, bleeding and so on are becoming severer with increasing coating speed and solid content. Therefore, these days, the countermeasure for bleeding is desired.
Many papers and investigation results concerning bleeding phenomena were presented so far, and it is estimated that the main causes of bleeding were summarized as follows, :
(1) Apparent viscosity of coating color at a high shear rate
(2) Dynamic dewatering behavior of coating color
(3) Dynamic viscoelastic behavior of coating color
In this study, influences of apparent viscosity and dynamic dewatering of coating color on bleeding were investigated by pilot coater trials and labo-scale measurements of coating color properties.
It was found that apparent viscosity at a high shear rate did not simply correlate with bleeding results.
Bleeding results, however, showed a very good correlation with the apparent viscosity modified by dynamic dewatering of coating colors.
How to calculate to introduce dewatering to apparent viscosity was proposed in order to predict bleeding results.
It was also found that a newly developed latex having particle size around 100 nm showed the better color rheology and water retention than the conventional one, therefore showing the excellent bleeding result.
The above result is thought to be an intrinsic performance only for the new latex.
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