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  • Master Thesis
    Rheological Behavior of Carbon Black Inks
    (01. Izmir Institute of Technology, 2022) Çiftçioğlu, Muhsin; Çiftçioğlu, Muhsin; Çiftçioğlu, Muhsin; 03.02. Department of Chemical Engineering; 03. Faculty of Engineering; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
    The printing ink industry is increasingly facing challenges in terms of high manufacturing costs and quality requirements. Rheological properties of the inks must be better understood for the development of production and application processes. Effects of pigment and dispersant content, varnish/solvent ratio, grinding medium, grinding time and storage period on rheological and printed optical properties were investigated for carbon black inks in this thesis work. The viscosity of the dispersant free ink was higher than inks with dispersant. The viscosity of the dispersant-free ink increased after three months storage whereas the viscosity of the dispersant-containing ink remained almost constant. Pigment content or V/S ratio increase resulted in higher viscosities. Grinding with 0.5 mm beads provided a finer size distribution and lower viscosities than ink ground with 0.8 mm beads. Longer grinding time increased the ink viscosities at pigment contents over 20 wt%. Thixotropy of dispersant free ink was determined to be about 12 times higher than 0.5 wt% dispersant containing ink. The thixotropy area of the 30 wt% pigment containing ink was determined to be five times higher than that of 25 wt% pigment containing ink. The thixotropy of the 25 wt% pigmented ink increased when the grinding time was changed from 30 to 60 minutes. Inks with coarser particle size distribution had higher thixotropy. Loss tangent (G''/G') at 10 Hz was used to create a correlation with color strength. Color strength of 14 out of 16 inks was determined higher with lower loss tangent values. Inks containing dispersant, higher pigment contents, varnish/solvent ratios close to one, increasing grinding time at higher pigment content increased the color strengths in printings.
  • Master Thesis
    Rheological Characterization and Extrusion of Alumina Based Pastes for the Preparation of Tubular Ceramic Membrane Supports
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2016) Yılmaz, Kenan; Çiftçioğlu, Muhsin; Çiftçioğlu, Muhsin; 03.02. Department of Chemical Engineering; 03. Faculty of Engineering; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
    Membrane applications in the industry currentlyis dominated by polymeric membranes, however, in recent years the development of ceramic membranes gained significant attention because of their superior chemical/thermal stability and corrosion resistance. The separation capacities of ceramic membranes basically depend on the nature of the selective oxide layers formed on the inner surfaces of tubular ceramic supports. Ceramic tubular membrane supports were prepared from alumina pastes, with solid loadings as high as 55 vol. % and water was used as the major liquid phase. Boehmite along with hydroxypropyl cellulose ethers with different molecular weightswere used as binder materials. Glycerol was used as a lubricant in the paste formulations. Extrusion of alumina paste was conductedwith a ram extruder using capillary dies with a series of L/D ratios at different extrusion velocities and the data was analyzed by using Benbow and Bridgwater model. The rheological properties of various pastes were determined according to the 4 and 6-parameter models.The six parameter model was concluded to better represent the experimental data. The viscosities of the paste batches were also determined by using the model parameters o, 1, and exponent n. The pastes were determined to have a shear thinning behaviour Piston extruder was used for shaping of tubular ceramic supports and the pressure varied in the 20-90 bar range with paste composition and rheology. The tubular extruded supports were dried, debinded to burn out organic binders and sintered at 1525ºC for the formation of about 40% porous mechanically strong membrane supports.