A method for preparing a superabsorbent polymer, and more particularly, a method for preparing a superabsorbent polymer in which it is possible to stably operate a process for preparing a fine powder reassembly while maintaining assembly strength of the fine powder reassembly, wherein a refined ratio is reducible, and an initial absorption speed of the superabsorbent polymer is improved, by adjusting a stirring speed and divisionally adding water to a fine powder in a process for the preparation of the fine powder reassembly, is provided.

Methods of recovering and/or recycling expanded polymer tooling, the methods including collecting expanded polymer tooling, reducing the collected expanded polymer tooling into smaller particles, treating the reduced expanded polymer tooling in order to yield an at least partially purified recovered polymer composition, and then collecting the at least partially purified recovered polymer composition. The at least partially purified recovered polymer composition can then be used to form new expandable polymer tooling.

A process for forming particles. The process includes a step of entraining gas into a precursor material, wherein the gas includes from about 50 vol % to about 75 vol % carbon dioxide and from about 25 vol % to about 50 vol % other constituents. The precursor material is deposited onto a moving conveyor. The precursor material is cooled to form a plurality of particles.

The present invention relates to a device for drying and impregnating a material with a fluid blowing agent, having a blowing agent source (13) for providing a fluid blowing agent (20), a first vessel (11) set up to dry a material (22) with the fluid blowing agent (20) or a drying gas (25) and to load the dried material (23) with the fluid blowing agent (20) at a pressure of at least 2 bar, wherein the first vessel (11) can be flow-connected to the blowing agent source (13) or to the blowing agent source (13) and a drying gas source (17) for provision of the drying gas (25), and a dryer (14) for removing water (27) from the fluid blowing agent (21) or the drying gas (26), wherein the dryer (14) can be flow-connected to the first vessel (11).

Ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer composition pellets comprise: an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer, a conjugated polyene, and a predetermined amount of at least one fisheye-suppressing component; wherein pellet surface portions of the ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer composition pellets have a conjugated polyene content of not lower than 30 ppb based on the weight of the pellets. Such ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer composition pellets are capable of reliably suppressing occurrence of minute fisheyes having a diameter of 200 m or smaller.

An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing water absorbent resin powder in which permeability potential (SFC) is improved while a water absorbing rate (FSR) is being kept. The method is a method for producing water absorbent polyacrylic acid (salt) resin powder including the steps of: (i) polymerizing an acrylic acid (salt) monomer aqueous solution; (ii) during or after the step of (i), performing gel grinding of a hydrogel crosslinked polymer obtained by the polymerization, wherein the hydrogel crosslinked polymer has resin solid content of 10 wt % to 80 wt %, and the gel grinding is carried out with gel grinding energy (GGE) of 18 [J/g] to 60 [J/g]; (iii) drying a particulate hydrogel crosslinked polymer obtained by the gel grinding, wherein the drying is performed at 150 C. to 250 C.; and (iv) carrying out a surface treatment to the particulate hydrogel crosslinked polymer thus dried.

The present invention provides: a resin pellet composition excellent in terms of low-classification property, kneadability with liquid ingredients, and transportability; a method for producing the resin pellet composition; and a method for producing a microporous polyolefin film from the resin pellet composition. The resin pellet composition comprises first pellets, which comprise a polyolefin, and 0.1-99.0 mass % liquid component. The first pellets are porous objects, some of which contain some of the liquid component infiltrated thereinto. In another embodiment, the resin pellet composition includes second pellets, which include a polyolefin. The second pellets are non-porous objects each comprising a portion made of a resin comprising the polyolefin and a portion made of a liquid component. The mass of the liquid component present on the outer surfaces of the second pellets is 20 mass % or less with respect to the total mass of the second pellets.

Provided is an EVOH resin pellet which is capable of reducing the occurrence of fish eyes in a melt molded article of an EVOH resin. The occurrence of fish eyes in a melt molded article such as a film that is produced by melt molding using pellets is able to be suppressed by setting the abundance of a conjugated polyene in a surface portion of the pellet to an intended amount or more.

The invention provides novel pellets having high fluidity in a hopper of an extruder and capable of forming a coating layer having good wire diameter stability and capacitance stability even when used for rapid molding of electric wire coating. The pellets contain a fluororesin. Each of the pellets, placed on a horizontal surface, has a substantially circular outline or a substantially elliptic outline and has a major axis D.sub.1 of 3.1 mm or shorter and a minor axis D.sub.2 of 3.1 mm or shorter when observed in the direction normal to the horizontal surface. Each pellet satisfies the following formula (1): (D.sub.1+D.sub.2)/2L=1.8 to 2.6, wherein D.sub.1 represents the major axis, D.sub.2 represents the minor axis, and L represents the height from the horizontal surface to the highest point of the pellet.

The present disclosure provides a pellet. In an embodiment, the pellet includes a body having a first end and an opposing second end. The body is composed of a polymeric material. The body has a length and a diameter (body diameter). A channel having a diameter (channel diameter), extends through the body from the first end to the second end. The pellet has a channel diameter-to-body diameter ratio from 0.05 to 0.45. The present disclosure also provides a process for soaking the pellet in a liquid additive and forming a loaded pellet with the additive in the pellet body.