Browsing ERU - 2007 by Author "Prashantha, MAB"

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  • Air drying alkyd resins from seed oil of kara wi la MC43 
    Prashantha, MAB; Prernachandra, JK; Amarasinghe, ADUS [Conference-Extended-Abstract]
    Alkyd resins are a special family of polyesters which are mainly limited in application of surface coatings. The popularity of alkyd resins in surface coating industry throughout the world is due to cost effectiveness ...
  • Improvement of film properties of alkyd resins manufactured from seed oil of karawi la MC43 
    Prashantha, MAB; Premachandra, BAJK; Amarasinghe, ADUS [Conference-Extended-Abstract]
    Versatility of alkyd resins is due to its application in many different areas such as decorative paints, stoving paints (industrial paints), water dispersible alkyd paints and printing inks. Alkyd resins are also used to ...
  • A new mathematical model to predict the iodine value of fatty oils 
    Prashantha, MAB; Premachandra, BAJK; Amarasinghe, ADUS [Conference-Extended-Abstract]
    Iodine value is defined as the number of centigrams of iodine per gram of oil sample. Drying property of fatty oils mainly depends on the type of unsaturated fatty acids and relative amounts of each type of fatty acid in ...
  • Seed oil of kara wila mc43 as a source of drying oil 
    Prashantha, MAB; Premachandra, JK; Amarasinghe, ADUS [Conference-Extended-Abstract]
    Considerable amount of conjugated trienoic (eleosteric acid) or methylene interrupted trienoic (lenolenic acid) acids in fatty oil contribute to form a dried film when thin film of such fatty oil is exposed to air. Generally ...