Curing agent for epoxy coatings

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9550912-B2
Application number	US-201414576848-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 19, 2014
Priority date	Dec 19, 2014
Publication date	Jan 24, 2017
Grant date	Jan 24, 2017

Abstract

Compositions, methods, and coating composition using a curing agent are provided herein. In one embodiment, a curing agent for epoxy resins may be prepared using a formulation including: (a) an adduct of: (i) a diglycidyl ether of a bisphenol, and (ii) a first polyamine; (b) a second polyamine; and (c) water; wherein the composition has an amine hydrogen equivalent weight, based on solids, of less than or equal to 105.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A curing agent composition for epoxy coatings comprising:
an adduct of:
a diglycidyl ether of a bisphenol having an epoxy equivalent weight from about 200 to about 300, and
a first polyamine;

a second polyamine different than the first polyamine; and
water;

wherein the composition is a solution, wherein the composition has an amine hydrogen equivalent weight, based on solids, of less than 105.

2. The curing agent of claim 1 wherein the diglycidyl ether of the bisphenol has an epoxy equivalent weight from about 220 to about 285.

3. The curing agent of claim 1 wherein the diglycidyl ether of the bisphenol has an epoxy equivalent weight from about 235 to about 263.

4. The curing agent of claim 1 wherein the first polyamine has an amine hydrogen equivalent weight from about 7 to about 35.

5. The curing agent of claim 4 wherein the first polyamine has an amine hydrogen equivalent weight from about 13 to about 27.

6. The curing agent of claim 1 wherein the adduct has a weight average molecular weight less than or equal to 1150.

7. The curing agent of claim 6 , wherein the adduct has a molecular weight from about 580 to about 1000.

8. The curing agent of claim 1 wherein the composition has an amine hydrogen equivalent weight, based on solids, of greater than or equal to about 50 and less than 105.

9. The curing agent of claim 8 wherein the composition has an amine hydrogen equivalent weight, based on solids, of about 87 to about 96.

10. The curing agent of claim 1 wherein the first polyamine is ethylene diamine and the second polyamine is a polyetheramine.

11. The curing agent of claim 1 wherein the adduct is formed by reacting an excess of the first polyamine with the diglycidyl ether of a bisphenol at a ratio of epoxy equivalents to NH 2 equivalents from about 1:8 to about 1:40.

12. The curing agent of claim 1 wherein the composition comprises
from about 10 wt. % to about 90 wt. % of the adduct;
from about 10 wt. % to about 90 wt. % of the second polyamine; and
from about 1 wt. % to about 50 wt. % of water, wherein the total wt. % is 100 wt. %.

13. The curing agent of claim 1 , wherein the composition further comprises one or more components selected from the group consisting of acids, organic solvents, surfactants, fillers, defoamers, leveling agents, flow agents, wetting agents, cure rate accelerators, and combinations thereof.

14. The curing agent of claim 1 , wherein the second polyamine has an amine hydrogen equivalent weight from about 40 to about 120.

15. The curing agent of claim 1 wherein the composition is free of surfactants, free of dispersing agents, or free of both.

Assignees

• Momentive Specialty Chem Inc
• Hexion Inc

Inventors

• Flosser David
• Garcia Patricia
• Corley Larry Steven
• Erdem Bedri
• Phan Lucy

Classifications

• C08G59/56

  together with other curing agents · CPC title

• C08G59/502 Primary

  Polyalkylene polyamines · CPC title

• C08G59/184

  with amines · CPC title

• C08G59/02

  Polycondensates containing more than one epoxy group per molecule · CPC title

• C09D163/00 Primary

  Coating compositions based on epoxy resins; Coating compositions based on derivatives of epoxy resins · CPC title