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Final Design PDF
Polycondensation
of Nylon 6, 10;
Modified Nylon
Rope Trick
Mentored by:
Dr. Santosh K. Gupta,
FASc, FNASc, FNAE
Distinguished Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
UPES, Dehradun
2013-14
2013-14
Mentee:
Chinmay Verma
Nayan Kale
Rhythm Agarwal
Shivam Ashok Dixit
Introduction
As per out project titled Interfacial Polycondensation of Nylon 6, 10, we were assigned to perform
nylon rope trick on laboratory scale. The reaction was carried out successfully in the laboratory.
After that, a mechanism for commercial use was designed and later fabricated by our team of four
people. This is completely designed independently under the guidance of Dr. S.K. Gupta. The details
of the project follows.
Materials Required:
Chemicals Required:
Sebacoyl Chloride
Hexamethylene Diamine
NaOH
Hexane
Pure water
2. Storage tanks
3. Connecting tubing
4. Motors
5. Base
3 ft x 3 ft
Type: plywood
Motor
Observation
Swing Motor
Hook:
Different hook designs were used to withdraw the polymer properly
and for optimization.
1. Safety pin
Reason for usage: because of the pointed needle and smaller
size
Reason for rejection: Lightweight not able to penetrate the
film
2. Curtain hook
Reason for usage: The hook shape may prove to be useful
Reason for rejection: too large in size
3. Nail
Reason for usage: heavy weight
Reason for rejection: small head
4. Screw(final)
Reason for usage: Threads and larger head
Reactor walls:
Earlier we faced a problem of polymer sticking to the walls of the reactor due to which the
drawing out mechanism became cumbersome. For this we used various materials like oil on
the wall surface or grease and even cello taping. But none of the materials worked as
expected and thus we came to the conclusion to reduce the concentration of reactants and
finally our problem was solved.
Hexamethane diamine Rs. 337/Sebacoyl Chloride- Rs. 2722/Motors: Rs. 1020/Plyboard: Rs. 580/Beakers: Rs. 1170/Valves and tubing: Rs. 100/Adhesives: Rs. 300/Paint: Rs. 180/Miscellaneous: Rs. 1100/Total: Rs. 7509/-
Conclusions
Our team of four people have made the best efforts to make an innovative approach to perform this
experiment and optimize it for industry usage. We would like to suggest that it is an extremely
sensitive reaction and thus must be carried out with great caution.