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With the environmental regulations becoming more stringent and awareness of consumers increasing to protect environment, an urgent problem is to reduce the use of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Powder coating is a kind of solid powder coating without any solvent. Due to its excellent application performance and environment-friendly, it is widely used in the field of metal coating, especially appliances of offices and home. In recent years, the use of powder coatings has been developed very fast and the requirements of functional powder coatings are also gradually strengthened. According to resin of the film forming, powder coatings can be divided into two types: thermosetting powder coatings and thermoplastic powder coatings. Each kind of powder coatings has its own advantages and disadvantages, and they will be applied in different fields. In order to improve the properties of powder coatings, there are many reports and studies about them. The compositions of powder coatings were extruded, crushed and screened to gain powder of coating. The powder always was stored at room temperature. The powder coatings often operated by two kinds which were electrostatic spraying method and fluidized bed dipping method. After that, the powder was heated to melt and cure. Finally, a smooth bright permanent film on articles was formed to achieve the purpose of decoration and corrosion. The process flow preparation of powder coatings always separated into dry process production and wet process production. The development courses of powder coatings about resins, pigments and fillers are summarized. The future development trends of powder coatings are illustrated.
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The Review of Powder Coatings
Zhongyan Du, Shaoguo Wen
*
, Jihu Wang, Changle Yin, Dayang Yu, Jian Luo
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai, China
Received 25 January 2016; accepted 26 March 2016; published 29 March 2016
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Abstract
With the environmental regulations becoming more stringent and awareness of consumers in-
creasing to protect environment, an urgent problem is to reduce the use of volatile organic com-
pounds (VOCs). Powder coating is a kind of solid powder coating without any solvent. Due to its
excellent application performance and environment-friendly, it is widely used in the field of metal
coating, especially appliances of offices and home. In recent years, the use of powder coatings has
been developed very fast and the requirements of functional powder coatings are also gradually
strengthened. According to resin of the film forming, powder coatings can be divided into two
types: thermosetting powder coatings and thermoplastic powder coatings. Each kind of powder
coatings has its own advantages and disadvantages, and they will be applied in different fields. In
order to improve the properties of powder coatings, there are many reports and studies about
them. The compositions of powder coatings were extruded, crushed and screened to gain powder
of coating. The powder always was stored at room temperature. The powder coatings often oper-
ated by two kinds which were electrostatic spraying method and fluidized bed dipping method.
After that, the powder was heated to melt and cure. Finally, a smooth bright permanent film on ar-
ticles was formed to achieve the purpose of decoration and corrosion. The process flow prepara-
tion of powder coatings always separated into dry process production and wet process production.
The development courses of powder coatings about resins, pigments and fillers are summarized.
The future development trends of powder coatings are illustrated.
Keywords
Powder Coatings, Classification, Process Flow of Preparation, Research Progress
1. Introduction
Powder coating is a 100% solids coating applied as a dry powder and subsequently formed into a film with heat.
Its application method is that utilizes solid binder and pigment. The solid binder melts upon heating, binds the
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pigment and results in a pigment coating upon cooling.
With health, safety, and environmental regulations within the industrial finishing industry stringent increasing,
people are becoming more and more eco-friendly conscious in the coating field. This has led to an urgent need
to reduce the use of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). However, the conventional organic coatings include a
wide variety of VOCs, such as hydrocarbons (hexane, toluene, xylene), ketones (acetone, MEK, MIBK), alco-
hols (methanol, ethanol, cyclohexanol), and esters (ethyl acetate, butyl acetate, isobutyl acetate). In the applica-
tions of coating, substrates are strongly impacted by the recent regulatory constraints REACH (Registration,
Evaluation, Authorization & restriction of Chemicals)
which aim to eliminate hazardous products, and to limit
VOCs.
Those have caused coatings formulators to entire attention center on the development of technologies that
meet the dual requirements of environmental compliance and excellent performance. Powder coatings present
several advantages including little or no volatile organic content, high utilization rates, energy savings, envi-
ronmental attributes, economic benefits and performance advantages and elimination of hazardous waste. As a
result, powder coatings are enjoying high growth as industrial finishers look for ways to meet these challenges.
In the past decades, there have been many significant changes in the coatings industry. There is a great demand
of research work in this field, due to the commercial success and growing popularity of powder coatings
[1]-[4].
2. Classifications of Powder Coatings
According to resin of powder coatings, there are two main coating systems, namely thermoplastic and thermo-
setting systems. Thermosetting powder coatings are made of thermosetting resin, curing agent, pigment, filler,
and additives. Thermoplastic powder coating is made of thermoplastic resin, pigment, filler, plasticizer and sta-
bilizer.
The thermosetting coatings are epoxy resin, polyester resin and acrylic resin along with various hardeners.
Epoxy resin powder coating has excellent properties, as corrosion resistance, hardness, flexibility and impact
strength. Due to polyester resin with polar groups, the polyester resin powder rate is high gloss, good flow, and
good decorative. Acrylic resin powder coating has the advantages of good weather resistance, color retention,
pollution resistance, strong metal adhesion, excellent film appearance, suitable for decorative powder coating.
The thermoplastic coatings are typically polyethylene, polyamide, polyvinyl chloride, and polyvinylidene flu-
oride. The polyethylene powder coating has excellent corrosion resistance, excellent electrical insulation and ul-
traviolet radiation. Polyamide powder coating has the advantages of high mechanical strength, impact resistance,
hardness, low vacuum and so on. Polyvinyl chloride powder coating has excellent solvent resistance, good cor-
rosion resistance, impact resistance, salt spray, can prevent food pollution and high insulation strength of elec-
trostatic spraying. Poly trifluorovinyl chloride is cheap, better corrosion resistance than that of acid resistant
enamel resistance, resistance to hydrochloric acid, dilute sulfuric acid, hydrogen chloride and chlorine corrosion
resistance [5] [6].
3. Manufacturing Process and Coating Process
3.1. Manufacturing Process
The manufacturing of powder coatings was different from other kinds of coatings. Resin, pigment, filler, curing
agent and other additives were mixed in certain proportion. Then the compositions was extruded, crushed and
screened to gain powder of coating. The powder always was stored at room temperature. The powder coatings
often operated by two kinds that electrostatic spraying method applied for thermoset powder coatings and flui-
dized bed dipping method used for thermoplastic powder coatings. After that, the powder was heated to melt and
cure. Finally, a smooth bright permanent film on articles was formed to achieve the purpose of decoration and
corrosion. There are two methods for the production of powder coatings, such as dry process production and wet
process production, as shown in Table 1.
Each formulation consisting of resin, pigment, extender and other raw materials were mixed separately in a
high-speed mixer operated. In the process of producing powder coatings, we often use the melt mixing method,
and the concrete production diagram is shown in Figure 1.
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Figure 1. The concrete production diagram of melt mixing method.
Table 1. Manufacturing process of powder coating.
Manufacturing
process of
powder coating
Dry process
production
Dry mixing method raw material mixing→crushing→sieving→product
Melt mixing method
raw material mixing→melt mixing→cooling→crushing→
fine crushing→sieving→product
Supercritical fluid method
raw material mixing→supercritical fluid→
spray granulation→grading→product
Wet process
production
Evaporation method
the preparation of solvent based coatings→evaporation or
vacuum extraction solvent→crushing→grading→product
Precipitation method
the preparation of solvent based paint→grinding→mixing→adding
precipitant into grain crushing→sieving→grading→product
The spray drying method
the preparation of solvent based paint→grinding→mixing→spray
drying→products
3.2. Coating Process
In 1930s, flame spraying had opened the prelude of powder coatings which ensured polyethylene polymer (un-
dissolved in solvent) and metal coating successfully applying. In 1952, Gemmer Company invented the tech-
nology of fluidized bed coating and the first generation of thermosetting pure epoxy powder coating was born in
the end of the 1950s by the United States. Then, with the melt extrusion machine and electrostatic spraying
technology appearing in 1961, powder coating began to enter the high-speed development stage.
There are two coating processes groups of powder coating. The most widely used method for a thermoplastic
system is the fluidized bed process. Here, a hot metal test piece is dipped into fluidized powder. Another process
for thermosetting products is predominately used with coating powders applying by electro static processes [5].
4. The Research Progress of Powder Coatings
4.1. Research Progress of Resin
The traditional resin cannot meet industry needs that recently a lot of researches were to carry out the modifica-
tion of the traditional resin. Adding functional groups on the resin matrix could achieve the required perfor-
mance. Dogan E. et al. [6] has proved that the glass transition temperature of carboxyl terminated oligomers can
be increased by increasing the molecular weight but without sacrificing the reactive group concentration. This
approach is important that acid number and glass transition temperature for powder coatings may potentially be
used in the design of new carboxyl functional base resins. In order to higher the wetting angles, roughness val-
ues and abrasion resistance while decreased surface free energy values, Pilch-Pitera B. [7] has synthesized
blocked polyisocyanate cross linkers for powder coatings. In the interest of improving hydrophobic properties,
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Vasil’ev V. A. et al. [8] has synthesized of a series of new epoxy oligomers with per fluorinated fragments C
8
F
17
was developed and implemented by a series of reaction. It was found that the synthesized products can be used
as modifiers for epoxy powder composition for production of coatings. Jia X. et al. [9] has researched that liquid
carboxyl-terminated poly (butadiene-co-acrylonitrile) (CTBN)-epoxy resin (EP) pre-polymers were prepared
with different contents of CTBN. The experimental results demonstrate the ability of CTBN-EP pre-polymers,
toughening technology to dramatically enhance the flexibility and impact resistance of FBE coatings without
compromising other key properties such as corrosion protection.
4.2. Research Progress of Pigment
Pigment is an important part of powder coatings, choosing the right pigment to achieve the desired effect while
the most important properties of the pigment are good dispersion and thermal stability. Pigment is often divided
into inorganic pigment and organic pigment. Titanium dioxide is a kind of pigment often used in powder coat-
ings. There is an investigation that the surface of nano-TiO
2
is grafted with hydrophobic groups that the hydro-
phobicity was enhanced, which benefited their dispersion in coating matrix. Shi Q. et al. [10] has studied the
polyester powder coating which was modified by 2 mass% of nano-TiO
2
. The results revealed that, the addition
of nano-TiO
2
made a delay of the melting point, and the starting and peak temperatures of curing reaction of the
nano-TiO
2
modified system were decreased by more than 5˚C. Adding 2 mass% of nano-TiO
2
into polyester
powder coatings has played a prompting role in the curing process. Hadavand B. S. et al. [11] has studied
powder coating nano-ZnO with antibacterial properties. Surface of was successfully modified with VTMS. The
results showed that the thermal stability of modified nano-ZnO has excellent compatible in blending process and
good dispersion in polymeric matrix. The antibacterial experiments showed that the efficiency of coatings con-
taining modified nano-ZnO is more than unmodified ones. In order to increase the ohmic conductivity of the re-
sin system and change the mobile charge carriers, Trottier E. C. et al. [12] has applied the zinc oxide and silica
as pigments into the epoxy polyester resin system. The results were that the resin matrix was opened; the activa-
tion energy for dipole rotation was lowered; the frequency of the relaxation peaks was shifted to lower; the Tg of
the powder coating was increased by adding pigments. Puig M. et al. [13] has studied powder coating formula-
tion with different contents of ZMP were applied over galvanized steel. The anticorrosive properties were stu-
died by means of electrochemical methods. The different results showed that for this type of powder coating, the
anticorrosive properties were enhanced when 10% or 15% ZMP was added due to the barrier properties im-
provement and the inhibitive action of the pigment. No variation in anticorrosive properties between samples
10% ZMP and 15% ZMP was detected in salt fog spray test. Phosphate pigments are considered highly effec-
tive, safe corrosion inhibitors in various coating applications. The study of El-Ghaffar M. A. A. et al. [14] is to
formulate anti-corrosive hybrid epoxy/polyester and polyester powder coating composites based on phosphate
pigments. The prepared powder coating composites were applied on a cold rolled steel panels and were investi-
gated for physico-mechanical properties and evaluated for their corrosion protection properties via salt spray
chamber for 1000 h. The obtained results showed high performance anti-corrosive powder coatings formulations
for steel protection. There is no characteristic change in the physical and mechanical properties of the films.
4.3. Research Progress of Filler
As we known, filler is not only to increase the thickness but also improve the durability, hardness and other
properties of the powder coatings film. Of course, different filler has different properties. Grigoriev A. Y. et al.
[15] has proved the hardness of the friction surface of the composites depends on the susceptibility of the filler
metals to strain hardening and explained differences in the values of their wear. They researched the tribological
properties of PA-6 and PA-6 with surface layers gradient-filled with tin, lead, and bismuth nano-films in a con-
centration of up to 1.2 wt% which based coatings. Vä-Nissi M. [16] has investigated the porosity and average
pore size that compared the powders with a similar polymer to CaCO
3
ratio to in conventional paper coatings.
The study evaluated the feasibility of using highly filled powders with 100 parts per weight of calcium carbonate
and 10 parts per-weight of polymer, acting as binder. In order to decrease energy consumption during the curing
process while increasing a noticeable of the adhesion and hardness properties. Kalaee M. et al. [17] has set out
to investigate the catalytic effect of nCaCO
3
on the cure reaction of polyester/epoxy powder coatings. The effect
of stearic acid coated CaCO
3
nanoparticles on the morphology, cure behavior, adhesion and hardness properties
of the polyester/epoxy blend powder coatings is very well. There is a study [18] that evaluated the scratch and
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wear performance of two thermosetting powder coatings with different weight fractions of filler. The filler is
MoS
2
solid lubricant, and it has a great scratch resistance response based the epoxy composite coatings than
based the polyester composite. Piazza D. et al. [19] has investigated the properties of powder coatings that
epoxy/MMT particles nano-composites with intercalated structures compared with epoxy/barium sulfate mi-
cro-composites. The result is epoxy/MMT particles presented better anticorrosion and physical properties than
epoxy/barium sulfate micro-composites. They also found the organic coatings with higher thermal stability,
good adhesion, barrier and thermal properties when added MMT into the epoxy matrix. These good perfor-
mances are in virtue of the MMT has good dispersion and good interaction with the epoxy matrix. The type and
volume fraction of the filler particles also effect on various properties of the coatings. Mirabedini S. M. et al. [20]
has studied novel filler, HDK fumed silica nanoparticles, applying in powder coating. HDK fumed silica nano-
particles has increased the tensile strength, elastic modulus, hardness, energy to break and adhesion strength of
the coating due to better dispersion and chemical interactions of nanoparticles/polymeric matrix. Nowadays, the
filler with multi-functional performance has become a further development to meet the requirements the high
quality coatings. Puig M. et al. [21] has studied organo-modified silica particles with silanes (OSP) in a polyest-
er powder coating as an adhesion promoter. The results show that organo-modified silica particles not only im-
prove the adhesion properties, but also corrosion protection of the coatings.
5. Development of Powder Coatings
With the development of the application field, the powder coatings will be moving towards the next few points.
Micro-fine powder
Powder coatings have excellent flow ability due to micro-fine powder that creates a good construction condi-
tions.
Energy conservation
Both forming temperatures of film of thermoplastic and thermosetting powder coatings were about 180˚C -
200˚C, what is more, some forming temperatures reach to 350˚C. Energy consumption is large, so energy saving
is emergency. Countries are committed to developing low temperature or room temperature curable powder
coatings.
Functional development of new varieties
The coating has a specific function after adding the corresponding modification substances such as antibac-
terial, deodorant.
New technology and new equipment development continuum
VAMP US Ferro developed method is a method of manufacturing the revolutionary powder coating. Paint
spraying robot has become a reality to convey continued powder coatings. The high degree of automation, con-
tinuous production process and equipment will be more widely used.
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