Improvement of film properties of alkyd resins manufactured from seed oil of karawi la MC43

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 make anticorrosive primers for metals such as steel, iron or zinc. Furthermore, versatility of alkyds are due to their remarkable properties such as high pigment wetting properties resulting from oily nature, formation of coherent film by drying owing to unsaturated fatty acid moieties, gloss retention, flexibility, solvent resistance and durability of dried films.