PREDICTION OF WATER-BASED PAINT PROPERTIES BASED ON THEIR MINERAL FILLERS: SIMPLEX-PLSR COUPLING APPLICATION

Abstract

The present study shows the optimization of mineral filler blends for use in water-based paints. The aim of the modelling is to evaluate the possibility of creating a model of prediction of the contrast ratio and brightness of the dry film, where the fillers that participate in the system are fillers used commercially by the paint industry. The differential of the use of the mixtures design, called Simplex, is that the predictions are made by carrying out a linear combination between the proportions of the mineral fillers and the response variables. The proposed procedure consists in generating a numerical model that can predict final paint properties depending on the concentrations of the mineral fillers (PCC, GCC and kaolin) used. As support for simplex mixture design, the methods of Partial Least Squares regression and Response Surface were used in the calculations of the models and in the visualization of the response variables.