Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

performance polymers

German translation:

(Hoch)Leistungspolymere

Added to glossary by Edith Kelly
Feb 11, 2014 15:20
10 yrs ago
English term

performance polymers

English to German Tech/Engineering Materials (Plastics, Ceramics, etc.) Chemie
The biomaterial development is accompanied by a rapid development in the petrochemical industry. Shale gas condensates are differentiating petrochemical product profiles. While the economics of fossil based olefins improves, we may face a lack of aromates, which are needed not only for packaging polyesters but also for *performance polymers*

Note: this text was authored by someone living in Finland with an Arabic-sounding name.

I wonder whether there is a German word for this

If anyone has an idea what shale gas condensates are ... I think it should read: shale gas and its condensates
Proposed translations (German)
4 +3 Leistungspolymere
Change log

Feb 11, 2014 15:34: Penny Hewson (X) changed "Language pair" from "German to English" to "English to German"

Feb 11, 2014 16:07: Steffen Walter changed "Field (specific)" from "Retail" to "Materials (Plastics, Ceramics, etc.)"

Discussion

Teresa Reinhardt Feb 12, 2014:
agree w/jc - Hochleistungspolymere
Yorkshireman Feb 11, 2014:
Links for condensates Hi Edith, sorry - maybe they work when I post them here.

http://www.shalegaswiki.com/index.php/Natural_gas_condensate...
or http://tinyurl.com/7w5r5j7


The second got cut off:

http://www.ihs.com/about/customers-first/product-enhancement...

Under the item "IHS RTA" (scroll down around three-quarters of the page)

This release improves the capability of RTA in handling shale gas condensates through a more advanced numerical model, Modified Black Oil. The primary benefit is more reliable reservoir characterization and long-term production forecasting of gas condensates.

Edith Kelly (asker) Feb 11, 2014:
Thanks Penny for changing language pair
jccantrell Feb 11, 2014:
{Hoch}Leistungspolymer Would be my first thought. Look at:
http://plasticker.de/news/searchnews2.php?begriff=Leistungsp...

and it gives various citations.
Good luck.

Proposed translations

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Leistungspolymere

I think the company website posted below says it all.

Plenty of other references on the web with uses from medical to dental and automotive.

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Note added at 31 mins (2014-02-11 15:51:29 GMT)
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Shale gas condensates is correct - take a look here

http://www.shalegaswiki.com/index.php/Natural_gas_condensate...

and here

on http://www.ihs.com

For example:

This release improves the capability of RTA in handling shale gas condensates through a more advanced numerical model, Modified Black Oil. The primary benefit is more reliable reservoir characterization and long-term production forecasting of gas condensates.

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Note added at 40 mins (2014-02-11 16:00:28 GMT)
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This article explains quite well (not too technical) what gas condensates are and where and how they occur.

http://tinyurl.com/nwme5cx

Shale gas is one of the unconventional gas group - shale gas, tight gas and coal bed methane. The "unconventional refers to the rocks they are in, not the gases themselves.

We will probably soon be hearing more about them as the controversy over fracking heats up - this is namely the most practicable method for releasing and extracting them.

Most natural gas deposits are accompanied by condensates in one form or another.

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Shale gas condensates are natural gas condensates - you can read more about them here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-gas_condensate

Trivia: back in the eighties, I worked on the data processing of a seismic survey recorded to investigate the subsurface before and after the first fracking (hydraulic fracturing) operation ever carried out in Germany.

It seems a bit late to be banning it now, over 300 fracks have been carried out in Germany alone since the nineteen-eighties

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Kondensate sind flüssige Kohlenwasserstoffmischungen, die aus Erdölbegleitgas und Erdgas gewonnen werden. Sie bestehen aus Komponenten wie C5-Kohlenwasserstoff oder höheren Kohlenwasserstoffen und besitzen normalerweise einen API-Wert von über 45°.

Erdgas, das aus Schieferformationen produziert wird, bezeichnet man als Shale Gas.

Quelle: http://www.sbo.at/print.php?pageName=58&b=S

An excellent glossary of Oil&Gas drilling terms
Note from asker:
Thanks for the references to shale gas condensates - however, first one does not open, second one does not refer to any condensates. But I will struggle along
Peer comment(s):

agree Alexander Schleber (X) : My thought too!
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agree rainerc (X)
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agree Dhananjay Rau : absolutely
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