Density change with melting

Dielectric relaxation relies on the presence of dipoles on the moving part of the molecule in order to couple to the electric field and exhibit a dielectric response. Thus, pure unoxidised polyethylene, being non-polar, exhibits a dielectric constant due to atomic and electronic distortions close to the square of the refractive index, as required by theory. It exhibits no frequency-plane relaxation, and the only changes with temperature are due to density changes and melting. A polar polymer such as PET with main-chain dipoles exhibits a DETA scan very similar to a DMT A scan. Figure 7.30 illustrates this. The dielectric permittivity increases with temperature as the sample becomes more polarisable with increasing temperature. In this sense e and... 

The dielectric constant, e, depends on temperature only to the extent that the density changes with temperature, eg, a sharp change at the melting temperature, Tm. Except for the influence of ionic conductivity at low frequencies or temperatures above I m. the dissipation factor and the loss index, e", are essentially constant for an ideal, nonpolar polymer, such as PTFE, with some minor exceptions due to branching and other perturbations in the molecular structure. 

As shown in Fig. 4.1, resin feedstocks have a considerable level of interparticle space that is occupied by air. This level of space and thus the bulk density of the feedstock depend on the temperature, pressure, pellet (or powder) shape, resin type, and the level and shape of the recycle material. For a specific resin feedstock, the bulk density Increases with both temperature and the applied pressure. Understanding the compaction behavior of a resin feedstock is essential for both screw design and numerical simulation of the solids-conveying and melting processes. Screw channels must be able to accommodate the change in the bulk density to mitigate the entrainment of air and the decomposition of resin at the root of the screw. Typically, screw channels are set by using an acceptable compression ratio and compression rate for the resin. These parameters will be discussed in Section 6.1. 

The pressure inside the heated chamber may also vary as a result of the local density changes produced by thermal expansion or phase changes resulting from the heating. For example NaCl may expand, melt, and thereby increase the local pressure, while pyrophyllite, a layer-lattice-type aluminum silicate, may transform into a denser assembly of coesite and kyanite, thereby reducing the local pressure. It follows that experimental results in high-pressure, high-temperature work must be interpreted with care. 

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For simple melts in which the composition does not change with temperature, density is a linear function of temperature. 

The density of liquid sulfur (at ambient pressure) decreases with increasing temperature from 1.802 g cm" at 120 C to 1.573 g cm at 440 C but the temperature coefficient of the specific volume shows a unique discontinuity at 159 °C when the density change has a minimal value (density at this temperature 1.770 g cm" ) [11-13]. Similarly, the heat capacity Cp of the melt exhibits a discontinuity at 161 °C [14]. The dielectric constant shows a distinct minimum at 159 °C [15, 16]. The temperature of 159 C (sometimes given as 159.5 or 160 °C) has therefore also been called a transition temperature ( first order A-transition at T ). 

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