Plasticizer mobility

Compared with bound plasticizer, the free plasticizer should have a distinctly higher mobility and thus be measurable by nuclear resonance experiments. In order to detect the plasticizer mobility unmistakably, we have chosen as plasticizers, compounds which contain protons on the one hand, and compounds which do not contain protons on the other. This made it possible to distinguish the behavior of the plasticizer and the polymer in the nuclear resonance experiments (10, 11). ... 

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Plasticization does not create chemicil bonds. Within the polymer matrix, the plasticizer must be able to move to be effective, for if the plasticizer molecules are attached to the polymer, the ability to plasticize is greatly diminished. The importance of plasticizer mobility is illustrated by the work by... 

Navarro et al. [7] in their preparation of a nonmigrating plasticizer from DEHP. They showed that when the phthalate DEHP is chemically bonded to the PVC polymer, the T of the PVC composition changes from -35°C for a 12 mol% DEHP plasticized system to about -h40°C for a 12 mol% chemically bonded DEHP plasticizer product. This plasticizer mobility restriction changed a useful plasticized PVC material with very good flexibility at low temperatures to a nonflexible, fairly rigid plastic, which would be brittle at room temperature. Basically by binding DEHP to the PVC polymer, DEHP was no longer a plasticizer. 

Plastic materials represent less than 10% by weight of all packagiag materials. They have a value of over 7 biUion including composite flexible packagiag about half is for film and half for botties, jars, cups, tubs, and trays. The principal materials used are high density polyethylene (HDPE) for botties, low density polyethylene for film, polypropylene (PP) for film, and polyester for both botties and films. Plastic resias are manufactured by petrochemical companies, eg. Union Carbide and Mobil Chemical for low density polyethylene (LDPE), Solvay for high density polyethylene, Himont for polypropylene, and Shell and Eastman for polyester. 

Xylenes. The main appHcation of xylene isomers, primarily p- and 0-xylenes, is in the manufacture of plasticizers and polyester fibers and resins. Demands for xylene isomers and other aromatics such as benzene have steadily been increasing over the last two decades. The major source of xylenes is the catalytic reforming of naphtha and the pyrolysis of naphtha and gas oils. A significant amount of toluene and Cg aromatics, which have lower petrochemical value, is also produced by these processes. More valuable p- or 0-xylene isomers can be manufactured from these low value aromatics in a process complex consisting of transalkylation, eg, the Tatoray process and Mobil s toluene disproportionation (M lDP) and selective toluene disproportionation (MSTDP) processes isomerization, eg, the UOP Isomar process (88) and Mobil s high temperature isomerization (MHTI), low pressure isomerization (MLPI), and vapor-phase isomerization (MVPI) processes (89) and xylene isomer separation, eg, the UOP Parex process (90). 

Salt acts as a completely mobile plastic below 7600 m of overburden and at temperatures above 200°C (2). Under lesser conditions, salt domes can grow by viscous flow. Salt stmctures originate in horizontal salt beds at depths of 4000—6000 m or more beneath the earth s surface. The resulting salt dome or diapir is typically composed of relatively pure sodium chloride in a vertically elongated, roughly cylindrical, or inverted teardrop-shaped mass. 

Thermal Insulation. Foamed plastics (qv) are used as thermal insulation for aU types of constmction because of their low heat- and moisture-transmission values. Polystyrene is used either as foamed board or expandable beads. The foam may be faced with a stmctural surfacing material, eg, a kraft liner-board, to form a panel for insulating mobile homes. These foams can dupHcate the appearance of wood and be used as trim. Foams can also be used as backing, for example, on aluminum siding, to provide heat and sound insulation. Foamed beads can be incorporated in concrete to reduce its density and provide some thermal insulation. 

Thermal Properties. Thermal properties include heat-deflection temperature (HDT), specific heat, continuous use temperature, thermal conductivity, coefficient of thermal expansion, and flammability ratings. Heat-deflection temperature is a measure of the minimum temperature that results in a specified deformation of a plastic beam under loads of 1.82 or 0.46 N/mm (264 or 67 psi, respectively). Eor an unreinforced plastic, this is typically ca 20°C below the glass-transition temperature, T, at which the molecular mobility is altered. Sometimes confused with HDT is the UL Thermal Index, which Underwriters Laboratories estabflshed as a safe continuous operation temperature for apparatus made of plastics (37). Typically, UL temperature indexes are significantly lower than HDTs. Specific heat and thermal conductivity relate to insulating properties. The coefficient of thermal expansion is an important component of mold shrinkage and must be considered when designing composite stmctures. 

Mobile-Bed Scrubbers Mobile-bed scrubbers (Fig. 17-51) are constructed with one or more beds of low-density spheres that are free to move between upper and lower retaining grids. The spheres are commonly 1.0 in (2.5 cm) or more in diameter and made from rubber or a plastic such as polypropylene. The plastic spheres may be solid or hollow. Gas and liquid flows are countercurrent, and the spherical packings are flmdized by the upward-flowing gas. The movement of... 

The other major defects in solids occupy much more volume in the lattice of a crystal and are refeiTed to as line defects. There are two types of line defects, the edge and screw defects which are also known as dislocations. These play an important part, primarily, in the plastic non-Hookeian extension of metals under a tensile stress. This process causes the translation of dislocations in the direction of the plastic extension. Dislocations become mobile in solids at elevated temperamres due to the diffusive place exchange of atoms with vacancies at the core, a process described as dislocation climb. The direction of climb is such that the vacancies move along any stress gradient, such as that around an inclusion of oxide in a metal, or when a metal is placed under compression. 

We first consider strain localization as discussed in Section 6.1. The material deformation action is assumed to be confined to planes that are thin in comparison to their spacing d. Let the thickness of the deformation region be given by h then the amount of local plastic shear strain in the deformation is approximately Ji djh)y, where y is the macroscale plastic shear strain in the shock process. In a planar shock wave in materials of low strength y e, where e = 1 — Po/P is the volumetric strain. On the micromechanical scale y, is accommodated by the motion of dislocations, or y, bN v(z). The average separation of mobile dislocations is simply L = Every time a disloca-... 

It is applicable to plastic packaging materials, where purities with respect to mobile ions, such as Cl and Na, can be checked. In addition, a-particle precursors, such as U and Th, can be determined in solid plastics with sub-ppb detection limits. 

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