Thermal Degradation of Vinylchloride/α-Olefin Copolymers
Titel:
Thermal Degradation of Vinylchloride/α-Olefin Copolymers
Auteur:
Turcsanyi, Bela Tudos, Ferenc Mrazek, Zdenek Lukas, Rudolf
Verschenen in:
International journal of polymeric materials
Paginering:
Jaargang 13 (1990) nr. 1-4 pagina's 147-156
Jaar:
1990-09-01
Inhoud:
The preliminary results obtained for the thermal degradation of vinylchloride/α-olefin copolymers are, in part, unexpected. Decrease of the initial polyene length with the increase of comonomer content is a reasonable consequence of the shorter viny chloride sequence lengths, but the constancy of these lower values in the course of further degradation indicates, that some secondary reactions of the polyenes (e.g. cyclization) must be absent here. The decrease of the HCl elimination rate in case of copolymers differs from the dependence given by the weak sites model. Formally, the rate is proportional to a netative power of conversion, the value of the exponent depending on the composition. These results indicate the necessity of further research for clearing up the unknown details of PVC degradation mechanism.