[article] in Industrial & engineering chemistry research > Vol. 49 N° 20 (Octobre 2010) . - pp. 9822-9829 Titre : | Steam - chest molding of expanded polypropylene foams : 1. DSC simulation of bead foam processing | Type de document : | texte imprimé | Auteurs : | Wentao Zhai, Auteur ; Young-Wook Kim, Auteur ; Chul B. Park, Auteur | Année de publication : | 2011 | Article en page(s) : | pp. 9822-9829 | Note générale : | Chimie industrielle | Langues : | Anglais (eng) | Mots-clés : | Differential scanning calorimetry Foam Molding Water vapor | Résumé : | To investigate the evolution of melting behavior during the steam-chest molding process of expanded polypropylene (EPP) bead, a differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) test involving fast heating, isothermal treatment, and fast cooling was used to simulate the bead foam processing. The EPP bead foam had two original melting peaks: a low melting peak, Tmlow, and a high melting peak, Tmhigh. A new melting peak, Tmi, was induced in the DSC curves, resulting from the heating process, when the treatment temperature was 80—150 °C. The Tmi was about 7 °C higher than the treatment temperature and tended to increase linearly with the increased treatment temperature. A new melting area and further a melting peak, Tmc, were observed in DSC curves, resulting from the cooling process, when the treatment temperatures were higher than 135 °C. The high sensitivity of the Tmi and Tmc to treatment temperature provided a clue to the actual temperature inside the mold during the steam-chest molding process. Different steam pressures were applied during EPP bead processing, and the melting behavior of molded EPP samples was measured to check the processing thermal history. A comparison study was done between the DSC simulations and the actual results to understand the melting behavior evolution of EPP bead foam during processing. Some fundamental issues in the steam-chest molding processing, such as the actual steam temperature, the temperature gradient across the mold cavity, and the accurate pressure parameter used to describe the actual processing temperature were alsc studied based on the DSC simulation. | DEWEY : | 660 | ISSN : | 0888-5885 | En ligne : | http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=23325804 |
[article] Steam - chest molding of expanded polypropylene foams : 1. DSC simulation of bead foam processing [texte imprimé] / Wentao Zhai, Auteur ; Young-Wook Kim, Auteur ; Chul B. Park, Auteur . - 2011 . - pp. 9822-9829. Chimie industrielle Langues : Anglais ( eng) in Industrial & engineering chemistry research > Vol. 49 N° 20 (Octobre 2010) . - pp. 9822-9829 Mots-clés : | Differential scanning calorimetry Foam Molding Water vapor | Résumé : | To investigate the evolution of melting behavior during the steam-chest molding process of expanded polypropylene (EPP) bead, a differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) test involving fast heating, isothermal treatment, and fast cooling was used to simulate the bead foam processing. The EPP bead foam had two original melting peaks: a low melting peak, Tmlow, and a high melting peak, Tmhigh. A new melting peak, Tmi, was induced in the DSC curves, resulting from the heating process, when the treatment temperature was 80—150 °C. The Tmi was about 7 °C higher than the treatment temperature and tended to increase linearly with the increased treatment temperature. A new melting area and further a melting peak, Tmc, were observed in DSC curves, resulting from the cooling process, when the treatment temperatures were higher than 135 °C. The high sensitivity of the Tmi and Tmc to treatment temperature provided a clue to the actual temperature inside the mold during the steam-chest molding process. Different steam pressures were applied during EPP bead processing, and the melting behavior of molded EPP samples was measured to check the processing thermal history. A comparison study was done between the DSC simulations and the actual results to understand the melting behavior evolution of EPP bead foam during processing. Some fundamental issues in the steam-chest molding processing, such as the actual steam temperature, the temperature gradient across the mold cavity, and the accurate pressure parameter used to describe the actual processing temperature were alsc studied based on the DSC simulation. | DEWEY : | 660 | ISSN : | 0888-5885 | En ligne : | http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=23325804 |
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