Abstract
AbstractIn industry, crosslinked polyethylene (XLPE) cable insulation is usually produced from crosslinkable compounds consisting of low‐density polyethylene (LDPE) and additives, which known as “cable materials”. Considering that in addition to additives, the structure of matrix resin is a key factor in determining the property of XLPE, it is worthy to study the structure requirements of matrix resin for the development of cable materials with different voltage grades. In this work, the structure of matrix resins of a high voltage grade and an extra high voltage grade cable material were comparatively investigated. Interestingly, it was found that the matrix resins have no significant difference in chain structure parameters including molecular weight and its distribution and vinyl content between two samples, and their crystalline structure as well as the melt rheology and melting crystallization behavior are also very similar. These results suggest that these matrix resins may not substantially differ. Our work shows that cable materials with different voltage grades are not necessarily diverge in terms of matrix resin structure, and it could be possible to develop higher grade cable materials using the same matrix resin as lower grade counterparts.
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