Poly Vinyl Chloride Samples Research Articles

Experimental Comparative Study of Different Tribocharging Devices for Triboelectric Separation of Insulating Particles

Several tribocharging devices are commonly used for charging insulating particles in order to separate granular plastic mixtures using a vertical triboelectric separator. However, there is no comparative analysis of these devices when tribocharging is achieved using identical samples of insulating particles. The objective of this paper is to carry out an experimental study that compares several tribocharging devices built up in the laboratory: a rotating cylinder, a tribo-cyclone, a static tribocharger, a propeller-type unit, and a fluidized bed. The study was performed using two granular samples of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and high-density polyethylene (HDPE), for two different particle sizes: 1 and 2 mm. Experimental results showed that, when tribocharging pure samples of either PVC or HDPE, tribo-cyclone is the most efficient. However, when mixed samples are processed, the fluidized bed device gives the best results in terms of electric charge and separation efficiency.

Effect of Solution Content ZnO Nanoparticles on Thermal Stability of Polyvinyl Chloride

Today's pipe made of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is used as basic good in different industries. The thermal stability of the PVC while is filled with ZnO nanoparticles was studied in this paper. This paper show that the stability of the PVC resin mixed with ZnO nanoparticles solution and Sn was better than that of the PVC resin mixed with Sn alone. The UV (ultraviolet)–vis spectra is showed that under certain heat treatment conditions, the PVC samples without ZnO nanoparticles solution embodied relatively high content of the conjugated double bonds with the chain length of about 3–5. However, the content of the conjugated double bond with the chain length of about 6 was greatly increased when the nanoparticles was filled into the PVC resin. This work shows the ZnO nanoparticles could inhibit the thermal degradation process of PVC resin in ionic mechanism.

Photodegradation profiles of PVC compound and wood/PVC composites under UV weathering

This work aimed to study the effect of different ultraviolet (UV) weathering conditions (natural and accelerated) on the photodegradation of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and wood/polyvinyl chloride (WPVC) composites by considering the structural and physical changes of PVC and WPVC samples as well as examining the photodegradation profiles at different depths from the sample surfaces. The photodegradation of PVC and WPVC composites under natural weathering condi- tions were lower than those under accelerated weathering conditions. The addition of Tinuvin P stabilizer at 2 phr was suf- ficient to stabilize PVC and WPVC composites, whereas the presence of wood appeared to accelerate the photodegradation of PVC under both natural and accelerated weathering conditions. When considering the photodegradation profiles at dif- ferent depths of the samples, it was found that the polyene and carbonyl sequences of PVC and WPVC composites were high at the sample surfaces and tended to decrease rapidly with increasing depth from the specimen surface before stabiliz- ing at a depth of 60 µm for PVC and 80 µm for WPVC composites. The differences in specimen depths for the stabilization of polyene and carbonyl sequences in PVC and WPVC samples implied that the presence of wood particles enhanced the absorption of UV radiation by the WPVC composite samples.

Evaluation of the Thermal Stabilization Effect of the Bis (Mercaptoethanol Oleate) Dimethyl Tin on Polyvinyl Chloride

Bis (mercaptoethanol oleate) dimethyl tin was synthesized and added to polyvinyl chloride (PVC) with various ratios. Specimens were prepared by mixing and rolling through a double-roller mixer, and their static thermal stabilities were estimated by the oven static thermal aging experiments. The influence of the bis (mercaptoethanol oleate) dimethyl tin on the dynamic thermal stability of PVC was tested through a haack torque rheometer (HAAKE PolyLab QC). The tensile strength and rate of elongation at break of the PVC specimens were evaluated by a servo-controlled tensile testing machine. The results show that the bis (mercaptoethanol oleate) dimethyl tin has excellent static and dynamic thermal stabilization effect on PVC, and to some extent, can improve the breaking elongation rate the PVC sample.

가발에 사용되는 원사의 특성 연구

This study was used a thermogravimetric analyzer to determine thermal characteristics, a hair analysis system to examine morphological changes of wefts-human hair, poly vinyl chloride(PVC) and polyethylene terephthalate (PET)-used in manufacturing wigs. According to a flammability test on human hair and synthetic wefts for wigs, the best results were observed in human hair. According to a thermal test, PET was the best in terms of thermal stability. Also good tensile strength was observed as well. In a scanning electron microscope observation, no human hair scale layer was found because of chemical treatment. In the PVC sample, homogeneous unevenness was observed. Due to a lack of human hair supply and increase in its price, recently, PET weft has emerged as a great substitution for human hair. Because it can be curled using an electric curling device and is more efficient than the conventional non-flammable material PVC in terms of thermal resistance, it will become the next-generation weft for wigs.

Experimental studies on elastic cooling and pyromagnetic effect of polyvinyl chloride sheets with defects

Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) sheets were made into samples with precast defects for uniaxial tensile test. The tests are carried out under room temperature with conditions of same displacement rate but different defect sizes or of same defect but different displacement rates. The local nonuniform temperature field on whole deformation area of specimen is recorded with a thermal infrared imager and the whole coupling magnetic field with thermal changes in experiments is detected and measured by a self-developed sensors system. The experimental results show that, in a complete tensile test process of PVC samples, the temperature reduction phenomenon emerges firstly in its elastic deformation stage (areas) that temperature of specimen is cooler than room temperature. And then in viscoplastic deformation period (areas), the temperature increases sharply to be obviously higher than room temperature due to the thermo-mechanical coupling effection of tensile load and viscoplastic deformation heat. These thermal variations lead a coupling pyromagnetic effect occur and the effect intensity is dependent strongly on the strain rate and/or the size of defects. The temperature prejudgment conditions for materials yield are preliminary discussed based on this effect.

Cell Adhesive and Antifouling Polyvinyl Chloride Surfaces Via Wet Chemical Modification

Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is one of the most frequently used polymers for the manufacturing of medical devices. Limitations for its usage are based upon unfavorable surface properties of the polymer including its hydrophobicity and lack of functionalities in order to increase its versatility. To address this issue, wet chemical modification of PVC was performed through surface amination using the bifunctional compound ethylene diamine. The reaction was conducted in order to achieve maximum surface amination while leaving the bulk material unaffected. The initial activation step was characterized by means of various methods including contact angle measurements, colorimetric amine quantification, infrared spectroscopy, and gel permeation chromatography. Depth profiles were obtained by a confocal microscopic method using fluorescence labeling. Exclusive surface modification was thus confirmed. To demonstrate biological applications of the presented technique, two examples were chosen: The covalent immobilization of the cell adhesive Asp-Gly-Asp-Ser-peptide (RGD) onto PVC samples yielded a surface that strongly supported cellular adhesion and proliferation of fibroblasts. In contrast, the decoration of PVC with the hydrophilic polymer polyethylene glycol prevented cellular adhesion to a large extent. The impact of these modifications was demonstrated by cell culture experiments.

Sonda metálica reduzida para a caracterização térmica de polímeros

Vários métodos têm sido utilizados na determinação da condutividade e difusividade térmica. Dentre esses, cita-se o Método do Fio Quente, que é muito utilizado por ser um método transiente de troca de calor que determina estas propriedades de forma simultânea e rápida. Neste trabalho o Método do Fio Quente com uma sonda de dimensões reduzidas é usado para obter a condutividade e difusividade térmica do Policloreto de Vinila (PVC) e da Poliamida. Este método se baseia na passagem de uma corrente contínua através de um fio de resistência, gerando calor que aquece uma sonda inserida na amostra. Da dissipação do calor é possível calcular a condutividade térmica. Para determinar a difusividade térmica minimiza-se uma função erro, definida pelo quadrado da diferença entre a temperatura experimental e a numérica. A temperatura numérica é obtida pela solução da equação da difusão unidimensional em coordenadas cilíndricas utilizando o Método de Diferenças Finitas com formulação explícita. O diferencial deste trabalho refere-se às pequenas dimensões da sonda, possibilitando a utilização de amostras menores, além de apresentar um novo dispositivo para fixar corretamente os componentes. Os resultados estimados apresentaram boa concordância com a literatura.

Photopolymerizable hybrid sol gel coating as a barrier against plasticizer release

In this work, a dip-coating method was applied to coat polyvinyl chloride (PVC) used in the field of medicine with an organic/inorganic sol gel hybrid layer based on two organic functionalized titanium alkoxide and organic grafted alkoxysilane. The aim of the coating is to prevent the plasticizers release from PVC and to protect PVC against UV degradation. The optical and structural properties of the coating were investigated using UV–visible and infrared spectroscopy. ATR-FTIR spectroscopy was performed to control the amount of plasticizer leaching from the PVC medical device. The mechanical properties of the PVC and coated PVC samples were determined using tensile test. The barrier effect of the hybrid sol gel on the migration of the plasticizers was assessed using high performance liquid chromatography. Surprisingly the coating protects the PVC substrate against the UVA degradation and prevents leaching of plasticizers up to 98%. The adhesion of the hybrid coating on PVC exhibits a constant value whatever the treatments (UV-ozone and plasma) performed on the polymer surface.

Bioinspired Low-Frequency Material Characterisation

New-coded signals, transmitted by high-sensitivity broadband transducers in the 40–200 kHz range, allow subwavelength material discrimination and thickness determination of polypropylene, polyvinylchloride, and brass samples. Frequency domain spectra enable simultaneous measurement of material properties including longitudinal sound velocity and the attenuation constant as well as thickness measurements. Laboratory test measurements agree well with model results, with sound velocity prediction errors of less than 1%, and thickness discrimination of at least wavelength/15. The resolution of these measurements has only been matched in the past through methods that utilise higher frequencies. The ability to obtain the same resolution using low frequencies has many advantages, particularly when dealing with highly attenuating materials. This approach differs significantly from past biomimetic approaches where actual or simulated animal signals have been used and consequently has the potential for application in a range of fields where both improved penetration and high resolution are required, such as nondestructive testing and evaluation, geophysics, and medical physics.

Application of X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopic Analysis to Protein Adsorption on Materials Relevant to Biomanufacturing

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) has been used to analyze the adsorption of a therapeutic monoclonal antibody (mAb), rituximab, and polyclonal human IgG (hIgG) on materials relevant to biomanufacturing of protein drug products. Details of the methods used to obtain qualitative confirmation of protein adsorption, using both the nitrogen (N 1s) signal originating from mAb proteins and an iodine heteroatom label, are presented. Both rituximab and hIgG were found to adsorb to a glass vial surface, vial rubber cap liner, syringe plunger tip, cell culture flask, serological pipette, and microcentrifuge tube. There was no evidence of protein adsorption on samples of polyvinylchloride (PVC) tubing or the barrel of a syringe. Differences in XPS heteroatom peak intensities, based on whether the heteroatom label was added to the protein prior to surface adsorption or after, suggest that adsorbed rituximab on a glass vial surface is in a structural conformation that allows extensive heteroatom labeling. Using a simple uniform overlayer model, the coverage of rituximab on a glass vial surface was determined by XPS to be 3.6 mg/m(2) , a value consistent with that expected for a theoretical monolayer.

ポリ塩化ビニル製玩具中の可塑剤使用実態

Plasticizers in 101 samples of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) toys on the Japanese market were surveyed. No phthalates were detected in designated toys, though bis(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate, diisononyl phthalate, diisobutyl phthalate, dibutyl phthalate, diisodecyl phthalate and benzyl butyl phthalate were detected in more than half of other toys. 2,2,4-Tributyl-1,3-pentanediol diisobutylate, o-acetyl tributyl citrate, adipates and diacetyl lauroyl glycerol, which are alternative plasticizers to phthalates, were detected. The results of structural analysis confirmed the presence of di(2-ethylhexyl)terephthalate, tributyl citrate, diisononyl 1,2-cyclohexanedicarboxylate and neopentyl glycol esters; these have not previonsly been reported in Japan. There appears to be a shift in plasticizers used for designated toys from phthalates to new plasticizers, and the number of different plasticizers is increasing.

Study and optimization of a soaking treatment to reduce migration from plasticized polyvinyl chloride

Commercial sunflower oil was epoxidized, and epoxidized sunflower oil (ESO) was used as a thermal stabilizer for polyvinyl chloride (PVC). This work describes a process capable to reduce the additives migration between plasticized PVC stabilized with ESO and food simulants. For that purpose, samples were first soaked in n-heptane and then dried. Soaking temperature and drying temperature with time were optimized by using the methodology of experiment plans. The optimal conditions found were applied to study the migration of additives in a fatty simulant (olive oil) at 40°C. The test conditions were 12 days. Twelve circular samples of plasticized PVC were immersed in 120 mL of olive oil. A circular sample and 10 mL of food simulant were taken off every day to be analyzed. The rate of mass variation was followed. The specific migrations of the present additives were investigated by using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, atomic absorption spectrometry and gas chromatography- mass spectrometry. The results showed that the studied process reduced considerably the additives migration. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci, 2012

Effects of incorporating technique and silver colloid content on antibacterial performance for thermoplastic films

AbstractAntibacterial efficacies of various thermoplastics, such as medium‐density polyethylene (MDPE), polystyrene (PS), polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) containing nano‐silver colloids were studied under a wide range of testing conditions. The effects of nano‐silver colloid content and the silver‐polymer contact time were of our main interests and quantitatively assessed by shake flask method coupled with a plate‐count‐agar (PCA) technique using Escherichia coli as testing bacteria. Two different methods were used for incorporating the nano‐silver colloids into the thermoplastics, these being spray‐coating and melt‐blending techniques. The experimental results suggested that all neat thermoplastics alone could not generally inhibit the E. coli growth, suggesting that all thermoplastics exhibited nonbactericidal behavior. However, neat PVC appeared to show a retarding effect for the E. coli growth. In addition, coating silver colloid onto all types of thermoplastic substrates could inhibit the E. coli growth up to 99.9% at the optimum silver content of 50 ppm for PS, PET and PVC and of 75 ppm for MDPE. The optimum contact time for all thermoplastics was 150 min. Among the thermoplastics used, PVC exhibited the highest % E. coli reduction, and this was confirmed by the higher silver content via Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (AAS) technique. For a given silver content, the spray‐coating technique could give better dispersion level of silver throughout the thermoplastic films and this led to more effective antibacterial performance as compared with the dry‐blending technique. In PVC sample, the contact angle value appeared to increase with the addition of silver content for both incorporating techniques. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci, 2011.

Study of Amount of Evaporation Residue in Extracts from Plastic Kitchen Utensils into Four Food-simulating Solvents

The amount of evaporation residue was investigated as an index of total amount of non-volatile substances that migrated from plastic kitchen utensils into four food-simulating solvents (water, 4% acetic acid, 20% ethanol and heptane). The samples were 71 products made of 12 types of plastics for food contact use. The amount was determined in accordance with the Japanese testing method. The quantitation limit was 5 µg/mL. In the cases of polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, acrylonitrile styrene resin, acrylonitrile butadiene styrene resin, polyvinyl chloride, polyvinylidene chloride, polymethylpentene, polymethylmethacrylate and polyethylene terephthalate samples, the amount was highest for heptane and very low for the other solvents. On the other hand, in the cases of melamine resin and polyamide samples, the amount was highest for 4% acetic acid or 20% ethanol and lowest for heptane. These results enabled the selection of the most suitable solvent, and the rapid and efficient determination of evaporation residue.

Development of determination of di-n-octyl phthalate (DOP) residue by an indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

In this research, the hapten di-n-octyl 4-aminophthalate (DOAP) was designed and synthesised successfully. It was used to couple with carrier proteins, bovine serum albumin (BSA) and ovalbumin (OVA) by diazotization reaction for immunogen (DOP–BSA) and coating antigen (DOP–OVA), respectively. Rabbits were immunised with DOP–BSA; polyclonal antiserum was raised and determined by competitive indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ciELISA). After optimisation, a ciELISA was established. The quantitative working range for DOP was 5–75 ng/mL with the detection limit of 1.9±0.1 ng/mL and the IC50 of 19.2±1.1 ng/mL. The optimised ELISA had cross-reactivity of 22.6%, 17.6% and 21.2% with di-iso-octyl phthalate (DIOP), di-n-butyl phthalate (DBP) and di-hexyl phthalate (DHP), respectively. The result of the detection of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) samples showed that the immunoassay we developed had high-accuracy contrast with high-performance liquid chromatography electrospray ionisation tandem mass spectrometry analysis and it could be qualified to determine di-n-octyl phthalate (DOP) residue in PVC samples.

Wideband Reference-Plane Invariant Method for Measuring Electromagnetic Parameters of Materials

This paper presents a simple and effective wideband method for the determination of material properties, such as the complex index of refraction and the complex permittivity and permeability. The method is explicit (non-iterative) and reference-plane invariant: it uses a certain combination of scattering parameters in conjunction with group-velocity data. This technique can be used to characterize both dielectric and magnetic materials. The proposed method is verified experimentally within a frequency range between 2 to 18 GHz on polytetrafluoroethylene and polyvinylchloride samples. A comprehensive error and stability analysis reveals that, similar to other methods based on transmission/reflection measurement, the uncertainties are larger at low frequencies and at the Fabry-Perot resonances.

Solutions to reduce release behavior of plasticizers out of PVC-made equipments: binary blends of plasticizers and thermal treatment

In order to reduce migration of plasticizers out of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), several techniques were attempted. First, binary blends of plasticizers were added to PVC, migration was decreased 100 or 1,000 times as compared to PVC samples containing only one plasticizer: the diffusion coefficient was of the order of 10−8 cm2 s−1 for the blend di-2-ethylhexylphthalate (DEHP)/di-2-ethylhexylterephthalate (TDHP) or 10−9 cm2 s−1 for the blend DEHP/DBP. A thermal treatment of PVC samples containing only one plasticizer leads to diffusion coefficients of the order of 10−10 cm2 s−1. This second method was also applied to PVC samples plasticized with binary blends. It lowers even more migration of both plasticizers out of PVC. But no particular phenomena were observed with ternary blends of plasticizers introduced in PVC.

Generation of hydrogen from polyvinyl chloride by milling and heating with CaO and Ni(OH) 2

This work discusses an alternative process option for the treatment of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) by producing hydrogen (H 2) gas, at the same time fixing chlorine for proper environmental control. In the first-stage, a milling operation is performed in a planetary ball mill to obtain a mixture of PVC sample with CaO and Ni(OH) 2 to be used as feed in the second-step, involving heating of the milled product. Analyses by thermogravimetry-mass spectroscopy (TG-MS) and gas chromatography (GC) showed H 2, CH 4, CO and CO 2 as main constituents. The results clearly show that addition of Ni(OH) 2 to provide nickel as catalyst and CaO as adsorbent to fix CO 2 and HCl gases generated during heating, assisted in clean H 2 generation with concentration near 90% at temperatures between 450 and 550 °C. Analyses of solids after heating by X-ray diffraction and TG-DTA techniques showed both CaOHCl and CaCO 3 as main phases in the product. This process could be developed to treat PVC wastes together with other polymers and/or plastic wastes for production of H 2 gas.

Identification of temperature-dependent thermal properties of solid materials

This work proposes an experimental technique for the simultaneous estimation of temperature-dependent thermal diffusivity, α, and thermal conductivity, λ, of insulation materials. The thermal model used considers a transient one-dimensional heat transfer problem. The determination of these properties is done by using the principle of the Mixed technique. In this technique two objective functions are defined, one in the frequency domain and the other in the time domain. The objective function in the frequency domain is based on the square difference between experimental and calculated values of the phase angle, while the other objective function is the least square error function of experimental and calculated signals of temperature. The properties α and λ are obtained by using an experimental apparatus that basically consists of a Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) sample exposed to different temperatures inside an oven. The temperature inside the oven is controlled by a PID temperature controller. The properties α and λ were estimated for 7 (seven) points of average temperature in a range from 20 oC to 66 oC. The properties were determined with an additional heating of approximately 4.5 K on the frontal surface. Analyses of sensitivity, sensors location and sample dimensions were also made. Keywords : thermal properties estimation, heat conduction, optimization, experimental methods