FREE RADICAL DEGRADATION OF POLYPROPYLENE IN THE BULK COUPLING OF KINETIC AND RHEOLOGICAL MODELS英文学习资料 .pdfVIP

FREE RADICAL DEGRADATION OF POLYPROPYLENE IN THE BULK : COUPLING OF KINETIC AND RHEOLOGICAL MODELS Pascale Aulagner , Auder Ainser , Christian Carrot and Jacque s Guillet Laboratoire de Rheologie des Matieres Plastiques, Faculte de Sciences et Techniques, Vniversite Jean Monnet, 23, Rue du Docteur Paul Michelon, 42023 Saint-Etienne Cedex 2, France ABSTRAC T Free radical degradation of polypropylen e in th e bulk during reactive extrusion has received a lot of interest as an alternative method to produc e resins with a wide variety of molecular weight distributions . Accurate design of the resulting products , however , require s a better control of the process , which can be achieved by the use of consistent modeling of the extrusion process . For this purpose , a reasonable constitutive equation describing th e rheological behavior of the material during th e reactive extrusion operation is necessary . Thi s paper investigates the reliability of the combination of tw o model s describing both chemical and rheological aspect s o f the process . Th e first model describe s in a simplified manner the kinetic s of the fre e radical degradation and help s to take into account the continuou s change of the molecular weight distribution (MWD ) of the polymer along the reaction time . On the other hand , variou s models , from empiricism to mor e elaborat e one s using molecular dynamics , will be presented to relate the MWD to the rheological behavior . Their use, in combination with the