Rigid PVC pipes. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) method

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos R. Wolf ◽  
Emir Grave

Polypropylene is a thermoplastic polymer, widely employed by converter industries to produce different plastic objects. In order to control and optimize the final properties of the polypropylene material, the evaluation of transition temperatures and enthalpies by Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) has a very important role. Therefore, it is fundamental to know how the analytical conditions influence the results. In this study heating and cooling rates, 10°C/min and 20°C/min, and two different rates of nitrogen flow, 20mL/min and 50mL/min were investigated. It was concluded that thermal properties are influenced by rates of heating and rates of nitrogen flow. The best precision was obtained with the low heating rate, 10°C/min, and high flow rate, 50mL/min. These conditions are being used with the DSC method for polyolefin quality control and material characterization.


2012 ◽  
Vol 733 ◽  
pp. 163-166
Author(s):  
Zhe Chen ◽  
Wei Huang ◽  
Peng Fei Fang ◽  
Wen Yu ◽  
Shao Jie Wang

The microstructure of the polypropylenes (PP) irradiated by gamma ray was studied by positron lifetime technique and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). Lifetime measurement shows o-Ps intensity decreases with increasing γ irradiation dose. The crystallinity of irradiated samples was detected by DSC method. The correlation between o-Ps intensity and crystallinity indicates γ-ray can induce higher crystallinity in the polypropylene at low irradiation dose.


2015 ◽  
Vol 1123 ◽  
pp. 69-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Supardi ◽  
Y. Yusuf ◽  
Harsoyo

We performed an experiment to characterize the four samples of main chain liquid crystal elastomers (MCLCEs) by using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) method. Basic principle of this method is that difference in the amount of heat required to increase the temperature of the sample and reference is measured as a function of temperature. The temperature between the sample and reference is maintained nearly the same throughout the experiment. There were four samples with different concentrations of crosslinker we have taken, namely 8%, 12%, 14%, and 16%. The results showed that the phase transition from nematic to isotropic obtained by this method had correlation with their thermo-mechanical effects.


2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (41) ◽  
pp. 26241-26248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xingdong Qiu ◽  
Sugata P. Tan ◽  
Morteza Dejam ◽  
Hertanto Adidharma

Dew point measurements of methane/ethane gas mixture using isochoric DSC method.


Author(s):  
Igor Wachter ◽  
Siegfried Hirle ◽  
Karol Balog

Abstract This article deals with the characterization of biomass pellets using Differential Scanning Calorimetry. We used three types of industrially produced and commercially available pellets as samples: wood pellets containing grass, wood pellet containing bark and wood pellets without bark. Each of the samples were examined using the DSC method. Based on the measurements in atmosphere of air and nitrogen temperature, the changes caused by thermal degradation of various kinds of test fuels were observed. Subsequently, limits of exothermic processes, reaction enthalpy changes and the temperature at which exothermic reactions reached peaks were determined.


Author(s):  
I. A. Saranov ◽  
O. B. Rudakov ◽  
K. K. Polansky ◽  
A. S. Ramazanov ◽  
S. A. Balaeva ◽  
...  

The method of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) is used to characterize the thermophysical properties during melting of samples of milk thistle oil of various geographic origins, seeds and meal. The world experience in applying the DSC method on the study of milk thistle oils is generalized. The temperature measurement program is described. It is shown that, despite the general similarity of the curve profiles of the melting DSC, there are differences in the profiles due to genotypic and phenotypic factors - variety and growing location. The DSC curves of freshly squeezed oil distinguish from the DSC curves after 6 months storage of the oil due to oxidative deterioration and the formation of more refractory partially oxidized triacylglycerols. This fact is relevant to determining the capabilities of the DSC method in controlling the freshness of vegetable oils. The peaks amplitudes in the DSC curves of fresh oil are higher than those of oils that has been stored at room temperature for six months. Double differentiation of the melting curves makes it possible to reveal the temperatures of phase transitions in the case of overlapping endothermic peaks, the establishment of which is difficult without double differentiation. Using the «Netzsch Peak Separation» software to divide the peaks in the melting curves allows at once to estimate the areas of overlapping peaks and increase the informativeness of the DSC data. Thermal analysis of milk thistle seeds and meal reveals that the meal contains a residual amount of oil, in which the proportion of triunsaturated fats is overestimated in comparison to seeds, indicating that triunsaturated fats are more difficult to extract from oil by cold pressing.


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