Modification of Heat Flow Parameters during the Ceramic Assisted Microwave Heating of HDPE

Abstract:

Microwave technology is more often used in large number of application. Heating polymers by microwave technology is met from domestic o industrial applications and the influences brought by the heating source, the impact between the microwaves and the polymer, to the base material is necessary to be well known to avoid different types of failure of the pieces. HDPE is polymer often used in application with interaction between material and microwaves. Because of that the analysis of the influence of such interaction on the flowing characteristics of the HDPE is proposed in this paper. Experimental programme was applied to HDPE 100 and HDPE 80, both heated by using mono-directional microwave beam with different sets of parameters (factorial experiment principles were used to establish the heating parameters). Plasticity characteristics of the heated material, as elongation and relaxation modulus, were determined by using thermal analysis. It has been recorded important influences of the heating process on the surface in contact with the ceramic powder that was used as microwave absorber. The DSC analysis revealed a decreasing of the elongation with about 16% and decreasing of the relaxation modulus with amount up to 18%, for the material located at the interface between the polymer and the ceramic powder. Each 2 mm from the interface to the interior of the polymer brought an intensity of the modification up to 15% of the values recorded for the interface. After 6 mm from the interface the intensity of the modification decreases very fast. By using DSC thermal analysis it has been analysed the crystallization rate of the polymer modified by the microwave heating and high rates were recorded. About 12% difference between the relaxation modulus of the heated and non-heated HDPE and that means local ageing transformation of the HDPE.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 1036)
• Pages: 240-245
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1036.240
• Online since: October 2014
• Authors: Ionel Dănuț Savu*
• Keywords: Burst Stress, Crystallization, Decreased Plasticity, Elongation Viscosity, Polymer Heating, Welding Processes

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