Title
Thermal degradation of random copolyesters based on 1,4-butanediol, terepthalic acid and different aliphatic dicarboxylic acids
Date Issued
10 August 2017
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
Thermal stability and degradation kinetics have been studied for a series of aliphatic-aromatic copolyesters where the terephthalate content was varied between 30 mol-% and 70 mol-%. Succinate, adipate and sebacate were considered as the aliphatic dicarboxylate unit. All copolyesters were synthesized with a perfect random distribution by a thermal transesterification process from the corresponding homopolyesters. A complex degradation was deduced for all copolymers taking into account the increment of the activation energy with conversion. In fact, thermogravimetric curves showed a minor decomposition process in the low conversion region that was more significant for the succinate derivative and specifically for that having the lowest aromatic content. The sebacate derivative was characterized by the presence of an additional and minor decomposition process that took place at the highest conversion. All copolyesters were defined by a major decomposition process, which has similar values of activation energy regardless of the method used to calculate them (e.g. Kissinger, KAS or Friedman methodologies). This decomposition reaction followed a A4 Avrami-Erofeev mechanism when Coats-Redfern and Criado methodologies were applied. In summary, all the studied copolymers thermally decompose following a complex process but in all cases the main degradation step corresponds to a similar degradation mechanism.
Start page
101
End page
111
Volume
654
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencia de los polímeros
Ingeniería química
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85019877917
Source
Thermochimica Acta
ISSN of the container
00406031
Sponsor(s)
Authors are in debt to supports from MEC and FEDER (MAT2015-69547-R) and the Generalitat de Catalunya (2014SGR188).
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