Biopolymer foams - Relationship between material characteristics and foaming behavior of cellulose based foams

Journal Article · Thu May 15 00:00:00 EDT 2014 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4873801· OSTI ID:22270978

Rapp, F., E-mail: [e-mail], E-mail: [e-mail]; Schneider, A., E-mail: [e-mail], E-mail: [e-mail] ^[1]; Elsner, P., E-mail: [e-mail] ^[2]

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1. Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology ICT (Germany)
2. Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology ICT, Germany and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT (Germany)

Biopolymers are becoming increasingly important to both industry and consumers. With regard to waste management, CO{sub 2} balance and the conservation of petrochemical resources, increasing efforts are being made to replace standard plastics with bio-based polymers. Nowadays biopolymers can be built for example of cellulose, lactic acid, starch, lignin or bio mass. The paper will present material properties of selected cellulose based polymers (cellulose propionate [CP], cellulose acetate butyrate [CAB]) and corresponding processing conditions for particle foams as well as characterization of produced parts. Special focus is given to the raw material properties by analyzing thermal behavior (differential scanning calorimetry), melt strength (Rheotens test) and molecular weight distribution (gel-permeation chromatography). These results will be correlated with the foaming behavior in a continuous extrusion process with physical blowing agents and underwater pelletizer. Process set-up regarding particle foam technology, including extrusion foaming and pre-foaming, will be shown. The characteristics of the resulting foam beads will be analyzed regarding part density, cell morphology and geometry. The molded parts will be tested on thermal conductivity as well as compression behavior (E-modulus, compression strength)

• OSTI ID: 22270978
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1593, Issue 1; Conference: PPS-29: 29. international conference of the Polymer Processing Society, Nuremberg (Germany), 15-19 Jul 2013; Other Information: (c) 2014 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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37 INORGANIC
ORGANIC
PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
ACETATES
CALORIMETRY
CARBON DIOXIDE
CELLULOSE
COMPRESSION STRENGTH
EXTRUSION
FOAMS
GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY
LACTIC ACID
LIGNIN
MORPHOLOGY
PLASTICS
RAW MATERIALS
STARCH
THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY