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The effect of thermal treatment and processing on the crystallinity and thermal behaviour of PVC

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posted on 2020-01-06, 10:18 authored by Patricia C. Dawson
Commercial PVC has a relatively low level of crystallinity between 5 and 10% with a broad melting range of approximately 120–220°C. A study of the literature has been made to clarify the work to date on the crystallinity and thermal behaviour of PVC, particularly using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) techniques. Primary crystallinity is found in all PVC powders as made, but, once melted, secondary crystallinity of a lower degree of order is formed. Thermal treatment using DSC shows three main melting endotherms. [Continues.]

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B.P. Co. Ltd.

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  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Department

  • Materials

Publisher

Loughborough University

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© Patricia Carol Dawson

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 2.5 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/

Publication date

1987

Notes

A master's thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Master of Philosophy at Loughborough University.

Language

  • en

Qualification name

  • MPhil

Qualification level

  • Masters

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