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A new perspective and comparative study on demixing and gelation behavior of cellulose acetate, cellulose acetate propionate and cellulose acetate butyrate ternary solutions
Author(s) -
Okhovat Ahmad,
Karimi Mohammad,
Zokaee Ashtiani Farzin
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
polymer engineering and science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.503
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1548-2634
pISSN - 0032-3888
DOI - 10.1002/pen.24676
Subject(s) - cellulose acetate , polymer , cellulose , materials science , propionate , cellulose triacetate , chemical engineering , dimethylformamide , polymer chemistry , ternary operation , solvent , nuclear chemistry , chemistry , organic chemistry , composite material , computer science , engineering , programming language
Cellulose acetate (CA), cellulose acetate propionate (CAP), and cellulose acetate butyrate (CAB) were fabricated as membrane via nonsolvent induced phase separation process. N,N‐Dimethylformamide (DMF) and N,N‐Dimethylacetamide (DMAc) as solvents and water as nonsolvent were employed. Ternary phase diagrams for all six ternary systems were constructed using Flory‐Huggins theory. In this way, cloud points as well as Berghman's points were determined. Modulus of polymers steepened in various concentration of solvent/nonsolvent mixtures were measured to find the weight fraction of polymer ( w p ) in which vitrification takes place. W P values for CA, CAP, and CAB were obtained 0.59, 0.67, and 0.74 in presence of DMF while those were 0.69, 0.74, and 0.84 in presence of DMAc; whereas glass transition temperatures ( T g ) for three polymers were determined 180°C, 142°C, and 101°C correspondingly. Pure water flux for CA, CAP, and CAB membrane increased from 75.7 to 83.4 and 290.3 and from 109.6 to 116.1 and 400.3 L/m 2 h bar when DMF and DMAc were used as solvents, respectively. Results revealed that as T g of polymer decreases, the membrane structure vitrifies at higher polymer concentration with more porous structure, bigger pores, higher permeate flux followed by decrease in mechanical strength. POLYM. ENG. SCI., 58:1135–1145, 2018. © 2017 Society of Plastics Engineers