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Models of Water Vapor Sorption by Hydrophilic Polymers
Author(s) -
Michael Ioelovich
Publication year - 2022
Language(s) - English
DOI - 10.54026/aroic/1005
Subject(s) - sorption , polymer , thermodynamics , materials science , crystallinity , amorphous solid , chemical engineering , chemistry , polymer chemistry , organic chemistry , composite material , physics , adsorption , engineering
Various models and equations of water vapor sorption by hydrophilic polymers were considered. It was shown that these models often do not correspond to the sorption mechanism. These models can be mathematically adapted to the experimental isotherm regardless of the real sorption mechanism. Even when sorption occurs according to the same mechanism, various authors use different models and equations. This study is based on the volume absorption mechanism and the Van Krevelen method of group contributions. As a result, a universal physicochemical equation was proposed, which makes it possible to adequately describe the sorption isotherms of amorphous hydrophilic polymers knowing only the chemical formulas of repeating units of these polymers. To calculate the sorption isotherms for semicrystalline samples, it is necessary to use an additional parameter, namely the degree of amorphicity (Y). The adequacy of the derived equation was verified for samples of cellulose and other natural polysaccharides, as well as for samples of synthetic hydrophilic polymers such as polyvinyl alcohol, polyamide-6, and polycaprolactone having various Y-values. The verification showed that the experimental isotherms are almost identical to the isotherms calculated by the universal equation.

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