China Plastics ›› 2021, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (2): 14-21.DOI: 10.19491/j.issn.1001-9278.2021.02.003

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Effect of Cerium P⁃methyl Benzoate on Thermal Stability of PVC

ZHAO Jingang, LIU Zhaogang(), HAO Wei, LI Mei, HU Yanhong, WU Jinxiu, FENG Fushan, LI Shuai   

  1. School of Materials and Metallurgy,Inner Mongolia University of Science & Technology,Key Laboratory of Green Extraction &Efficient Utilization of Light Rare-Earth resources Ministry of Education,Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Hydrometallurgy and Light Rare Earth Application,Baotou 014010,China
  • Received:2020-08-12 Online:2021-02-26 Published:2021-02-22

Abstract:

Cerium pmethyl benzoate (CPB) was prepared by means of a metathesis method, and its molecular formula was determined to be Ce(C8H7O23·2H2O. The thermal stability of CPB on PVC was further investigated. The results indicated that when CPB was used alone as a thermal stabilizer for PVC, the resultant PVC compound exhibited poor thermal stability and discoloration resistance. However, there is a good synergetic effect on PVC by a combination of binary, ternary and quaternary compounds of CPB with other thermal stabilizers, resulting in an improvement in thermal stability. When the mass ratio of cerium benzoate to calcium zinc composite system and pentaerythritol was set to 2/1/2, the PVC compounds achieved an optimum thermal stability with thermal stability time of 42 min as well as optimum discoloration resistance. CPB also exhibited a good plasticizing capability. When CPB was used as a stabilizer for PVC, the resultant PVC compounds revealed a decrease in plasticizing time, plasticizing torque and equilibrium torque but a significant increase in dynamic thermal stability time. CPB can capture the HCl gas released during the degradation of PVC to generate CeCl3, reducing the catalytic effect of HCl on the degradation of PVC and improving the thermal stability of PVC accordingly.

Key words: rare earth, poly(vinyl chloride), thermal stabilizer, cerium p-methyl benzoate, compound

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