Publication: Thermal stability and degradation kinetics of feedstocks for powder injection moulding - A new way to determine optimal solid loading?
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2013-06
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Degradation kinetics and the thermal stability of zircon powder injection moulding feedstocks (PIM) based on cellulose acetate butyrate (CAB) and polyethylene glycol (PEG) binders were investigated using simultaneous thermogravimetric analysis (STA). The initial decomposition temperature (IDT) and the integral procedure decomposition temperature (IPDT) were used to analyse the thermal stability of the binder system as a function of the solid loading content. The degradation kinetics was studied, and the degradation activation energy was assessed for varying zircon powder contents using isoconversional methods. All the methodologies revealed changes in the thermal degradation behaviours of the feedstocks for solid loadings that were previously determined to correspond to optimal solid loadings using other experimental procedures. These results may promote the proposal of thermodynamic degradation studies of feedstocks as an alternative or complementary technique to determine optimal solid loading contents in powder injection moulding (PIM). The studies in this paper also examined PIM process operation temperatures for zircon feedstocks.
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Powder injection moulding, Zircon, Cellulose acetate butyrate, Polyethylene glycol, Thermal degradation
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Polymer Degradation and Stability (2013). 98(6), 1188-1195.