Preparation method of clean environment-friendly polyvinylidene fluoride foamed sheet
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of material forming, in particular to a preparation method of a polyvinylidene fluoride foamed sheet.
Background
The polymer foam material has the functions of light weight, heat insulation, sound insulation, buffering, shock absorption and the like, and is widely applied to the fields of traffic, buildings, packaging, daily necessities, sports equipment and the like. The high-performance foam material can also be used in the advanced fields of military, aerospace and the like. Currently, polystyrene foam (EPS), polyurethane foam (EPU), polyethylene foam (EPE), and the like are used as the foam material. The traditional foam materials have a plurality of defects in the aspects of heat resistance, chemical resistance, weather resistance, flame retardance and the like, and cannot meet the requirements of aerospace, microelectronic and semiconductor industries, petrochemical industries and pharmaceutical industries on the aspects of chemical resistance, flame retardance and the like of the foam materials.
The fluoropolymer has excellent characteristics such as heat resistance, chemical resistance, weather resistance, and flame retardancy. Belongs to a non-polluting raw material. These characteristics are mainly related to factors such as low polarizability of fluorine atoms in the fluoropolymer structure, strong electronegativity, small van der waals radius, high fluorocarbon bond energy, and the like. Due to the excellent characteristics of the fluorine-containing polymer, the fluorine-containing polymer is widely applied to various industries and fields such as national defense and military industry, aerospace, electronic and electric appliances, machinery, chemical engineering, textile, medicine and the like. Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) is a new material with excellent comprehensive performance developed in the 70 s of the 20 th century, the annual growth rate is more than 10%, the yield accounts for about 14% of the total amount of all fluorine-containing plastics, and the PVDF is the second largest fluorine-containing resin with the annual yield only second to that of Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). PVDF is a fluorine-containing resin prepared by homopolymerization or copolymerization of vinylidene fluoride monomers, and has the advantages of both fluorine-containing resin and common resin. The foam material with PVDF as the matrix has the excellent performances of both PVDF and foam materials, and can be used in many fields where the traditional foam materials can not meet the use conditions.
The PVDF foam sheets currently used in the market are mostly prepared by using a chemical foaming agent such as azodicarbonamide, and the chemical foaming agent can generate a substance, namely semicarbazide, which can cause cancers when being heated and decomposed, and the substance can enter foods and has the highest content in infant foods. The european union has therefore banned the sale and import of AC foaming agents as food packaging or as plastic materials and products in contact with food from 8/2 2005. The european union started to limit the amount of formamide in foamed products using AC as blowing agent in the end of 2010. This foaming technique limits the use of PVDF in many specific areas.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention mainly aims to provide a preparation method of a supercritical nitrogen foamed polyvinylidene fluoride material.
In order to realize the purpose, the invention provides a preparation method of a clean environment-friendly polyvinylidene fluoride foamed sheet, which comprises the following steps:
extrusion step S1: firstly, adding polyvinylidene fluoride into a double-screw extruder to be extruded to form a polyvinylidene fluoride sheet;
irradiation step S2: carrying out electron beam irradiation crosslinking on the polyvinylidene fluoride sheet;
gas saturation step S3: putting the irradiation crosslinking vinylidene fluoride sheet into a heated high-pressure kettle, and injecting supercritical nitrogen into the high-pressure kettle by using a high-pressure pump to ensure that the irradiation crosslinking vinylidene fluoride sheet is completely saturated by the supercritical nitrogen;
nucleation step S4: decompressing the irradiation cross-linked vinylidene fluoride sheet in the high-pressure kettle of the gas saturation step S3 to make the irradiation cross-linked vinylidene fluoride sheet nucleate, decompressing and opening the kettle after the high-pressure kettle is cooled, and taking out the nucleated irradiation cross-linked vinylidene fluoride sheet;
foaming step S5: and after the nucleated irradiation crosslinked vinylidene fluoride sheet is cooled to room temperature, putting the nucleated irradiation crosslinked vinylidene fluoride sheet into the high-pressure kettle again for foaming, and taking out the nucleated irradiation crosslinked vinylidene fluoride sheet after foaming.
Preferably, the extrusion temperature in the extrusion step S1 is 150-210 ℃.
Preferably, the irradiation dose in the irradiation step S2 is 20 to 100 kGy.
Preferably, in the gas saturation step S3, the temperature of the autoclave is 180-220 ℃, after the irradiation-crosslinked vinylidene fluoride sheet is placed in the autoclave, the autoclave is purged with a small-flow supercritical nitrogen gas for 1-3min, then a high-pressure pump is used to inject a supercritical nitrogen gas into the autoclave, so that the pressure in the autoclave reaches 30-60MPa, and the constant temperature and pressure are maintained for 1-3 hours.
Preferably, in the gas saturation step S3, the saturation temperature of the irradiation-crosslinked vinylidene fluoride sheet fully saturated with supercritical nitrogen is 150-.
Preferably, in the nucleation step S4, before the autoclave is released from the autoclave, the autoclave is cooled to 30-70 ℃ after being kept at constant temperature and pressure for 1-3 hours, and then rapidly released from the autoclave to 30-60MPa in a short time by using a quick release valve to nucleate the irradiation crosslinked vinylidene fluoride sheet, and then the autoclave is cooled to 30-70 ℃ and released from the autoclave.
Preferably, in the nucleation step S4, the time for depressurizing the autoclave to 30 to 60MPa is controlled to 1 second by using a quick release valve.
Preferably, in the foaming step S5, after the nucleated irradiation crosslinked vinylidene fluoride sheet is cooled to room temperature, the nucleated irradiation crosslinked vinylidene fluoride sheet is placed into the autoclave again, the autoclave is pressurized to 2-5MPa, then the autoclave temperature is raised to the set temperature of 170-.
According to the preparation method of the clean environment-friendly polyvinylidene fluoride foamed sheet, irradiation crosslinking is performed on the polyvinylidene fluoride foamed sheet in an irradiation crosslinking mode, so that the melt strength of the polyvinylidene fluoride is improved, the completeness of foam holes in the foaming process is ensured, and the foam with a regular shape, stable size and good surface quality is obtained; the supercritical nitrogen is used as the foaming agent, the adopted foaming process is green and environment-friendly, and the obtained foam sheet is clean and tasteless, has uniform and fine foam holes and excellent mechanical property, and has great application value.
Drawings
FIG. 1 is a SEM image of example 1 of the cell structure of the clean and environment-friendly polyvinylidene fluoride foamed sheet prepared by the method of the present invention.
Detailed Description
The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
The invention provides a preparation method of a clean environment-friendly polyvinylidene fluoride foamed sheet, which comprises the following steps:
extrusion step S1: firstly, adding polyvinylidene fluoride into a double-screw extruder to be extruded to form a polyvinylidene fluoride sheet;
irradiation step S2: carrying out electron beam irradiation crosslinking on the polyvinylidene fluoride sheet;
gas saturation step S3: putting the irradiation crosslinking vinylidene fluoride sheet into a heated high-pressure kettle, and injecting supercritical nitrogen into the high-pressure kettle by using a high-pressure pump to ensure that the irradiation crosslinking vinylidene fluoride sheet is completely saturated by the supercritical nitrogen;
nucleation step S4: decompressing the irradiation cross-linked vinylidene fluoride sheet in the high-pressure kettle of the gas saturation step S3 to make the irradiation cross-linked vinylidene fluoride sheet nucleate, decompressing and opening the kettle after the high-pressure kettle is cooled, and taking out the nucleated irradiation cross-linked vinylidene fluoride sheet;
foaming step S5: and after the nucleated irradiation crosslinked vinylidene fluoride sheet is cooled to room temperature, putting the nucleated irradiation crosslinked vinylidene fluoride sheet into the high-pressure kettle again for foaming, and taking out the nucleated irradiation crosslinked vinylidene fluoride sheet after foaming.
Preferably, the extrusion temperature in the extrusion step S1 is 150-210 ℃.
Preferably, the irradiation dose in the irradiation step S2 is 20 to 100 kGy.
Preferably, in the gas saturation step S3, the temperature of the autoclave is 180-220 ℃, which can achieve the purpose of rapidly permeating supercritical nitrogen into the PVDF sheet, after the irradiation crosslinked vinylidene fluoride sheet is placed into the autoclave, the autoclave is purged with a small flow of supercritical nitrogen for 1-3min to displace the air in the autoclave to prevent the resin from oxidative degradation during the saturation process, and then the supercritical nitrogen is injected into the autoclave by a high pressure pump to make the pressure in the autoclave reach 30-60MPa, and the constant temperature and pressure are maintained for 1-3 hours, so that the saturation rate of the supercritical nitrogen can be increased under high pressure, and the sheet can be completely saturated for enough time.
Preferably, in the gas saturation step S3, the saturation temperature of the irradiation-crosslinked vinylidene fluoride sheet fully saturated with supercritical nitrogen is 150-.
Preferably, in the nucleation step S4, before the autoclave is released from the autoclave, the autoclave is cooled to 30-70 ℃ after being kept at constant temperature and pressure for 1-3 hours, and then rapidly released from the autoclave to 30-60MPa in a short time by using a quick release valve to nucleate the irradiation crosslinked vinylidene fluoride sheet, and then the autoclave is cooled to 30-70 ℃ and released from the autoclave. This prevents excessive expansion of the sheet during pressure relief opening of the kettle.
Preferably, in the nucleation step S4, the time for depressurizing the autoclave to 30-60MPa is controlled to be 1 second by using a quick release valve, so as to achieve quick nucleation and increase the cell density.
Preferably, in the foaming step S5, after the nucleated irradiation crosslinked vinylidene fluoride sheet is cooled to room temperature, the nucleated irradiation crosslinked vinylidene fluoride sheet is placed into the autoclave again, the autoclave is pressurized to 2-5MPa, then the autoclave temperature is raised to the set temperature of 170-.
According to the preparation conditions and parameters adopted in the examples 1 to 6 in the table 1, the clean and environment-friendly polyvinylidene fluoride foamed sheets are respectively produced according to the preparation method of the clean and environment-friendly polyvinylidene fluoride foamed sheets.
Table 1-preparation conditions, parameters and properties of examples 1 to 6
From the physical properties of the foams tested in examples 1 to 6 in table 1, the foam sheets prepared in the examples have good surface shape, regular shape, cleanness, no smell, uniform and fine cells and excellent mechanical properties. FIG. 1 is a SEM image of example 1 of the cell structure of the clean and environment-friendly polyvinylidene fluoride foamed sheet prepared by the method of the present invention. In addition, the sheet has low odor and good flame retardancy.
According to the preparation method of the clean environment-friendly polyvinylidene fluoride foamed sheet, irradiation crosslinking is performed on the polyvinylidene fluoride foamed sheet in an irradiation crosslinking mode, so that the melt strength of the polyvinylidene fluoride is improved, the completeness of foam holes in the foaming process is ensured, and the foam with a regular shape, stable size and good surface quality is obtained; the supercritical nitrogen is used as the foaming agent, the adopted foaming process is green and environment-friendly, and the obtained foam sheet is clean and tasteless, has uniform and fine foam holes and excellent mechanical property, and has great application value.
The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and all modifications and equivalents of the present invention, which are made by the contents of the present specification and the accompanying drawings, or directly/indirectly applied to other related technical fields, are included in the scope of the present invention.