Polylactic acid/microcrystalline cellulose composite foamed sheet and preparation method thereof
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the field of biodegradable materials of bio-based sources, and relates to preparation of a polylactic acid/microcrystalline cellulose composite material foamed sheet.
Background
Polylactic acid is a fully biodegradable material derived from renewable resources. The lactic acid is prepared by fermenting cassava, corn, beet and the like, and the product can be decomposed into carbon dioxide and water under the action of microorganisms and water oxygen in soil after being discarded, so that the lactic acid is a green low-carbon environment-friendly material in a true sense, can partially replace traditional plastics from petroleum sources, and radically solves the problem of white pollution. The polylactic acid has no toxic or side effect and no harmful substance release, and is an ideal food contact safe packaging material.
Cellulose is the most abundant renewable and biodegradable high molecular polymer in nature, and mainly comes from plants. Compared with common cellulose, the microcrystalline cellulose has larger chemical reaction activity, larger specific surface area, high crystallinity, high strength and the like.
CN 107383434A discloses a preparation method of a cellulose nanocrystal reinforced polylactic acid foam material, which is to blend cellulose nanocrystals and polylactic acid in an organic solvent, dry the solvent to obtain a cellulose nanocrystal/polylactic acid composite material, and perform supercritical carbon dioxide foaming on the cellulose nanocrystal/polylactic acid composite material by using a supercritical carbon dioxide foaming method. This patent needs to use the solvent, then stoving solvent, and the processing mode is complicated, influences the environment.
CN 109651783A discloses a micro-foamed natural fiber reinforced polylactic acid composite material and a preparation method thereof, wherein the natural fiber reinforced polylactic acid composite material is prepared by using natural fiber modified polylactic acid, and then micro-porous injection molding foaming molding is carried out by an injection molding machine; the compatibility of the natural fiber and the polylactic acid adopted by the patent is poor, and the injection molding machine is adopted for foaming and molding, so that the production efficiency is low.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention provides a preparation method of a polylactic acid/microcrystalline cellulose composite foamed sheet, which realizes the following purposes: the prepared composite foamed sheet has the advantages that the stability of the foam holes is improved, and the distribution of the foam holes is more uniform; the compression resistance and the folding endurance are improved.
In order to solve the technical problems, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:
a polylactic acid/microcrystalline cellulose composite foamed sheet comprises the following raw materials in parts by weight:
5-45 parts of microcrystalline cellulose, 40-80 parts of polylactic acid, 2-15 parts of plasticizer, 0.3-10 parts of nucleating agent, 2-3 parts of maleic anhydride, 0.2-3 parts of anti-hydrolysis agent and 0.1-1 part of cross-linking agent.
The following is a further improvement of the above technical scheme:
the foamed sheet comprises the following raw materials in parts by weight:
15-34 parts of microcrystalline cellulose, 54-75 parts of polylactic acid, 6-9 parts of plasticizer, 0.3-1 part of nucleating agent, 2-3 parts of maleic anhydride, 0.2-0.5 part of anti-hydrolysis agent and 0.4-0.6 part of cross-linking agent.
A preparation method of a polylactic acid/microcrystalline cellulose composite foamed sheet comprises the steps of drying, mixing, extruding, granulating and foaming.
And in the mixing step, the microcrystalline cellulose, the nucleating agent, the maleic anhydride, the cross-linking agent and the hydrolysis resistant agent are firstly premixed uniformly to obtain premixed solid powder, and the polylactic acid and the plasticizer or the mixture of the polylactic acid and the plasticizer are respectively added and mixed uniformly.
The preparation method of the mixture of the polylactic acid and the plasticizer comprises the steps of adding the plasticizer into polylactic acid particles and stirring until the surface of the polylactic acid is uniformly wetted, so as to obtain the mixture of the polylactic acid and the plasticizer.
And (3) extruding and granulating, wherein the rotation frequency of a screw extruder is 23-27Hz, and the processing temperature is 150-190 ℃.
And in the extrusion granulation, the temperature of each area from the feed inlet to the extrusion outlet is respectively as follows:
150-160℃、160℃、165℃、170℃、175-185℃、185-190℃、190℃、190℃、175-180℃、165-170℃。
and adding the foamed and granulated granules into a double-screw extruder, and adding a foaming agent, wherein the injection amount of the foaming agent is 5-8.5L/h, and the rotation frequency of a screw for injecting the foaming agent is 17-25Hz.
The screw rotating frequency of the double-screw extruder and the first-stage extruder is 24-26Hz; the processing temperature is 175-200 ℃; the rotation frequency of a screw of the secondary extruder is 16-20Hz; the processing temperature is 140-185 ℃.
The temperature of the first-stage extruder from the feed inlet to the discharge outlet is respectively 165-175 ℃, 170-180 ℃, 185-190 ℃, 190-200 ℃ and 190-200 ℃;
the temperature of the secondary extruder from the feed inlet to the discharge outlet is 180-185 ℃, 175-180 ℃, 170-175 ℃, 160-165 ℃, 150-155 ℃, 145-150 ℃, 140-145 ℃ and 130-140 ℃ respectively.
Drying, namely drying the polylactic acid and the microcrystalline cellulose at 70-90 ℃ for 1-12h; preferably at 80 ℃ for 4h.
The plasticizers include, but are not limited to: one or more of tributyl citrate, triethyl citrate, citric acid, glycerol, diethylene glycol, glycerol triacetate, dioctyl phthalate, ethylene glycol, propylene glycol, sorbitol, pentaerythritol, acetyl tributyl citrate, epoxidized soybean oil, propylene glycol adipate, diisononyl adipate, dioctyl maleate, polypropylene glycol, polyethylene glycol and polyvinyl alcohol; preferably polyethylene glycol and tributyl citrate;
such blowing agents include, but are not limited to: carbon dioxide, nitrogen, argon, oxygen, alkane halide, sodium bicarbonate, calcium bicarbonate, azodicarbonamide, azodiisobutyronitrile and diisopropyl azodicarboxylate; preferably difluoromethane chloride;
such nucleating agents include, but are not limited to: inorganic nucleating agents, talc, montmorillonite, silica, titanium dioxide, amide nucleating agents (e.g., ethylene bis stearamide EBS, TMC-328 or CZ500, etc.), hydrazide nucleating agents (e.g., TMC-300, CHC-300 or TMC-306, etc.), organic phosphate nucleating agents (e.g., zinc phenylphosphonate, sanulant TMHK162 or Sanulant TMHK160, etc.); preferably TMC-300 and talcum powder;
the crosslinking agent includes, but is not limited to, one or more of the group consisting of 1, 4-butanediol, 1, 4-butane diisocyanate, toluene diisocyanate, hexamethylene diisocyanate, octadecyl isocyanate, polymethylene polyphenyl polyisocyanates, and diphenylmethane diisocyanates, ADR series by basf corporation; preferably ADR 4370S, joncryl ADR 4370S;
the hydrolysis resistant agent comprises one or more of triethyl phosphite, dihydroxypropyl octadecanoic acid, polycarbodiimide compounds, monocarbodiimide compounds, bismonocarbodiimide compounds and acrylic copolymers with epoxy groups; bis (2,6-diisopropylphenyl) carbodiimide is preferred.
The foaming agent is added, the gas foaming agent is added in a high-pressure injection mode, the solid foaming agent is added through the powder feeding barrel, the polylactic acid foaming sheet is continuously produced, the foaming multiplying power is 5-40 times adjustable, and the heat-resistant temperature can reach 130 ℃.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following beneficial effects:
(1) The polylactic acid/microcrystalline cellulose composite foamed sheet prepared by the invention has good compression resistance, bending resistance, heat preservation performance and the like, the stability of foam pores is further improved after the microcrystalline cellulose is added, the foam pores are more uniformly distributed, the product cost is further reduced, and a finished product can be widely applied to the fields of tableware, food packaging, express packaging and the like.
(2) The polylactic acid/microcrystalline cellulose composite foamed sheet prepared by the invention has the foaming multiplying power of 5-40 times, preferably 15-25 times, the heat-resistant temperature of 130 ℃, the tensile strength (TD) of 525-820 kPa, the tensile strength (MD) of 714-968 kPa,
elongation at break (TD) of 3.0-5.1%, elongation at break (MD) of 5.6-8.2%; tear Strength (TD) of 2.7-4.7 kN/m, tear Strength (MD) of 1.9-3.6 kN/m.
(3) The polylactic acid/microcrystalline cellulose composite foamed sheet prepared by the invention has good compression resistance and folding resistance, and the high deformation rate is 2.4%.
Detailed Description
The examples are given solely for the purpose of illustration and are not to be construed as limitations on the scope of the claims, as other alternatives will occur to those skilled in the art and are within the scope of the invention.
Example 1 preparation method of polylactic acid/microcrystalline cellulose composite foamed sheet
The foaming sheet comprises the following raw material components in parts by weight:
the plasticizer is polyethylene glycol;
the nucleating agent is TMC-300;
the cross-linking agent is ADR 4370S;
the anti-hydrolysis agent is bis (2,6-diisopropylphenyl) carbodiimide.
The preparation method of the foaming sheet comprises the following steps:
(1) Drying
Respectively drying polylactic acid and microcrystalline cellulose at 80 ℃ for 4h;
(2) Surface wetting
Weighing quantitative dried polylactic acid and plasticizer, adding the plasticizer into polylactic acid particles, and stirring until the surface of the polylactic acid is uniformly wetted to obtain a mixture of the polylactic acid and the plasticizer;
(3) Mixing
Uniformly premixing microcrystalline cellulose, a nucleating agent, maleic anhydride, a cross-linking agent and an anti-hydrolysis agent to obtain a premix; then, stirring the mixture of the polylactic acid and the plasticizer and the premix in a stirrer until the mixture is uniformly mixed;
(4) Extrusion granulation
Extruding and granulating by a double-screw extruder special for polylactic acid, wherein the processing temperature is 160-190 ℃, and obtaining the granules of the polylactic acid/microcrystalline cellulose composite material.
The rotation frequency of the screw extruder was 25Hz, and the temperatures in the zones from the feed inlet to the extrusion outlet were: 160 ℃, 165 ℃, 170 ℃, 175 ℃, 185 ℃, 190 ℃, 175 ℃ and 165 ℃.
(5) Foaming
Drying the granules of the polylactic acid/microcrystalline cellulose composite material at 80 ℃ for 4h, continuously extruding and foaming the granules by a primary double-screw continuous extrusion foaming device special for polylactic acid, adding the polylactic acid/microcrystalline cellulose composite material through main feeding, adding a foaming agent, wherein the amount of the foaming agent is determined by combining the requirement of a target product with the foaming ratio actually tested and adjusting the rotating frequency of the injection amount of the main screw and the foaming agent, the processing temperature of a primary extruder is between 165 and 190 ℃, the processing temperature of a secondary extruder is between 130 and 180 ℃, and continuously producing the polylactic acid foamed sheet to obtain the whole roll of foamed sheet.
The injection amount of the foaming agent is 5L/h;
the foaming agent is difluorochloromethane;
the rotational frequency of the injection amount of the foaming agent is 17Hz;
the screw rotation frequency of the primary extruder of the screw extruder is 25Hz, and the screw rotation frequency of the secondary extruder is 18Hz;
the primary extruder temperatures were, respectively (° c): 165. 170, 185, 190 190, 190;
the temperatures of the secondary extruders were (. Degree. C.) respectively: 180. 175, 170, 160, 150, 145, 140, 130;
the temperature sequence is from the feed inlet to the discharge outlet.
EXAMPLE two preparation method of polylactic acid/microcrystalline cellulose composite foamed sheet
The foaming sheet comprises the following raw material components in parts by weight:
the plasticizer is tributyl citrate;
the nucleating agent is talcum powder;
the cross-linking agent is Joncryl ADR 4370S;
the anti-hydrolysis agent is bis (2,6-diisopropylphenyl) carbodiimide;
the preparation method of the composite foamed sheet comprises the following steps:
(1) Drying
The polylactic acid and the microcrystalline cellulose are respectively dried for 4h at 80 ℃.
(2) Mixing
Weighing a certain amount of microcrystalline cellulose, a nucleating agent, maleic anhydride, a cross-linking agent and an anti-hydrolysis agent in proportion, and premixing uniformly to obtain premixed solid powder; adding polylactic acid particles through a main feeding barrel of the double-screw extruder, adding a plasticizer through liquid feeding of the double-screw extruder, and adding premixed solid powder through a solid auxiliary material feeding barrel of the double-screw extruder.
(4) Extrusion granulation
And extruding and granulating by a double-screw extruder special for polylactic acid to obtain granules of the polylactic acid/microcrystalline cellulose composite material.
The feeding speed of the polylactic acid particles is 27kg/h; the feeding speed of the plasticizer is 4kg/h; the feed rate of the solid auxiliary material was 19kg/h.
The temperature of each area of the double-screw extruder from the feed inlet to the discharge outlet is respectively as follows: 150 deg.C, 160 deg.C, 165 deg.C, 170 deg.C, 185 deg.C, 190 deg.C, 180 deg.C, 170 deg.C.
(5) Foaming
Drying the granules of the polylactic acid/microcrystalline cellulose composite material at 80 ℃ for 4 hours, continuously extruding and foaming the granules by using a secondary double-screw rod special for polylactic acid, adding the polylactic acid/microcrystalline cellulose composite material through main feeding, adding a foaming agent, wherein the amount of the foaming agent is determined by combining the requirement of a target product and the actually tested foaming ratio and adjusting the rotating frequency of the injection amount of the main screw rod and the foaming agent, the temperature of a first area is 175-200 ℃, the temperature of a second area is 140-185 ℃, and continuously producing a polylactic acid foamed sheet to obtain a whole roll of foamed sheet.
The rotational frequency of the injection amount of the foaming agent is 25Hz;
the rotation frequency of the screw of the primary extruder is 25Hz;
the temperatures of the primary extruder from the feed inlet to the discharge outlet are respectively (DEG C): 175. 180, 190, 200;
the rotation frequency of the screw of the secondary extruder is 18Hz;
the temperatures of the secondary extruder from the feed inlet to the discharge outlet are respectively (DEG C): 185. 180, 175, 165, 155, 150, 145, 140;
the injection amount of the foaming agent is 8.5L/h;
the blowing agent is difluorochloromethane.
The above test data were obtained by cutting foamed sheets into test strips.
The foamed sheets prepared in examples 1 and 2 above have the characteristics of improved bubble stability, more uniform bubble distribution, high pressure resistance and folding resistance.
GB 18006.1-2009 section 6.9.2 is adopted to detect heat resistance, and the result is: no deformation, defect, leakage and abnormality;
the detection method of the compression resistance comprises the following steps:
opening the cover of the sample box, horizontally placing the opening on a smooth surface, taking plate glass with the thickness of 3mm and the thickness of 10mm larger than each side of the opening, placing the plate glass on the sample, adding 1.5 +/-0.01 kg of static load (including the plate glass), measuring the middle points of any two pairs of edges by using a ruler with the precision of 1mm, taking the average value as the original height, then adding 2 +/-0.01 kg of weight, taking the average value of the heights measured at the same two points in 30s as the stressed height of the sample, and simultaneously observing whether the sample is broken or not.
The height deformation ratio was calculated according to the following formula:
in the formula: w is the overall compression height deformation,%;
h0 is the original height of the sample, mm;
h is the pressed height of the sample, mm.
According to the method, the compression resistance is detected, and the detection result of the compression resistance is as follows: the height deformation rate was 2.4%, and the sample was not cracked;
the method for testing the folding endurance comprises the following steps: open and shut 25 times with the sample, the angle of opening and shutting is 180 degrees, observes between box body and the lid broken line department and has or not fracture, and the testing result is: no fracture.