DSC study and computer modelling of the melting process in ice slurry

In order to understand the non-isothermal melting kinetics in the ice slurry, a differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) was used. Experimental results were compared to those obtained by a numerical simulation in which a general enthalpy method was applied. In this work the ice slurry studied consists of ice particles uniformly dispersed within a water-antifreeze liquid mixture. The effects of the heating rate and the initial antifreeze mass fraction are discussed. It has been found that the temperature gradients inside the sample of the solution become important if either heating rate increases or initial antifreeze mass fraction decreases.     

Tri-alpha-naphthylbenzene as a crystalline or glassy matrix for matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization: a model system for the study of effects of dispersion of polymer samples at a molecular level

Tri-alpha-naphthylbenzene (TalphaNB) can exist as either a crystalline or glassy solid at ambient temperatures, making it a unique matrix in matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) spectroscopy. Electrosprayed TalphaNB is crystalline and has a melting point of 180 +/- 2 degrees C, as measured by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). A glass of TalphaNB is obtained upon heating above the crystalline melting point with a glass transition temperature of 68 +/- 2 degrees C having no remaining crystallinity. MALDI samples containing mass fraction 1% polystyrene (PS) are run in both the crystalline and amorphous states. In the crystalline state, there is a strong spectrum typical of PS, but upon melting and quenching to the glassy state, the MALDI signal disappears. If the transparent, amorphous sample is treated with 1-butanol, it becomes white, and the MALDI signal returns. DSC shows that the 1-butanol treatment leads to the return of some of the crystallinity. Small angle neutron scattering (SANS) shows that the crystalline state has large aggregations of PS while the amorphous state has molecularly dispersed PS molecules. MALDI gives strong signals only when there are large aggregations of polymer molecules, with individually dispersed molecules producing no signal.     

Thermochemistry of the Binary System Nitrocellulose+2,6-dinitrotoluene

The mixing and melting enthalpy of the binary system nitrocellulose+2,6-dinitrotoluene was determined using the DSC method. The mixing enthalpy of the components was calculated. At the melting temperature the maximum value of the mixing enthalpy for the mole fractionx _w26DNT=0.607 is equal H ^M _max= −3.41 kJ mol⁻¹. Measurements of the melting process (second measurement) were conducted after a storage period of several days at room temperature. Analysis of the melting peaks shows that the melting process of 26DNT takes place in pores of the micro-fiber and bulk outside the fibers. In the case of a mass fraction of x _w26DNT>0.9 the melting process takes place in the bulk, which suggests that in the case of such concentrations separation of the micro-fibers occurs. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Thermal analysis of phase change emulsion

This paper presents some results obtained by Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) for characterizing the phase transition within an emulsion. The dispersed substances are either hexadecane, octadecane, water or binary solution. A non-equilibrium model taking into account the inter-phase heat transfer between the emulsifying medium and the dispersed droplet is proposed and explains the main experimental features.     

PW based phase change nanocomposites containing <Emphasis Type="Italic">γ</Emphasis>-Al<Subscript>2</Subscript>O<Subscript>3</Subscript>

Phase change nanocomposites were prepared by dispersing γ-Al₂O₃ nanoparticles into melting paraffin wax (PW). Intensive sonication was used to make well dispersed and homogeneous composites. Differential scanning calorimetric (DSC) and transient short-hot-wire (SHW) method were employed to measure the thermal properties of the composites. The composites decreased the latent heat thermal energy storage capacity, L _s, and melting point, T _m, compared with those of the PW. Interestingly, the composites with low mass fraction of the nanoparticles, have higher latent heat capacity than the calculated latent heat capacity value. The thermal conductivity of the nanocomposites was enhanced and increased with the mass fraction of Al₂O₃ in both liquid state and solid state.     

Determination and measurement of solid–liquid equilibrium for binary fatty acid mixtures based on NRTL and UNIQUAC activity models

The estimation of solid–liquid phase equilibrium is important for the design, development, and operation of many industrial processes because of application in many manufacturing fields such as cosmetic, pharmaceutic, and biotechnology industries. In this work, we measured solid–liquid phase equilibrium of six fatty acid binary mixtures using the DSC technique and developed thermodynamic approaches for binary fatty acid mixtures to estimate melting temperatures as a function of mole fraction in solid–liquid phase equilibrium. Derivation of NRTL and UNIQUAC activity models was developed to predict melting temperatures and latent heat to achieve eutectic points of undecylic acid, pentadecylic acid, margaric acid, and stearic acid six pairwise binary mixtures. The fatty acids eutectic mixtures are appropriate for heat water systems, phase clothes, concrete, and other similar applications. The results showed low deviations from experimental data measured in this study.

     

Simulation of the thermal transfer during an eutectic melting of a binary solution

The main objective of this paper is to present a model for the heat transfer in the case of the melting of saline binary solution. This model is applied to calorimetry in order to determine the kinetics of the eutectic melting. The investigated cell containing the solution is a cylinder of a few mm³ in volume. By simulation, we could replicate the shape of the experimental thermogramms. The validation of the model permits determining some parameters which are inaccessible due to the small size of the cell, like the space-time evolution of the temperature inside the differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) sample.     

Melt Behaviour of Poly(p-xylylene) (PPX) Coated Gel-spun UHMW-PE Fibers As Revealed by Temperature Modulated DSC

The method of temperature modulated DSC has been applied to obtain additional information about the effect of constraints on the melting behaviour of gel-spun ultra high molecular mass polyethylene (UHMW-PE) fibers coated with a high temperature stable poly(p-xylylene) (PPX) polymer. The underlying signal, corresponding to the normal DSC signal, reveals two endothermic peaks for the coated PE fibers. A shift in the underlying and magnitude signal from 142 to 145°C at 0.1 K min^–1 , a relative small magnitude signal, together with a vanishing step-like change in the phase signal with increasing PPX coating layer thickness characterize the constraints in terms of a hindrance of the melting of the unconstrained orthorhombic crystal fraction. The time constant of the melting process can be estimated as larger than the reciprocal angular frequency 1/ω=5 s of the modulation. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

冷冻升华制备的超高分子量聚乙烯寡链、多链晶体的凝聚态

在10^-3～10^-5g/mL浓度范围内,用冷冻升华法制备了超高分子量聚乙烯(UHPE)单链、寡链、多链的折叠链晶聚集体.长达几万纳米的UHPE分子链可以以不同的片晶参与结晶,或自身形成数个晶粒,即形成单链多晶.DSC研究结果表明,随着溶液浓度的降低,冷冻升华样品的熔点和结晶度均降低.由熔点估算了晶粒的体积和晶粒中包含的链数,它们亦随溶液浓度降低而降低.冷冻升华得到的小晶粒中链的缠结少,晶体具有较高的完善性.用WAXD测试晶粒的(110)和(200)面的法向尺寸,由此计算晶粒的平均体积,与熔点计算得到的数值一致.     

Mixed saturated-unsaturated alkyl-chain assemblies: solid solutions of zinc stearate and zinc oleate

The linear saturated stearic acid and the bent mono-unsaturated oleic acid do not mix and form solid solutions. However, the zinc salts of these acids can. From X-ray diffraction and DSC measurements we show that the layered zinc stearate and zinc oleate salts form a homogeneous solid solution at all composition ratios. The solid solutions exhibit a single melting endotherm, with the melting temperature varying linearly with composition but with the enthalpy change showing a minimum. By monitoring features in the infrared spectra that are characteristic of the global conformation of the hydrocarbon chain, and hence can distinguish between stearate and oleate chains, it is shown that solid solution formation is realized by the introduction of gauche defects in a fraction of the stearate chains that are then no longer linear. This fraction increases with oleate concentration. It has also been possible from the spectroscopic measurements to establish a quantitative relation between molecular conformational order and the thermodynamic enthalpy of melting of the solid solutions.     

硬脂酸镧复合物对聚丙烯β晶型的诱导作用

Ｆ等规聚丙烯（iPP)的分子链均为３螺旋构型,可形成α,β,γ,δ和拟六方态等５种晶体结构,β晶型（六方）的ＰＰ具有良好的韧性^[1,2],近年来因在增韧及制造电容器粗化膜方面有独特性能而受到重视,但β晶型在热力学上是准稳定,动力上是不利于生成的一种晶型［3],只有利用特殊方式才能获得,如选取合适的熔融、结晶温度及一定的温度梯度^[4],剪切取向^[5],使用成核剂[3,6~12]等,前两种方法不易实施,添加能诱导生成β晶型的特效成核剂是目前获得较高含量β晶型ＰＰ的可行途径,目前已知的β成核剂主要有两类,一类是少数具有准平面结构的稠环化合物,如γ晶型喹吖啶酮红染料Ｅ３Ｂ^[6]和三苯二噻^[7]等,另一类是元素周期表中少数第ＩＩa 族金属的某些盐类及其二元羧酸的复合物,典型的例子如钙的亚氨酸盐^[8],硬脂酸钙／癸脂酸钙／癸二酸体系等^[3,9,12].     

Thermoanalytical method for studying the guest content in cyclodextrin inclusion complexes

The interaction of cypermethrin with β-cyclodextrin was investigated using different (coprecipitation, suspension, kneading and ‘melting in solution’) complexation methods and qualifying the resulted complexes by UV-spectrophotometry, thermal methods (TG, DTG and DSC) and X-ray powder diffraction. The total guest content of complexes can be measured by UV-spectrophotometry in aqueous ethanol solution, while the uncomplexed guest fraction of samples can be determined by DSC based on a previous calibration curve, which was found between the melting enthalpy change of cypermethrin and the guest content of physical mixture samples. The combination of both analytical methods enables the determination of really complexed guest content.     

Thermochemistry of the binary system nitrocellulose+N-nitrodiethanolamine dinitrate

The melting and mixing enthalpy of the binary system nitrocellulose and N-nitrodiethanolamine dinitrate (DINA) was determined by DSC. The mixing enthalpy H _max^M = 1.95 kJ mol⁻¹ had maximum at mass fraction x _wDINA=0.46. The influence of samples storing on glass and endothermic transitions were studied. The temperature range of glass transition broadened with x _wDINA what proved the increase of samples heterogeneity. For x _wDINA≤0.750 no influence of samples storing on the phase changes was observed. The heat capacity change decreased and temperature range of glass transition increased for x _wDINA≤0.500 what indicated the reduction of glass phase fraction in studied samples.     

The state of water in swollen polymers

It is shown that by low frequency measurements in hydrophilic polymers only one state of water is observed. Water behave as a classical plasticizer and ice melting in polymer is similar to ice melting in binary simple mixture. The non crystallizable water in these systems is explained by the Tg regulation effect. In oriented swollen polymers, only one state of water is observed in the time scale ∼ 1/ω_q = 10⁻⁵ s by deuterium NMR. This technique gives information on the mean orientation of D₂O molecules in the oriented polymer and on the fraction of mobile water molecules. The concept of bound and unbound water is not relevant for explaining the DSC and D-NMR results.     

Analysis of the isothermal crystallization of polypropylene/wood flour composites

Isothermal crystallization and melting of isotactic polypropylene in binary polypropylene-wood flour composites has been studied by DSC, and the influence of an ethylene-methacrylic acid copolymer interfacial agent analyzed. Wood flour induces a slight nucleating effect, reducing the basal interfacial free energy of nucleation and increasing the overall crystallization rate. The interfacial agent generates a compatibilization phenomenon and an increase in the basal interfacial free energies with respect to the binary composites. In both binary and ternary systems the melting behaviour is a function of undercooling and is unaltered by the presence of either wood flour or the interfacial agent.     

Morphology characterization of emulsions by differential scanning calorimetry

This article is a review of some results obtained by Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) for characterizing the morphology of emulsions. In a classical DSC experiment, an emulsion sample is submitted to a regular cooling and heating cycle between temperatures that include freezing and melting of the dispersed droplets. By using the thermograms found in the literature for various emulsions, how to get information about the solidification and melting, the presence of solute, the emulsion type, the transfer of matter, the stability and the droplet size is shown.     

4,4'-二羟基二苯硫醚对聚甲醛结晶和熔融行为的影响

为了探究4,4'-二羟基二苯硫醚(TDP)的添加对聚甲醛(POM)熔融与结晶行为的影响,本文利用熔融共混的方法制备了POM/TDP共混材料。通过差示扫描量热仪(DSC)对共混材料的熔融与结晶行为进行了研究,利用广角X射线衍射仪(WAXD)对共混材料的晶体结构进行了研究。结果表明,在POM中添加TDP后,POM的晶面间距变大,晶体结构变的疏松,使POM的结晶温度(Tc)、结晶焓(ΔHc)、熔融温度(Tm)与熔融焓(ΔHm)均降低。当TDP质量分数增加到30%时,共混物的熔点与结晶温度较纯POM分别下降了15.2和12.8℃。在等温结晶过程中,随着TDP含量的增大,POM完成结晶所需的时间显著加长,共混物的结晶速率逐渐降低,结晶活化能逐渐升高,但TDP的加入对POM的晶型并没有影响。以上结果说明TDP的添加对POM的熔融与结晶行为影响很大,这将为POM结晶行为的调控提供依据。     

DSC by the TGA/SDTA851e Considering Mass Changes

DSC measurements in open pans are often disturbed by mass losses such as sublimation during melting or release of water during chemical reactions. By simultaneous DSC and TG measurements the DSC signal can be corrected. For this purpose, a temperature dependent calibration function has to be determined by which the SDTA signal from the TGA/SDTA851^e measuring cell can be converted into a heat flow curve (DSC). By this procedure, accurate heat of melting can be determined despite ongoing sublimation in open pans. This method is illustrated with reference of the melting of anthracene. Additionally, condensation reactions were investigated and analyzed by DSC/TG even under ambient pressure, knowing the heat of evaporation. Using phenol formaldehyde resins the influence of the presence or the release of volatile reaction products on the reaction rate and kinetic parameters were studied. In general, the method can be used to correct DSC curves for thermal effects related to mass change. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Radiation effects on the immiscible polymer blend of nylon1010 and high-impact polystyrene (HIPS) I: Gel/dose curves,mathematical expectation theorem and thermal behaviour

This paper studies the radiation properties of the immiscible blend of nylon1010 and HIPS. The gel fraction increased with increasing radiation dose. The network was found mostly in nylon1010, the networks were also found in both nylon1010 and HIPS when the dose reaches 0.85 MGy or more. We used the Charleby–Pinner equation and the modified Zhang–Sun-Qian equation to simulate the relationship with the dose and the sol fraction. The latter equation fits well with these polymer blends and the relationship used by it showed better linearity than the one by the Charleby–Pinner equation. We also studied the conditions of formation of the network by the mathematical expectation theorem for the binary system. Thermal properties of polymer blend were observed by DSC curves. The crystallization temperature decreases with increasing dose because the cross-linking reaction inhibited the crystallization procession and destroyed the crystals. The melting temperature also reduced with increasing radiation dose. The dual melting peak gradually shifted to single peak and the high melting peak disappeared at high radiation dose. However, the radiation-induced crystallization was observed by the heat of fusion increasing at low radiation dose. On the other hand, the crystal will be damaged by radiation. A similar conclusion may be drawn by the DSC traces when the polymer blends were crystallized. When the radiation dose increases, the heat of fusion reduces dramatically and so does the heat of crystallization.     

Phase diagrams of urea inclusion compounds

The stearic acid-urea binary system exhibits an unusual phase diagram, which, on the one hand, indicates an incongruently melting inclusion compound and on the other hand a miscibility gap in the liquid phases. The peritectic point lies near the melting point of urea and the unstable congruent melting point of the inclusion compound coincides with the melting point of urea. In addition to the processing of the phase diagram, the pure inclusion compound was prepared and its DSC curve, FTIR spectrum and X-ray diffractogram were recorded.