Effectiveness of Compatibilizer on Mechanical Properties of Recycled PET Blends with PE, PP, and PS - Materials Sciences and Applications

MSA > Vol.5 No.8, June 2014

Effectiveness of Compatibilizer on Mechanical Properties of Recycled PET Blends with PE, PP, and PS ()

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DOI: 10.4236/msa.2014.58057 6,552 Downloads 9,630 Views Citations

Author(s)

Nobuyuki Imamura, Hiroki Sakamoto, Yuji Higuchi, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Shinichi Kawasaki, Kazushi Yamada, Hiroyuki Nishimura, Takahiro Nishino

Affiliation(s)

Advanced Fibro-Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan.
Energy Technology Laboratories, Osaka Gas Co., Osaka, Japan.
Osaka Gas Chemicals Co., Konohana-ku, Osaka, Japan.
Osaka Resin Industry Co., Osaka, Japan.

ABSTRACT

Recycled PET (R-PET) is well known to exhibit brittle behavior in the presence of notches and indicated the low heat distortion temperature. In addition, it is hard to prevent some impurities such as cap or label of the bottle that mixed into R-PET during the recycling process. In this paper, the effect of the amounts and kinds of compatibilizers on the morphological characteristics and mechanical performance of recycled poly(ethylene terephthalate) (R-PET) compounded with polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), and polystyrene (PS) was investigated. From the results, with an increase in the glycidyl methacrylate modified PE (EGMA) additive contents, in the increment of the Izod impact strength of Composite-G was obtained. In addition, it was found that the miscibility of Composite-G was improved with increasing the amount of EGMA, which indicated from the result of SEM images.

KEYWORDS

Component, Recycled PET, Recycled Polypropylene, Recycled Polyethylene, Compatibilizer

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Imamura, N. , Sakamoto, H. , Higuchi, Y. , Yamamoto, H. , Kawasaki, S. , Yamada, K. , Nishimura, H. and Nishino, T. (2014) Effectiveness of Compatibilizer on Mechanical Properties of Recycled PET Blends with PE, PP, and PS. Materials Sciences and Applications, 5, 548-555. doi: 10.4236/msa.2014.58057.

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