Diffusivity of solvents in semi-crystalline polyethylene using the Vrentas-Duda free-volume theory

Author:

Sturm Derek R.1,Caputo Kevin J.1,Liu Siyang1,Danner Ronald P.1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Chemical Engineering Department , The Pennsylvania State University, University Park , PA 16802 , USA

Abstract

Abstract Diffusion of penetrants in polyethylene below the melt temperature is heavily dependent on the crystallinity of the polyethylene, the temperature of the experiment, and the concentration of solvent in the polymer. As the crystallinity of the polyethylene increases, there is an increase in the path that the solvent must travel as the solvent cannot penetrate the tightly packed chains in the crystalline domain. This effect is typically accounted for by a tortuosity factor. In this work, a simple and effective characterization of the tortuosity factor based simply on the crystal weight fraction has been developed. Data have been collected for six polyethylenes having densities ranging from 0.912 to 0.961 g/cm3 and for three solvents – isopentane, cyclohexane, and 1-hexene. Diffusivity predictions have been obtained using the free-volume theory of Vrentas and Duda in conjunction with the new tortuosity factor. The polyethylenes had crystallinities varying from 40% to 82% effecting an approximately 60% change in the diffusivity. The decrease resulting from ignoring the crystallinity altogether was in some cases essentially a factor of 5. The error in the predicted diffusivities over all the systems was 25%. For cyclohexane, it is shown that the same model parameters characterize data below the melt temperature (in the semi-crystalline region) as well as above the melt temperature (in the amorphous region).

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Materials Chemistry,Polymers and Plastics,General Chemical Engineering

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