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Phase Equilibrium Study on the Ternary System of SBR/EPDM/Solvent  

Go, Jin-Hwan (Department of Polymer Engineering, Chosun University)
Park, Byung-Ho (Kumho Reserch and Development Center)
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Elastomers and Composites / v.37, no.4, 2002 , pp. 211-216 More about this Journal
Abstract
The polymer-polymer interaction parameter, x 23t, of the styrene-butadiene polymer (SBR) and ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer (EPDM) was investigated by observing the phase behavior of the ternary system of SBR/EPDM/solvent. The solvent used in this study was benzene acting as a good solvent for SBR but as a poor solvent for EPDM. Ternary solutions with various concentrations and mixing ratios of the two component polymers were separated into two phases by temperature change The cloud point curves (CPC) showed that the differerence of solvent affinities toward each polymer and the repulsive interaction between two polymers considerably affect the shape of CPC near 15℃. In the temperature range of 5℃ ~ 25℃, incompatible behaviours arised from both the difference of mixing ratios and concentration were clearly observed. Also the phase separation temperature greatly influenced on the composition of each separated phase. The calculated x 23t values from Flory-Huggins theory were in the range of 0.6301 ~ 1.0775, which suggest that the SBR/EPDM systems are incompatible.
Keywords
SBR; EPDM; ternary system; interaction parameter; cloud point curve;
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