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http://dx.doi.org/10.5658/WOOD.2014.42.6.682

Thermal Stability of Polypropylene-Based Wood Plastic Composites by The Addition of Ammonium Polyphosphate  

Chun, Sang-Jin (Department of Forest Products, Korea Forest Research Institute)
Lee, Sun-Young (Department of Forest Products, Korea Forest Research Institute)
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Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology / v.42, no.6, 2014 , pp. 682-690 More about this Journal
Abstract
In order to improve the thermal stability of wood plastic composites (WPC), thermal degradation behavior of WPC in this study was investigated by the addition of wood flour and fire retardant after hybridization of wood flour and ammonium polyphosphate (APP) into polypropylene (PP) matrix. Thermal degradation behavior of all formulations was analyzed with thermogravimetric analyzer under nitrogen environment at heating rate of $10^{\circ}C/min$. As the thermal degradation temperature of wood flour is lower than that of PP, char layer formed by the wood flour decreases the speed of heat transfer to PP. In addition, the char layer increases the 2nd thermal degradation temperature and decreases the 2nd thermal degradation speed. The WPC treated with APP increases the 1st and 2nd degradation temperatures. In the case of WPC with high loading level of wood flour, the 1st thermal degradation temperature and 2nd thermal degradation rate were increased by the addition of APP, and then the amount of remnants at high temperature was increased by the increase of the APP loading level. In the case of WPC treated with APP, the amount of the remnants at high temperature was increased with the increase of wood flour content from 10 wt% to 50 wt%, indicating that char formation of the APP and wood flour occurred at the same time, resulting in high thermal stability effect by the increase of wood flour content.
Keywords
polypropylene; wood flour; light stabilizer; UV absorber; weathering;
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