Deformation of dispersed polystyrene droplets in immiscible polypropylene/polystyrene blend fibers under uniaxial elongational flow

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• 作者：Dan Pan ; Long Chen ; Houkang He ; Kangwei Deng ; Zongyi Qin
• 关键词：Drop deformation ; Blend fibers ; Uniaxial elongational flow ; Melt ; spinning ; Radial gradient
• 刊名：Fibers and Polymers
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：September 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：17
• 期：9
• 页码：1343-1351
• 全文大小：1,609 KB
• 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
• 刊物主题：Chemistry
  Polymer Sciences
  
• 出版者：The Korean Fiber Society
• ISSN：1875-0052
• 卷排序：17

文摘

The deformation of dispersed polystyrene (PS) droplets in immiscible polypropylene (PP) matrices during melt spinning of blend fibers were simulated by adopting the droplet deformation criteria. The ratios of number-average length to diameter were measured through morphology analysis, and compared with the simulated values. It was found that the adopted deformation models described the deformation behavior of the dispersed droplets during melt spinning very well. Dispersed droplets in the center of the fiber tend to be stretched longer than those of near to the surface, due to the radial temperature gradient during fiber formation. Moreover, combining with the rheological studies of raw materials, a theoretical relation between temperature and deformation was established and used to determine the radial temperature differences along the spinning line. It was found that the radial temperature gradients vary from 0.22 to 0.35 °C/μm at 40 cm beneath to the spinneret at the discussed take-up velocities.