Thermochemical study of the briquetting process of mattress foams
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Title: | Thermochemical study of the briquetting process of mattress foams |
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Authors: | Garrido, María A. | Font, Rafael | Conesa, Juan A. |
Research Group/s: | Residuos, Energía, Medio Ambiente y Nanotecnología (REMAN) |
Center, Department or Service: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ingeniería Química | Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Ingeniería de los Procesos Químicos |
Keywords: | Flexible polyurethane foam | Viscoelastic memory foam | Latex foam | Briquette | FTIR analysis | TG-IR analysis |
Knowledge Area: | Ingeniería Química |
Issue Date: | May-2017 |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Citation: | Fuel Processing Technology. 2017, 159: 88-95. doi:10.1016/j.fuproc.2017.01.030 |
Abstract: | The production of flexible polyurethane foam (FPUF) briquettes has been tested at four different temperatures (160, 170, 180 and 190 °C) and with four different compacting pressures (17, 24, 35 and 48 MPa), selecting 180 °C and 35 MPa as the best briquetting conditions. In addition, heterogeneous briquettes have been moulded employing 10, 18 and 25% of viscoelastic memory foam (VMF) with FPUF and the same proportions for latex foam (LATEX) with FPUF, at 180 °C and 24 and 35 MPa of compacting pressure. For VMF + FPUF briquettes mixtures of up to 18% of VMF showed high quality, whereas this proportion decreased by up to 10% for LATEX. The FTIR and TG-IR analyses were conducted to investigate the mechanism of adhesion bonding in heterogeneous briquettes considering that the FPUF acted as a binder. The temperature (180 °C) and pressure (35 MPa) selected to mould the heterogeneous briquettes seem to be enough to achieve the break of part of the urethane bond present in the FPUF improving the mobility of long polymeric chains which allowed the bonding of different materials. |
Sponsor: | The authors thank the Spanish Ministry of Education Culture and Sport (FPU12/02000) and the research projects CTQ2013-41006 from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and PROMETEOII/2014/007 from the Valencian Community Government for the support provided. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/62147 |
ISSN: | 0378-3820 (Print) | 1873-7188 (Online) |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.fuproc.2017.01.030 |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Rights: | © 2017 Elsevier B.V. |
Peer Review: | si |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fuproc.2017.01.030 |
Appears in Collections: | INV - REMAN - Artículos de Revistas |
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