Single Capillary Rheometer Technique for Determining Molecular Weight Distribution of Conventional and Metallocene Catalysed Polyethylenes

Bronagh Millar; Gerard McNally; W Murphy

Single Capillary Rheometer Technique for Determining Molecular Weight Distribution of Conventional and Metallocene Catalysed Polyethylenes

Bronagh Millar^*, Gerard McNally, W Murphy

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

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Abstract

A new approach to determining the molecular weight distribution of metallocene (mPE) and conventional polyethylenes using a single capillary rheometer technique is reported here. The melt flow properties of a range of 17 mLLDPEs and 4 conventional LLDPEs with different MFIs, densities and co-monomer types (butene, hexene, octene), from six different suppliers were investigated using this technique. The results show a direct correlation between melt flow rate ratio and molecular weight distribution (MWD,) measured by Gel Permeation Chromatography: MWD = ( 34.2 × MFRR) − 14.5 . A direct correlation between weight average molecular weight (Mw) and melt flow index for the resins was also determined

Original language	English
Pages	1051-1055
Number of pages	5
Publication status	Published - May 2002
Event	Annual Technical Conference of the Society of Plastics Engineers - USA, San Francisco, United States Duration: 05 May 2002 → 09 Oct 2020

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Conference	Annual Technical Conference of the Society of Plastics Engineers
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Francisco
Period	05/05/2002 → 09/10/2020

Keywords

Rheology
metallocene polyethylene
Molecular weight distribution

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Single Capillary Rheometer Technique for Determining Molecular Weight Distribution of Conventional and Metallocene Catalysed Polyethylenes. / Millar, Bronagh; McNally, Gerard; Murphy, W.
2002. 1051-1055 Paper presented at Annual Technical Conference of the Society of Plastics Engineers, San Francisco, United States.

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Single Capillary Rheometer Technique for Determining Molecular Weight Distribution of Conventional and Metallocene Catalysed Polyethylenes

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