Journal
JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE
Volume 138, Issue 29, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/app.50690
Keywords
biopolymers and renewable polymers; foams; manufacturing; polyurethane; structure‐ property relationships
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- Ford Motor Company
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This study evaluated the performance of biobased polyester-ether polyols for flexible polyurethane foams applications, including mechanical properties, thermal degradation behavior, and wet compression set. The results showed that biobased PUF had similar characteristic times and thermal degradation behavior compared to the control foam, but slightly different wet compression set performance.
In this study, biobased polyester-ether polyols derived from meso-lactide and dimer acids were evaluated for flexible polyurethane foams (PUF) applications. Initially, the catalyst concentration was optimized for the biobased PUF containing 30% of biobased polyol (70% petroleum-based polyol). Then, the same formulation was used for biobased PUF synthesis containing 10%-40% of biobased polyols. The performance of biobased PUF was compared with the performance of the control foam made with 100% petroleum-based polyol. The characteristic times (cream, top of the cup, string gel, rise, tack-free) of biobased PUF were determined. The biobased PUF were evaluated for the mechanical (tensile and compressive) and morphological properties. As the wet compression set is important for automotive applications, it was measured for all biobased PUF. The thermal degradation behavior of biobased PUF was also evaluated and compared with the control foam. The effect of different hydroxyl and acid values of polyols on the mechanical properties of biobased PUF is also discussed. The miscibility of all components of PUF formulations is crucial in order to produce a foam with uniform properties. Thus, the miscibility of biobased polyols with commercial petroleum-based polyol was studied.
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