Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Page 1 of 3
Page 2 of 3
Conclusions
Melt flow index, thermogravimetric analysis, and differential scanning calorimetry were used to determine the root cause of substantial process variation with an extruded thermoplastic polyurethane. TGA testing revealed no significant differences between Good and Bad samples in terms of the thermal degradation profile or inorganic residue contents. No significant difference in either of the two glass transition temperatures or in the detailed characteristics of the melting endotherm were noted either. The most marked dissimilarity between the two samples was in the melt flow index (MFI) value. The melt flow rate was about twice as high for the Bad sample relative to the Good sample. These significantly different melt flow rate values indicate a large variation in the molecular weight distributions for these two thermoplastic polyurethane samples.
Page 3 of 3