Maria José de Oliveira Cavalcanti Guimarães

To recycle post-consumer HDPE contaminated with waste lubricating oils, companies include prior washing and drying in the process. This consumes large amounts of water and energy, generates significant effluent requiring treatment. This study assesses lubricating oil influence on HDPE properties to evaluate the feasibility of its direct mechanical recycling without washing. The current lubricating oil packaging reverse logistics in Rio de Janeiro municipality is also analyzed. HDPE bottle samples were processed with seven oil contents ranging from 1.6-29.4 (wt%). The results indicated the possibility to reprocess the polymer with oily residue not exceeding 3.2%. At higher levels, the external oil lubricating action affects the plastic matrix processing in the extruder and injection, and the recycled material has a burnt oil odor and free oil on the surface. Small residual oil amounts retain the plastic properties comparable to the washed recycled polymer and exhibited benefits associated with the oil plasticizer action. However, oil presence above 7.7% significantly changes the properties and reduces the elasticity and flexural modulus and the plastic matrix crystallinity.

Neste trabalho foi avaliada a tenacificação de poliestireno (PS) utilizando três tipos de polibutadieno (PB): polibutadieno baixo-cis (PBb), polibutadieno alto-cis (PBa) e copolímero em bloco (SBS) de estireno e butadieno (PBco). Foi observado um aumento na resistência ao impacto de 138, 208 e 823%, quando foram utilizados polibutadieno baixo-cis, polibutadieno alto-cis e copolímero em bloco de estireno e butadieno respectivamente. Os materiais apresentaram morfologia dispersa com domínios de polibutadieno distribuídos aleatoriamente na matriz de poliestireno, cujo tamanho foi inferior a 1 µm. A energia de ativação para o escoamento foi calculada segundo a equação de Arrhenius e variou de 34 a 71 kJ/mol. Em todos os experimentos reológicos as misturas poliméricas apresentaram comportamento pseudoplástico. In this work, an evaluation was made of the toughening of polystyrene (PS) with three types of polybutadiene (PB): low-cis polybutadiene (PBl), high-cis polybutadiene (PBh ) and styrene-butadiene block (SBS) copolymer (PBco). The impact strength increased 138, 208 and 823% when low-cis polybutadiene, high-cis polybutadiene and styrene-butadiene block copolymer, were used, respectively. The materials presented dispersed morphology with domains smaller than 1 µm, randomly distributed in the polystyrene matrix. The flow activation energy, calculated by Arrhenius equation, varied from 34 to 71 kJ/mol. In the rheological experiments all polymer blends presented pseudoplastic behavior