EP0932644A1 - Thermostabile, flammhemmende thermosplastische polymer-zusammensetzungen - Google Patents
Thermostabile, flammhemmende thermosplastische polymer-zusammensetzungenInfo
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- EP0932644A1 EP0932644A1 EP97941025A EP97941025A EP0932644A1 EP 0932644 A1 EP0932644 A1 EP 0932644A1 EP 97941025 A EP97941025 A EP 97941025A EP 97941025 A EP97941025 A EP 97941025A EP 0932644 A1 EP0932644 A1 EP 0932644A1
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- Prior art keywords
- transition metal
- flame retardant
- composition
- thermoplastic polymer
- halogen
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- This invention relates generally to heat stabilized, flame retardant thermoplastic polymer compositions and more particularly to thermoplastic polymer compositions which include halogen- based flame retardants, such as cycloaliphatic bromine compounds, zeolite A heat stabilizers and transition metal compounds such as zinc stearate.
- halogen-based flame retardants such as cycloaliphatic bromine compounds, zeolite A heat stabilizers and transition metal compounds such as zinc stearate.
- Halogen-containing materials for example, cycloaliphatic organic compounds such as hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) are widely used in thermoplastic polymer compositions to impart flame retardant properties to the compositions.
- HBCD hexabromocyclododecane
- their presence in the thermoplastic polymer-based compositions has the drawback of lowering thermal stability. This can cause serious color and/or viscosity problems when the compositions are exposed to high processing temperatures.
- a stabilizing agent such as hydrotalcite, tetrasodium pyrophosphate or dibutyl tin maleate.
- hydrotalcite tetrasodium pyrophosphate
- dibutyl tin maleate a stabilizing agent
- these stabilized compositions are subjected to multiple heating processes, such as in attempting to re-use polymer scrap or when forming masterbatches which are reheated during their incorporation into the bulk of the heat-softened thermoplastic polymers, deterioration of the halogen-based flame retardants, as well as the polymer itself can occur. This is evidenced by discoloration of the compositions.
- Heat deterioration is especially a problem when the polymer compositions contain even very small portions of transition metal compounds such as zinc stearate, which is a preferred lubricant for many extrusion and molding applications. Using lower processing temperatures may help, but this extends processing times and lowers throughput. It has now been found that when zeolite A is added to thermoplastic polymer compositions which contain transition metal compounds and halogenated aliphatic compounds, they are heat stable even when subjected to multiple heatings. It has also been found that when forming polymer foams from such compositions, the zeolite A does not increase foam density to the extent that occurs when using other heat stabilizers.
- a heat stabilized, flame retardant polymer formulation which comprises a thermoplastic polymer, a transition metal compound, a flame retardant amount of a halogen-based flame retardant, and a heat stabilizing amount of zeolite A.
- a masterbatch composition which comprises from 10 to 90 weight percent thermoplastic polymer and from 10 to 90 weight percent of additives which include at least a halogen-based flame retardant, zeolite A, and a transition metal compound.
- thermoplastic polymer composition comprising the steps of (i) heating and mixing a first thermoplastic polymer composition, said composition containing a transition metal compound and having been formed by combining a heat-plastified thermoplastic polymer with a halogen-based flame retardant, and zeolite A, with a second thermoplastic polymer composition to form a heat- plastified polymer gel composition, (ii) either expressing the heat-plastified thermoplastic polymer gel composition from a die or injecting said gel composition into a mold so as to form a flame retardant article, and (iii) cooling the article to a temperature at which the article is self-supporting.
- thermoplastic polymers and copolymers for use in the invention include those organic polymers which are usually associated with flammability problems when formed into a broad range of plastic articles, both in the form of solid objects and foams.
- Non-limiting examples of such polymers include polyolefins, polyesters, polyamides, polycarbonates, styrenic polymers, and polyurethanes.
- Specific examples of such polymers include high and low density polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, ethylene-propylene and ethylene-propylene-diene copolymers, nylon 6 and polyethyleneterephthlate.
- the invention is particularly useful with styrenic polymers.
- Styrenic polymers are usually classified as general-purpose polystyrene (GPPS) or as impact modified polystyrene (IPS).
- GPPS general-purpose polystyrene
- IPS impact modified polystyrene
- GPPS is a high molecular weight, clear polymer which is hard, rigid and free of odor and taste. It finds use in producing moldings and extrusions including foams and films.
- IPS is a rubber-modified polystyrene which is characterized by its toughness and resistance to abuse. The rubber is dispersed in the polystyrene matrix in the form of discrete particles. IPS is not clear, but rather is either translucent or opaque depending upon the amount of rubber used.
- IPS medium-impact polystyrene
- HIPS high-impact polystyrene
- MIPS medium-impact polystyrene
- HIPS high-impact polystyrene
- MIPS medium-impact polystyrene
- HIPS high-impact polystyrene
- IPS can be generally characterized as having an 8 to 18 wt% rubber content.
- mixtures of IPS and GPPS are used to achieve certain blends of properties.
- the styrenic polymer can be GPPS, IPS or a mixture of the two.
- GPPS is generally used in making foams but GPPS-IPS mixtures are sometimes used.
- the GPPS and IPS may be homopolymers, copolymers or block polymers and are formed from such vinyl aromatic monomers as styrene, ring-substituted methyl or polymethylstyrenes, ring-substituted ethyl or polyethylstyrenes, ring-substituted propyl or polypropylstyrenes, ring-substituted butyl or polybutyl styrenes, ring-substituted mixed polyalkylstyrenes wherein the alkyl groups differ from each other, alpha-methylstyrene, ring-substituted methyl- or polymethyl-alpha-methylstyrenes, propyl- or polypropy
- Homopolymers and copolymers of simple styrenic monomers e.g., styrene, p-methyl-styrene, 2,4- dimethylstyrene, alpha-methylstyrene, and p-chloro-styrene are preferred from the standpoints of cost and availability.
- the IPS may be either medium impact polystyrene (MIPS) or high-impact polystyrene (HIPS).
- MIPS medium impact polystyrene
- HIPS high-impact polystyrene
- the rubber used in effecting impact modification is most often a butadiene rubber.
- halogen-based flame retardants used in this invention may be any such flame retardants that are commonly used in this field and which are subject to heat stability problems, such as aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, and mixed aliphatic-aromatic organic halogen compounds in which the aliphatic groups contain halogen.
- Examples that may be cited include tetrabromoethane, tetrabromobutane, hexabromocyclododecane, acetylene tetrabromide, pentabromochlorocyclohexane, ethylene bis(dibromobornane dicarboximide) (BN 451), dibromoethyldibromocyclohexane (BCL 462), tetrabromocyclooctane (BC-48), melamine hydrobromide, tris(2,3-dibromopropyl)isocyan- urate, tetrabromobisphenol A bis(2,3-dibromopropyl ether), 2,3-dibromopropylpentabromophenyl ether, tetrabromophthalic anhydride and esters thereof including RB-79 and PHT-4 diol, chlorinated polyethylenes, chlorinated
- halogen-based flame retardants there is no particular limit on the amount in which these halogen-based flame retardants are added, it being suitable to vary the amount as appropriate according to the desired degree of flame retardation. It is generally preferable to use 1 - 35 parts by weight, per 100 parts by weight of thermoplastic polymer, of one of these flame retardants alone or of two or more together.
- the invention is particularly effective with cycloaliphatic flame retardants which are less heat stable, especially in the presence of Lewis acids.
- a preferred flame retardant is a hexabromocyclododecane material. This material is a mixture of isomers.
- Both the low-melt and high-melt hexabromocyclododecane products having individual melting point ranges within the general range of 170° C - 200° C can be used.
- a most highly preferred product is HBCD-LM flame retardant available from Albemarle Corporation. This HBCD material has a melting point range of 178° C - 188° C and a minimum melt point of 175° C.
- the amount of flame retardant used is that amount which will render the formulation flame retardant.
- flame retardant is to mean that the non- foamed formulations, when tested in accordance with UL 94, obtains a rating of at least V-2.
- the UL 94 test is an Underwriters Laboratories Inc.
- A flame spread index of 0 - 25
- B flame spread index of 26 - 75.
- cycloaliphatic halogen-based flame retardants such as HBCD, from 0.5 to 8 wt% is generally used, based on the total weight of formulation in order to obtain such ratings.
- the zeolite A used in the practice of this invention can be represented by the generalized formula for zeolite, M 2/n OAl 2 0 3 -ySiOywH 2 0, wherein M is a group IA or IIA element, such as sodium, potassium, magnesium and calcium.
- M is a group IA or IIA element, such as sodium, potassium, magnesium and calcium.
- the formula is Na 2 OAl 2 0 3 -xSi0 2 -yH 2 0.
- the value of x normally falls within the range of 1.85 ⁇ 0.5.
- the value for y can also be variant and can be any value up to 6. On average, the value of y will be 5.1.
- a sodium zeolite A the formula can be written as 1.0+0.2Na 2 OAlCyl .85 ⁇ 0.5SiCyyH 2 O, wherein the value of y can be up to 6.
- An ideal zeolite A has the following formula, (NaAlSi0 4 ) 12 -27H 2 0.
- Zeolite A is commercially available and can be purchased from Albemarle Corporation under the trademark EZA.
- the zeolite A is not modified by reaction with compounds such as inorganic halides.
- the amount of zeolite A used is that amount which effects thermal stabilization of the formulation. Generally, for most formulations of the invention, the amount of zeolite A used will be within the range of from 0.1 to 5 wt% based upon the total weight of the formulation. A preferred amount is within the range of from 0.6 to 1.5 wt%.
- Transition metal containing compounds for example, lubricants, nucleating agents, dyes, or pigments are commonly present in the thermoplastic polymer compositions in amounts of from 0.005 to 1.0 weight percent or more of the compositions.
- Non-limiting examples of these compounds include lubricants such as zinc stearate and other Zn, Cu, and Fe, salts of fatty acids such as stearic, tallow, and coco fatty acids and the dimer of oleic acid.
- Aryl carboxylate and sulfonate salts i.e., benzoate or terephthalate salts, are used as nucleators.
- the transition metal compounds have a destabilizing effect as they tend to cause serious degradation problems, especially with cycloaliphatic flame retardant containing polymer compositions, upon the achievement of high temperatures and/or undergoing a heat history (masterbatch heat experience + processing heat experience or other multiple heating processes such as scrap recycle).
- This can occur not only when the transition metal compound is present in functional (i.e., lubricating, nucleating, or colorant) amounts of 100 to 1,000 ppm or more of transition metal by weight of the polymer formulation, but even when the transition metal is only incidentally present in amounts of less than 100 ppm (as small as 10 ppm) by weight of the polymer formulation as a result, for example, of incorporating polymer scrap into the composition.
- the presence of the zeolite A stabilizer renders the compositions exceptionally heat stable when they are subjected to such multiple heatings.
- thermoplastic polymer halogen-based flame retardant, transition metal compound, and zeolite A
- additives include fillers, pigments, dyes, impact modifiers, UV stabilizers, antioxidants, processing aids, nucleating agents, and lubricants.
- Blending temperatures will generally be within the range of from 180 to 200° C and injection molding temperatures will generally be in the range of 180 to 250° C.
- a convenient way to add the flame retardant and stabilizer to the thermoplastic polymer is as a masterbatch which is a concentrated, heat blended or extruded mixture of the various additives in the polymer.
- concentration of additives usually ranges from 10 to 90 percent by weight of the total weight of masterbatch composition, with the balance of 10 to 90 weight percent being polymer.
- the masterbatch is then added to the bulk of the thermoplastic polymer material, which may already contain other additives such as a zinc stearate lubricant.
- the masterbatch is added in proportions to give the desired concentration of additives in the final blended product and usually in proportions of from 1 to 50 percent by weight of total weight of the final blended polymer composition.
- thermoplastic polymer foam materials for example, rods or rectangular boards, are formed, as is known, by mixing the additives, either individually or as a masterbatch, with the polymer, preferably a styrenic polymer, and then feeding the mixture to an extruder along with a foaming agent and, optionally, a nucleating agent, such as commercially available carbonate based materials, for example, the material sold under the trademark, Safoam - FP.
- aliphatic hydrocarbons including ethane, ethylene, propane, propylene, butane, butylene, isobutane, pentane, neopentane, isopentane, hexane, heptane and mixtures thereof; volatile halocarbons and/or halohydrocarbons, such as methyl chloride, chlorofluoromethane, bromochlorodifluoromethane, 1,1,1-trifluoroethane, 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane, dichlorofluoromethane, dichlorodifluoromethane, chlorotrifluoromethane, trichlorofluoromethane, sym-tetrachlorodifluoroethane, l,2,2-trichloro-l,l,2-trifluoroethane, symdichlorotetrafluoroethane; volatile t
- One preferred fluorine-containing blowing agent is 1,1-difluoroethane also known as HFC- 152a (FORMACEL Z-2, E.I. duPont de Nemours and Co.) because of its reported desirable ecological properties.
- Water-containing vegetable matter such as finely-divided corn cob can also be used as blowing agents. As described in U.S. Patent No. 4,559,367, such vegetable matter can also serve as fillers.
- Use of carbon dioxide as a foaming agent, or at least a component of the blowing agent is particularly preferred because of its innocuous nature vis-a-vis the environment and its low cost. Methods of using carbon dioxide as a blowing agent are described, for example, in U.S. Patent No.
- blowing agent 80 to 100% by weight of carbon dioxide and from 0 to 20%) by weight of one or more halohydrocarbons or hydrocarbons that are gaseous at room temperature
- U.S. Patents Nos. 5,189,071 and 5,189,072 wherein a preferred blowing agent is carbon dioxide and 1-chloro- 1,1-difluoroethane in weight ratios of 5/95 to 50/50
- preferred blowing agents comprise combinations of water and carbon dioxide.
- Such materials can be utilized with appropriate flame retarded thermoplastic polymer compositions of this invention.
- the invention is further illustrated by, but is not intended to be limited to, the following examples.
- a masterbatch was prepared using the same zinc containing polystyrene and flame retardant, but with dibutyl tin maleate and 2,2'-oxamidobisethyl-3-(3,5-di-t-butyl-4-hydroxyphenyl)propionate (Naugard XL-1) as the stabilizers.
- the proportions were 76 wt% polystyrene and 24 wt% of a mixture containing 94 wt% HBCD-LM, 4 wt% dibutyl maleate, and 2 wt% Naugard XL-1 stabilizer.
- a 3.175 cm (1.25 inch) segmented single screw extruder having a 40/1 length to diameter ratio and a rod die was used for foaming several mixtures of the masterbatch prepared in Example 1 with the same type of GPPS polystyrene used to make the masterbatch.
- the screw was designed to operate in three stages: a plasticization section, a gas injection section, and a metering and mixing section.
- Several samples were prepared to provide different concentrations of additives in the polymer.
- a small amount (0.05 wt% of composition) of Safoam - FP nucleating agent was also dry blended with the mixture. The mixtures were metered through a single screw feeder.
- C0 2 gas was used as a physical blowing agent for foaming the polystyrene blends.
- a description of the samples is given in Table 1 and the melt temperatures and C0 2 gas injection pressures are given in Table 2.
- the density of the foam products was also measured by the water displacement technique on samples of the product and the results are reported in Table 1. The lowest density product was obtained at a gas injection pressure of 5515 - 5654 kPa (800 - 820 psi), a melt temperature of 143° C - 149° C (290° F - 300° F) and at melt pressures above 9653 pKa (1400 psi).
- Temperatures at the different barrel zones were typically, in degrees C, 38 - 149 - 177 - 177 - 166 - 149 - 149 - 149 - 149 - 143 - and 141 - 144 (melt) (in degrees F, 100 - 300 - 350 - 350 - 330 - 300 - 300 - 300 - 300 - 290 and 286 - 292).
- degrees F 100 - 300 - 350 - 350 - 350 - 330 - 300 - 300 - 300 - 300 - 300 - 290 and 286 - 292.
- several samples of foam were made in the same way but using the masterbatch composition from the first Comparative Example which contained a tin maleate and Naugard XL-1 stabilizers.
- Example 6 As illustrated by the foam density data in Table 1 , in addition to being more heat stable than the comparative materials, the combination of additives used in Example 4, at the higher bromine level required to obtain adequate flame retardancy, such as when forming 5 to 7.6 cm (2 to 3 inch) thick building insulation panels, also had less effect on the foam density. A significant increase in foam density was observed at a bromine level of 1.4% in Comparison 3 when using the tin maleate and Naugard XL-1 stabilizers. In contrast, the foam density of the samples made according to the invention remained about the same (within 10 - 15%) with increasing bromine levels besides having improved color and thermal stability in the presence of the zinc. Example 6
- GPPS general purpose polystyrene formulations
- the color of the injection molded disks was measured using a HunterLab scale, D65 illuminant, 10° observer, and integrated-sphere geometry.
- the Melt Flow Index (ASTM D1238) procedure A was measured at 200° C/5 Kg.
- Table 3 The formulations and results are given in Table 3.
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