Abstract:
In the production of peroxide cross-linked polyethylenes it is
customary to introduce the organic peroxide by the hot milling process.
Inevitably some peroxide is lost by volatilization and the process is,
therefore, difficult to standardize.
In this paper, the efficiencies of the processes in which the
peroxide is introduced by wet and dry powder mixing are compared with
the efficiency of the normal method of mill mixing. It is shown that
in both the wet and dry processes the loss of peroxide is avoided, but
that the dry mixed material shows inhomogeneities in the cross-linked
state.
