Cure kinetics of aqueous phenol-formaldehyde resins used for oriented Strandboard manufacturing: Analytical technique

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-15-2006

Abstract

The cure kinetics of commercial phenolformaldehyde (PF), used as oriented Strandboard face and core resins, were studied using isothermal and dynamic differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The cure of the face resin completely followed an nth-order reaction mechanism. The reaction order was nearly 1 with activation energy of 79.29 kj mol -1. The core resin showed a more complicated cure mechanism, including both nth-order and autocatalytic reactions. The nth-order part, with reaction order of 2.38, began at lower temperatures, but the reaction rate of the autocatalytic part increased much faster with increase in curing temperature. The total reaction order for the autocat alytic part was about 5. Cure kinetic models, for both face and core resins, were developed. It is shown that the models fitted experimental data well, and that the isothermal DSC was much more reliable than the dynamic DSC in studying the cure kinetics. Furthermore, the relationships among cure reaction conversion (curing degree), cure temperature, and cure time were predicted for both resin systems. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Journal of Applied Polymer Science

First Page

1642

Last Page

1650

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