TY  - EJOU
AU  - Chu, Hongying 
AU  - Li, Huabei 
AU  - Sun, Xiaoyan 
AU  - Zhang, Yaowang 

TI  - Phosphorus Containing Rubber Seed oil as a Flame Retardant Plasticizer for Polyvinyl Chloride
T2  - Journal of Renewable Materials

PY  - 2023
VL  - 11
IS  - 4
SN  - 2164-6341

AB  - The application of phthalate plasticizers has been restricted around the world due to their poor migration and potential harm to the human body. Hence, producing functional bio-based plasticizers via exploiting clean and reusable resources meets the satisfaction of current demands. In this study, flame-retardant rubber seed oil-based plasticize (FRP) was prepared via epoxidation reaction and ring opening addition reactions, which was used as a flame-resistant plasticizer for polyvinyl chloride to replace petroleum-based phthalate plasticizer. When DOP was replaced with FRP, the torque of PVC blends increased from 11.4 to 18.4 N⋅m, the LOI value increased from 24.3% for PVC-FRP-0% to 33.1% for PVC-FRP-20. The THR value diminished from 39 MJ/m<sup>2</sup> (pertaining to PVC-FRC-0) to 22 MJ/m<sup>2</sup> Tg increased from 23°C to 47°C, the weight loss of plasticized PVC blends significantly reduced from 22.6% to 2.8% in leaching tests. The study provided a new way to prepare flame retardant plasticizer using rubber seed oil as raw material.
KW  - Plasticizer; rubber seed oil; polyvinyl chloride; vegetable oil modification

DO  - 10.32604/jrm.2022.024160