Study of manhole degradation of recycled PE rotomolded used in network sewer.

• Autor(a) principal: Andre Schramm BrandÃo
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFC
• Texto Completo: http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=11624
• topic: sewer, manhole, rotational molding, recycled polyethylene, thermal analysis, sulfuric acid, machining of polymers; POLIMEROS, APLICACOES

Conformity MENDONÃA [10], the investments in sanitation are four times more effective than health. There are currently answering sewage deficit in Brazil, reaching 52.9 percent of the population. The infrastructure of sewage systems of large cities has a huge variety of materials, ranging from concrete to composite materials. Disorders caused by premature failure of materials, applied in sewage systems cause environmental pollution, depreciate image utility/company and even accidents. The manholes represent 15.5 percent of the costs of implementing the sewage systems. This study aims to assess the effects of the degradation of manholes in polyethylene (PE) recycled. The accelerated degradation test simulates the etching with sulfuric acid, present in sewage systems (pH 1.1) of the test specimens for mechanical tensile and impact. The PE was produced by the rotational molding process, from virgin and recycled raw material for comparative purposes. Before the attack the materials were characterized by thermal analysis tests thermogravimetry (TG) and differential scanning colorimetric (DSC), X-ray diffraction, melt index, ash and loads. Data from the thermography images compared with assays term analysis revealed that machining by computer numerical control (CNC) did not change the mechanical properties of specimens for tensile and impact tests . Analyses term perspective and stereopsis revealed flaws in the rotational molding process (bubbles, sink marks and surface irregularity). The crystallinity of recycled PE was greater than virgin PE, this property being obtained by DSC and X-ray. The resistance of the recycled PE fracture was higher, ratified by the crystallinity and moisture present (Technical TG). The melt flow index and mechanical tests revealed that the virgin PE is more ductile than recycled. After the attack the specimens increased their residual mass being 3 times more recycled PE. Destructive of the specimens after chemical attack, trials there were no significant changes in the mechanical properties because of the high standard deviation data, arising from the failure of the material rotational molding process.