Caracterização de formas de polímero de cristal líquido para indústrias de panificação em substituição as formas tradicionais de aço carbono

• Autor(a) principal: Bartholomei, Marcio Rubens Xavier
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do Mackenzie
• Texto Completo: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/24209
• topic: polímeros de cristal líquido; Vectra E540i; indústria de panificação; liquid crystal polymers; Vectra E540i; baking industry; CNPQ::ENGENHARIAS::ENGENHARIA DE MATERIAIS E METALURGICA

The bakery uses forms of carbon steel coated with nonstick layer and these forms have a lifespan of 10,000 cycles of production (3 years to 3.5 years) and are expensive. In order to reduce this cost, these industries could replace conventional forms by forms of a commercial liquid crystal polymer, Vectra E540i. The present study evaluated the mechanical and physicochemical properties of this polymer, in view of this replacement, without prejudice to the quality of the bread obtained. Because of the need to use forms in an oven at high temperature, the samples were subjected to heat treatment at various temperatures above and below the temperature of cooking in the oven and then observed the effect of temperature on tensile strength and hardness of the material. Tests of degradation by ultraviolet (UV) were also conducted and found its effect on the tensile strength and impact. In these laboratory tests, the resistance of the forms and quality of bread were tested in a pilot plant. The results show that there is no degradation after constant exposure to UV radiation for 80 days and the tensile strength and impact were not affected. There were no significant changes in mechanical properties due to heating. It was observed that no major changes in mechanical properties due to heating in the polymer are subjected during its passage in the oven. At these temperatures, the mechanical properties mentioned are lower than expected. In a pilot scale, the quality of bread has not changed. From this study, the Company may decide to continue using the current metallic forms or replace them with forms of liquid crystal polymer Vectra E540i.