Preliminary experiments on polymer degradation in a turbulent shear field

✍ Scribed by D.A. White

• Book ID: 103003864
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1970
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 308 KB
• Volume: 25
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2509
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2509(70)80002-1

✦ Synopsis

Some preliminary data is given for the rates of polymer degradation in turbulent flow down smooth pipes, indicating that the rates are very rapid and that significant degradation can take place in a matter of seconds. The process is likely to be due to a direct oxidation step initiated by high frequency turbulent eddies. Due to the relative abundance of oxygen molecules in the system it is probably not possible to eliminate degradation completely.