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25
75
100
vigin
25
$0
75
% r e w l e d HDPE
100
Recycled PP (%wt)
Figure 2 - Logarithm of the volumetric conductivity to
PP containing 0, 25, 50, 75 and 100% of recycled
material.
Figure 3 shows the volumetric resistivity
values to virginhecycled HDPE blends in the 0, 25, 50,
75 and 100% proportions. Results in Figure 3 show
that the values for the formulations containing 25, 50,
% recycled HDPE
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L.3
m 2.0
c! 1.5
LI)
2
3
-0
zl 1.0
5
m
0.5
0.0
25
50
75
loo
HDPE
PP
35
30
to
25
0
25
75
400
Virgin Resin Concentration (/ow&)
20
15
10
W
F 5
0
50
i5
1bo
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CONCLUSIONS
Results indicated that volumetric resistivity
values remained virtually unchanged as compared to
those for virgin resin in formulations with as much as
75% of recycled material. The changes in volumetric
resistivity values may be attributed to the presence of
conductive impurities. For the dielectric strength values,
a slight decrease was observed (5 12%) with the
incorporation of 50% of recycled resin. The marked
and E , observed for the
difference between E,
formulations containing 75% and 100% of recycled
material, point to inferior dectrical performance when
compared to those for other formulations. With the
incorporation of recycled resin in the virgin resin there
is not a highly expressive alteration in the mechanical
properties. Finally, it may be concluded that the resin
recovered kom post-consumer HDPE, HLFS and PP
packaging in formulations containing as much as 75%
of recycled resin may be considered when developing
electric insulation products to be used in low voltage
systems.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors wish to thanks CNpq,
DEMa-UFSCar, and FAPESP for the financia1 support.
REFERENCES
1- S. Mancini and M. Zanin, Journal Applied
2- KELEN,
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