Development of ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer sheet with both incineratability and sealability(3); Comparison examination of physical property

not registered; not registered; Tanimoto, Kenichi

The sheet having both the incinerability and the sealability has been developed to decrease an amount of radioactive waste. As results of some experiments, ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer (ECO) was chosen. The material had also an advantage that corrosive gas was not occurred at destruction by fire. However, ECO sheet is inferior to PVC sheet on the point of tensile strength on high temperature environment and transparency. To improve these problems, heat-treating sheet (surface of ECO sheet was treated by heating) was made on an experimental basis. Properties of the trail sheet were examined. Properties of the ECO sheet and the PVC sheet were also examined for putting to practical use. Results of the examine are as following. (1)Properties of heat-treating sheet; The parallel ray penetration of the heat-treating sheet was 6 times better than that of ECO sheet. Other properties of the heat-treating sheet were much the same as ECO sheet. (2)Properties of ECO sheet; Tensile strength of ECO sheet was isotropy (longitudinal direction and sidelong direction). ECO sheet dissolved in xylene and tetrachloroethylene. Softening temperature of ECO sheet were about 70C. That of PVC sheet was 144C. (3)Properties of PVC sheet; Tensile strength in sidelong direction was 85% the value of longitudinal direction. Tensile strength and the elongation rate were 85 and 40% the value of ECO sheet in low and normal temperature. Tensile strength in high temperature was 55% the value of normal temperature. Temperature dependency of PVC sheet's tensile strength was lower than that of ECO sheet. Gas penetration coefficient was lower than that of ECO sheet.