PVDF ColorantProcess Solutions

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PVDF Colorant/Process Solutions

• Market Driven Solutions

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Project Goals

• Appealing Products - Develop bright, vivid
  colors at sensible LDRs
• Green Products - Make them from Heavy Metal
  Free components
• Smart Products - Make them readily available
  and keep them in harmony with host compounds
• Legitimate Products - Make them from the same
  virgin base carrier

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Project Dimensions

• Determine the effects that color has upon smoke
  heat generation
• Identify potential failure prior to cable
  construction
• Make the technology transferable across polymer
  systems
• Create cost effective solutions in the above
  constraints

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Project Goals Productivity Enhancements

• Develop a process aid concentrate that
• Is compatible in multiple smoke suppressed
  systems / chemistries
• Does not act as a fuel smoke source
• Is extremely efficient
• Restores line speed of smoke suppressed compounds
  making them similar to non suppressed systems

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Project Goals - Overall

• Create easy to use solutions without double talk
• Offer these as stand alone or as multi-functional
  products.
• Bring elevated service and product stewardship
  back to customers

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Process Aid Results

• Tapes
• No difference is seen when the DTB is processed
  with either 0.75 or 1.25 processing aid.
• Notice- Low HRR values

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Color Concentrate Notes / Smoke Generation

• A samples have higher values over B and C
  for both the yellow and orange samples along with
  the base polymers.
• B, orange, has higher values over B, yellow.
  This is the only instance in which color seems to
  have an effect.
• The orange tapes show higher values over the
  yellow tapes regardless of supplier !

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Peak Heat Release Rates
A
C
B
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Heat Release Rates / Orange
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Heat Release Rates / Yellow
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Technology

• Heavy Metal Free pigment systems evaluated
• Excellent solubility in host polymer- Smart
  Products
• HMF based solution Green Products
• All Industry Color Standards Supported
• Uniform colors across product lines Sensible
  Products
• Fingerprinting of host polymer in the carrier
  employed Legitimate Products

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Procedures

• Concentrates were evaluated in Cone Calorimeter
  ASTM E1354
• Extrusion Tapes were produced / tested in Cone
  Calorimeter ASTM E1354
• Performance Enhancement concentrates were
  evaluated in Cone Calorimeter ASTM E1354
• Extrusion tapes containing Performance
  Enhancements were evaluated in Cone Calorimeter
  ASTM E1354

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Schedule to Solution

• Milestones

Validate
Confirm
Field Test
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Identify Potential Failures
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Team/Resources

• PVDF by Solvay
• Breen Color
• Underwriters Laboratories