METHOD OF ESTIMATION AND FORECAST OF AGEING PROCESSES (DESTRUCTION) OF POLYMER MATERIALS ACCORDING TO DYNAMICS OF TOTAL GAS DISCHARGE AND TOXISITY OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS (VOC) MIGRATING FROM POLYMER DURING AGEING AND DETECTED BY CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC G01N33/44 G01N30/00 G01N1/28 G01N30/88 G01N30/14 

FIELD: instrumentation.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to forecast of ageing processes of the synthetic polymer materials (SPM) depending on duration of their operation or storage. Analysis of the volatile organic compounds (VOC) migrating from SPM is performed by active sampling for sorbent, with further thermal desorption and gas chromatographic analysis. Forecast of the ageing processes of the material and estimation of toxicity of the gas discharge are performed as per dynamic of the qualitative and quantitative composition of gas discharge components in SPM initial state, and during artificial climatic thermal-humidity ageing. Dynamics analysis of the total gas discharge (ΣT) from each material is performed for all substances migrating from studied SPMs. Change of toxicity is estimated and forecast of the material ageing is performed as per developed indices of total gas discharge (ΣT) and as per hygienic index P=(ΣTinitial/ΣTn)/V, where Tinitial and Tn are indices of toxicity of gas discharge of each substance in initial state and after ageing, respectively, and ΣTinitial and ΣTn are total indices of toxicity of gas discharge of all components of SPM in initial state and after ageing, V is duration of ageing (year, month).

EFFECT: invention ensures high accuracy of the method of VOC qualitative and quantitative composition determination in gas discharge during materials ageing and the analysis results repeatability.

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