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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 1989
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1987
Lonnie G Hazlitt, Lake Jackson, TX (US);
Daniel G Moldovan, Danbury, TX (US);
The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for analyzing a solution of a crystalline or a semi-crystalline polymer sample to determine a crystallinity versus weight percent profile concurrently with viscosity average molecular weight. The polymer sample is first precipitated from solution over a cooling temperature gradient to produce a precipitated polymer sample, which is precipitated as a function of its crystallinity. The precipitated polymer sample is then eluted and redissolved over a heating temperature gradient to produce successive fractions of a fractionated polymer sample solution, which are measured to produce concentration and specific viscosity data from which the intrinsic viscosity and viscosity average molecular weight are calculated.