申请人:Chen Xuelian
公开号:US20150291774A1
公开(公告)日:2015-10-15
Disclosed in the present invention is a crosslinked polyethylene composition having improved processability comprises: 100 parts by weight of polyethylene, 0.03-5 parts by weight of crosslinking agent, 0.03-5 parts by weight of crosslinking promoter, and 0.01-1.5 parts by weight of free radical inhibitor, wherein the polyethylene is a copolymer and/or homopolymer containing at least 90 wt. % of vinyl and at least one C
3
-C
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α-alkenyl, and has a density in the range of 0.920-0.970 g/cm
3
, a melt index in the range of 2.5-17.5 g/10 min; the crosslinking agent is a peroxide crosslinking agent; the crosslinking promoter is an organic substance containing maleimido, (meth)acrylate group, and/or allyl, and/or a polymer containing more than 50% of vinyl; the free radical inhibitor is an organic antioxidant, a quinhydrone and/or a substituted quinhydrone. The crosslinked polyethylene composition of the present invention has a crosslinking efficiency index of more than 1,100 Nm/g and a δ torque value of more than 10 Nm at the temperature of 200° C., a significantly higher safety process temperature and a significantly improved crosslinking retardation time compared to the conventional crosslinked polyethylene composition, which make it especially be suitable for the production of rotational molding articles.