Estabilidade térmica de tintas epoxídicas em presença de pigmentos anticorrosivos

Abstract

The primers are primary anticorrosive dyes, with anticorrosive property due to the presence of appropriate pigment. The most common used anticorrosive pigments are zarcão, zinc chromate, iron oxide and zinc powder. Paints based on epoxy resin are very used as primers, because their impermeability and, when associated with anticorrosive pigments, the increase in the resistance against corrosion. Films of paint-primers formulated with DGEBA epoxy resin (Diglycidyl Ether of Bisphenol A), crosslinked with polyaminoamida (Versamid 125) , and with two anticorrosive pigments, zinc chromate (toxic) and calcium silicate (not toxic), were studied by thermogravimetric analysis (TG), infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and scanning electronic microscopy (SEM). Kinetic parameters, such as activation energy, were calculated by TG, using Ozawa-Wall-Flynn and Kissinger methods. Change in the mechanism of epoxy paint degradation was observed in the presence of the two pigments. Primer with calcium silicate was more thermally stable than that with zinc chromate, based on IPDT values. The immersion of primers films in hydrochloric acid in the concentrations range from 10-5 to 6,0 M led to a decrease in the thermal stability. The most affected primer was that with zinc chromate, in which porous was detected by SEM after the immersion in acid solution. The primer with calcium silicate has the advantage of being more thermally stable and more resistant to acid attack, in addition to its more important ecological property, the non toxicity.