When partially hydrolysed poly(vinyl acetate) (PVAc) is used as a suspending agent in the suspension polymerisation of vinyl chloride monomer, it has significant effects on the morphology of the resulting poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) particles. At the initial step of polymerisation, PVC molecules are grafted onto the molecules of the suspending agent forming a PVC-PVAc membrane. The properties of this membrane depend on the type of suspending agent, the polymerisation temperature, the mixing efficiency, and other factors. The morphology of the growing PVC particles and the properties of the PVC resin obtained depend in turn on the characteristics of the membrane. A model has been developed relating to the connection between the polymerisation conditions and the characteristics of the suspending agent on one hand, and on the PVC properties on the other hand. The model is based on an analysis of the characteristics of the PVC-PVAc membrane and their effect on PVC properties.

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Fractionation of partly hydrolysed polyvinyl acetate (PVA) was performed by warming of its aqueous solutions. The following properties of the obtained fractions were determined: viscosity, molecular weight and molecular weight distribution, surface tension, and absorbance in the IR range. The blockiness of the polymer molecules, characterized by their behaviour towards iodine‐containing systems such as I2,‐H3BO3 and I2,‐KI, was estimated. Fractionation of the aqueous solutions of PVA by warming is based mainly on the different internal molecular structure of the separated products, i.e. on the length of the vinyl acetate blocks in the PVA molecules and, to a lesser extent, on the degree of hydrolysis and the degree of polymerization. The more blocklike are the PVA molecules, the less compatible are the polymers in the PVA‐hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC)‐water system. At phase separation in this sytem the PVA molecules which are not compatible with HPMC are, in the first place, those of the highest blockiness.