Issue 47, 2016

Discovering the kinetics of thermal decomposition during continuous cooling

Abstract

The research presented in this paper is devoted to the intriguing phenomenon of thermal decomposition that takes place during continuous cooling after being initiated by heating to higher temperature. This paper describes the principles of detecting this phenomenon and measuring its kinetics. As one of the possible ways, the process can be detected and its kinetics can be measured by means of differential scanning calorimetry provided that cooling is performed several hundred times slower than heating. By way of illustration, the thermal degradation of isotactic polystyrene and thermal dehydration of lithium sulfate monohydrate have been studied upon cooling and heating. The kinetics of both processes have been analyzed by means of the isoconversional methodology. For polystyrene, the kinetics of degradation upon cooling and heating have been similar. The thermal dehydration of lithium sulfate monohydrate has revealed that cooling kinetics differ significantly from the kinetics measured upon heating. It is proposed that such differences should be observed in multi-step processes whose activation energy varies with reaction progress.

Graphical abstract: Discovering the kinetics of thermal decomposition during continuous cooling

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
28 Jun 2016
Accepted
03 Aug 2016
First published
17 Aug 2016

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016,18, 32021-32030

Discovering the kinetics of thermal decomposition during continuous cooling

T. Liavitskaya and S. Vyazovkin, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016, 18, 32021 DOI: 10.1039/C6CP04507C

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