scholarly journals Non-Isothermal Sublimation Kinetics of 2,4,6-Trinitrotoluene (TNT) Nanofilms

Molecules ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 1163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walid Hikal ◽  
Brandon Weeks

Non-isothermal sublimation kinetics of low-volatile materials is more favorable over isothermal data when time is a crucial factor to be considered, especially in the subject of detecting explosives. In this article, we report on the in-situ measurements of the sublimation activation energy for 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) continuous nanofilms in air using rising-temperature UV-Vis absorbance spectroscopy at different heating rates. The TNT films were prepared by the spin coating deposition technique. For the first time, the most widely used procedure to determine sublimation rates using thermogravimetry analysis (TGA) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) was followed in this work using UV-Vis absorbance spectroscopy. The sublimation kinetics were analyzed using three well-established calculating techniques. The non-isothermal based activation energy values using the Ozawa, Flynn–Wall, and Kissinger models were 105.9 ± 1.4 kJ mol−1, 102.1 ± 2.7 kJ mol−1, and 105.8 ± 1.6 kJ mol−1, respectively. The calculated activation energy agreed well with our previously reported isothermally-measured value for TNT nanofilms using UV-Vis absorbance spectroscopy. The results show that the well-established non-isothermal analytical techniques can be successfully applied at a nanoscale to determine sublimation kinetics using absorbance spectroscopy.

Nanomaterials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 968 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdenacer Benhammada ◽  
Djalal Trache ◽  
Mohamed Kesraoui ◽  
Salim Chelouche

In this study, carbon mesospheres (CMS) and iron oxide nanoparticles decorated on carbon mesospheres (Fe2O3-CMS) were effectively synthesized by a direct and simple hydrothermal approach. α-Fe2O3 nanoparticles have been successfully dispersed in situ on a CMS surface. The nanoparticles obtained have been characterized by employing different analytical techniques encompassing Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The produced carbon mesospheres, mostly spherical in shape, exhibited an average size of 334.5 nm, whereas that of Fe2O3 supported on CMS is at around 80 nm. The catalytic effect of the nanocatalyst on the thermal behavior of cellulose nitrate (NC) was investigated by utilizing differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The determination of kinetic parameters has been carried out using four isoconversional kinetic methods based on DSC data obtained at various heating rates. It is demonstrated that Fe2O3-CMS have a minor influence on the decomposition temperature of NC, while a noticeable diminution of the activation energy is acquired. In contrast, pure CMS have a slight stabilizing effect with an increase of apparent activation energy. Furthermore, the decomposition reaction mechanism of NC is affected by the introduction of the nano-catalyst. Lastly, we can infer that Fe2O3-CMS may be securely employed as an effective catalyst for the thermal decomposition of NC.


2015 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 1357-1359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Hongbo ◽  
C. Meiling ◽  
W. Xu ◽  
G. Hong

Abstract The thermal decomposition of magnesium-aluminum layered double hydroxides (LDHs) was investigated by thermogravimetry analysis and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) methods in argon environment. The influence of heating rates (including 2.5, 5, 10, 15 and 20K/min) on the thermal behavior of LDHs was revealed. By the methods of Kissinger and Flynn-Wall-Ozawa, the thermal kinetic parameters of activation energy and pre-exponential factor for the exothermic processes under non-isothermal conditions were calculated using the analysis of corresponding DSC curves.


2017 ◽  
Vol 727 ◽  
pp. 233-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qian Gao ◽  
Zeng Yun Jian ◽  
Jun Feng Xu ◽  
Man Zhu

The crystallization kinetics of melt-spun Cu64.5Zr35.5 amorphous alloy ribbons was investigated using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) at different heating rates. Besides, the Kissinger and isoconversional approaches were used to obtain the crystallization kinetic parameters. As shown in the results, the activation energies for glass transition and crystallization process at the onset, peak and end crystallization temperatures were obtained by means of Kissinger equation to be 577.65 ± 34, 539.86 ± 54, 518.25 ± 20 and 224.84 ± 2 kJ/mol, respectively. The nucleation activation energy Enucleation is greater than grain growth activation energy Egrowth, indicating that the nucleation process is harder than grain growth. The local activation energy Eα decreases in the whole crystallization process, which suggests that crystallization process is increasingly easy.


2010 ◽  
Vol 123-125 ◽  
pp. 667-670 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jae Young Lee ◽  
Bum Choul Choi ◽  
Hong Ki Lee

Polymer nanocomposite was synthesized through the intercalation and exfoliation of organoclay in an epoxy matrix. The epoxy matrix was composed of diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A (DGEBA, epoxy base resin), 4,4'-methylene dianiline (MDA, curing agent) and malononitrile (MN, chain extender) and organoclay was prepared by treating the montmorillonite with octadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (ODTMA). The intercalation of the organoclay was estimated by wide angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD) and transmission electron microscope (TEM) analyses. In order to measure the cure rate of DGEBA/MDA (30 phr)/MN (5 phr)/Organoclay (5 phr), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) analysis were performed at the heating rates of 5, 10, 15 and 20 oC/min, and the data was interpreted by Kissinger equation. Thermal degradation kinetics of the epoxy nanocomposite was also studied by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). The epoxy sample was decomposed in the TGA furnace at the heating rates of 5, 10, 15 and 20 oC/min with nitrogen atmosphere of 50 ml/min. The TGA data was introduced to the Ozawa equation and the degradation activation energy was calculated according to the degradation ratio. The activation energy for cure kinetics was 43.3 kJ/mol and that for thermal degradation was 171.5 kJ/mol.


Polymers ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 930 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vahideh Akbari ◽  
Maryam Jouyandeh ◽  
Seyed Mohammad Reza Paran ◽  
Mohammad Reza Ganjali ◽  
Hossein Abdollahi ◽  
...  

The epoxy/clay nanocomposites have been extensively considered over years because of their low cost and excellent performance. Halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) are unique 1D natural nanofillers with a hollow tubular shape and high aspect ratio. To tackle poor dispersion of the pristine halloysite (P-HNT) in the epoxy matrix, alkali surface-treated HNT (A-HNT) and epoxy silane functionalized HNT (F-HNT) were developed and cured with epoxy resin. Nonisothermal differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) analyses were performed on epoxy nanocomposites containing 0.1 wt.% of P-HNT, A-HNT, and F-HNT. Quantitative analysis of the cure kinetics of epoxy/amine system made by isoconversional Kissinger–Akahira–Sunose (KAS) and Friedman methods made possible calculation of the activation energy (Eα) as a function of conversion (α). The activation energy gradually increased by increasing α due to the diffusion-control mechanism. However, the average value of Eα for nanocomposites was lower comparably, suggesting autocatalytic curing mechanism. Detailed assessment revealed that autocatalytic reaction degree, m increased at low heating rate from 0.107 for neat epoxy/amine system to 0.908 and 0.24 for epoxy/P-HNT and epoxy/A-HNT nanocomposites, respectively, whereas epoxy/F-HNT system had m value of 0.072 as a signature of dominance of non-catalytic reactions. At high heating rates, a similar behavior but not that significant was observed due to the accelerated gelation in the system. In fact, by the introduction of nanotubes the mobility of curing moieties decreased resulting in some deviation of experimental cure rate values from the predicted values obtained using KAS and Friedman methods.


Author(s):  
Azzedine Missoum ◽  
Ashwani K. Gupta ◽  
Jianrong Chen

Abstract Results on the thermal destruction behavior during the decomposition of cellulose under controlled conditions are presented. Thermogravimetric (TGA) and Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) tests have been carried out on the celluose samples under conditions of various heating rate and surrounding gas environment. Pyrolysis times were also measured for different size particles having different moisture contents in a controlled mixing history reactor (CMHR). The global decomposition kinetics were investigated and it was found that the decomposition process is shifts to higher temperatures at higher heating rates as a result of the competing effects of heat and mass transfer, product diffusion and the reactions kinetics. The Arrhenius parameters for pyrolysis were determined using a first order decomposition reaction of the type, dm = −km dt. It was found that the activation energy, heat of pyrolysis and char yield are a strong function of the heating rate. An increase in heating rate from 5 to 60°C/min resulted in a change of activation energy from 204.19 to 138.31 kJ/mole °C. This heating rate dependence of the kinetics is discussed. The overall decomposition process of the examined materials is generally endothermic. In general, heat transfer, mass diffusion, product evolution, heating rate, temperature and environment are the parameters that control the decomposition process. It was also shown that heat transfer and mass transport have the most effects on the decomposition process.


2010 ◽  
Vol 132 ◽  
pp. 19-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saghar Sepehri ◽  
Betzaida Batalla García ◽  
Qi Feng Zhang ◽  
Guo Zhong Cao

Ammonia borane (AB) with high gravimetric hydrogen capacity is of great interest for storing hydrogen in solid form which is an important issue in the growing field of hydrogen technology. In this work the effects of surface chemistry on dehydrogenation kinetics of carbon cryogel (CC) – ammonia borane nanocomposites have been studied. Boron-modified, nitrogen-modified, and boron-nitrogen- modified CCs were used as scaffold for AB and dehydrogenation kinetics of CC-ABs was studied by means of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) at multiple heating rates. The results demonstrated that AB incorporated inside the mesopores of CC modified with nitrogen and boron possesses lower activation energy with enhanced kinetics of dehydrogenation due to catalytic effects as compared to AB in unmodified CC under otherwise the same or similar conditions. In addition, the lowest activation energy was observed for boron-modified CC-AB that could be attributed to the destabilization of AB by surface interactions with B2O3 that may accelerate the dehydrogenation process.


2012 ◽  
Vol 706-709 ◽  
pp. 1311-1317 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.A. Hasheminezhad ◽  
M. Haddad-Sabzevar ◽  
S. Sahebian

Non-isothermal crystallization kinetics of Co67Fe4Cr7Si8B14amorphous ribbons was studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) technique under 10, 20, 30, 40 and 80 °Cmin-1heating rates. It is found that Co67Fe4Cr7Si8B14amorphous alloy exhibits two-stage crystallization on heating. The two crystallization peaks shift to higher temperatures with increasing heating rate. The apparent activation energies (EC) for the first stage of crystallization were determined as 443.44 and 434.47 kJmol-1by using the Kissinger and Ozawa equations, respectively. Frequency factor (A) estimated to be 1.084×1026s-1using Kissinger equation. Kinetics parameters such as Crystallization exponent (n) and dimensionality of growth (Ndim) were determined using JMA (Johnson-Mehl-Avrami) method. Details of the nucleation and growth behaviours during the non-isothermal crystallization were studied in terms of local activation energy EC(x) by the OFW (Ozawa, Flynn and Wall) method. Also the activation energy for nucleation (En) and growth (Eg) separately estimated.


2011 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 717-726 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mladjan Popovic ◽  
Jaroslava Budinski-Simendic ◽  
Mirjana Jovicic ◽  
Joszef Mursics ◽  
Milanka Djiporovic-Momcilovic ◽  
...  

Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) was used to evaluate the curing kinetics of two commercial urea-formaldehyde (UF) adhesives having different formaldehyde to urea (F/U) ratio of 1.112 (UF1) and 1.086 (UF2). DSC measurements were done in dynamic scanning regime with heating rates of 5, 10, 15 and 20?C?min-1 in order to determine the activation energy for each adhesive. Obtained data were analyzed using isoconversional methods with application of Ozawa-Flynn-Wall and Kissinger-Akahira-Sunose kinetic models. In addition, different catalyst levels were tested at the heating rate of 10?C/min. Results showed that the adhesive with higher F/U ratio achieved higher activation energy, while having lower peak temperature of curing reaction. It was also noticed that the increase of catalyst level influenced the increase of reaction enthalpy of the adhesive with lower F/U ratio.


Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 1990
Author(s):  
Maryam Jouyandeh ◽  
Vahideh Akbari ◽  
Seyed Mohammad Reza Paran ◽  
Sébastien Livi ◽  
Luanda Lins ◽  
...  

We synthesized pristine mica (Mica) and N-octadecyl-N’-octadecyl imidazolium iodide (IM) modified mica (Mica-IM), characterized it, and applied it at 0.1–5.0 wt.% loading to prepare epoxy nanocomposites. Dynamic differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) was carried out for the analysis of the cure potential and kinetics of epoxy/Mica and epoxy/Mica-IM curing reaction with amine curing agents at low loading of 0.1 wt.% to avoid particle aggregation. The dimensionless Cure Index (CI) was used for qualitative analysis of epoxy crosslinking in the presence of Mica and Mica-IM, while qualitative cure behavior and kinetics were studied by using isoconversional methods. The results indicated that both Mica and Mica-IM improved the curability of epoxy system from a Poor to Good state when varying the heating rate in the interval of 5–15 °C min−1. The isoconversional methods suggested a lower activation energy for epoxy nanocomposites with respect to the blank epoxy; thus, Mica and Mica-IM improved crosslinking of epoxy. The higher order of autocatalytic reaction for epoxy/Mica-IM was indicative of the role of liquid crystals in the epoxide ring opening. The glass transition temperature for nanocomposites containing Mica and Mica-IM was also lower than the neat epoxy. This means that nanoparticles participated the reaction because of being reactive, which decelerated segmental motion of the epoxy chains. The kinetics of the thermal decomposition were evaluated for the neat and mica incorporated epoxy nanocomposites epoxy with varying Mica and Mica-IM amounts in the system (0.5, 2.0 and 5.0 wt.%) and heating rates. The epoxy/Mica-IM at 2.0 wt.% of nanoparticle showed the highest thermal stability, featured by the maximum value of activation energy devoted to the assigned system. The kinetics of the network formation and network degradation were correlated to demonstrate how molecular-level transformations can be viewed semi-experimentally.


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