Three perchlorate salts of pyridine have been prepared and characterized by gravimetric and elemental analyses. Thermogravimetry (TG) and differential thermal analysis (DTA) have been carried out in static air, to examine the thermal decomposition process of these salts. Isothermal TG of these salts have been done to evaluate the kinetics of thermal decomposition in the temperature range 290-41...

A new decomposition mode, a coherent pseudospinodal decomposition under geometrically confined conditions, is discovered. This mode is associated with a coupling of the decomposition with the displacive crystal lattice rearrangement and results in a gradual separation of compositions of two product phases. We consider a particular case of decomposition in an epitaxial thin film. The 3D phase fi...

The thermal and kinetic aspects of solid state decomposition reactions can be complex and posses a large number of parameters to investigate. The determination of the activation energies for the several intermediates in the thermal decomposition is particularly sensitive to the overlap in thermal decomposition traces. To overcome this problem we have undertaken the detailed kinetic analysis of ...

The pyrolysis behavior and kinetics of the aqueous fraction of bio-oil were studied through thermogravimetric (TG) analysis. Based on the experimental data, activation energies and kinetic parameters were calculated by the Achar differential method and the Coats-Redfern integral method, then the most probable mechanism functions and kinetics model were obtained at last. The results show that th...

Study on the effects of sonolysis, ozonolysis and US/O3 system on the decomposition of p-chlorophenol in aqueous solutions indicated that in the cases of US/O3 system, individual ozonolysis and sonolysis, the decomposition rate of p-chlorophenol reached 78.78%, 56.20%, 2.79% after a 16-min reaction while its CODcr (chemical oxygen demand) removal rate was 97.02%, 62.17%, 3.67% after a 120-min r...

The kinetics of cellulose decomposition in ionic liquid was investigated using microcrystalline cellulose as a raw material. Curve fitting of cellulose degradation kinetic data was carried out by MATLAB. Experimental results demonstrated that the cellulose decomposition rate constant, k1, was less than the constant for glucose decomposition to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (5HMF), k2, in the ionic li...

Chemical kinetics on thermal decomposition of polystyrene was studied by integrating the non-isothermal differential and integral methods. For decomposition of polystyrene in environment with only nitrogen, a mass loss stage was found at 282.9C to 398.2C. The maximum mass-loss rate was at 372.4C. Kinetic analysis results indicated that it is a first-order chemical reaction. Thermal decompositio...

A chemistry-based approach to designing precursors for the deposition of inorganic films requires consideration of the physical properties of the precursor compound (e.g., volatility for transport in the reactor) and its probable decomposition pathways, both in the gas phase and on the surface during growth. We have been using Aerosol-Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition of tungsten carbonitride ...

Slow pyrolysis or carbonization promotes the conversion of animal manures such as swine manure into charcoal. In this paper, the carbonizing kinetics of swine solids taken from different treatment stages were investigated with a thermogravimetric analyzer. Compared to their biologically stabilized counterpart (lagoon sludge) with an activation energy of 160 kJ mol(-1), the activation energies f...

A study has been conducted of the mechanism and kinetics of cyclooctene epoxidation by hydrogen peroxide catalyzed by iron(III) tetrakispentafluorophenyl [F(20)TPPFe(III)] porphyrin. The formation of cyclooctene oxide, the only product, was determined by gas chromatography, and the consumption of hydrogen peroxide was determined by (1)H NMR. UV-visible spectroscopy was used to identify the stat...