Abstract
AbstractDespite the current growing interest in rubber composites with natural organic fillers, there is a lack of kinetic analyses that describe the decomposition of these materials during pyrolysis. For this reason, the main objective of this study was the kinetic analysis and determination of formal kinetic parameters for the pyrolytic decomposition of NR–CEL composites with different cellulose content (0, 30, 45, and 55 phr). Thermogravimetric measurements were made at heating rates of 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 20 °C min–1 in the temperature range of 20–600 °C. First, Friedman and KAS model-free methods were applied. Therefore, model-based methods and the model-fitting procedure were used to find the optimal multi-step kinetic model. The proposed final model consists of two parallel processes, which are kinetically independent: A → B → C and D → E → F. For each step, a kinetic triplet was calculated: the apparent activation energy, the pre-exponential factor, and the kinetic parameters of the extended empirical Prout–Tompkins model. The master plots method was used to determine the kinetic decomposition mechanism of the individual steps. It was found that step A → B has the shape of an nth-order model, step B → C mainly follows the diffusion model, the mechanism of step D → E transfers from a random scission kinetics model to an nth-order model with an increasing amount of CEL, and step E → F obeys the chain scission mechanism.
Funder
European Regional Development Fund
Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy
Technical University of Ostrava
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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