Mathematical methods have been developed to evaluate solid-state kinetics. They generally fall into two categories: model-fitting or model-free (isoconversional). Modelfitting methods determine the kinetic triplet (model, frequency factor and activation energy) whereas isoconversional (model-free) methods generate the activation energy as a function of reaction progress without modelistic assum...

There are significant resources of oil shale in the western United States, which if exploited in an environmentally responsible manner would provide secure access to transportation fuels. Understanding the kinetics of kerogen decomposition to oil is critical to designing a viable process. A dataset of thermo gravimetric analysis (TGA) of the Green River oil shale is provided and two distinct da...

Anion exchange reactions of nanodimensional layered metal hydroxide compounds are utilized to create materials with targeted physical and chemical properties and also as a means for controlled release of intercalated anions. The kinetics of this important class of reaction are generally characterized by model-based approaches. In this work, a different approach based on isothermal, isoconversio...

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...

An isoconversional modeling approach has been considered in the modeling of heat transfer and pyrolysis in a charring material. The isoconversional approach is appealing due to the use of only a single reacting component as opposed to the multicomponent model typically used. This reduces the number of required field variables which reduces numerical demands in large multi-dimensional models. In...

The conventional linear integral isoconversional methods may lead to important errors in the determination of the activation energy when the significant variation of the activation energy with the conversion degree occurs. Vyazovkin proposed an advanced nonlinear isoconversional method, which allows the activation energy to be accurately determined [Vyazovkin, J Comput Chem 2001, 22, 178]. Howe...

The cure kinetics of polydicyclopentadiene (pDCPD) prepared by ringopening metathesis polymerization with three different concentrations of Grubbs’ catalyst was examined using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The experimental data were used to test several different phenomenological kinetic models. The data are best modeled with a “model-free” isoconversional method. This analysis revea...

To further understand the effect of chrome tanning on the thermal stability of leather, the thermal shrinkage behaviors of native and chrome-tanned collagen fibers were studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) using isoconversional and multivariate non-linear regression (Multivar-NLR) methods. The activation energies of the shrinkage processes were evaluated by both the differential (...