Differential thermal analysis and calorimetric analysis of commercial and dental waxes have been reported in the dental literature."2 Thermogravimetric analysis is described in most textbooks on thermal analysis3-5 and is essentially a method of measuring the weight of a sample as a function of temperature or as a function of time at a fixed temperature. The purpose of this study was to examine...

The pyrolysis of the crude glycerol from a biodiesel production plant was investigated by thermogravimetry coupled with Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The main gaseous products are discussed, and the thermogravimetric kinetics derived. There were four distinct phases in the pyrolysis process of the crude glycerol. The presence of water and methanol in the crude glycerol and responsibl...

The "differential" method of Achar, Brindley and Sharp (ABS) and the "integral" one of Coats and Redfern (CR) are applied to the dehydration of BaBr2-H20 and HCOOLiH20 and to the thermal decomposition of Pb(SCN)2, and the kinetic parameters so obtained are compared with those deduced isothermally. The results of the ABS method, at the lowest heating rate (q = 1.2 K min— '), agree well with the ...

The thermogravimetric characteristics of wheat straw EMAL (Enzymatic Acidolysis Lignin) were analyzed. The effect of the heating rates on the thermogravimetric characteristics of wheat straw and the wheat straw influence on pyrolysis were investigated. The influence of various heating rates on wheat straw was significant, the pyrolysis rate of wheat straw EMAL increased at temperatures between ...

Thermogravimetric (TG) studies have been carried out for some bimetallic dithiocarbamate complexes o f the type ZnML4 and NiM 'L4 [M = Co(II), Cu(II); M' = Zn(II), Hg(II); L = N-methylcyclohexyldithiocarbamate; L' = N-ethylcyclohexyldithiocarbamate]. From TG curves, the order, apparent activation energy and apparent activation entropy for the thermal decomposition reaction have been calculated....

some innovative solutions are proposed to the problem of the unavoidable physical migration of antioxidants from plastic films for packaging, in order to minimize the consequent undesirable effect of food contamination. in previous exploratory tests, phenolic antioxidant co-units were achieved and incorporated into polyethylene chain and now the work is extended to create new families of polyme...