Review of polymer oxidation and its relationship with materials performance and lifetime prediction
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a brief status report on the important aspects of polymer oxidation and focus on the complexity of thermally accelerated polymer aging phenomena, the importance of DLO, property correlations, kinetic models, TGA approaches, and a framework for predictive aging models are briefly discussed.
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TL;DR: In this article, a thermocouple is used to measure the sample temperature in a Stanton HT-D thermobalance, the bead of which is positioned in or near the sample, depending on crucible design.
Abstract: THE use of thermogravimetric data to evaluate kinetic parameters of solid-state reactions involving weight loss (or gain) has been investigated by a number of workers1–4. Freeman and Carroll2 have stated some of the advantages of this method over conventional isothermal studies. To these reasons may be added the advantage of using one single sample for investigation. However, the importance of procedural details, such as crucible geometry, heating rate, pre-history of sample, and particle size, on the parameters has yet to be fully investigated. It is also necessary to ensure accurate temperature measurement, both for precision and also to detect any departure from a linear heating rate due to endo- or exo-thermic reactions. (The effect of these may be largely eliminated by the use of small samples.) In our present work (using a Stanton HT–D thermobalance) the sample temperature is measured directly by means of a thermocouple the bead of which is positioned in or near the sample, depending on crucible design, the wires of which run down a twin-bore rise rod. The connexion between the end of the thermocouple wires on the balance arm and the terminal block is made by 0.001 in. platinum and platinum/rhodium wires5. It has been shown that these wires do not affect the performance of the balance but act merely as a subsidiary damping. From the terminal block compensated cable leads to the cold junction and a potentiometric arrangement for direct measurement of the thermocouple output.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a new method of obtaining the kinetic parameters from thermogravimetric curves has been proposed, which is simple and applicable to reactions which can not be analyzed by other methods.
Abstract: A new method of obtaining the kinetic parameters from thermogravimetric curves has been proposed. The method is simple and applicable to reactions which can not be analyzed by other methods. The effect of the heating rate on thermogravimetric curves has been elucidated, and the master curve of the experimental curves at different heating rates has been derived. The applications of the method to the pyrolyses of calcium oxalate and nylon 6 have been shown ; the results are in good agreement with the reported values. The applicability of the method to other types of thermal analyses has been discussed, and the method of the conversion of the data to other conditions of temperature change has been suggested. From these discussions, the definition of the thermal stability of materials has been criticized.
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TL;DR: In this article, a technique was devised for obtaining rate laws and kinetic parameters which describe the thermal degradation of plastics from TGA data, based on the inter-comparison of experiments which were performed at different linear rates of heating.
Abstract: A technique was devised for obtaining rate laws and kinetic parameters which describe the thermal degradation of plastics from TGA data. The method is based on the inter-comparison of experiments which were performed at different linear rates of heating. By this method it is possible to determine the activation energy of certain professes without knowing the form of the kinetic equation. This technique was applied to fiberglass-reinforced CTL 91-LD phenolic resin, where the rate law - (1/we)(dw/dt) = 1018e−55,000/RT [(w - wf)/w0,]5, nr.−1, was found to apply to a major part of the degradation. The equation was successfully tested by several techniques, including a comparison with constant temperature data that were available in the literature. The activation energy was thought to be correct within 10 kcal.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a method to take into account the effect of temperature deviations on kinetic evaluations by combining the isoconversional principle of evaluating the activation energy with numerical integration of the equation.
Abstract: The thermal effect of a reaction makes the temperature inside the reaction system deviate from a prescribed heating program. To take into account the effect of such temperature deviations on kinetic evaluations, a computational method applicable to an arbitrary variation in temperature has been developed. The method combines the isoconversional principle of evaluating the activation energy with numerical integration of the equation, dα/dt = k[T(t)]f(α), over the actual variation of the temperature with the time, T(t). Details of the numerical algorithm are reported. A model example has been used to verify the reliability of this method as compared to an analogous method which does not account for the deviations of the temperature from a prescribed program. The method has been tested for tolerance for noise in the temperature. © 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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