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K. Rejitha Mahatma Gandhi University School of Chemical Sciences P.D. Hills Kottayam 686 560 Kerala India

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Dependence of kinetic parameters (activation energy and pre-exponential factor) and procedural factors (sample mass and heating rate) independent of the reversibility and the type of reactions in non-isothermal thermogravimetry have been established. Tris(ethylenediamine)nickel(II) oxalate dihydrate has been selected as a model complex and experiments were carried out at different heating rates and sample masses to study the dependence quantitatively. The kinetic parameters calculated using mechanistic and non-mechanistic equations show a systematic decrease with increase in either sample mass or heating rate for the dehydration and deamination reactions. For the decomposition reaction, the kinetic parameters are not influenced by the procedural factors. Mathematical correlations of high reliability are established between kinetic parameters and heating rate/sample mass using both mechanistic and non-mechanistic equations for dehydration and deamination reactions. The quantification follows an exponential decay of second order relation with respect to heating rate and a sigmoidal relation with regard to sample mass for both the dehydration and deamination reactions. No quantitative correlation is possible for the final decomposition stage. Thus, it is found that independent of the type of reaction (deamination or dehydration) the kinetic parameters have a particular dependence on the procedural variables. The equations for exponential decay and sigmoidal dependence can be represented as
\documentclass{aastex} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{bm} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{pifont} \usepackage{stmaryrd} \usepackage{textcomp} \usepackage{upgreek} \usepackage{portland,xspace} \usepackage{amsmath,amsxtra} \pagestyle{empty} \DeclareMathSizes{10}{9}{7}{6} \begin{document} $$y = y_{0} + A_{1} {\text{e}}^{{ - x/t_{1} }} + A_{2} {\text{e}}^{{ - x/t_{2} }}$$ \end{document}
and
\documentclass{aastex} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{bm} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{pifont} \usepackage{stmaryrd} \usepackage{textcomp} \usepackage{upgreek} \usepackage{portland,xspace} \usepackage{amsmath,amsxtra} \pagestyle{empty} \DeclareMathSizes{10}{9}{7}{6} \begin{document} $$y = {\frac{{A_{1} - A_{2} }}{{1 + {\text{e}}^{{(x - x_{0} )/{\text{d}}x}} }}} + A_{2}$$ \end{document}
respectively, where y represents kinetic parameters (E or A) and x represents the procedural variables (φ or m). Mechanism of the dehydration reaction is found to be random nucleation with the formation of one nucleus on each particle and the deamination is a phase boundary reaction. It is observed that the mechanism of these reversible reactions is not affected by the variation in sample mass and heating rate.
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Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry
Language English
Size A4
Year of
Foundation
1969
Volumes
per Year
1
Issues
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24
Founder Akadémiai Kiadó
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Address
H-1117 Budapest, Hungary 1516 Budapest, PO Box 245.
Publisher Akadémiai Kiadó
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
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Address
H-1117 Budapest, Hungary 1516 Budapest, PO Box 245.
CH-6330 Cham, Switzerland Gewerbestrasse 11.
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Chief Executive Officer, Akadémiai Kiadó
ISSN 1388-6150 (Print)
ISSN 1588-2926 (Online)

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