Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry
Volume/Issue:
Volume 47: Issue 4
Kinetic compensation effect in the thermal degradation of polymers
Authors:
M. C. Gupta Department of Chemistry and Regional Sophisticated Instrumentation Center Nagpur University 440010 Nagpur

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S. G Viswanath Laxminarayan Institute of Technology Nagpur University 440010 Nagpur India

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Pages:
1081–1091
Online Publication Date:
02 Aug 2005
Publication Date:
01 Oct 1996
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01979449
Keywords:
kinetics; thermal degradation
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The kinetic study of thermal degradation takes into account the validity of the Arrhenius equation. From TG data, the activation energy,Ea and pre-exponential factor,A, are evaluated. These results are interpreted by using the ‘kinetic compensation effect’ as basis. A linear correlation between In(A) andEa is obtained in all cases studied. However, in a plot of the logarithm of the rate constant as a function of reciprocal temperature for the same series of reactions, the thermal oxidative degradations of Nylon-6 and PVC display a point of concurrence and one isokinetic temperature, whereas those of HIPS and PC do not. Therefore, in the thermal oxidative degradations of Nylon-6 and PVC a ‘true’ compensation effect occurs, which could be related to the bulk properties of metal oxides, such as different valence states, whereas for other polymers it displays only an ‘apparent’ compensation effect. This means that degradation is largely independent of the bulk properties of oxides, but may be related to the distribution of different kinds of active links in the polymer surface having different activation energies.

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