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Sulene Araújo State University of Southwest of Bahia (UESB) Department of Chemistry Jequie BA 45206-190 Brazil

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Antonio Araujo Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte Department of Chemistry Natal RN 59078-970 Brazil

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Abstract

The aim of this work is to determine the activation energy for the thermal decomposition of poly(ethylene terephthalate)—PET, in the presence of a MCM-41 mesoporous catalyst. This material was synthesized by the hydrothermal method, using cetyltrimethylammonium as template. The PET sample has been submitted to thermal degradation alone and in presence of MCM-41 catalyst at a concentration of 25% in mass (MCM-41/PET). The degradation process was evaluated by thermogravimetry, at temperature range from 350 to 500 °C, under nitrogen atmosphere, with heating rates of 5, 10 and 25 °C min−1. From TG, the activation energy, determined using the Flynn–Wall kinetic method, decreased from 231 kJ mol−1, for the pure polymer (PET), to 195 kJ mol−1, in the presence of the material (MCM-41/PET), showing the catalyst efficiency for the polymer decomposition process.

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Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry
Language English
Size A4
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1969
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ISSN 1388-6150 (Print)
ISSN 1588-2926 (Online)

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