Issue
Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering,
Vol.30, No.4, 955-962, 2013
Determination of kinetic parameters during the thermal decomposition of epoxy/carbon fiber composite material
An in-depth study to determine the thermal decomposition kinetics parameters such as the activation energy Ea, the reaction order n, and the pre-exponential factor A of epoxy/carbon fiber composite material has been conducted. We employ not only the modified peak property method that is proposed here, but also the conventional method in analyzing the experimental data, and compare the results to show the performance of the proposed model. The pyrolysis tests for the epoxy/carbon fiber composite materials are conducted by using thermogravimetric analyser at various heating rates. As a result, the best prediction to the experimental data can be obtained by the modified peak property method. Besides, among the methods applied here, the modified peak property method provides most convenient way to recover the parameters: it does not require a curve fitting of the data nor a long iterative computation.
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