@article{10902/23412,
year = {2021},
month = {11},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10902/23412},
abstract = {In a fire, the polymer combustion occurs when gaseous fuels react with oxygen. The heating of a material could force the release of gaseous fuels during thermal decomposition and pyrolysis. The rate of pyrolysis to define the gaseous fuels is usually interpreted by means of the Arrhenius expression and a reaction model expression, which are characterized by an activation energy, a pre-exponential factor, and a reaction order value. Many methods are available for determining kinetic parameters from thermogravimetric experimental data. However, the most challenging issue is achieving an adequate balance between accuracy and simplicity. This work proposes a direct method for determining the kinetic parameters with only a thermogravimetric experiment at a single heating rate. The method was validated with six polymers, and the results were compared with those from similar procedures, such as the Lyon method and generalized direct method. The results achieved using the simpler approach of the proposed method show a high level of accuracy.},
organization = {Authors would like to thank to the Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear for the cooperation and co-financing the project “Metodologías avanzadas de análisis y simulación de escenarios de incendios en centrales nucleares” and to CAFESTO Project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and the Spanish State Research Agency through public–private partnerships (Retos Colaboración 2017 call, ref RTC-2017-6066-8) co-funded by ERDF under the objective “Strengthening research, technological development and innovation”},
publisher = {MDPI},
publisher = {Applied Sciences, 2021, 11(23), 11300},
title = {A simple direct method to obtain kinetic parameters for polymer thermal decomposition},
author = {Lázaro Urrutia, David and Alonso Ipiña, Alain and Lázaro Urrutia, Mariano and Alvear Portilla, Manuel Daniel},
}