Guest Post by Dr. R. Bruce Prime In Parts 1 - 5 of this series we have described basic kinetic principles, how to measure activation energy E, the role of isothermal DSC in kinetic analyses, and time-temperature superposition kinetics. Each of those may be viewed as a tool in our kinetics tool box. Here we describe how they were all used to solve an actual problem involving a ... [Click to Continue...]

Guest Post by Dr. R. Bruce Prime In previous posts in this series we have described basic kinetic principles, how to measure activation energy E and its constancy or variation with conversion, and the role of isothermal DSC in kinetic analyses. Here we add yet another tool: time-temperature superposition or TTS kinetics. TTS kinetics was introduced in the June 2, 2014 post. ... [Click to Continue...]

Guest Post by Dr. R. Bruce Prime In previous posts we showed how to begin a kinetic study and one means to measure activation energy E. Here we show how DSC may be used to measure the parameters in the rate equations, a and da/dt, that can lead to elucidation of the entire rate equation, including another means to measure E. Because DSC gives a direct measure of both the ... [Click to Continue...]

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