화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Vol.90, No.4, 1299-1303, 2007
Non-isothermal decomposition kinetics of alkaline earth metal carbonates
The kinetics of thermal decomposition of four synthetic alkaline earth metal carbonates (MgCO3, CaCO3, SrCO3, and BaCO3) was studied under non-isothermal conditions using thermo-gravimetry. The activation energy and the pre-exponential factor for the decomposition reactions were determined using the Agarwal and Sivasubramanium integral approximation method. A new method was developed using a Turbo-C-based computer program to evaluate the integral of the kinetic equation. It was observed that the decomposition reaction of MgCO3 and CaCO3 followed two-dimensional diffusion-controlled kinetics and the decomposition reaction of SrCO3 and BaCO3 followed a Ginstling-Brounshtein model-based diffusion-controlled kinetics.