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POWDER TECHNOLOGY
Volume 204, Issue 2-3, Pages 222-227Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2010.08.004
Keywords
Metakaolinite; Kaolinite; Dehydroxylation; Non-isothermal kinetics; Activation energy; Thermogravimetric analysis
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- Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic [2808024]
- Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic [FT-TA3/026]
- ERDF, Centre for Materials Research at FCH BUT [CZ.1.05/2.1.00/01.0012]
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The dehydroxylation of the medium ordered kaolinite was investigated under non-isothermal conditions. Samples of industrially treated (washed) kaolin with high content of kaolinite were calcined using heating rate from 1 to 40 degrees C min(-1). The results of thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) were supplemented by differential thermal analysis (DTA), infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) results. The mechanism and pertinent kinetic parameters, i.e. overall activation energy (EA) and pre-exponential (frequency) factor (A), were evaluated from the series of thermogravimetric experiments. The obtained results show that dehydroxylation of kaolinite is controlled by the rate of third-order reaction (F-3) under applied condition. The median values of E-A and A correspond to 227 +/- 1 kJ mol(-1) and (9.4 +/- 0.3) x 10(9) s(-1), respectively. (c) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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