A reaction order functional relationship with the Williams–Landel–Ferry equation in curing kinetics |
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| Authors: | F López‐Serrano JE Puig E Mendizábal |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Departamento de Ingeniería Química, Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, , México D.F., CP 04520 Mexico;2. Departamento de Ingeniería Química, Universidad de Guadalajara, , Guadalajara, Jalisco, CP 44430 Mexico;3. Departamento de Química, Universidad de Guadalajara, , Guadalajara, Jalisco, CP 44430 Mexico |
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| Abstract: | A methodology is presented to obtain a kinetic model for curing reactions, from conversion against time and the glass‐transition temperature versus conversion data. Isothermal runs for a cyanate ester resin from 140 to 190°C, reported previously, were evaluated. The approach utilizes the conversion measurement time derivatives that allow following the estimated parameters' trends: the rate constant and the reaction order, in this case. An autocatalytic model was found, and the rate constants were truly constant along the experiments; thus, their Arrhenius parameters were evaluated. The methodology allowed constructing a master curve relating the variable reaction order with a temperature difference (reaction and glass transition) explained by the Williams–Landel–Ferry (WLF) equation. Four parameters describing the reaction order variation, two related to an exponential‐like behavior and two required by the WLF equation, allowed describing the whole experimental set accurately. POLYM. ENG. SCI., 54:1900–1908, 2014. © 2013 Society of Plastics Engineers |
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