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China Surfactant Detergent & Cosmetics ›› 2021, Vol. 51 ›› Issue (4): 265-271.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-1803.2021.04.001

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Study on the behavior and mechanism of pyrolysis of lauric acid bymodel-fitting and model-free methods

ZHANG Gong-yan(),ZHANG Yan-song,CHEN Kun,ZHANG Xin-yan(),HUANG Xing-wang   

  1. School of Mining and Safety Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, Shandong 266590, China
  • Received:2020-08-03 Revised:2021-03-29 Online:2021-04-22 Published:2021-04-27
  • Contact: Xin-yan ZHANG E-mail:zhanggongyan119@163.com;xyzhang_safety@sdust.edu.cn

Abstract:

The pyrolysis kinetics of lauric acid powder in nitrogen and air was studied by comprehensive thermal analysis. The experimental results showed that 30 µm lauric acid powder was rapidly pyrolyzed and gasified in nitrogen atmosphere without exothermic combustion reaction. At different heating rates, the pyrolysis of lauric acid powder in air included two stages: fast pyrolysis and slow pyrolysis. The kinetic parameters of lauric acid pyrolysis in nitrogen and air atmosphere were solved by means of Coats-Redfern method, and the pyrolysis mechanism was described. The results showed that, the rapid pyrolysis of lauric acid in nitrogen and air atmosphere followed the one-dimensional reaction model at phase interface (R1 model); the apparent activation energy (9.1 kJ/mol) and pre-exponential factor (8.606 1) of lauric acid pyrolysis in nitrogen atmosphere were relatively low, indicating that the oxidation and exothermic behavior of lauric acid inhibited the pyrolysis reaction, but had no obvious effect on its pyrolysis mechanism; when the heating rate was 15 ℃/min, at the same temperature, the conversion of lauric acid pyrolysis in nitrogen atmosphere was higher than that in air atmosphere. The apparent activation energy of lauric acid for different conversion α in air atmosphere was also calculated by using the methods of model-free functions (Flynn-Wall-Ozawa method and Kissinger-Akahira-Sunose method). The results obtained by the two methods were close to those by the model-fitting method. The average apparent activation energy of lauric acid in air atmosphere was 14.82 kJ/mol; in the range of 10%~80% conversion, the apparent activation energy in the oxidation stage of rapid pyrolysis showed a gentle change with the conversion, which verified that the pyrolysis of lauric acid followed the one-dimensional phase-interface reaction mechanism.

Key words: lauric acid, pyrolysis, model-fitting method, model-free method, kinetics

CLC Number: 

  • TQ645.6