Deviation of activation energy caused by neglecting a temperature term in Ozawa Equation

Yi Cheng*, Yanchun Li, Shi Yan, Chuan Huang

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Abstract

In the non-isothermal kinetic equation, the temperature integral from 0 to T0 never equals to zero, so a deviation of activation energy is introduced when the term is neglected. We propose a new evaluation method on Ozawa Equation. The results show that neglecting this term in Ozawa Equation leads to large activation energy errors, when small absolute values of Δx = x - x0(x = E/RT). The deviation of the activation energy is less than 0.55% when {pipe}Δx{pipe} > 5, but may exceed 10% if {pipe}Δx{pipe} < 2. The application of this method on the dehydration of CaC2O4· H2O shows that the theoretical error was close to the actual error.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)704-713
Number of pages10
JournalJournal of Mathematical Chemistry
Volume48
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Activation energy
  • Non-isothermal kinetics
  • Ozawa Equation
  • Temperature integral
  • Thermal analysis

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