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Characterization of natural resin materials using water adsorption and various advanced techniques

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A physicochemical characterization of natural raw resin material was evaluated and reported. The studied material is a natural resin, a natural product from pinus halepensis trees which is collected from the forests of Chalkidiki region of North Greece. The plurality of this product combined with its special property of removing water from commercial liquid fuels commands the detailed physicochemical characterization of this material. In particular, various techniques, such as water adsorption at 22 °C, thermogravimetric analysis, differential scanning calorimetry, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction, were used in order to evaluate the structural and surface properties of the material. The water adsorption isotherm was also measured and fitted using the Guggenheim, Anderson and De Boer model in order to correlate the water activity characteristics. In addition, the kinetics of the adsorption was also fitted with good accuracy using the exponential Chapman model. Furthermore, as the results show, the natural resin presents good thermal characteristics. Finally, the studied material presents efficient water adsorption properties, up to 246.8 mmol/g, and it can be proposed as a promising dehydration material.

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Acknowledgments

E.P. Favvas and A.Ch. Mitropoulos would like to thank the framework NSRF for the funding of the present work. The “NANOCAPILLARY” project (“Thalis” Framework) of the Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology is co-financed by Greece and the European Union in the frame of operational program “Education and lifelong learning investing in knowledge society,” Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Culture and Sports. NSRF 2007–2013. The authors would also like to thank Prof. A. Scaltsoyiannes for kindly providing the raw sample.

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  1. Membranes and Materials for Environmental Separations Laboratory, Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, NCSR “Demokritos”, 153 41, Aghia Paraskevi, Attica, Greece

    Evangelos P. Favvas, Evangelos P. Kouvelos & Sergios K. Papageorgiou

  2. Laboratory of Qualitative Fuel Control, Department of Pollution Control and Technologies, Technological Education Institute of Western Macedonia, 501 00, Kila, Kozani, Greece

    Constantinos G. Tsanaktsidis

  3. Hephaestus Laboratory, Department of Petroleum and Mechanical Engineering, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology, 654 04, St. Lucas, Cavala, Greece

    Evangelos P. Favvas & Athanasios Ch. Mitropoulos

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Favvas, E.P., Kouvelos, E.P., Papageorgiou, S.K. et al. Characterization of natural resin materials using water adsorption and various advanced techniques. Appl. Phys. A 119, 735–743 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-015-9022-6

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