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Kinetics of pyrolysis of ramie fabric wastes from thermogravimetric data

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The reutilization of the ramie-based textile waste or scraps from textile production through pyrolysis is a promising route for producing bio-fuels. In this work, the thermal behaviors and pyrolysis kinetic of used ramie fabric were investigated using thermogravimetric analysis at different heating rates of 5, 10, 20, and 40 °C min−1 under nitrogen conditions. Three model-free methods, the isoconversional Kissinger, Kissinger–Akahira–Sunose (KAS) and Flynn–Wall–Ozawa (FWO) models and Coats–Redfern model-fitting method were employed to identify the kinetic triple including activation energy, pre-exponential factor, and reaction model. It was established that the Coats–Redfern model-fitting method was suspectable for determining the kinetic reaction mechanism but the most probable reaction R (R2 or R3) function can be evaluated on the basis of the activation energy value which is nearest to the value of E a obtained by the FWO and KAS methods. A kinetic compensation effect, represented by the equation lgA = −1.3515 + 0.0808E a can be observed.

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This work was supported financially by the joint project from the Henan-Provincial and the China-National Natural Science Foundation (Project No. U1304513) and the Key Laboratory of Fire Fighting and Rescuing Technology Foundation of the Ministry of Public Security of China under Grant No. KF201301.

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  1. Department of Textile Engineering, Zhongyuan University of Technology, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China

    Fanglong Zhu, Qianqian Feng, Rangtong Liu & Kejing Li

  2. Department of Clothing, Tianjin Polytechnic University, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China

    Yanfang Xu

  3. The Chinese People’s Armed Police Forces Academy, Langfan, People’s Republic of China

    Fanglong Zhu

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Zhu, F., Feng, Q., Xu, Y. et al. Kinetics of pyrolysis of ramie fabric wastes from thermogravimetric data. J Therm Anal Calorim 119, 651–657 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-014-4179-3

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