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Study on pyrolysis characteristics and kinetics of organic fireproof plugging material by shuffled complex evolution

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Organic fireproof plugging material (OFPM) is widely used to plug the holes of substation cables passing through the wall, and fireproof performance of OFPM plays a vital role in fire safety. In this paper, thermogravimetric experiments of OFPM in nitrogen atmosphere at different heating rates were carried out to study the pyrolysis kinetics for dealing with its fire hazards. The thermogravimetric curves showed four obvious peak regions at about 500 K, 700 K, 850 K and 1000 K, with mass loss of 35%, 10%, 15% and 40%, which indicated that the whole thermal degradation process could be divided into four stages: Dehydrochlorination of neoprene, depolymerization of neoprene, dehydroxylation of kaolinite and decomposition of carbonate. The initial kinetic parameters were calculated by Kissinger method, and the activation energies of the four stages were 64.14, 207.14, 406.12 and 181.65 kJ mol−1, respectively. In addition, Shuffled Complex Evolution (SCE) algorithm was used to optimize the obtained parameters. The predicted results based on the optimized parameters were in good agreement with the experimental data. Eventually, the optimized kinetic parameters were compared with the results of previous studies, and the consistent results also indicated the effectiveness and reliability of coupling Kissinger method and SCE global optimization algorithm in analyzing the thermal degradation kinetics of OFPM in nitrogen atmosphere.

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The authors would like to acknowledge financial support sponsored by the Science and Technology Project of State Grid Corporation of China (No. 52120521000F).

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  1. Anhui Province Key Laboratory for Electric Fire and Safety Protection, State Grid Anhui Electric Power Research Institute, Hefei, 230601, China

    Jiaqing Zhang & Yubiao Huang

  2. State Grid Anhui Electric Power Co., Ltd, Hefei, 230002, China

    Sha Luo & Shenghe Wang

  3. Faculty of Engineering, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Yanming Ding

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JZ and YH were involved in the methodology, validation, data curation, and writing. Sha Luo contributed to the methodology, and writing. SW contributed to the data curation. YD was involved in the supervision, funding acquisition, project administration, and writing.

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Zhang, J., Huang, Y., Luo, S. et al. Study on pyrolysis characteristics and kinetics of organic fireproof plugging material by shuffled complex evolution. J Therm Anal Calorim 147, 13459–13467 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-022-11555-6

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