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Modified Friedman isoconversional kinetic method for effective activation energies of waste tires rubber pyrolysis

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A modified Friedman isoconversional method based on the weight-loss data was proposed to determine the kinetics models and parameters. Thermal pyrolysis kinetic characteristics of waste tire rubber (WTR) samples under nitrogen conditions was investigated by measuring the rate of mass loss as a function of time and temperature. The obtained thermal pyrolysis data was applied to analyze the kinetic parameters using the Flynn–Wall–Ozawa (FWO), Kissinger–Akahira–Sunose (KAS) and modified Friedman isoconversional methods. The results showed that the modified Friedman isoconversional method was used to provide the most precise values of activation energy for WTR pyrolysis, which ranged from 130.5 to 177.6 kJ/mol with the conversion range of 0.1–0.9. It can avoid systematic errors in the FWO and KAS methods. These data were in good agreement with the values reported in the related previous studies. Therefore, the modified Friedman method provides an accurate and effective way to explain the pyrolysis parameters and equations of kinetics in WTR.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by Shanghai Municipal Commission of Science and Technology (No. 23YF1442200) and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2023M732329), and the authors also would like to acknowledge manuscript revision by Yuqiong Li.

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Funding was provided by Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission (No. 23YF1442200) and Postdoctoral Research Foundation of China (Certificate Number 2023M732329).

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Zhang, Z., Zheng, X. & Cai, J. Modified Friedman isoconversional kinetic method for effective activation energies of waste tires rubber pyrolysis. Reac Kinet Mech Cat (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11144-024-02629-7

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