Changes in the composition of synthesis products upon transitioning from self-ignition to combustion

Changes in the chemical composition of condensed products upon switching from synthesis in the self-ignition mode to combustion synthesis is studied by approximate analytical and numerical means for condensed substances that react via competing reaction pathways. It is shown that these different modes of synthesis produce different compositions of the reaction products. The conditions required for transitioning from one mode of combustion initiation (thermal explosion) to another (ignition) are determined. It is found that this transition can occur upon changing the temperature of a heater by just two characteristic intervals. A scaling procedure that allows the calculation results obtained at zero dimensionless temperature of the heater to be used to determine the effect its non-zero dimensionless temperature has on the ignition mode and the composition of the obtained products is proposed. Calculations show that materials with different distributions of the chemical composition along the sample can be obtained by deliberately changing the temperature of the heater.     

Thermal stability and degradation products analysis of benzocyclobutene-terminated imide polymers

Benzocyclobutene-terminated imides were prepared and fully characterized with ¹H NMR, MS, and FT-IR. The thermal degradation of polymers was investigated by using thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA) and high-resolution pyrolysis-gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (HR-Py-GC–MS). TGA showed that thermal degradation of the polymer was a single-stage process in N₂, whereas a three-stage degradation in air atmosphere. The major involved products were found to be CO₂, naphthalene and naphthalene derivatives. Degradation mechanism of the polymer was suggested and the relationship between structures of the polymer and degradation products was also discussed.     

Thermal analysis of some phytotherapeutic products irradiated with electron beam

The purpose of the present work deals with the evaluation of the electron beam irradiation effects on some natural products based on thermal analysis. Some natural products with therapeutic contributions (artichoke, sea buckthorn, common sage, stonebreaker and cloves) were irradiated with doses up to 9 kGy using accelerated electron beam. The thermal profiles lead to identify three phenomena: dehydration — volatilization, irreversible degradation — molecular reorganization and residue decomposition. The radio-induced degradations determine slight shifts of the temperatures where these phenomena occur. The energetic value of the studied products is affected by e-beam treatment depending on irradiation dose.     

FCC油浆抽提分离产物结构组成分析

以切尾FCC油浆为原料，采用DMF和反抽提剂的复配溶剂进行抽提分离，对FCC油浆及其抽提产物的物性和组成进行了分析表征。结果表明，复配溶剂可以较好地将FCC油浆分离成以芳香烃为主的抽出相和以饱和结构为主的抽余相，在抽出油收率为58.5%时，抽出油芳香分含量80.5%，芳碳率为73.82%，所含芳烃以二环、三环和四环为主，可以作为橡胶填充油和增塑剂等的原料；抽余油饱和分含量高达90%以上，芳碳率只有2.38%，基本不含杂原子，可以作为优良的催化裂化原料。溶剂抽提可以使低附加值的FCC油浆得到较好的利用。     

Thermal analysis of 1-Hydroxiethylidenediphosphonic acid and its salts

1-Hydroxyethylidenediphosphonic acid and its tetrasubstitutcd Li, Na, K, Rb, NH₄, Ca and Ba salts were synthcsized and their thermal behaviour was studied under non-isothermal conditions by simultaneous TG-DTG-DTA at 20–1000 C. The following thermal transformations were observed: loss of crystallization water, melting in the case of the acid, and intramolecular dehydration in the case of the salts, leading to the corresponding unsaturated derivatives. From the free acid, its acidic salts and the neutral ammonium salt, long-chain polycondensates are formed through intermolecular dehydration.

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Zusammenfassung 1-Hydroxyethyldiphosphonsäure und ihr Li-, Na-, K-, Rb-, NH₄-, Ca- und Ba-Salz wurden dargestellt. Ihr thermisches Verhalten wurde durch simultane TG-DTG-DTA unter nichtisothermen Bedingungen bei 20–1000 C untersucht. Folgende thermische Umwandlungen wurden beobachtet: Verlust von Kristallwasser, Schmelzen (nur bei der freien Säure), intramolekulare Wasserabspaltung (nur bei den Salzen) zu ungesättigten Verbindungen. Die freie Säure, die sauren Salze und das neutrale Ammoniumsalz bilden unter intermolekularer Wasserabspaltung langkettige Polykondensate.

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Thermal analysis of corrosion products formed on carbon steel in ammonium chloride solution

The influence of different ions NO₃ ^? and SO₄ ^2? on the carbon steel corrosion in ammonium chloride was investigated using mass loss measurements and potentiodynamic polarization. Corrosion products were analyzed using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and simultaneous thermal and differential scanning calorimetry (TG/DSC). XPS analysis shows that the main product of corrosion is a non-stoichiometric Fe³⁺ oxyhydroxide, consisting of a mixture of FeO(OH) and FeO(OH) containing inclusions of these anions, species such as Fe³⁺O(OH,Cl^?); Fe³⁺O(OH,SO₄ ^2?); and Fe³⁺O(OH,NO₃ ^?). TG/DSC confirms the decomposition of the rusty products formed by chemical corrosion, compounds like Fe³⁺ oxyhydroxides, with β-FeOOH as the major phase, crystal structure of which may contain Cl^?, NO₃ ^?, and SO₄ ^2?—e.g., akaganeite [Fe³⁺O(OH,A)].     

Thermal decomposition products of polyisobutylene

Polyisobutylene was decomposed at 325, 345, and 365°C under vacuum, and the volatile products were trapped by using liquid nitrogen. The products, C₁–C₂₄ hydrocarbons, were analyzed by gas chromatography. The formation of the main products is discussed on the basis of a free-radical mechanism. Intramolecular radical transfer can account for the production of most fragments including dimers, trimers, tetramers, and so on, of isobutylene.     

Thermal decomposition products of polypropylene

Isotactic polypropylene was decomposed under vacuum at 360, 380, and 400°C, and the volatile products from C₁ to C₁₂ hydrocarbons were analyzed by gas chromatography. The formation of the main products is discussed on the basis of a free-radical mechanism in which intramolecular radical transfer is assumed to play an important role. The mechanism of the formation of a number of products suggested by previous workers is criticized on the basis of the results of a more comprehensive analysis of this investigation.     

Artificial neural networks in analysis of indinavir and its degradation products retention

Artificial neural networks (ANN) are biologically inspired computer programs designed to simulate the way in which the human brain processes the information. In the past few years, coupling of experimental design (ED) and ANN became useful tool in the method optimization. This paper presents the application of ED-ANN in analysis of chromatographic behavior of indinavir and its degradation products. According to preliminary study, full factorial design 2⁴ was chosen to set input variables for network training. Experimental data (inputs) and results for retention factors from experiments (outputs) were used to train the ANN with aim to define correlation among variables. For networks training multi-layer perceptron (MLP) with back propagation (BP) algorithm was used. Network with the lowest root mean square (RMS) had 4-8-3 topology. Predicted data were in good agreement with experimental data (correlation was higher than 0.9713 for training set). Regression statistics confirmed good ability of trained network to predict compounds retention.     

Thermal decomposition products of polyethylene

Decomposition products of polymers have been determined by many investigators, but the results are often conflicting because of difficulties in analyzing a large number of products. A comprehensive analysis of the volatile thermal decomposition products of high-density polyethylene has been made with the latest techniques in gas chromatography. The formation of products is explained on the basis of free-radical mechanism. The predominant process in the formation of volatiles appears to be intramolecular transfer of radicals, in which isomerization by a coiling mechanism plays an important role in determining the relative quantities of each product.     

Thermal analysis of a new thiophene derivative and its copolymer

Thermal characteristics of a new thiophene derivative, 2-(thiophen-3-yl-)ethyl octanoate (OTE), its homopolymer (POTE), and copolymer with thiophene P(OTE-co-Th) were investigated via pyrolysis mass spectrometry. Thermal degradation of the copolymer started by lose of side chains and thiophene involving products evolved almost in the same temperature range where PTh degradation was detected, at slightly higher temperatures than PTh backbone decomposed during the pyrolysis of POTE. The extent of doping and network structure decreased in the order POTE<P(OTE-co-Th)<PTh.     

Thermal degradation characteristics of rigid polyurethane foam and the volatile products analysis with TG-FTIR-MS

Thermal degradation characteristics of rigid polyurethane (PUR) foam in both air and nitrogen gaseous environments were studied using thermogravimetry and differential scanning calorimetry (TG-DSC) hyphenated techniques. And in situ Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) was employed to investigate the characteristic functional groups of the decomposition residues at different temperatures. It is found that the thermal degradation of PUR material in air and N₂ present a three-stage and a two-stage process, respectively. And the degradation reaction rate of PUR in air is accelerated significantly due to the presence of oxygen. The thermal degradation mechanism of PUR under non-oxidizing gaseous environment was evaluated using a TGA instrument coupled with Fourier Transform Infrared and mass spectrometer (TG-FTIR-MS). HCFC-141b served as blowing agent is detected at the initial stage. The urethane bond groups of PUR start to break up into isocyanates segments and polyols segments from about 200 °C. With an increase of temperature, the polyols decompose into some kinds of aliphatic ether alcohol. In the temperature range of 350–500 °C, the dominant volatile products are primary amines, secondary amines, vinyl ethers and CO₂.     

Electrospray tandem mass spectrometric analysis of zeaxanthin and its oxidation products

Carotenoids have been implicated in protection of the eye from light-mediated photo-toxicity caused by free radicals. Under conditions of normal oxidative stress the carotenoids serve as protective antioxidants; however, when the oxidative stress exceeds the antioxidant capacity, carotenoids can be oxidized into numerous cleavage products. The determination and identification of oxidized carotenoids in biological samples remains a major challenge due to the small sample size and low stability of these compounds. We investigated the reaction of various zeaxanthin cleavage products with O-ethyl hydroxylamine to evaluate their levels in a biological sample. For this, a sensitive and specific electrospray tandem mass spectrometry (ESI-MS/MS) was developed, avoiding the classical lower sensitive and specific HPLC-UV and fluorescence absorption methods. Protonated molecules [M + H](+) of carotenoids upon collision-induced dissociation produced a number of structurally characteristic product ions. A series of complicated clusters of product ions differing in 14 (CH(2))and 26 (C(2)H(2))Da was characteristic of the polyene chain of intact carotenoids. All carotenoid ethyl oximes of zeaxanthin cleavage products were characterized by the losses of 60 and 61 Da in their MS/MS spectra. Through the application of the LC/MS/MS method, we identified two oxime derivatives of 3-hydroxy-beta-ionone and 3-hydroxy-14'-apocarotenal with protonated molecules at m/z 252 and m/z 370 respectively, in a human eye sample.     

Thermal decomposition of the 1:1 bismuth molybdate and its implications for catalytic oxidation

To study the stability of the 1:1 bismuth molybdate, thin films (300–500 Å) have been prepared by thermal evaporation of the powder samples followed by heating in air or oxygen. Electron diffraction revealed that in an oxidizing atmosphere and at temperatures higher than 400°C or in vacuum and at temperatures higher than about 350°C the 1:1 compound decomposes into the 2:1 bismuth molybdate and MoO₂. These results suggest that during catalytic oxidation and (at least) for temperatures greater than 400°C the 2:1 compound forms near the surface of the 1:1 phase, being responsible for the selective catalytic oxidation.     

Determination of lanthanum in phosphate rock and in its products by neutron activation analysis

Lanthanum was determined in phosphoric rock and in its products obtained in the process of production of phosphoric acid and fertilizers in Mexican plants. The method used for the determination of lanthanum was neutron activation analysis. It is observed that the concentration of lanthanum is higher in the fraction of calcium salts.     

Thermal oxidation products and kinetics of polyethylene composites

The thermal oxidation behavior of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) composites was investigated at 60 °C, 90 °C and 110 °C, using Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). The inorganic fillers do not modify the thermal oxidation mechanisms of HDPE. However, they have great effects on the thermal oxidation kinetics—both the activation energy and the pre-exponential factor increase. That means that although the addition of inorganic fillers retards the onset of thermal oxidation of HDPE, once the oxidation begins, it proceeds much faster than that of HDPE. Stability evaluation of HDPE composites by TGA was not consistent with the result by FTIR. The inorganic fillers influence the oxidation products and their distribution greatly. HDPE/STC and HDPE/mica oxidations were delineated by large amount of carbonyl formation, especially esters and ketones, while HDPE/wollastonite and HDPE/diatomite showed minimum carbonyl formation. In HDPE composites, there is a good relation between the carboxylic formation and the carbonyl index.     

HPLC analysis of thimerosal and its degradation products in ophthalmic solutions with electrochemical detection

A reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatographic assay using amperometric detection on a glassy-carbon electrode has been developed for analysis of thimerosal and its main degradation products, thiosalicylic acid and dithiodibenzoic acid, in ophthalmic formulations. A potential value of 0.9 V vs. Ag/AgCl was chosen for simultaneous detection of thimerosal and thiosalicylic acid, obtaining limits of detection of 1.0 and 0.2 ng injected, respectively. A potential value of 1.2V was applied for simultaneous determination of all three compounds studied, obtaining in this case limits of detection of 3,4 and 4 ng injected for thimerosal, thiosalicylic acid and dithiodibenzoic acid, respectively. The results obtained reveal the utility of the HPLC method in quality control of commercial products containing thimerosal with good detectability.     

High-performance liquid chromatographic analysis of glutathione and its thiol and disulfide degradation products

A rapid and sensitive high-performance liquid chromatographic method for quantitation of picomole levels of glutathione, glutathione disulfide, cysteine, cystine, cysteinylglycine, cysteinylglycine disulfide and cysteine glutathione-mixed disulfide in biological samples is described. The compounds were separated isocratically on a reversed-phase column by ion-pair chromatography. The mobile phase consisted of an aqueous buffer containing 0.1 M monochloroacetic acid and 3.3 mM 1-heptanesulfonic acid (pH 2.60)-methanol-N,N-dimethylformamide (96.5:3.0:0.5). After chromatographic separation, the disulfides were reduced by a potential (-1.0 V) from a battery, with subsequent detection of all thiols by electrochemical oxidation (+0.15 V) with a dual gold-mercury electrode. Thiol and disulfide concentrations were determined in tissue extracts (liver and kidney) and fluids (bile and plasma) from control rats and rats treated with acivicin, an inhibitor of gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase. A marked increase in biliary glutathione concentration was observed in treated animals with a corresponding decrease in cysteine and cysteinylglycine concentrations. The results demonstrate that this method is useful for measuring glutathione and its degradation products in tissues and fluids.     

Thermal analysis and microstructure of oxide dispersion strengthened ferritic steels produced by ball milling with different amounts of process control agent

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - Fe–14Cr–3&nbsp;W–0.4Ti–0.25Y2O3 ferritic steels were produced by ball milling of initial mixture of elemental powders with...