Citation

Malow M, Wehrstedt KD. J. Hazard. Mater. 2005; 120(1-3): 21-24.

Affiliation

Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und-prüfung (BAM), Laboratory II.23: Explosive Substances of Chemical Industries, Unter den Eichen 87, 12205 Berlin, Germany. marcus.malow@bam.de

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jhazmat.2004.12.040

PMID

15811660

Abstract

We present a prediction (estimation, calculation, screening) method for the estimation of the self-accelerating decomposition temperature (SADT) for liquid organic peroxides from differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measurements based on the concepts of thermal explosion theory originally introduced by Semonov which are adopted to our problem assuming nth-order reaction kinetics. For the peroxides under investigation, we demonstrate good agreement with the experimental SADT. This method can be used as a quick and easy applicable method for the estimation of the critical temperatures.

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