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The kinetics of Al-Si spinel phase crystallization from calcined kaoline

PTÁČEK, P. OPRAVIL, T. ŠOUKAL, F. KŘEČKOVÁ, M. HAVLICA, J. BRANDŠTETR, J.

Original Title

The kinetics of Al-Si spinel phase crystallization from calcined kaoline

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

The crystallization of Al-Si spinel from medium ordered kaolin with high content of kaolinite was investigated using the differential thermal analysis (DTA). The apparent activation energy of the process was evaluated from the dependence of exothermic peak of crystallization on heating rate. Within the applied interval of heating rate (1-40 K min(-1)) the temperature of peak maximum increases from initial value of 1220.5 K in about 54.2 K. The apparent activation energy of the process 856 +/- 2kJ mol(-1) was calculated using the Kissinger equation. The growth morphology of Al-Si spinel crystal was evaluated from the Avrami parameter. The average value of morphology parameter determined within the observed interval of heating rate is 3.08 +/- 0.03. This value indicates that crystallization mechanism of Al-Si spinel phase proceeds by bulk nucleation of the new phase with constant number of nuclei and that the three-dimensional growth of crystals is controlled by the reaction rate on the phases interface.

Keywords

Metakaolin, thermal conversion, g-Al2O3, Al–Si spinel, infrared spectroscopy

Authors

PTÁČEK, P.; OPRAVIL, T.; ŠOUKAL, F.; KŘEČKOVÁ, M.; HAVLICA, J.; BRANDŠTETR, J.

RIV year

2011

Released

1. 10. 2011

Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0022-4596

Periodical

JOURNAL OF SOLID STATE CHEMISTRY

Year of study

2011

Number

10

State

United States of America

Pages from

2661

Pages to

2667

Pages count

7

BibTex

@article{BUT89073,
  author="Petr {Ptáček} and Tomáš {Opravil} and František {Šoukal} and Magdaléna {Křečková} and Jaromír {Havlica} and Jiří {Brandštetr}",
  title="The kinetics of Al-Si spinel phase crystallization from calcined kaoline",
  journal="JOURNAL OF SOLID STATE CHEMISTRY",
  year="2011",
  volume="2011",
  number="10",
  pages="2661--2667",
  issn="0022-4596"
}