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Kinetic analysis of magnesium aluminate spinel formation: Effect of MgO:Al2O3 ratio and titania dopant

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Title Kinetic analysis of magnesium aluminate spinel formation: Effect of MgO:Al2O3 ratio and titania dopant
 
Creator Shamim, Mostofa
Sinhamahapatra, Somnath
Hossain, Jahangir
Lahiri, Sayan
Dana, Kausik
 
Subject Refractories
 
Description The mechanistic pathway of MgO-Al2O3 reaction in solid state to form MgAl2O4 spinel was investigated to correlate the kinetic parameters with ratio of reactants (MgO:Al2O3) and with the presence of a doping agent, TiO2. The time-temperature-expansion data of oxide compacts was analyzed using several model free analyses and model based (linear and non-linear) kinetic algorithms. These indicated that spinel formation process can be best described by single step with n-dimensional Avrami equation for every MgO:Al2O3 ratio, irrespective of titania dopant. The activation energy (Ea) of the process was proportional to % spinel formed in each system and validated with quantitative XRD analysis. The higher value of Avrami coefficient (n) in 90 wt% Al2O3 compositions has been explained with geometric considerations of powder packing. Incorporations of 1% TiO2 in the MgO: Al2O3 oxide compact did not markedly affect the reaction model, frequency factor and Activation energy.
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Date 2018-02
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
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Identifier http://cgcri.csircentral.net/4333/1/dana.pdf
Shamim, Mostofa and Sinhamahapatra, Somnath and Hossain, Jahangir and Lahiri, Sayan and Dana, Kausik (2018) Kinetic analysis of magnesium aluminate spinel formation: Effect of MgO:Al2O3 ratio and titania dopant. Ceramics International, 44 (2). pp. 1868-1874. ISSN 0272-8842
 
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