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- Title
Characterization of natural resin materials using water adsorption and various advanced techniques.
- Authors
Favvas, Evangelos; Kouvelos, Evangelos; Papageorgiou, Sergios; Tsanaktsidis, Constantinos; Mitropoulos, Athanasios
- Abstract
A physicochemical characterization of natural raw resin material was evaluated and reported. The studied material is a natural resin, a natural product from pinus halepensis trees which is collected from the forests of Chalkidiki region of North Greece. The plurality of this product combined with its special property of removing water from commercial liquid fuels commands the detailed physicochemical characterization of this material. In particular, various techniques, such as water adsorption at 22 °C, thermogravimetric analysis, differential scanning calorimetry, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction, were used in order to evaluate the structural and surface properties of the material. The water adsorption isotherm was also measured and fitted using the Guggenheim, Anderson and De Boer model in order to correlate the water activity characteristics. In addition, the kinetics of the adsorption was also fitted with good accuracy using the exponential Chapman model. Furthermore, as the results show, the natural resin presents good thermal characteristics. Finally, the studied material presents efficient water adsorption properties, up to 246.8 mmol/g, and it can be proposed as a promising dehydration material.
- Subjects
NORTH Greece (N.Y.); ADSORPTION (Chemistry); RAW materials; GUMS &; resins; LIQUID fuels; THERMOGRAVIMETRY
- Publication
Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing, 2015, Vol 119, Issue 2, p735
- ISSN
0947-8396
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00339-015-9022-6