Data Processing for the Determination of Chemical Kinetic Parameters

摘要

Renewed interest in thermal analysis has stimulated development of new computer-compatible techniques for data analysis and reduction. Application of these techniques is intended for use in the determination of chemical kinetic parameters of rocket motor and warhead liners, propellants, and explosives in an effort to increase the safety of handling this hardware. The numerical methods for data reduction in the field of thermal analysis have had to be updated due to new instrumentation and increasing computer technology. Chemical kinetics subroutines have been developed for isothermal and nonisothermal differential scanning calorimetry and for differential thermal analysis by digitizing analog outputs. Mathematic interpretation of thermodynamic data is accomplished with application of the Gibbs-Helmholtz equation. (Author)