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. 2017 Jan 20;10(1):80. doi: 10.3390/ma10010080

Table 3.

Activation energy of the CNCs, calculated by the three methods in the range of a = 0.1 to 0.8.

Conversion Rate Friedman F-W-O Coats-Redfern
E (KJ/mol) a R2 E (KJ/mol) a R2 E (KJ/mol) a R2
0.1 242.6 (±0.2) 0.9959 239.0 (±0.2) 0.9955 242.7 (±0.2) 0.9952
0.2 289.9 (±0.1) 0.9972 285.2 (±0.2) 0.9971 291.2 (±0.2) 0.9968
0.3 302.2 (±0.3) 0.9999 299.4 (±0.2) 0.9996 305.9 (±0.2) 0.9995
0.4 304.9 (±0.3) 0.9984 302.3 (±0.1) 0.9974 308.9 (±0.1) 0.9972
0.5 305.3 (±0.3) 0.9976 295.0 (±0.2) 0.9984 300.8 (±0.2) 0.9982
0.6 311.7 (±0.3) 0.9836 304.8 (±0.1) 0.9721 310.8 (±0.1) 0.9704
0.7 356.1 (±0.3) 0.9899 343.0 (±0.1) 0.9721 350.5 (±0.2) 0.9769
0.8 387.9 (±0.3) 0.9933 353.5 (±0.1) 0.9782 360.9 (±0.1) 0.9973
Mean 312.6 (±0.3) 0.9945 302.8 (±0.2) 0.9888 309.0 (±0.2) 0.9914

E: Apparent energy of activation; a: Values from CNCs with standard deviation.