Keeley Williamson / Chemistry & Biochemistry / Faculty Mentor: Peter Kroll
This research surrounds chemical kinetics in single process mechanisms with the main focus being on fitting the derivatives of simulated TGA data. The main issues addressed in this research include finding out how different temperatures, activation energies, and heating rates effect the process happening, the pro’s and con’s of gauss fitting and FS fitting, and discovering what processes can be well fit with FS fitting. This information can be important when moving to fitting multiple process at the same time, and also to try and identify certain processes from experimental data. To do this, simulated data is being created in Mathematica with varying parameters and fitting is done in Mathematica as well.
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