A novel comparative study: synthesis, characterization and thermal degradation kinetics of a terpolymer and its composite for the removal of heavy metals

Abstract

FC) and Sharp-Wentworth (SW) methods have been adopted to determine the various kinetic and thermodynamic parameters. The decomposition reaction for terpolymer was found to be of second order but higher order was obtained for the composite. From the results, the activation energy, frequency factor and entropy change support the good thermal stability of terpolymer and its composite.

Synthesis and Characterization of Terpolymer Adsorbents Using Photopolymerization: Investigation of Heavy Metal Adsorption Capacity

“…In the literature, it can often be seen that adsorbents, which are relatively cheap and have a high sorption percentage, are obtained from terpolymers. In most of these studies, it was used as a resin [13,14] or chelating [15,16] terpolymer in batch separation method with ion exchange function. In these studies, the preparation of terpolymers is in the form of chemical reactions using co-reagents, temperature and solvents.…”