Curing of a Furan Resin in the Presence of Oxalic Acid: A Kinetic Study by DSC

This paper describes the curing behavior of an in-house synthesized furan resin at ambient conditions in the presence of oxalic acid, as a mild curing agent and catalyst, by non-isothermal differential scanning calorimetry. The study was performed at three time intervals i.e.,0, 6 and 24 h. after mixing of the resin with the curing agent. Non-isothermal, multiple heating rate, model-free methods of Ozawa-Flynn-Wall and Kissinger-Akahira-Sunose were used for investigating the curing kinetics of the mixture

Keywords:

Furan resin , Oxalic acid , Curing kinetics , DSC , Isoconversional