Université de Fribourg

Kinetics of the chrysotile and brucite dehydroxylation reaction: a combined non-isothermal/isothermal thermogravimetric analysis and high-temperature X-ray powder diffraction study

Trittschack, Roy ; Grobéty, Bernard ; Brodard, Pierre

In: Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 2014, vol. 41, no. 3, p. 197–214

The dehydroxylation reactions of chrysotile Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄ and brucite Mg(OH)₂ were studied under inert nitrogen atmosphere using isothermal and non-isothermal approaches. The brucite decomposition was additionally studied under CO₂ in order to check the influence of a competing dehydroxylation/carbonation/decarbonisation reaction on the reaction kinetics. Isothermal experiments...