TY - JOUR
TI - Thermal degradation process of polysulfone aramid fiber
AU - Zhu Fang-Long
AU - Feng Qian-Qian
AU - Xin Qun
AU - Zhou Yu
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2014
VL - 18
IS - 5
SP - 1637
EP - 1641
PT - Article
AB - Polysulfone aramid fiber is one kind of high temperature fibers. In the  paper, thermal degradation behavior and kinetics of polysulfone aramid fiber  were investigated by thermogravimetric analysis and differential  thermogravimetric at different heating rates under nitrogen and air,  respectively. The experimental results show that its initial degradation  temperature is 375°C in nitrogen and 410°C in air at heating rate of 10  K/min. When temperature went to 800°C, the fiber loses all mass in air. The  mass losses in the stage showed that degradation of polysulfone aramid occurs  in two-step process as could be concluded by the presence of two distinct  exothermic peaks in differential thermogravimetric curves.