Chicken feather thermal decomposition analysis and techno-economic assessment for production of value-added products: a pilot plant study

Analysis of thermal decomposition kinetics of chicken feather fiber reinforced Poly-lactic acid composites filament

“…The activation energy obtained is very low compared to composites of other natural fibers, which range from 155 kJ/mol to 197 kJ/mol [ 2 ]. The activation energy of the composite is lower than the activation energy observed during thermal degradation of chicken feather (200 kJ/mol to 210 kJ/mol) [ 28 ]. Chicken feather contains various proportions of different types of proteins [ 13 ].…”

“…Coats-Redfern technique to obtain activation energy of solids have been found to be appropriate by numerous researchers [ 26 , 27 ]. Earlier researchers have used Coats-Redfern technique to obtain the activation energy and observe the thermal decomposition of Chicken feather [ 28 ]. There are no known prior attempts to compute the activation energy during the thermal decomposition of chicken feather reinforced polylactic acid biocomposites.…”