Resins
continue to occupy a place in the waterproof building market.
Unlike traditional concrete building materials, the polymerization
of resins requires initiators to support the required energy to drive
the reaction or reduce the polymerization threshold, which shows a
high reaction rate and low energy consumption in the polymerization
process. Azo compounds (azos) are energetic substances commonly used
in polymerization, but they can cause process hazards due to the amount
of heat release and accumulation of the resulting heat. To ensure
that similar hazards do not occur, the emerging azo initiators 2,2′-azobis(2-methylpropionamide)dihydrochloride
(AIBA), 2-cyanopropan-2-yliminourea (CABN), and 2,2′-azodi(2-methylbutyronitrile)
(AMBN) are explored. Depending on the process conditions, it is critical
to examine how chemical reactions from a laboratory behave at a large
scale. Kinetic models can be used to estimate fundamental safety parameters
suitable for assessing the reaction hazards and as control measures,
such as time to the maximum reaction rate under adiabatic conditions,
time to the conversion limit, and runaway determination for process
operation. The structure of this study is a combination of adiabatic
calorimeter data and a nonlinear adiabatic dynamics model with the
goal of helping to fill the void in research on thermal hazard analysis
of emerging azo initiators. The adiabatic data is used to analyze
the reaction mode characteristics of the azo compounds, and combined
with the external environment, the reaction and temperature parameter
changes of the azo compounds due to the reaction are discussed in
the actual situation.