Nonisothermal Kinetic Analysis and AC Conductivity for Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)/Zinc Oxide (ZnO) Nanocomposite

Table 4

The extracted data of the KAS model for PVC and 5 wt.% and 8 wt.% PVC/ZnO nanocomposite samples.

Alpha PVC	Intercept value	Preexponential (min^-1)	Slope value	Activation energy (kJ/mol)	Statistics Adj.	Average
PVC region 1
0.05	16.29		-13.76	108.75	1.00	116.36
0.1	16.52		-14.16	111.91	1.00
0.15	16.94		-14.54	114.91	1.00
0.2	17.08		-14.73	116.41	0.99
0.25	17.05		-14.82	117.12	0.99
0.3	17.13		-14.96	118.23	1.00
0.35	17.37		-15.17	119.89	1.00
0.4	17.23		-15.19	120.05	1.00
0.45	17.03		-15.18	119.97	1.00
PVC region 2
0.6	18.56		-16.45	130.01	1.00	135.74
0.65	19.41		-17.12	135.30	0.99
0.7	19.53		-17.39	137.43	0.99
0.75	18.94		-17.23	136.17	0.99
0.8	18.37		-17.07	134.90	0.98
0.85	18.54		-17.36	137.20	0.97
0.9	18.60		-17.61	139.17	0.96
PVC/5 wt.% ZnO
0.1	14.69		-13.15	103.92	0.95	89.63
0.2	14.13		-13.08	103.37	0.98
0.3	12.82		-12.47	98.55	0.98
0.4	11.84		-12.02	94.99	0.97
0.5	10.45		-11.34	89.62	0.97
0.6	8.48		-10.33	81.64	0.96
0.7	6.36		-9.26	73.18	0.96
0.8	5.72		-9.08	71.76	0.95
PVC/8 wt.% ZnO
0.3	13.07		-12.51	98.87	0.95	93.54
0.4	14.06		-13.19	104.24	0.99
0.5	13.39		-12.90	101.95	0.99
0.6	11.83		-12.12	95.78	0.99
0.7	9.62		-10.98	86.78	0.98
0.8	6.37		-9.32	73.66	0.98