[pt] O crescimento da produção de resíduos sólidos devido a evolução tecnológica, principalmente nos países em desenvolvimento, vem apresentando-se de maneira acelerada. Esta evolução acarreta na produção de novos produtos eletrônicos mais atualizados e, cada vez mais sofisticados quanto à composição química, com novas funcionalidades, tornando os antigos dispositivos obsoletos. O consumo exarcebado destes novos produtos contribui para um problema que ganha cada vez mais relevância no cenário mundial, o acúmulo de lixo eletrônico de origem urbana. O presente estudo contemplará como matéria prima amostras de placas de circuito impresso de computadores, conhecidas como PCIs, que são um padrão de barramentos, destinado a conectar periféricos à placa-mãe. Tendo em vista que nestes resíduos os teores de metais são tipicamente superiores àqueles de reservas naturais, torna-se interessante buscar rotas que viabilizem a reciclagem desses resíduos com a concomitante recuperação de constituintes de interesse ou concentração de precursores em distintos grupos para a posterior recuperação de metais. Nesta abordagem, foram realizadas análises termogravimétricas para acompanhar as melhores condições de processo e caracterização do material e produtos através de MEV/EDS. Assim, este material, tipicamente constituído por material orgânico (ex: plásticos como PVC) e constituintes inorgânicos (ex: metais e ligas metálicas), será submetido a um processamento térmico em forno tubular a 350 graus C em atmosfera inerte, seguido de etapas de concentração. A partir de 300 graus C a perda de massa se mantém constante, em torno de 30 por cento, e nas seguintes etapas aplicadas, 15 por cento da amostra total em constituintes metálicos com alto valor agregado, no caso Cu, Ni e Au, podem seguir para recuperação. / [en] The production of solid residues due to technological development has been increasing fast, mainly in developing countries. This growth leads to the manufacture of improved electronic products with varied functions, which not only are better versions of the old ones but also more sophisticated in their chemical compounds. The excessive consumption of the new devices contributes to an issue which has been increasing internationally: the accumulation of electronic waste. The raw material used in this study are samples of computer printed circuit boards (PCBs), which are a bus pattern that connects peripherals to the motherboard. Since the metal content in these residues are typically more elevated than in the ones located in natural reserves, it is interesting to find ways to recycle those residues while recovering components of interest or precursor concentrations in distinct groups for later metal recovery. Thermogravimetric analysis were performed on this approach in order to observe the best conditions of the process and the characterization of material and products was through SEM/EDS. Thus, this material, typically composed by organic material (such as plastic or PVC) and inorganic constituents (such as metals and alloys), undergoes a thermal processing in tubular furnace at 350 C degrees in inert atmosphere, followed by the concentration steps. The mass loss is constant from 300 C degrees on, around 30 percent. In the following steps, 15 percent of the total sample presents metallic components with high added value, such as Cu, Ni and Au, may be recovered.

Afin de répondre aux besoins croissants en énergie primaire, le groupe Europlasma a développé le procédé CHO-Power permettant de valoriser énergétiquement un mélange de refus de tri d’ordures ménagères et de résidus de biomasse. L’une des particularités de ce procédé est l’utilisation d’un réacteur de dégradation thermique des goudrons et des particules solides fines par assistance plasma. L’objectif de cette étude de mieux appréhender les mécanismes réactionnels mis en jeu lors de l’épuration thermique du gaz. Dans cette optique, un réacteur pilote a été dimensionné puis construit sur la plate-forme de Recherche et Développement d’Europlasma. Il a été ensuite nécessaire de modifier le schéma réactionnel permettant la modélisation numérique de la dégradation des goudrons. Ce schéma réactionnel, couplé à l’utilisation d’un logiciel de mécanique des fluides numérique, permet de représenter les processus couplés (chimie, aéraulique, transferts thermiques) se déroulant au sein du réacteur. Deux modifications importantes ont été alors apportées au modèle cinétique simplifié jusque-là utilisé : la modélisation d’une phase discrète réactive permettant de prendre en compte la gazéification des particules de résidus carbonés et l’ajout de nouvelles voies réactionnelles afin de mieux modéliser la formation des particules de suie et de ses précurseurs. À terme, la comparaison des valeurs expérimentales à celle issues de la modélisation numérique permettra de valider ou non le schéma réactionnel dans sa globalité. / In order to contest to the high world demand for primary energy, the Europlasma group developed a new process, called CHO-Power, to enhance the thermochemical potential of a mixture of urban waste and biomass residues. One of the characteristics of this process is the use of a high temperature reactor assisted by a plasma torch for tar and soots thermal cracking. The aim of this study to improve the knowledge of the global reaction mechanism involved during the thermal treatment of gas. In this context, a pilot plant reactor was designed and built on the Europlasma Research and Development Center. During this work, the reaction pathway used to represent tars cracking at high temperature has been enhanced. Coupled to a computational fluid Dynamics Software, allow simulating the complex processes occurring within the reactor (aeraulics, reaction, and heat transfer). Two major changes were made to the simplified kinetic model previously used: the modeling of a discrete and reactive phase to take into account the possible particle gasification of carbonaceous residues and the addition of new reaction pathways to enhance the modeling of the formation of soot and its precursors. The comparison between the experimental and numerical values will validate or not the global reaction scheme and will give important information about the next evolution of the tar degradation scheme.

Les performances électriques des cellules photovoltaïques à base de silicium sont fortement dégradées lorsque leur température augmente. Cette problématique, pourtant bien connue, n’est pas suffisamment prise en considération dans l’industrie du photovoltaïque. Pour parer à cette dégradation, deux voies d’améliorations peuvent être explorées : diminuer la température de fonctionnement des cellules ou réduire leurs coefficients de dégradation en température. Cette étude est d’autant plus importante pour les applications sous concentrations, un éclairement élevé favorisant l’échauffement des cellules. Pour les facteurs de concentration élevés, l’utilisation de systèmes de refroidissement actifs réduit drastiquement la température de fonctionnement. Pour les faibles éclairements, le refroidissement passif est préféré, bien moins coûteux en énergie. Ce travail de thèse est focalisé sur l’étude du comportement thermo-électrique des cellules sous faible concentration du rayonnement incident. Un banc de caractérisation innovant développé dans cette thèse a rendu possible la quantification des variations de la température de la cellule avec la tension de polarisation sous différents facteurs de concentration. Avec l’augmentation de la polarisation, une évolution du facteur d’émission thermique est observée du fait des variations de la concentration de porteurs de charge minoritaires. Le refroidissement radiatif est minimal au courant de court-circuit et est maximal à la tension de circuit ouvert : la température atteinte au point de court-circuit est supérieure à celle atteinte en circuit ouvert. Pour une cellule donnée, sous un éclairement de 3 soleils, un écart de température de 6.2 °C a pu être mesuré entre ces deux points. La fabrication de cellules avec des propriétés différentes nous a permis de confirmer l’importance du dopage de la base et de l’architecture sur l’augmentation du refroidissement radiatif avec la polarisation. De plus, la comparaison du comportement thermo-électrique des cellules de type de dopages différents a mis en avant de plus faibles coefficients de dégradation en température de la tension en circuit ouvert pour les cellules ayant un substrat de type n. Par exemple, pour une température de et sous un éclairement de 1 soleil, un coefficient de dégradation en température du Voc de −0.45% %·°C-1 a été mesuré sur une cellule de type n contre −0.49%·°C-1 pour une cellule de type p. / The electrical performances of silicon based solar cells strongly degrade when increasing their temperature. However, such a well-known issue is too scarcely considered in the phovoltaic industry. To prevent the degradation of silicon based solar cells, two ways of improvement can be explored : one can either decrease the cells’ functionning temperature or either reduce the temperature degradation coefficient. As light intensity tends to favor cell heating, the study is even more important under concentrated sunlight. Regarding high light intensities, active cooling systems can be used to drastically reduce the cell temperature. For low light intensities, passive cooling systems, such as radiative cooling, are more energetically savy. The thesis aims at studying the electro-thermal behavior of cells under low light intensities. An innovative experimental set-up has been developped during this thesis to quantify the variation of the cell temperature with the applied bias voltage. When increasing the bias, an evolution of the cell emissivity is observed because of a variation of the minorities carrier concentration. The radiative cooling is at its lowest at the short circuit current and peaks its highest value at the open circuit voltage : as a result, the reached temperature is higher at the short circuit current than at the open circuit voltage. For a given solar cell, under 3 suns, a temperature shift of 6.2 °C was measured between these two points. The control of the fabrication process gives the opportunity to analyse the influence of the base doping and cell architecture on the evolution of the radiative cooling with the applied bias. Furthermore, the comparison between the electro-thermal behaviors of solar cells, which are related to their type of doping, has shown a lower thermal degradation coefficient of the open circuit voltage for n-type based dope solar cells. For example, at 60°C and under 1 sun, we measured a thermal degradation coefficient BVoc = −0.45% %·°C-1 for a n type solar cell whereas the p type solar cell recorded BVoc = −0.49% %·°C-1.

Although, the use of vinyl pyridine polymers, especially as matrices for nanoparticle synthesis, is growing considerably, the knowledge of thermal degradation behavior is still missing in the literature. In this study, thermal degradation characteristics of the homopolymers / poly(4-vinylpyridine), P4VP, and poly(2-vinylpyridine), P2VP, the diblock copolymers / polystyrene-blockpoly( 2-vinylpyridine), (PS-b-P2VP) and polystyrene-block-poly(4-vinylpyridine), (PS-b-P4VP), and the metal functional vinyl polymers / cobalt-polystyrene-blockpoly( 2-vinylpyridine) and cobalt-polystyrene-block-poly(4-vinylpyridine) were investigated by direct pyrolysis mass spectrometry. The effects of the position of the nitrogen in the pyridine ring, composition and molecular weight of diblock copolymer and coordination of the metal to the pyridine ring of the copolymer on thermal behavior were also investigated. The results showed that unlike most of the vinyl polymers that decompose via depolymerization, P2VP degrades through opposing reaction pathways / depolymerization, proton transfer to N atom in the pyridine ring yielding unsaturated linkages on the polymer backbone that decompose slightly at higher temperatures and loss of pyridine units. On the other hand the thermally less stable P4VP decomposition follows v depolymerization in accordance to general expectations. Another finding was the independent decomposition of both components of the diblock polymers, (PS-b- P2VP) and (PS-b-P4VP). Thermal degradation occurs in two main steps, the thermally less stable P2VP or P4VP chains degrade in the first step and in the second step decomposition of PS takes place. It was also concluded that upon coordination of metal, thermal stability of both P2VP and P4VP increases significantly. For metal functional diblock copolymers thermal degradation of chains coordinated to Co metal through N in the pyridine ring occurred in three steps / cleavage of pyridine coordinated to Co, coupling and H-transfer reactions yielding unsaturated and/or crosslinked structure and decomposition of these thermally more stable unsaturated and/or crosslinked blocks. TEM imaging of the metal functional block copolymers along with the results of the pyrolysis mass spectrometry pointed out that PS-b-P2VP polymer is a better and more effective matrix for nanoparticle synthesis.

In the latest years, many studies especially on characterization and synthesis of polyoxazolines have been made. During these studies, new polyoxazolines such as poly(2-isopropyl-2-oxazoline) (PIPOX), poly(2-(3-butenyl)-2-oxazoline) (PBOX) and modified PBOX were synthesized. However, there has been no investigation on their thermal characteristics such as thermal stability and thermal degradation products. In this study, thermal degradation characteristics, thermal degradation products and thermal stability of PIPOX, PBOX and modified PBOX polymers PBOX-Perf, PBOX-Thiop, PBOX-Sug, PBOX-SP and PBOX-TP were investigated. In this study mercaptans 1H,1H,2H,2H-perfluoro-octanethiol, 3-mercapto-1,2 propanediol, thio-&beta / -D-glucose derivative and their mixture were used in PBOX modifications. The effect of modification of PBOX with different mercaptans on thermal characteristics was also analyzed. For the PIPOX, formations of protonated monomer and oligomers from dimer to heptamer were observed. However, when the isopropyl group changes with 3-butenyl group, protonated oligomers up to trimer were observed because the crosslinking formed during the polymerization of unsaturated butenyl inhibited the production of oligomers. In addition to this, thermal degradation at lower temperatures was observed. The change in thermal stability and thermal degradation products were observed as a result of modification of PBOX with different mercaptans. Unlike PBOX-Sug thermal degradation started at very low temperatures for PBOX-Thiop and PBOX-Perf. This degradation observed at lower temperatures disappeared for PBOX-SP and PBOX-TP. For PBOX-Perf, PBOX-Sug and PBOX- Thiop, decomposition of side chains at low temperatures and decomposition of the main chain at high temperatures were observed. Although the same thermal degradation behavior for PBOX-TP and PBOX-Thiop was expected, since PBOX-TP was obtained as a result of modification of PBOX with high amounts of mercaptan used in PBOX-Thiop and small amounts of mercaptan used in the PBOX-Perf, the results show that neither PBOX-Thiop nor PBOX-Perf thermal degradation behavior are dominant. This is also valid for PBOX-SP. PBOX-SP has higher thermal stability when compared to PBOX-Sug.

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Depuis les débuts de l’aéronautique, le feu fut l’un des premiers risques identifiés. Cependant, ce dernier est encore aujourd’hui la source d’accidents, souvent fatals, faute d’issue lorsqu’il intervient en vol. Dans le même temps, le besoin de réduire la masse des aéronefs actuels, pour limiter les coûts de fonctionnement, a rendu l’utilisation des matériaux composites, particulièrement réactifs au feu, indispensables. Afin de valider la performance au feu de ces matériaux, il est donc nécessaire de certifier leurs performances lorsqu’ils sont soumis au feu. Or ces essais représentent un coût non-négligeable pendant les phases de développement. L’utilisation des simulations numériques semble donc être une bonne alternative afin de limiter le nombre d’essais. Néanmoins ces dernières nécessitent un certain nombre de paramètres d’entrée et une bonne connaissance des phénomènes de dégradation. Ainsi dans ce travail, la dégradation thermique de deux matériaux composite est étudiée, le thermoplastique carbone-PEKK et le thermodurcissable carbone-phénolique. Les propriétés thermiques et cinétiques, indispensables pour la modélisation numérique du comportement au feu des matériaux, sont dans un premier temps caractérisées à petite échelle (ATG/DSC, DIL, diffusivité par méthode flash). Par la suite, ces propriétés sont utilisées dans le modèle de pyrolyse qui est validé à moyenne échelle, à l’aide de mesures de dégradation au cône calorimètre. Enfin, des essais de résistance au feu sont réalisés afin de valider les simulations numériques à grande échelle à l’aide du brûleur NexGen de la plateforme expérimental feux VESTA. De plus, les produits de pyrolyse sont évalués au cours de la dégradation (Py-GC-MS) pour déterminer les limites inférieures d’inflammabilité en fonction de la température et ainsi proposer une classification des matériaux étudiés. / Since the beginning of aeronautics, fire has been one of the first identified risks. However, the latter is still today the source of accidents, often fatal, lack of outcome when it intervenes in flight. At the same time, the need to reduce the mass of current aircraft, to limit operating costs, has made the use of composite materials, particularly fire-resistant, essential. In order to validate the fire performance of these materials, it is therefore necessary to certify their performance when subjected to fire. These tests represent a non-negligible cost during the development phases. The use of numerical simulations seems to be a good alternative in order to limit the number of trials. Nevertheless, the latter require a certain number of input parameters and a good knowledge of degradation phenomena. Thus in this work, the thermal degradation of two composite materials is studied, the thermoplastic carbon-PEKK and the thermosetting carbon-phenolic. The thermal and kinetic properties are first characterized on a small scale (ATG / DSC, DIL, diffusivity by flash method). Subsequently, these properties are used in the pyrolysis model that is validated on a medium scale using calorimeter cone degradation measurements. Finally, fire resistance tests are carried out using the NexGen burner of the experimental VESTA fire platform. In addition, the pyrolysis products are then evaluated during the degradation (Py-GC-MS) to determine the lower flammability limits and thus propose a classification of the materials studied.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-10-09T12:41:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 / Made available in DSpace on 2014-10-09T13:56:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 / O método mais comum de tratamento da resina de troca iônica radioativa é a imobilização em cimento, que reduz a liberação de radionuclídeos para o meio ambiente. Apesar de eficiente, esse método é custoso, pois a quantidade final de rejeito gerada é elevada, já que a capacidade de carga de imobilização é baixa. Este trabalho tem como objetivo desenvolver um método de degradação das resinas provenientes do reator de pesquisa nuclear do Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares, utilizando o Processo Oxidativo Avançado (POA) com reagentes de Fenton. Isso permitiria uma incorporação maior no cimento. Três formas da resina foram avaliadas: catiônica, aniônica, e uma mistura de ambas as resinas. As reações foram realizadas variando a concentração do catalisador (25, 50, 100 e 150 mM), do volume de peróxido de hidrogênio (320 a 460 mL), e de três temperaturas diferentes, 50, 60 e 70 °C. A solução de catalisador mais eficiente foi a de concentração de 50 mM e volume de 330 mL de peróxido, degradando aproximadamente 98% da quantidade de resina. A temperatura mais eficiente foi a de 60 º C. / Dissertação (Mestrado) / IPEN/D / Instituto de Pesquisas Energeticas e Nucleares - IPEN-CNEN/SP