Effect of ultrasound on the dissolution of colemanite in H2SO4

Abstract

This paper deals with the dissolution of colemanite in sulfuric acid, in the absence and presence of ultrasound. By nonlinear regression analysis, a modified Avrami-typeA equation was fitted to kinetic data and the activation energy was found to be 30 kJ/mol in both cases. The effect of ultrasound is on the pre-exponential factor A in the Arrhenius equation. An empirical relation is also given, which relates the rate constant to ultrasound power. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.