TY - JOUR A1 - Malow, Marcus A1 - Wehrstedt, Klaus-Dieter A1 - Schuurman, P. A1 - Hoeijmakers, P.M.M. T1 - Comments on 'thermal decomposition kinetic evaluation and its thermal hazards prediction of AIBN, by S. Guo, W. Wan, C. Chen and W.H. Chen' (Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry (2013) 113:1169-1176, DOI 10.1007/s10973-013-2993-7) N2 - We read the paper by Guo et al. [1] with interest. The authors have investigated the thermal decomposition kinetics and thermal hazards of 2,2′-azobis(isobutyronitrile), AIBN, by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and used the Advanced Kinetics and Technology Solutions (AKTS) software to predict the thermal stability of AIBN in ton and kg scale. The main conclusion of interest is that the self-accelerating decomposition temperature (SADT) of a 50-kg standard package is 63 °C. PY - 2014 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-014-3897-x SN - 1388-6150 SN - 1418-2874 SN - 0368-4466 SN - 1572-8943 VL - 117 IS - 3 SP - 1015 EP - 1016 PB - Kluwer Academic Publ. CY - Dordrecht AN - OPUS4-31251 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -