Non-isothermal reduction kinetics and mechanisms by hydrogen of CuAl spinel solid solution

The non-isothermal reduction kinetics by hydrogen of CuAl spinel solid solution was investigated using H2 temperature-programmed reduction at different heating rates methodology. The reduction process consists of four stages in terms of the reduction degree (α), corresponding to the reduction of non-spinel Cu2+, easily reducible spinel Cu2+, hardly reducible spinel Cu2+ (I), and hardly reducible spinel Cu2+ (II). The activation energy was between 83.2 and 122.1 kJ mol−1 when α