STANDARDIZATION OF PROCESS PARAMETERS FOR A CHEMICAL-REACTION USING NEUTRON-ACTIVATION ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE

The chemical process to convert polyepichlorohydrin (PECH) into a glyc idyl azide polymer (GAP) has been standardized by measuring the relati ve concentrations of nitrogen, chlorine and oxygen with the fast neutr on activation analysis technique. For comparison PECH and GAP samples were also analysed by IR spectroscopy. The results indicate that, for standardization of the present chemical process, the fast neutron acti vation analysis technique is superior to IR spectroscopy. In this pape r the techniques used to analyse the samples are described in detail b ut the information on the actual chemical process adopted is provided in brief.