TY - JOUR N2 - The thermal reclamation process as a utilisation method of spent moulding and core sands is more costly than other reclamation methods, but in the majority of cases it simultaneously provides the best cleaning of mineral matrices from organic binders. Thus, the application of the thermal analysis methods (TG-DSC), by determining the temperature range within which a degradation followed by a destruction of bounded organic binders in moulding sands, can contribute to the optimisation of the thermal reclamation process and to the limiting its realisation costs. The thermal analysis results of furan resin, one of the most often applied binder in foundry practice, are presented in the hereby paper. The influence of the heating rate of the sample - placed in the thermal analyser - on its degradation and destruction process under oxygen-free (argon) and oxygen (air) conditions, were compared. The recorded TG and DSC curves were used for analysing these processes as the temperature as well as the time function. The obtained results were analysed with regard to determining the required temperature of the thermal reclamation of the investigated organic binder. The usefulness of the developed methodology was found out, however under conditions of meeting several essential requirements concerning the repeatability of performed analyses. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/103374/PDF/AFE%201_2018_12.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/103374 PY - 2018 IS - No 1 KW - TG and DSC thermal analysis KW - Organic binders KW - Thermal destruction KW - Thermal reclamation A1 - Łucarz, M. PB - The Katowice Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences VL - vol.18 DA - 2018.03.20 T1 - Method of Selecting the Reclamation Temperature of Spent Moulding Sands with Organic Binders UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/103374 T2 - Archives of Foundry Engineering ER -