ANALYSIS OF NONISOTHERMAL REACTION-KINETICS .1. SIMPLE REACTIONS

Owing to the compensation effect, multiple sets of Arrhenius parameters can be obtained from non-isothermal data. This leads to non-unique results and, hence, to criticisms of the non-isothermal methods. In this paper, procedures used to analyze non-isothermal data in order to obtain reliable Arrhenius parameters for simple reactions are discussed. The integral method has been found to yield reliable Arrhenius parameters from non-isothermal data: Concurrent use of the integral and the multiple heating-rate methods has been found to be a powerful tool for obtaining reliable results for both the order of reaction and the Arrhenius parameters.