Kinetic analysis of thermogravimetric data

Computer programs are given in Fortran language for three integral methods of deriving kinetic parameters from TG curves. Method 1 is a computerized variant of Doyle's curve-fitting method and performs the calculation of the exponential integralp(x) by means of author's empirical formula. Methods 2 and 3 are variants of the Coats-Redfern linearization method. Testing of the methods on both theoretical and experimental TG curves shows them to be almost equivalent as far as the results obtained are concerned, but Method 1 needs a ten-fold higher computer time.