The kinetics of solid‐state reactions toward consensus,Part 2: Fitting kinetics data in dynamic conventional thermal analysis

This paper is the second part of a review of some of the controversial kinetic aspects of conventional thermal analysis (TA). In this part the physico‐geometric kinetics for the solid‐state reactions were examined. The main problems discussed are (1) problems in fitting kinetics data: the identification of the f (α) function, (2) the suitability of conventional dynamic methods of TA, and (3) the complex reactions. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Chem Kinet 34: 193–208, 2002; DOI 10.1002/kin.10028