Isoconversional approach to quantitative assessment of reactivity under non-isothermal conditions

Abstract

The present paper proposes the isoconversional approach to a quantitative assessment of the reactivity in elementary and complex reactions studied by thermal methods under non-isothermal conditions. The focus is on the processes studied at a constant heating rate as the most common mode used in thermal analysis. The accuracy of the proposed approach is tested on simulated data for elementary reactions, whereas its practical application is demonstrated on few experimental examples. The effect of experimental uncertainties on the precision of the introduced reactivity factors is also considered.