Computational aspects of kinetic analysis. Part D: The ICTAC kinetics project - multi-thermal-history model-fitting methods and their relation to isoconversional methods

This paper is Part D of a discussion of the computational stage of solid-st ate reactions as applied to the data sets of the ICTAC Kinetic Analysis Pro ject. This Part critically evaluates the results from the various participa nts and finds that kinetic analysis programs used by Burnham, Roduit, and O pfermann give very similar results. Isoconversional methods give kinetic pa rameters that agree qualitatively with those from subsequent nonlinear regr ession to appropriate models. Single-heating-rate methods work poorly and s hould not be used or published. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights r eserved.