Critics of non-isothermal kinetic methods to calculate the kinetic parameters

By surveying the most used methods for evaluating the kinetic parameters from non-isothermal measurements, we propose their classification scheme. As a result of the analysis we suggest a methodology to analyse the data from non-isothermal experiments and discuss several problems of non-isothcnnal kinetics, e.g., the validity of steady-state approximation under non-isothermal conditions and the problem of expressing the activation energy as a range of values.