The thermal decomposition kinetics of dehydroabietic acid in static state air was investigated by TG/DTA/DSC techniques with various heating rates of 5
10
15 and 20 K·min-1TG/ DTA curves showed that decomposition proceeded through a welldefined step in airThe melting point
molar enthalpy and entropy of fusion of dehydroabietic acid were determined as 445.05 K
19.74 kJ·mol-1 and 44.35 J·mol-1·K-1
by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)The nonisothermal kinetics parameters were analyzed by means of the Kissinger and FlynnWallOzawa methods
and the thermal decomposition mechanism of dehydroabietic acid was also studied with the SatavaSestak methodThe results showed that the thermal decomposition mechanism of dehydroabietic acid in air was controlled by interface reaction R3
and the apparent activation energy and preexponential factor were 107.89 kJ·mol-1 and 9.33×108 s-1