New Methodology to Model Simultaneous and Sequential Reactions: Main Results and Applications

In a recent work, the present authors developed a new formal kinetics methodology suitablefor the situation in which transformations take place simultaneously or sequentially. In this work themain results of such a methodology are briefly presented in a simplified form. It is shown here howthis new methodology may be used for obtaining expressions for simultaneous or sequential reactionsfrom models of the kinetics of each reaction in isolation. It is also shown how one may extract theo-retical information from the experimentally measured quantities. Moreover, the methodology is usedto analyse published data on the recrystallization kinetics of IF steels.