Sinter products can be produced in many different ways. One of the most common methods is mixing a fine powder with an organic binder. From this mixture, a so-called green body with a specific geometry can be shaped, for example, by means of cold-isostatic pressing.

The first step of subsequent production process is the burnout of polymeric binder by thermal treatment (binder burn-out).

The speed of this binder burn-out must be controlled very well. If the speed is too high, then micro-cracks are produced in the green body, because the created gases do not have enough time to diffuse out from the inside. Otherwise, if the speed of the binder burn-out is too slow, then much time is consumed, leading to an increase in production effort.

The experience clearly demonstrates that the best temperature profile for the burnout of the binder shows a constant mass loss rate. Therefore, the aim of investigation of this binder burn-out is the determination of a set of temperature profiles for various levels of constant mass loss rate.

This problem can be solved experimentally by various measurements, executed under the condition of a constant mass loss rate. Much more universally and also much cheaper is the combination of a series of measurements, executed with constant but different heating rates, with the kinetic analysis. This way will be demonstrated in the following: