Table 3.

Details regarding various outputs from the in-house method in the case of chitosan (as an example).

Sl. No.	Kinetic Model	Equation	Ea (kJ·mol−1)	A (s−1)	R2
1	P1 Power Law	α 1/n	* -	-	-
2	E1 Exponential law	ln(α)	* -	-	-
3	A2 Avrami–Erofeev Model	[−ln(1 − α)]1/2	43.0	1.029 × 103	0.9933
4	A3 Avrami–Erofeev Model	[−ln(1 − α)]1/3	26.0	1.880 × 101	0.9931
5	A4 Avrami–Erofeev Model	[−ln(1 − α)]1/4	18.0	2.631 × 100	0.9930
6	B1 Prout–Tompkins	[−ln(α/(1 − α))] + C	* -	-	-
7	R1 Contracting area	1 − (1 − α)1/2	86.0	1.682 × 107	0.9944
8	R3 Contracting volume	1 − (1 − α)1/3	89.0	6.174 × 106	0.9942
9	D1 One dimensional	α 2	164	8.417 × 1013	0.9952
10	D2 Two dimensional	(1 − α)ln(1 − α) + α	175	9.164 × 1014	0.9744
11	D3 Three dimensional	[1 − (1 − α)1/3]2	187	1.235 × 1016	0.9765
12	D4 Ginstling–Brounshtein	(1 − 2α/3) − (1 − α)2/3	179	2.181 × 1015	0.9751
13	F1 First order	−ln(1 − α)	95.0	2.330 × 107	0.9880
14	F2 Second order	1/(1 − α)	32.0	1.487 × 101	0.9050
15	F3 Third order	1/(1 − α)2	72.0	1.400 × 105	0.7580

* No values for E_a were given by the software, and the software yielded a zero value as the fitting factor.