Non-isothermal kinetic analysis of the devolatilization of corn cobs and sugar cane bagasse in an inert atmosphere

► Non-isothermal pyrolysis kinetics of two biomass residues at slow heating rates. ► Model-free approach applied to global and pseudocomponent reaction rate curves. ► Kinetic parameters obtained reliably predicted observed reaction progress. ► Quality of fit of predictions were comparable to results of model-fitting approach.