ISSN 1017-2548(Print)
ISSN 2234-8530(Online)
Volume 40, Number 3
JKCSEZ 40(3)
June 20, 1996 

To determine burn-out condition of polyvinyl butyral as binder, TGA and GC/MS were used to analyze decomposed products of PVB and Ni green sheet during binder pyrolysis. The produced gases are similar in kind each other but the relative amount of produced gases was different. When the atmosphere air contains water, relatively larger amount of carboxylic acids and aromatic compounds were detected, and the amount of the decomposed products were larger in Ni green sheet than PVB alone. And Ni acted as a catalyst in the thermal decomposition of PVB.