The Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) trace for a commercial phenolic resole resin shows two distinct peaks. Assuming that these represent two independent cure reactions results in a kinetic model of the form: with κi = κio exp(‐Bi/T). The Arrhenius parameters were estimated from a plot of ln(β/T italicp2) versus 1/Tp. The parameters, p, n1, and n2 were obtained by writing the DSC response predicted by the equation above in terms of a function which contains temperature as the only variable. with \documentclass{article}\pagestyle{empty}\begin{document}$ \theta _i = \left({1/\beta} \right)\int_{T_0}^T {\kappa _i dT \le r_i} $\end{document} dT ⩽ ri and ri = 1/(1‐ni). Fitting this equation to the DSC response measured at a scan rate of 4°C/min obtains p ≈ 0.66; n1 ≈ 0.55; n2 ≈ 2.2; B1 ≈ 8285; B2 ≈ 7480; κ1 ≈ 1. 12 × 108 s−1; κ2 ≈ 0.99 × 106 S−1.