“…Considering all these aspects of the problem and instead of finding the symmetry factor µ g , equation (19) will be used in the present work, which is easier in use for obtaining the order of kinetics b and equation (17) or (18) will be used thereafter to obtain the activation energy E. To check the present method, generated TL glow peaks are used as the experimental data. Values of b, n 0 (cm −3 ), N (cm −3 ), E (eV), S (s −1 ) and R (K s −1 ) are chosen and the corresponding TL intensities I i (in arbitrary units) are calculated using equations (3), ( 5) and (10), for the first-, second-and general-order kinetics, respectively, and the values of the peak temperatures T m (K), T 1 (K), T 2 (K) and the peak areas A m , A 1 , and A 2 (in arbitrary units) are evaluated. Then, equation ( 19) is numerically solved for these peak parameters to obtain b.…”