O, was investigated in air by means of TG-DTG/DTA, DSC, TG-IR and SEM. TG-DTG/DTA curves showed that the decomposition proceeded through three well-defined steps with DTA peaks closely corresponding to mass loss obtained. Kinetics analysis of its dehydration step was performed under non-isothermal conditions. The dehydration activation energy was calculated through Friedman and Flynn-Wall-Ozawa (FWO) methods, and the best-fit dehydration kinetic model function was estimated through the multiple linear regression method. The activation energy for the dehydration step of [C 5