Thermogravimetric analysis is used to determine the pyrolysis performance of three types of industrial sludge and their mixed samples at different pyrolysis temperature,sample diameter,heating rate,pyrolysis pressure and adding different metal element compounds.At the same time,the pyrolysis mechanism equations and pyrolysis reaction parameters are obtained.The results indicate that the pyrolysis temperature,sample diameter,heating rate,pyrolysis pressure play an important role in the pyrolysis process for industrial sludge.The metals element compounds can improve the pyrolysis performance of industrial sludge.The pyrolysis reaction progression is respectively 1,1.5,and 2.0 in low,medium and high temperature segment for three types of industrial sludge,the pyrolysis character of mixed sludge isn't obviously changed.The pyrolysis characters of the industrial sludge are alike as the coal residue,the activation energy and the frequency factors are smaller at the initial pyrolysis process,they are increased with the increase of the pyrolysis temperature.The activation energy and the frequency factors are enhanced at the end of pyrolysis.