Abstract: The pyrolysis behavior of three typical agricultural residues including rice husk, rice straw and wheat straw, was studied at different heating rates(15℃/min, 40℃/min and 100℃/min) in a dynamic nitrogen flow of 80mL/min by TG analysis coupled with Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). The various gaseous products released during biomass pyrolysis were examined. The kinetic parameters under different heating rates were acquired by kinetics analysis. The correlation coefficients are above 0.99. The results show that as heating rate increases the TG curve shifts to low temperature zone and the peak of DTG curve goes to low temperature area accordingly, but the total weight loss and activation energy of pyrolysis fluctuate little. The releasing behavior of gaseous products during pyrolysis of the three samples is similar. CO, CO2, H2O, CH4 and organics are the main gaseous products during biomass pyrolysis. When the heating rate increases, the yield of gaseous products released increases, so does the releasing rate.