The decomposition of organic templates in molecular sieves SAPO-5, SAPO-11, SAPO-20, SAPO-34 and SAPO-37 was investigated by TG, DTG and DTA. In the ease of SAPO-5, the decompositions of various organic templates were studied. The effects of the type of crystal structure, the pore size and the channel system on the complete removal of the organic material were considered.The silicoaluminophosphate molecular sives, denoted SAPO-n, are new materials whose physical, chemical and catalytic properties have been the subject of considerable interest [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. Microporous oxides SAPO-n can be considered to originate from Si incorporation into a hypothetical aluminium phosphate lattice. When Si substitutes one P, a negatively charged framework is formed and, after decomposition of the template, aeid sites are also generated. These are of considerable importance in modifying the earboniogenie activity of these materials [1,2]. In the presence of suitable organic templates, silieoaluminophosphates with different crystal structures have been synthesized [1, 8,9]. This work continues our previous investigations on the removal of the templating agent from aluminophosphate-based molecular sieves, by means of simultaneous thermal analysis (TG-DTG-DTA) methods [10]. We now