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Thermal analysis, calorimetry and gas sorption applications
ADVANCED MATERIALS
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Ceramics, glasses, minerals |
| Ceramic materials (technical or rafractory )are inorganic and non-metallic. Usually they are shaped from the "green body" at room temperature and acquire their typical properties during a sintering process at high temperatures. Thermal analysis and calorimetry are perfect tools for complete characterization and understanding of ceramics materials. |
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Metals, alloys |
| Thermal analysis and Calorimetry are vital tools for characterizing, optimizing and checking new metals and alloys. |
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Polymers |
| Polymers are used widely in many forms, from the most common solids such as thermoplastics, elastomers or thermosets, to solutions as in stabilizers, emulsifiers, thickening agents or as additives for paints, coatings, etc. The specific nature and complexity of polymers makes a number of physico-analytical techniques necessary for their characterization. Thermal analysis is the tool of choice from amongst these, as it can be used at all stages, from development of new formulations to processing and characterization of final products. |
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Electronics |
| The miniaturization of electronic components implies severe thermal conditions for materials inside chips and their coatings. Thermal analysis and Calorimetry are vital tools for characterizing, optimizing and controlling these materials. |
ENERGY
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Nuclear |
| Each stage in the nuclear fuel cycle, from ore extraction to fuel recycling and waste management, requires characterisation of the different materials used and accurate quantifying of radioactive substances. Thermal analysis and calorimetry can provide accurate measurement solutions at each stage. |
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Fuel Cell & Hydrogen |
| Hydrogen can be produced as a storable, clean fuel from the world's sustainable nonfossil primary energy sources—solar energy, wind energy, hydropower, biomass, geothermal, nuclear, or tidal. Storage of hydrogen in solid materials has the potential to become a safe and efficient way to store energy, both for stationary and mobile applications with fuel cells. The calorimetric techniques are ideal tools for the investigation of the storage capacities of various materials under normal and high pressures. Thermal techniques are also used for the investigation of ceramics and materials used in the fuel cells. |
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CO2 Capture and Sequestration |
| Carbon neutral energy generation lies not just with renewable sources of energy, but with technology to make existing, and future energy sources, more environmentally responsible. One of the key areas of research is into the capture and sequestration of CO2 and Setaram offers a broad range of technologies that can be used to assist your research in these important fields. |
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Battery Development and Testing |
| your laboratory, including techniques. |
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Gas Hydrates |
| Although hydrates are known to store immense amounts of methane, with major implications for energy resources and climate, the natural controls on hydrates and their impacts on the environment are very poorly understood. With the adaptation of Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) to high pressure investigations, the calorimetric technique is the most suitable method for predicting gas hydrate formation, determining the thermodynamic properties and the kinetics of formation and dissociation with any type of gas and mixture. |
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Fossil energies |
| Fossil fuels are present in nature in different forms: solid, liquid, gas. Most of them are directly burned as fuel, carbonized or distilled to produce secondary fuels. The thermal treatment is of great importance in fossil fuel uses. Thermal analysis and calorimetry are of prime interest in this field, especially for crude oil, coal, oil shales or heavy oils especially, for their classification and characterization, for their thermal transformation and for the combustion process. |
PHARMACEUTICAL AND FOOD INDUSTRIES
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Pharmaceuticals |
| Polymorphism, solubility, stability, purity, amorphous phase and hydratation are parameters of major importance in this field. When seeking the right active pharmaceutical ingredient (API), with its corresponding bioavailability and bioactivity, thermal analysis and calorimetry are the perfect tools for complete characterisation, and for understanding and solving numerous problems. |
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Life Sciences |
| Stability of biological systems (from proteins and nucleic acids through lipids and detergent micellar systems), characterization of biomolecular interactions, enzyme/substrate kinetics are of major importance in this field. Ultrasensitive Microcalorimetry is widely applicable in Life Sciences. The technology is of particular interest as it is label free, does not require immobilization and makes use of highly diluted solutions. |
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Food |
| Efforts to be highly competitive in the food industry, where competition is fierce; the requirements of supermarket distribution; concentration of central merchandizing; and medical, legal and environmental requirements are obliging companies to reinforce their sales, quality, research and development functions. |
Process Safety
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SETARAM is your partner in Process Safety and offers a range of instruments for every step of the process, from the first screening experiment to a full scale vent sizing package for planning for worst case scenarios. |
Research, Development and Academia
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R&D and academic institutions make extensive use of a range of thermal analysis and calorimetry methods to characterise a wide variety of materials. Uses cover applications in the areas of discovery (accelerating R&D, forensic analysis, assessing thermal characteristics), manufacture (safety, Q/C), and use of materials (long-term behaviour). |
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- November 03, 2010 - November 03, 2010
BATTERY SAFETY 2010
Boston, MA - USA
We will also be holding a workshop on November 4th entitled:
An Introduction to Assesment of Batteries & Materials Using Calorimetry and Thermal Analysis
A seminar designed to help understand the applications of calorimetry and thermal analysis in the assessment of batteries, cells and materials development. This includes everything from screening materials, to self discharge and of course abuse and overcharge testing.
The agenda is a series of presentations that introduce the techniques, principles of operation and key measurement capabilities of different techniques as well as a review of data and publications in the recent months that describe experimental procedures being applied today throughout the battery world. - October 18, 2010 - October 22, 2010
MATERIAUX 2010
Nantes, FRANCE
Stand 23
Co-organized by more twenty learned societies, these events have been meeting opportunities between the national actors in the various fields of Materials Science.
For this 3rd edition, 14 symposiums are proposed whose:
- Civil engineering and Futur Habitat
- Energy Storage & Conversion
- Materials for Transport
- Materials & Environment
- Nanochemistry, Nanomatérials, Nanostructures
- Materials and Health Safety
- Thermodynamics and Materials for High Temperatures
- Mechanical properties and Spoiling
- Material stakes for the nuclear reactor (generation IV) - September 05, 2010 - September 10, 2010
SCTE 2010
Annecy, FRANCE
17th International Conference on Solid Compounds of Transition Elements
SCTE 2010 will be held in Annecy September, 5-10, 2010. The conference will be jointly organized by Institut Néel, CNRS-Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble and Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux, CNRS- Université Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux.
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