Christmas & New Year 2010 - Opening Hours

Please note:
HEL offices will be closing on Friday 24th December at 13:00 GMT, and will re-open on Tuesday January 4th, 2011, at 09:00.

We take this opportunity to wish our customers, suppliers and friends
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year !

Novel uses for the Battery Testing Calorimeter...

An Adiabatic Calorimeter - or perhaps a soup kitchen ?!

Not only suitable for battery safety testing, HEL's Phi-TEC BTC has been recently used to heat up some very cold garlic bread, arriving nearly 3 hours late - due to the snowy conditions.  

Yes, the Pizzas were cold too.  We noticed that the wide diameter of the Battery Testing Calorimeter meant that all the Pizzas could fit in there comfortably.... Needless to say, however, that we were all so hungry we ate the Pizzas cold... !

Lithium Mobile Power .. Boston, USA and 5th International Forum on Li-ion Battery Technology... Beijing, China (4-7 November).

By Dr Jasbir Singh

This November, I attended  a couple of different conferences involving battery technology. Each had a range of speakers talking about safety, as well as other general research topics.

Safety is seen a major obstacle to development of Li-ion technology and therefore HEL’s involvement as a major supplier of safety testing solutions was very important. At both conferences we exhibited our advanced Battery Testing Calorimeter (BTC) as it is unique in being able to provide a single solution to for both small scale testing of battery components, as well as direct simulation of larger scale battery incidents, including the “abuse” testing methods specified by various protocols. At the Beijing Forum on Li-on Batteries I made a presentation, which can be viewed here ... 

Chemistry Today's 2nd Symposium on “Continuous Flow Reactor Technology for Industrial applications” ... Paris, 2-3 October

By Dr Jasbir Singh, HEL's Managing Director

“Chemistry Today” magazine organised their second flow Chemistry symposium in Paris, following a successful launch in Madrid last year.

I was among the speakers invited to make a presentation and this gave me an opportunity to present the developments of the FlowCAT system, including performance data and examples of the use of DOE with hydrogenation reactions, carried out on a continuous flow reactor. Have a look at the presentation that  includes data recently presented by Dr Joel Hawkins of Pfizer.

The FlowCAT system has been developed by HEL with ongoing input from Pfizer, as well as from Professor Ley’s group at Cambridge University in England.  This has resulted in a more robust system than those available on the market at present, and is also suitable to those research chemists that are not experts in flow chemistry or in pressure equipment.

Several orders for FlowCAT have already been received from as far afield as China and mid-West USA.

Read more about FlowCAT:  Product page,  Articles

Process Chemistry Products on HEL's YouTube Channel

Visit our newly established YouTube Channel, for the latest product videos. Check out the products that are available on there now, and come back again soon as we will be adding many more !

Compact 4 or 8 vessel reaction blocks - PolyBLOCK - watch now

Expert reaction calorimetry - Simular - watch now

Hydrogenation and Catalyst Screening - HP ChemSCAN - watch now

Automated parallel solubility unit - CrystalSCAN - watch video

New look and functionality with HEL Group new website

Check out our smart new website at http://www.helgroup.com!

The new design and content reflect our commitment to our customers applications, and we have made the site more accessible, using clean and clear design features with various functions such as quick selection buttons and local search button.

Watch a short video about HEL's HP ChemSCAN

This short video (just over 2 minutes) describing hydrogenation and catalyst screening with HEL's HP ChemSCAN is intended to give a very quick overview of this innovative, robust product. Further details available on HEL's website.

Thermal Stability of Batteries

By Dr Jasbir Singh

HEL were invited to make a presentation on safety testing of batteries, using adiabatic calorimetry, at the meeting of the Thermal Methods Group (TMG) of the RSC, to be held 30/31 March in Harwell, England. 

The Abstract of the talk I plan to give entitled "Thermal Stability of Batteries"  is available via this link;  it is  focused on Phi-TEC Battery Testing Calorimeter (BTC), developed especially for small and large batteries alike, based on the principles of the “ARC” calorimeter produced by Dow Chemical, back in the 1980s. The Phi-TEC is already established as the bench mark replacement for the “ARC” and is used worldwide for chemical safety testing.   

Introducing HEL Ltd, Beijing Office !

Process Chemistry Instruments from HEL are now available to Chinese customers directly from HEL's new Beijing office. The new venture will not only offer sales and installation but will also support and build long term relationships with companies in China looking for laboratory reactors products, systems and solutions.

Mr Harry Yang will lead the company and he brings with him over 10 years experience in the laboratory instruments field. Read more in this Press Release.

Watch this space for HEL China website - coming soon !!!

Better chemsitry - faster ! 更好的化学 - 快