Important presentations for HEL at the upcoming events

Advanced Automative Battery Conference, Mainz, Germany (18-22 June 2012)

Preparations are in full speed for our poster presentation at the Advanced Automative Battery Conference in Mainz next week. Our managing director, Dr Jasbir Singh, will be presenting on the ‘Calorimetry for Design of Thermal Management Design and Prediction of Safe Battery Operating Limits’. The poster presentation will be up on our website, once the show has finished next week, please check it out!

Automated Instruments for Rapid Process Development and Process Safety and Calorimetry Seminar, 28^th June 2012, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

HEL is excited to be hosting a seminar at the Sunway Resort Hotel & Spa in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in collaboration with Interscience. Dr Jasbir Singh will be doing product presentations, from 10am to 5pm, highlighting topics ranging from:

                   Parallel synthesis
                   Crystallisation
                   Calorimetry
                   Flow chemistry
                 

Visit our website for further details and programme highlights.

Calorimetric Techniques - Free Workshop

We are running a free workshop on May 5th in collaboration with our partners Setaram and Stazione Sperimentale per i Combustibili (SSC). The title is "Calorimetric Techniques in Process Hazard Assessment" and it will take place at the SSC Institute in San Donato Milanese, Italy.

Whilst places are FREE bear in mind that we only have a limited number available, so please book as soon as possible

Booking form and further information

India's High End Reaction Calorimeter

One of the most advance Reaction Calorimeter - HEL Simular, having the wide capability and many functionalities have been installed at Defence research lab in India at HEMRL, Pune.

By far it is the best Reaction Calorimeter in terms of various capabilities and have been used for the very high explosives chemical reactions studies. It involves high pressure Hastelloys reactor, low pressure Glass reactor, liquid, gas feeds, sampling valves, automatic sampling device, flow controllers, turbidity probe, pH probe, reflux device and all forms of calorimetry such as classical Heat Flow, time saving Power Compensation and Heat reflux calorimetry.

The uniqueness of the system is that it is installed on a single stand which holds both the reactors , having a common stirrer motor, high end chillers and housed in a cabinet with all the safety aspects integrated w.r.t. hardware and software. The various types of reactions like nitration, polymerisation, chlorination, amination to name but a few, have been successfully tried out and the system can cater to many applications for process safety, development & scale-up activities.

Breaking down barriers with real time, on-line calculation – Process Development using Calorimetry

Reaction calorimetry has been well recognised as a valuable aid to process development. Not only for safety and safe scale up, but also as an aid for guiding the synthetic route and process optimisation. However, uptake by development chemists has been VERY limited, this due partly to cost but more often due to the complexity of the calculations needed for data generation.

HEL has been developing calorimetry solutions for over 21 years and have come up with a new technology that makes calorimetry accessible to development chemists on ANY stirred reactor without special features or adaptations. When a reactor is computer controlled, nothing exceptional is needed – with computer control in place and the availability of temperature data, on-line heat release rate data can be readily generated.

The results are quantitative, rather than just indicative, and available without any effort or additional experimental time for activities such as calibration. When greater accuracy is needed, a heat flow (HF) meter may be used to perform a quick calibration check. This too is made simple and requires no knowledge of calorimetry methodology by the user.

These features can also be integrated into custom reaction calorimeters, including some older existing units. This will enable the users to save time, both by speeding up experiments and eliminating the need for off-line data analysis.

Where this new technology is implemented with a power compensation calorimeter, the on-line analysis will produce exact results without any assumptions being necessary. And for such systems there are no calibrations required. In the case of HF calorimeters, for the most accurate results one calibration is needed, although this is also completely automated and the online calibration calculations are used immediately for the reaction being performed.