Name of equipment:

DSC Differential Scanning Calorimeter

Purpose:

The instrument is used in thermogravimetric analysis to determinate the phase changes (melting point, glass transition, decomposition reactions, etc.).

Model, type, country of origin:

 DSC 8000, Perkin Elmer, USA

Technical characte-ristics:

 Temperature range: -1800C – 7500C

Heating rate: 0.01 – 3000C/min

Cooling rate: 0.01 – 1500C/min

Software: PyrisTM, Pyris Player, Isothermal Kinetics, Scanning Kinetics, Specific Heat and Purity software packages
Year of origin:  2009.                  

Figure:

Method of
work:

 The instrument measures the amount of heat that occurs or is released during the transition process, based on heat flow difference between the sample and the reference after their temperature increases linearly as a function of time. The reference sample must have defined heat capacity.

Department,
room, location:

 Department for Textile Chemistry and Ecology, Textile Research Laboratory, Savska cesta 16/9
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