AKTS advanced thermal analysis software

Thermoanalytical scanned data

Examination of the kinetic characteristics for a given reaction are performed on the basis of data obtained under certain thermoanalytical conditions (e.g. arbitrarily chosen sample mass, gas flow, and gas composition). These variables emanate from the different ranges/capacities of distinctive thermoanalyzer equipment. Generally, these variables are in the following ranges: sample weight 1-1000 mg, gas flow 10-500 mL/min, and concentration of the reactive or evolved gas 0-100 vol%. The n-dimensional space containing all n-possible thermoanalytical conditions applied in conventional thermoanalyzers is thus well-defined. However, kinetic characteristics are calculated only for one point of this space, determined by the set of thermoanalytical conditions used.

If for the sake of simplicity, we consider only three thermoanalytical variables: the sample mass S, the flow rate of the carrier gas F, and the concentration of the reactive gas C, then a 3-dimensional space (S,F,C) containing the possible thermoanalytical conditions can be represented as shown in the Figure.