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The selection of the operating principle and the design of the calorimeter depends upon the nature of the process to be studied and on the experimental procedures required. Flowever, the type of calorimeter necessary to study a particular process is not unique and can depend upon subjective factors such as teclmical restrictions, resources, traditions of the laboratory and the inclinations of the researcher. 

Extrapolations are always subject to error, but fortunately the contribution to the entropy resulting from the extrapolation is a small part of the total. In glucose, for example, S g = 219.2 0.4 J-K -moF1, but the entropy contribution at 10 K obtained from the Debye extrapolation is only 0.28 J-K 1-mol 1. Well-designed cryogenic calorimeters are able to produce Cp measurements of high accuracy hence, the Third Law entropy obtained from the Cp measurements can also be of high accuracy. 

Once ignited they produced considerable amounts of heat and smoke. Flame retarded flexible PU foams became available in 1954-55, i.e. within a few years of flexible PU foams becoming available in commercial quantities(22). These FR PU foams contained trichloroethyl phosphate or brominated phosphate esters and resisted ignition from small flame sources. Unfortunately they may burn when subjected to a larger ignition source or when covered by a flammable fabric and may then produce as much heat and more smoke than the standard grade of PU foam(3). This was identified by UK room tests in the early 1970 s and has been confirmed more recently by furniture calorimeter tests at the NBS(21). 

Kinetic studies on the polymerisation of isobutene at low temperatures by titanium tetrachloride in various solvents form the subject of a series of papers by Plesch and his co-workers [9, 10, 13, 28, 32, 33, 71, 77, 80, 81]. The reactions were followed in an apparatus approximating to an adiabatic calorimeter by means of the temperature rise accompanying the polymerisation. In the early studies moisture was not rigorously excluded from the systems, but later [81] an elaborate vacuum technique was evolved and all reagents were carefully purified and dried. Titanium tetrachloride was also used as catalyst by Okamura and his collaborators [79] in a series of studies concerning the effects of solvent, catalyst, and co-catalyst on the DP of polyisobutene. 

Preparation of Grignard reagents is frequently beset by practical difficulties in establishing the reaction (i.e. is usually subject to an induction period). Improved equipment and control methods for safer preparations have been described [2], Initiation of the Grignard reaction has been studied in a heat flow calorimeter [3],... 

Repellin and Guyonnet (2005) determined the reduction in FSP of wood subjected to heat treatment, using a differential scanning calorimeter. The reduction in FSP showed a good correlation with reduction in swelling. The results showed that the reduction in swelling was not just attributable to the loss of sorption sites associated with hemicellu-lose degradation. 

Figure 2.2 A direct calorimeter. The increase in temperature T2-T1) of the water flowing through the tube is an indication of the amount of heat produced by the subject within the calorimeter, from which the precise amount of heat produced can be calculated.

The problems associated with direct reaction calorimetry are mainly associated with (1) the temperature at which reaction can occur (2) reaction of the sample with its surroundings and (3) the rate of reaction which usually takes place in an uncontrolled matmer. For low melting elements such as Zn, Pb, etc., reaction may take place quite readily below S00°C. Therefore, the materials used to construct the calorimeter are not subjected to particularly high temperatures and it is easy to select a suitably non-reactive metal to encase the sample. However, for materials such as carbides, borides and many intermetallic compounds these temperatures are insufficient to instigate reaction between the components of the compound and the materials of construction must be able to withstand high temperatures. It seems simple to construct the calorimeter from some refractory material. However, problems may arise if its thermal conductivity is very low. It is then difficult to control the heat flow within the calorimeter if some form of adiabatic or isothermal condition needs to be maintained, which is further exacerbated if the reaction rates are fast. 

From a thermochemical viewpoint, can a human or animal be regarded as just a catalyst for the combustion of foodstuffs To answer this question, large calorimeters were constructed into which an animal or a human being was placed. If, while in the calorimeter, the subject neither gained nor lost weight, the heat evolved should have been just equal to - AH for combustion of the food consumed to C02, water, and urea. That this prediction was verifed experimentally does not seem surprising, but at the time that the experiments were first done in the early years of the century there may have been those who doubted that the first law of thermodynamics applied to mammals. 

While the dilatometer method is the preferred method of determining the glass transition temperature, it is a rather tedious experimental procedure and measurements of Tg are often made in a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC). In this instrument (18), the heat flow into or out of a small (10-20 mg) sample is measured as the sample is subjected to a programmed linear temperature increase (typically 10 C/min). The heat flow is proportional to the specific heat of the sample. At the glass transition, there is an increase in the heat flow into the sample due to the increase in specific heat at this point. Values obtained in this manner are only a few degrees higher than the dilatometer values. 

The energy expenditure of an animal or human may also be determined by the method of direct calorimetry. Direct calorimetry requires the use of an insulated room, chamber, or suit for the human or animal. The enclosure contains a water jacket. The water passes from one end of the jacket to the other, maintaining the room, chamber, or suit at a constant temperature. The temperature of the water leaving the jacket is used to calculate the energy expended by the subject. The principles behind the use of the chamber are identical to those behind the use of the bomb calorimeter. The major difference is that in bomb calorimetry combustion is catalyzed by a small spark. In addition, in the bomb calorimeter oxygen is present at a high pressure to facilitate combustion. With direct calorimetry, combustion is catalyzed by enzymes. This combustion proceeds more slowly than that catalyzed by a spark, and the temperature of the subject does not increase much over the normal resting body temperature with the various activities. 

Cell concentration in the medium was estimated as diy cell weight. The harvested cells were collected by centrifugation (12,000 x g, 4 C for 15 min) and washed with distilled water. The cells dried under reduced pressure were subjected to chemical analysis. The calorific value of the cells was measured using an automatic bomb calorimeter (CA-3, Shimadzu, Japan). Elemental composition of the cells was measuredusing an automatic elemental analyzer (EA1108, Fisons Instruments Co., Italy). 

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