Committee on Hazard Potential of Chemicals Developing Low Phi-Factor Calorimetry Standard

摘要

ASTM INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE E27 on Hazard Potential of Chemicals has begun to develop a new proposed standard on assessing the thermal stability of materials by methods of low phi-factor calorimetry. The proposed standard, which is under the jurisdiction of Subcommittee E27.02 on Thermal Stability and Condensed Phases, has been given the work item number WK6139. The phi factor is the ratio of the total heat capacity of a test system to the heat capacity of a test sample. The proposed guide will cover suggested procedures for the operation of low phi-factor calorimetric devices designed to obtain temperature and pressure data as a function of time. "In low-phi factor tests, less of the generated heat is adsorbed by the test cell as opposed to tests that utilize a heavy-walled (higher phi-factor) test cell," says Jeff Niemeier, an engineering consultant at Eli Lilly and Co. "Therefore, this type of calorimetry testing allows more accurate determination of heat and gas generation rates that could occur in the plant setting where the phi factor is generally low."