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Metals • Plastics • Rubbers • Polymers • Ceramics • Composites
Metals • Plastics • Rubbers • Polymers • Ceramics • Composites • Coatings
Differential Scanning Calorimetry
Background
Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) is a technique used to study what happens to polymers when they're heated. By studying the thermal transitions occurring within the material information is acquired on the nature of the polymer.
Applications include:
- Melting temperature
- Glass transition temperature of polymers
- Crystallinity of polymers
Equipment
Power Compensated Perkin Elmer DSC 1Differential Scanning Calorimeter
- Furnace 20 to 600°C
- Maximum scan rate 500°C/min
- Calorimetric accuracy: better than ± 1%
- Calorimetric precision: better than ± 0.1%
- Temperature Precision: ± 0.1°C
- Temperature Accuracy: ± 0.1°C
- Sensitivity 0.1µW
- Pyris software
Perkin Elmer DSC 1 Differential Scanning Calorimeter
Standards
| ASTM D3418-15 | Standard Test Method for Transition Temperatures of Polymers by Thermal Analysis |
| ASTM D4591-17 | Standard Test Method for Determining Temperatures and Heats of Transitions of Fluoropolymers by Differential Scanning Calorimetry |
| ASTM E793-06(2018) | Standard Test Method for Enthalpies of Fusion and Crystallization by Differential Scanning Calorimetry |
| ASTM E794-06(2018) | Standard Test Method for Melting and Crystallization Temperatures by Thermal Analysis |
| ASTM E928-08(2014) | Standard Test Method for Determination of Purity by Differential Scanning Calorimetry |
| ASTM E967-18 | Standard Practice for Temperature Calibration of Differential Scanning Calorimeters and Differential Thermal Analyzers |
| ASTM E968-02(2014) | Standard Practice for Heat Flow Calibration of Differential Scanning Calorimeters |
| ASTM E1269-11(2018) | Standard Test Method for Determining Specific Heat Capacity by Differential Scanning Calorimetry |
| ASTM E1356-08(2014) | Standard Test Method for Assignment of the Glass Transition Temperatures by Differential Scanning Calorimetry |
| ASTM E1363-16 | Standard Test Method for Temperature Calibration of Thermomechanical Analyzers |
| ASTM E2069-06(2018) | Standard Test Method for Temperature Calibration on Cooling of Differential Scanning Calorimeters |
| ASTM E2160-04(2018) | Standard Test Method for Heat of Reaction of Thermally Reactive Materials by Differential Scanning Calorimetry |
| ASTM E2253-16 | Standard Method for Enthalpy Measurement Validation of Differential Scanning Calorimeters |