Combustion Calorimetry

Experimental Chemical Thermodynamics

Stig Sunner, Margret Månsson

• Publisher: Pergamon
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9780080209234
• eBook ISBN:
  9781483151083
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Chemistry
• Index: Chemistry

Combustion Calorimetry deals with expertise knowledge concerning the calorimetry of combustion reactions of an element or compound. After defining the use of units and physical constants, the book discusses the basic principles of combustion calorimetry and the various instruments and calorimeters used in the experiments to measure operations concerning temperatures and its time variations. One paper discusses the theory and design criteria of combustion calorimeter calibration. Another paper discusses the results obtained from a combustion calorimeter after it has measured the energy or enthalpy of combustion of an element or compound. The book then presents the need to define accurately the exact process in which a measured energy or enthalpy change is acknowledged. One paper then presents how to find an assessment of uncertainty for any experimentally determined value through analysis of random errors and the propagation of errors. Several papers discuss the combustion calorimetry of metals, of organometallic compounds, and of fluorine. One paper presents the technological applications of heat reaction especially in the design of a chemical production plant where a reactor volume should desirably be least expensive. The book then discusses the trends in combustion calorimetry such as the prevalence of a miniaturized bomb combustion calorimetry. This volume will be beneficial to researches, technicians, and scientists in the field of catalysis, biochemistry, synthetic chemistry, and medicine.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Combustion Calorimetry
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• Key to Notation
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 1. UNITS AND PHYSICAL CONSTANTS
• CHAPTER 2. BASIC PRINCIPLES OF COMBUSTION CALORIMETRY
• CHAPTER 3. CALIBRATION OF COMBUSTION CALORIMETERS
• CHAPTER 4. TEST AND AUXILIARY SUBSTANCES IN COMBUSTION CALORIMETRY
• CHAPTER 5. STRATEGIES IN THE CALCULATION OF STANDARD-STATE ENERGIES OF COMBUSTION FROM THE EXPERIMENTALLY DETERMINED QUANTITIES
• CHAPTER 6. ASSIGNMENT OF UNCERTAINTIES
• CHAPTER 7. PRESENTATION OF COMBUSTION CALORIMETRIC DATA IN THE PRIMARY LITERATURE
• CHAPTER 8. GENERAL TECHNIQUES FOR COMBUSTION OF LIQUID/SOLID ORGANIC COMPOUNDS BY OXYGEN BOMB CALORIMETRY
• CHAPTER 9. COMBUSTION OF LIQUID/SOLID ORGANIC COMPOUNDS WITH NON - METALLIC HETERO-ATOMS
• CHAPTER 10. COMBUSTION CALORIMETRY OF METALS AND SIMPLE METALLIC COMPOUNDS
• CHAPTER 11. COMBUSTION CALORIMETRY OF ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS
• CHAPTER 12. COMBUSTION IN FLUORINE AND OTHER HALOGENS
• CHAPTER 13. BOMB COMBUSTION OF GASEOUS COMPOUNDS IN OXYGEN
• CHAPTER 14. OXYGEN FLAME CALORIMETRY
• CHAPTER 15. FLUORINE FLAME CALORIMETRY
• CHAPTER 16. COMBUSTION CALORIMETRY AS A TECHNOLOGICAL SERVICE
• CHAPTER 17. TRENDS IN COMBUSTION CALORIMETRY
• CHAPTER 18. FROM THE HISTORY OF COMBUSTION CALORIMETRY