OptiMax - Model HFCal -Uncovering Scale-up and Safety Issues

The system is Plug&Play and ready to run the requested unit operations automatically - or manually if preferred.

At the push of a button, iControl software automatically calculates the heat data and creates a report with curves and tables of the experimental results.

Heat Flow Calorimetry – Simple and Accurate
OptiMax HFCal reproducibly delivers information to characterize process parameters for scale-up and to ensure it is safe at scale.

• Heat transfer coefficient
• Specific heat of the reaction mass
• Heat flow for isothermal and non-isothermal conditions
• Enthalpy
• Thermal conversion
• Adiabatic temperature rise

Heating and Cooling – No Additional Cryostat Needed
The electrical heating and  Peltier cooling ensure precise temperature control from -40 °C to 180 °C.

Quality Information
All events and data are recorded automatically, making experiments traceable and reproducible. At the end of the experiment, the relevant data is summarized and a report with tables and trends is generated automatically. For further processing, interpretation or storage purposes, iC Data Center is used or it can be exported to Microsoft® Excel®.

Specifications - OptiMax HFCal

Calorimetry Type: Heat Flow Calorimetry
Thermostat Control Modes: isothermal and isoperibolic, constant or ramp, reflux, distillation & crystallization
Stirring: 30 rpm to 1200 rpm
Working Volume: 200 mL to 1000 mL
Pressure: Vacuum to ambient pressure
Temperature: -40° C to 180° C
Heating/Cooling: Solid state thermostat
Cooling Power: 35 W at 0° C
95 W at 40° C
Heating Power: >700 W
Precision Heat Transfer: <± 3%
Accuracy Heat Flow: Isothermal conditions: ± 3 % to 5 %
Non-isothermal conditions: ± 5 % to 10 %
Sensitivity Heat Flow: ≤ 0.4 W/L
Control: iControl PC software and touchscreen
Software: iControl 5.2 or higher required, HFCal license
iC Data Center (optional)