What Is A Calorimeter For?

In the process industries, the use of a calorimeter is common especially those that are in the natural gas or other fuel gas manufacturing. Calorimeter comes in different types and choosing the one that will suit your company's needs will help you obtain correct measurement of the CV or WI of your products.CalorimeterCalorimeter is an instrument which usually can be seen in Physics labs and used to measure the heat capacity or the amount of heat being released during a chemical or physical change by different chemical substances. Most calorimeters are made up of a simple thermometer attached to a container made from metal. The metal container is usually full of water and suspended above a combustion chamber.Types of CalorimeterCalorimeter comes in different types depending on its use. Reaction calorimeter is commonly used in the industrial process industry as one needs to run machines at a constant temperature. There are four methods to measure the heat with the use of the reaction calorimeter; these are through heat flow control, heat balance, use of heater through power compensation and constant flux calorimetry. Calorific value analyzer measures and monitors gases, biogas and other petrochemical waste gases.Bomb calorimeter or constant volume calorimetry is another calorimeter type which is used by industries that require a constant holding volume of its processes while being able to resist enormous amounts of pressure. Bomb calorimeter is often used when one wants an accurate measure of the heat released during a combustion reaction. The calorimeter uses a steel bomb-like container to hold the reactant, a thermometer, a motorized stirrer and a wire to ignite it. The container is submerged into a water bath which will be measured once the wire is ignited inside the steel container.


Adiabatic calorimeter is another type which analyses the runaway reaction under adiabatic environment. Adiabatic reaction occurs in gas industry plants where the change in the temperature is due to the change of the gas pressure without any outside interference.Calvet-type calorimeter is beneficial as it can be used in just about any experimental vessel volume without affecting the accuracy of the measurement.Aside from the equipment mentioned above, there are other calorimeters available. If you are interested in checking out the various devices, you can visit one of the industrial suppliers that do sell such devices as well as portable analyzer, H2S analyzer and calorific value analyzer.