Symposium

The next International Heat Flow Calorimetry Symposium on Energetic Materials (HFCS-EM) will take place in May 2019. This will be the 11th symposium in a series that started more than 20 years ago in 1997. The venue will again be the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology ICT, which successfully hosted the HFCS-EM in 2008.

The HFCS-EM is a specialized symposium considering the effects, the use, the interpretation and the modelling of heat flow for materials that have a higher energy due to their chemical composition or due to energetic enhancement. Other issues relating to heat flow are also studied, including solution calorimetry, titration calorimetry, energetic interaction between substances and heat conductivity. The instrumentation is often the ‘classical’ heat flow microcalorimeter (HFMC), but other heat flow techniques include DSC (Differential Scanning Calorimetry), ARC (Accelerating Rate Calorimetry), RC (reaction calorimetry) and RFC (reaction flow calorimetry).