News

New issue of the CISP Newsletter has been added.

CISP Newsletter N11 titled "Reaction calorimetry: types, simple theory and application for kinetic study (overview)" is the overview of main types of reaction calorimeters available on the market with math models and discussion of the instruments features, given in a compact form. Its aim is to help in understanding principles of RC and in choosing the type of instrument most relevant for study of specific problem. 

New CISP Newsletter  #10 is now available. It is the follow-up to the Newsletter #8 and gives more detailed consideration of the safety predictive-evaluation method for LIB by kinetics-based simulation, which makes it possible to predict the safety of a LIB of any size based on data for smaller cells.

You can also find the old report made at 53 Calorimetry conference (USA, Midland, 1998) added to the Articles. Though this report has been written many years ago it contains the material which is still instrumental for researchers that use calorimetry of various types.

The TSS manuals have been updated 

CISP is happy to announce the issue of updated versions of the TDPro, ADaExpert, RCPro, ForK, IsoKin and ReRank programs.

All the new versions have

• enhanced Chart adjustment option – the possibility to define suitable font sizes for axis legend and numbering, curve legends.
• essentially reworked Help and User’s Guide
• Minor improvements of the User’s interface and algorithms

Compatibility with MS Windows 8 and 10 is provided.

To learn more about new features of every program visit the corresponding page.

Updates of the other TSS components will be available soon.

Read new issue of our CISP Newsletter #9 "Kinetics-based simulation approach. Advanced analysis of adiabatic data by applying ADaExpert" which demonstrates how to process and analyze data of adiabatic calorimetry by using ADaExpert software - new TSS member of the TSS family.

CISP constantly expands functionality of our strategic TSS series. The last step in this direction is the release of new version of the ReRank software - ReRank 4.0.0.

It has two major new features:

• possibility to use any kinetics created by TSS kinetics software - in addition to formal (ForK) and descriptive models (DesK) the isoconversional kinetics (IsoKin) is now available;

• determination of new hazards indicators:

            - Thermal aging

            - SATD for liquids in full accord with the UN TDG and GHS requirements.

 More detailed information about modifications can be found on the ReRank page

New article "Thermal decomposition of AIBN: Part D: Verification of simulation method for SADT determination based on AIBN benchmark" by A. Kossoy, V. Belokhvostov and E. Koludarova (DOI:10.1016/j.tca.2015.06.008) will be published in Thermochimica Acta soon. It belongs to the series of 4 articles that contain the results of the participants of the international project aimed at experimental verification of simulation-based methods for SADT determination.

CISP representative attended the annual meeting of the International Group of Experts in Unstable Substances/Energetic and Oxidizing substances hosted by the Explosives Safety and Security Branch – Natural Resourses Canada from 6th to 8th May 2015 in Ottawa.

Dr. Kossoy presented the report "“SADT determination based on the AIBN benchmark – some lessons drawn from the BAM project”

CISP continues to update/upgrade the applications of our strategic TSS series.

1. New versions of TDPro and RCPro software

In addition to the new ADaExpert software new versions of the TDPro and RCPro software are now available for downloading. The modifications were directed mostly towards better compatibility with new versions of MS Word (2007, 2010...), proper appearance of the interface elements when software is used on notebooks with large system fonts installed and so forth.

Another important point is that they are delivered together with the new version of the Text File Converter. It has been been essentially redesigned and became  much more convenient program that provides easier method for data conversion.

2. New versions of kinetics packages IsoKin, ForK and DesK

Modifications of IsoKin, ForK and DesK were focused on the improvement of their interfaces, compatibility of the Word report generation module with MS Word 2007 and later, and some other. 

3. New versions of the hazard assessment software ConvEx and InSafer

In ConvEx, full compatibility with new formal models has been provided for the CE_FK module.
Procedure for MS Word Report creation has been modified to provide compatibility with Word 2007, 2010 and later versions. 

More detailed information about modifications can be found on the Version history pages of the packages

New version  ThermEx 2.4.3 is available. 

Main improvement is that the report creation procedure is now fully compatible with MS Word 2007, 2010 and higher.

Pay attention to the fact that temporarily the ThermEx setup contains only the ThermEx Standard module. New powerful version of ThermEx Pro module based on the completely new math methods will be issued in the near future.