Perkin Elmer Pyris 1 Differential Scanning Calorimeter

This is a Power Compenated Differential Scanning Calorimeter.

The sample and reference pan are heated and cooled by seperate low mass furnaces.

It measures the difference in power it takes to maintain the same temperature between the sample and an empty reference pan. It can be used to find Heat Flow, Melting Temperature, Glass Transition Temperature.

This instrument is capable of operating from (-170°C) to 725°C. Note: Because of the thermal conductivity of helium which we use a purge gas around the sample area, the upper temperature is limited to 300°C for normal use.

Step Scanning software is available and can be usefull for finding thermal transitions that are masked by kinetic events.

Advanced Calculation software is available on this instrument.

Sombrilla software allows data files from this instrument to be retrieved and some calculations performed through a remote www browser. Remote monitoring of runs in progress are also possible.

A variety of pans are available for this instrument that enable the measurement of solid and liquid samples.

Typical sample weights are 5-10mg.

Email Tim McClure (mtim@mit.edu)
Back to Instrumentation index
Back to Analysis SEF Homepage
Back to CMSE Homepage

This page last modified 12/16/2001