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Parr has integrated the principles and practice of reaction calorimetry into our reactor systems.

Reaction calorimetry is often used for studying chemical reaction rates and the thermal properties of systems. In chemical processing industries, this technique is used for understanding and mitigating hazards from the scale-up of reactions developed in the lab to industrial-scale reactors. As a reaction is scaled from lab to plant, scalability problems may emerge for various reasons. Issues are often attributable to a lack of understanding of the process chemistry, the inability to remove heat or changes in mixing performance during scale-up. Reaction calorimetry provides this additional level of process understanding.

The principal output from experiments performed in a reaction calorimeter is the heat production rate associated with the processes occurring inside the reactor. The heat production profile becomes the basis for the determination of a number of important operational parameters.

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