Buchs 2013

The Annual Meeting of STK 2013 was held on June 13th, 2013 at Chocolat Frey in Buchs. The Theme was “Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, a powerful Tool in Process Industries”.

Lectures

Bertrand Roduit
Prediction of thermal aging of material by modified kinetic analysis based on limited amount of experimental points

Schawe Jürgen
Potential and limits of thermal analysis in polymer processing

Guinand Charles
Reaction kinetics investigation using Design Of Experiments and numeric simulation

Folly Patrick
Simulation of the thermal behavior of energetic materials based on DSC signals

Feist Michael
Adsoprtion phenomena vs. Carrier gas influence recent experiences by employing Pulse TA

Mischa Schwaninger
Experience with thermal analysis on acrylic compounds

Stoessel Francis
Pitfalls in calorimetric studies for process safety

Posters

Brandinu Laurent
C80 vs. DSC: comparison and specific applications

Sanglard Pauline
Ionic liquids for CO2 capture

Giani Samuele
Milk Powder: TGA-FTIR for moisture content identification

Karnoven Lassi, Duraki Bahirr
Chemical Composition of the SrxCoOz ∙ rH2O Misfit- Layered Pokrant Simone, Weidenkaff Anke Cobalt Oxide Determined using TGA-MS

Scientific Committee

Pierre BRODARD, EIA-FR, Fribourg
Arnaud GRANDEURY, Novartis, Basel
Rolf HILFIKER, Solvias AG, Basel
Gerhard LEU, Sika Technology AG, Zürich
Francesco MASCARELLO, DSM, Sisseln
Alois RAEMY, pens. Nestlé SA Lausanne
Rudolf RIESEN, pens. Mettler-Toledo, Schwerzenbach
Françis STOESSEL, Swiss Safety Institute, Basel

Exhibition

Mettler Toledo
ProSense
TA Instruments
AmAr Equipments PVT.LTD