Enthalpy of fusion

Fluid Mechanics

Published in Keith L. Richards, Design Engineer's Sourcebook, 2017

The enthalpy of fusion or heat of fusion is the change in enthalpy resulting from heating a given quantity of a substance to change its state from a solid to a liquid. The temperature at which this occurs is called the melting point.

Effect of nutritional supplements on bio-plastics (PHB) production utilizing sugar refinery waste with potential application in food packaging

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Published in Preparative Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 2019

Abhishek Dutt Tripathi, Tek Raj Joshi, Suresh Kumar Srivastava, Kinaoush Khosravi Darani, Shankar Khade, Jyoti Srivastava

To investigate the morphological state of PHB granules, the melting temperature and the enthalpy of fusion of extracted PHB were measured with a DuPont model 2000 differential scanning calorimeter (DSC). The enthalpy of fusion of a 100% crystalline (theoretical) sample was assumed to be 146 J/g. The crystallinity of PHB was estimated from the enthalpy of fusion.

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