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Home Automated Lab Reactors, In-Situ Analysis, and Modeling Software iC Software Suite iC Safety

iC Safety

Evaluate Thermal Risk and Streamline Safety Analysis

Chemical and pharmaceutical processes often involve complex reactions that release significant energy. Process development assesses potential risks during scale-up and manufacturing, a crucial step for ensuring safe production.

iC Safety is an intuitive software application that uses experimental data from EasyMax, OptiMax, RC1 reaction calorimeters, and other calorimetric techniques to simplify and accelerate the calculation of thermal safety parameters. By improving understanding of thermal risks, it helps engineers estimate hazards quickly and develop safer processes.

iC safety thermal analysis software
ic safety software for thermal analysis

Process Understanding to Reduce the Risk of Runaway Reactions

Accidents in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries can cause severe harm to people, the environment, and a company’s reputation. Identifying and mitigating risks before they escalate is critical. Reaction calorimetry provides the data needed to calculate safety parameters and assess thermal risks.

iC Safety supports both beginners and experts in converting experimental data into actionable safety insights. Chemists and engineers can efficiently evaluate and reduce process hazards.

Inherently Safer Processes

The safety runaway graph highlights both desired and undesired reactions in the event of a cooling failure. It considers key safety information in a clear format, serving as a quick check for thermal risk assessment and the foundation for a comprehensive safety evaluation.

An in-depth understanding of the exothermicity of a chemical reaction is essential to make adjustments to the process. iC Safety presents the thermal risk, such as thermal accumulation, ΔTadiabatic, or MTSR in a concise and understandable format, enabling the appropriate conclusions to be made and the necessary measures to be taken.

iC Safety displays a criticality graph to visually summarize the most important process temperatures. It classifies the process into one of four categories, helping engineers estimate hazardous potential and define necessary safety protocols to make the process safer.

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iC Software Care

Software Care is a subscription software maintenance plan. It was developed as the direct result of customer feedback and is designed to provide subscribers with the opportunity to always have the latest version of the software while paying significantly less over the lifetime of their instrument.

iC software maintenance is included in the Software Care Standard offering. For additional enterprise-level features ask a representative about an iC Site License.

What does iC Safety software do?

iC Safety is a crucial tool for evaluating the thermal risk of a chemical reaction at an industrial scale. Designed for use by both non-expert and expert users, iC Safety summarizes key information in an easy-to-understand graphical and tabular format while providing access to detailed safety data needed by expert users.

iC Safety uses well-established algorithms and procedures to automatically convert reaction calorimetry data into safety information. The basic iC Safety information can be complemented with experimental data from other calorimetric measurements, such as differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), adiabatic calorimetry, or properties of the reaction mixture can complement basic iC Safety information to increase its significance.

How does iC Safety software work?

Following the basic evaluation of experimental data and reaction chemistry, iC Safety calculates the relevant safety parameters for the desired reaction. The results are presented conveniently in a table and the Safety Runaway Graph is created. The TD24 assistant helps the user to integrate data from either differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), accelerating rate calorimeter (ARC), or other calorimetric techniques describing a potential secondary reaction that may occur in case of a cooling failure. In the event of multiple evaluations, all data sets are captured in a convenient table to allow a simple comparison of the result sets. 

What are the computer requirements to run iC Safety?

Reaction calorimeters EasyMax, OptiMax, and RC1 require the Heat Flow option. RC1e also requires RTCal.
 
EasyMax, OptiMax, and RC1mx require iControl 6.0 or higher. iControl versions 5.3 or 5.6 are required for RC1e.

Do I need iControl in order to use iC Safety?

Yes, iC Safety is a module within the iControl PC software. You must have a licensed copy of iControl and an HFCal-enabled reactor system in order to unlock the extra capabilities provided by iC Safety.

Can I run a process in large scale based on the information obtained by iCSafety?

No. Designing and introducing a chemical process can be a challenging task due to various factors, including thermal risk caused by desired and potentially undesired reactions. Other considerations include stirring, mixing, speed of addition, viscosity changes, potential crystallization or precipitation, heat transfer, and foaming.

Driving Safety Culture in Chemical Process Development

Driving a Safety Culture in Chemical Process Development

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Investigating a Serious Runaway Reaction Incident using Reaction Calorimetry

Investigating a Serious Runaway Reaction Incident using Reaction Calorimetry

iC Safety Datasheet

iC Safety Datasheet

iC Safety is designed to speed and simplify the calculation of thermal safety values associated with chemical reactions.

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