MTDATA

The Thermodynamics and Process Modelling Group of the NPL Materials Centre provides good quality thermodynamic data for an extensive range of material types including light alloys, steels, ceramics, glasses, slags, mattes, salts, polymers, aqueous solutions and gases. These data can be used to predict the chemical species and phases likely to form at equilibrium in the types of system of greatest industrial interest - those containing large numbers of chemical elements - and so provide a valuable guide to the solution of many industrial problems. Organisations can lease these databases and MTDATA for in-house use or ask for calculations to be done at NPL.

NPL is involved in a wide range of scientific research concerned with thermodynamic data ranging from the development of data for solders and complex oxides systems to the investigation of the application of ab-initio techniques for the prediction of thermodynamic data. For more information please click here.

NPL is very active within SGTE. Alan Dinsdale is chairman and president of SGTE and also the manager of the SGTE Solution Database. He has maintained the database containing standard reference data for the elements on behalf of SGTE. SGTE databases can obtained for use with MTDATA.

NPL also plays an active role within the Institute of Materials through the Materials Chemistry Committee and, in a wide sense, through APDIC.