Kinetics Neo
Software for kinetic analysis of thermoanalytical data for chemical processes.
Prediction of process behaviour and temperature optimization based on kinetics analysis.
Kinetics Neo software fully supports mandatory rules for kinetic analysis: "ICTAC Kinetics Committee recommendations for analysis of multi-step kinetics" .
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March 18, 2025. Join our Webinar:Discover how to optimize polymer binder burnout to enhance efficiency in material processing. This session will explore the science behind the process and its effects on product quality by using techniques like Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA) and Kinetics Neo software.
Registration: here.
March 12, 2025 New Application note Kinetics Neo: Prediction of Protein Denaturation Due to Pasteurization (Dr. Ligia. de Souza, Dr. Elena Moukhina) is added to our Applications.
February 18, 2025. Webinar Curing Kinetics: Measurements, Models, Kinetics Analysis and Process Optimization by Kinetics Neo. Curing and cross-linking kinetics are dependent on time and temperature and many other factors. It is important to know the rate of this process in order to simulate material behavior at other conditions or to optimize your industrial process.
In this webinar we will demonstrate the complete workflow of curing kinetics: from measurement methods, factors influencing reaction rate, typical kinetic models to process optimization. We will show how curing kinetics depends on gelation, vitrification, UVintensity and concentration ratio of reactants.
PDF: download
January 29, 2025. Struggling with kinetic analysis of pyrolysis? In our webinar Advanced Pyrolysis Kinetics: Model-Based Approach with Kinetics Neo Software - NETZSCH Analyzing & Testing we showed how to discover how accurately determine kinetic parameters, predict pyrolysis behavior, and optimize reactor performance like never before.
Presentation: PDF
Kinetics Neo Roadmap
The actual Kinetics Neo version 3.0.1 was released at November 26, 2024 (see more details in Release History).
Future Releases
Q2 2025
What Is Kinetics Neo Software
Kinetics Neo is a software for the analysis of process rates that depend on temperature, such as chemical reactions, polymers crystallization, or ceramic sintering.
Kinetics Neo software enables the finding of kinetic models with parameters (like activation energy or reaction order), that are dependent on the chemical nature of the process, but independent of the current temperature. The model, characterized by these parameters, must accurately describe experimental data across various temperature conditions.
The model with these parameters can then be used within the Kinetics Neo software to simulate process behavior under user-defined temperature conditions and to optimize temperature settings for industrial processes.
Please have a look at the video about the basics of the Kinetics Neo and it's advanced functions and features recorded during the webinar at April 29, 2021. Important parts are:
- 02:25 Goal of kinetic analysis for chemical reactions and necessary measurements (slides 3-9, 8 minutes);
- 10:38 Analysis approaches, advantages and disadvantages (slides 10-24, 17 minutes);
- 27:54 Unique features of Kinetics Neo (slides 27-48, 23 minutes).
Kinetics Neo Can Help If You Need To:
- Determine the amount of time needed for paint to cure
- Optimize production time for qualitative ceramics
- Maximize the quality of metal powder product during polymer burnout
- Check how quickly a pharmaceutical is able to work
- Optimize a material’s synthesis process when using a new catalyst
- Find out the curing time for a dental filling.
Supported Measurement Types
Kinetics Neo Software is compatible with measurements (tests) data made by both NETZSCH and NON-NETZSCH instruments:
- Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) / Differential Thermal Analysis (DTA)
- DSC with for curing reactions with diffusion control (with possible glass transition during curing process)
- Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA) / Thermogravimetry (TG)
- Dilatometer (DIL) - NETZSCH Analyzing & Testing
- Dielectric Analysis (DEA) for curing reactions(with possible glass transition during curing process)
- Accelerating Rate Calorimetry (ARC), Multiple Module Calorimetry (MMC)
- Viscosity for curing reactions(with possible glass transition during curing process)
- Rheometry (Torque)
- Dynamic Mechanic Analysis (DMA).
Please read User's Guide on how to import source data (masurement tests) into Kinetics Neo software: https://kinetics.netzsch.com/en/learn/import-of-user-defined-data
What Makes Kinetics Neo So Valuable:
- Modern User Experience: The new interface is both intuitive and efficient, enhancing ease of use and is based on the latest technologies.
- Comprehensive Methods of Kinetic Analysis: It encompasses both model-free and model-based methods, allowing for thorough statistical comparisons across different methods.
- Advanced Numerical Model-Free Solution: This new approach delivers rapid identification of optimal model-free solution.
- Versatile Predictions: Both model-free and model-based methods are available for making predictions and optimizations.
- Visual Kinetic Modeling: Users can easy construct kinetic models for the model-based approach with any number of reaction steps and their connections.
- Flexible Adjustments: Reaction steps can be easy added, removed, or modified, and their positions can be adjusted visually.
- One-Click Optimization: Kinetic parameters for individual steps or the entire model can be optimized with a single click.
- Detailed Analysis: The software provides formal concentrations for all reactants and reaction rates for all steps as functions of time or temperature.
- Crystallization Analysis: It supports the analysis and prediction crystallization process for isothermal, cooling, or heating conditions.
Kinetics Neo Features
Kinetics Neo follows the latest ICTAC recommendations published in the article "ICTAC Kinetics Committee recommendations for analysis of multi-step kinetics".
Model-Free Methods allow the activation energy of the reaction process to be found without the assumption of any kinetic model (ASTM E698, ASTM E2890, ASTM E1641, Friedman, Ozawa-Flynn-Wall, KAS, Numeric Optimization).
Model-Based Methodsapply powerful cutting-edge mathematical calculations to create the best kinetic model; the different kinetic models can then also be compared statistically.
Predictions— Kinetics Neo is used for simulations and predictions once the experimental data has been described by either model-free or model-based kinetics. Predictions can be calculated for various temperature programs: isothermal, dynamic, multiple step, step-iso, modulated, or adiabatic.
Optimization is based on predictions; the temperature program can be optimized to achieve maximum product quality in the minimum amount of time.