What Is New in Kinetics Neo?
Release History
Version 2.7.0 (January 29, 2024)
- Added: curing reactions with diffusion control to DEA project type. It is renamed to "DEA Curing" .
- Added: curing reactions with diffusion control to project type Viscosity project type. It is renamed to "Viscosity Curing".
- Added: Predictions of Time-Temperature-Transition diagram (TTT) with vitrification curve for project types "DEA Curing" and "Viscosity Curing".
- Added: Calculation of glass transition temperature for predictions based on project types "DEA Curing" and "Viscosity Curing".
- Added: default file names are now shown when exporting data into TXT files.
- Corrected: in Help article about Vyazovkin analysis the equations are added.
- Other small improvements and bug fixes.
Version 2.6.8 (September 13, 2023)
- Improved: data export for Time-Temperature Transition diagram (TTT diagram).
- Other small improvements and bug fixes.
Version 2.6.7 (January 24, 2023)
- Improved: stability after some updates of hardware drivers and BIOS.
- Other small improvements and bug fixes.
Version 2.6.6 (November 16, 2022)
- Added: Steps in Multiple Step Prediction can be copied. Now it is much easier to add a new step in a middle of complex multi-step temperature program.
- Improved: Better simulation at very high temperatures for multi-step consecutive reactions having low-temperature reaction steps.
- Improved: by exporting data in model-free analysis additional columns for temperature and conversion are added.
- Improved: concentration now may be also shown in relative values.
- Fixed: Import text data files are now aware of different not consistent using of spaces and commas.
- Other small improvements and bug fixes.
Version 2.6.1 (March 02, 2022)
- The name of SBC reaction type in model-based analysis is corrected. Correct name is: SbC – Sbirrazzuoli Crystallization (Sestak-Berggren + Hoffman-Lauritzen).
- Initial parameters for SB model are also adjusted to have better initial fit.
- Other smaller improvements and bug fixes.
Version 2.6.0 (February 16, 2022)
- Added: Two New Reaction Types for Crystallization in Model-Based Analysis, SB (Sestak-Berggren, chemical reaction with crystal building) and SBC (Sestak-Berggren Crystallization, polymer crystallization from the melt).
- Added: DSC Deconvolution ("DSC Correction", "DSC Desmearing") for customers work with heavy crucibles (like high-pressure crucibles, medium pressure crucibles) or with high temperatures instruments with heavy system having long time constants.
- Added: Source Data Files May Be Switched On (Enabled) or Off (Disabled).
- Other smaller improvements and bug fixes.
Version 2.5.5 (September 27, 2021)
- Added: Model Summary table values can be exported into the ASCII text file.
- Added: Possibility to show / hide the visibility of the curves on the chart.
- Added: Possibility to highlight the curves by using several effects directly on the chart area, not only in Legend.
- Fixed: Error "Index was out of range" in Prediction and Optimization for OIT and OOT. The error occurs in versions 2.5.1-2.5.4 only.
- Other small improvements and bug fixes.
Version 2.5.3 (July 27, 2021)
Fixed: the incorrect Internet address of our license server.
Version 2.5.2 (July 23, 2021)
- New: two baselines Right Tangential and Tangential for the viscosity data.
- New: fire temperature preset "Presets_Fire_slow_heat_EN1363-2.txt".
- New: additional export of isoconversional lines for ASTM E698, E2890, E1641, Friedman, OFW, KAS in Export Data.
- New: Model Based chart now contain subtitle. Title is a model type and the Subtitle is user-defined model description.
- New: SplashScreen is added. It is visible from the application start until the main window is shown.
- Improved: labels in Data Export of Crystallization According to NakamuraCrystallization according to Nakamura is the crystal growth model for non-isothermal crystallization kinetics during cooling.Nakamura model: (a) brackets in equation T-(Tg-30) and (b) units for nucleation parameter KG. All calculations previously and now are made correctly and remain unchanged.
- Fixed: Data Export for model free methods DynamicArrhenius and IsothermalArrhenius.
- Fixed: Data Export for predictions with Y-axis "Sum of Peaks".
- Other small improvements and bug fixes.
Version 2.5.0 (February 24, 2021)
- New: Kinetics Neo is pure 64-bit software now and uses advantages of 64-bit version of Windows.
- New: Y-axis mode Sum of Peaks: presents the total curve as the sum of individual reaction peaks.
- New: Prediction Adiabatic 24 (TD24): Find the start temperature for adiabatic process with maximal heating rate in 24 hours.
- New: Predictions based on external temperature profile. This is a text file which contains your temperature program.
- New: Prediction of material behavior under pre-defined Fire Conditions. This method uses standard file presets loaded into external temperature profile prediction.
- New: Model-free method: Vyazovkin.
- New: Analysis of rheology data.
- New: Prediction of viscosity.
- New: Online Web Services, displays your subscriptions, possibility to be informed about and downloads new software versions.
- Improved: The calculationof the first and the last points for Friedman Method and for Numeric method.
- Improved: Two digits after comma are shown for the heating rate in dialog Predictions-Multiple Step.
- Kinetics Neo project file has a new structure and has file extension KINX2. The KINX files can also be opened.
- Fixed: Y-Axis Title is changed for KAS and ASTM E2890 from "LOG" to "LN". Calculations were correct and stay unchanged.
- Fixed: import from project of Thermokinetics 3.1 where measured files have Japanees names.
- Fixed: In the climatic predictions data the Oslo is located in the correct country.
- Other small improvements and bug fixes.
Version 2.4.6 (January 30, 2020)
Build 2.4.20030.8
- Improved: geographic map data provider which has unexpectable stopped to provide map data is replaced by Microsoft Bing Maps in climatic predictions (Predictions based on climate temperature profile).
- Improved: If the computer is offline then the offline geographic data will be used.
- Added: It is possible to switch between online and offline maps modes in the Settings.
- Improved: in Conversion Values Optimization when the X axis is time and Y axis is Conversion the X axis scaling was always minutes. Now the scaling is automatically recalculated to hours/days/weeks/months depending of the time value and Settings.
- Other small improvements and bug fixes.
Version 2.4.4 (October 30, 2019)
Build 2.4.19303.6
- Added: Predictions based on climate temperature profile (“Climatic Predictions”). Now it is possible to predict the reaction progress for the real atmospheric temperatures for a selected point on the Earth, from the selected day of the year, for the selected durations, which is usually several months or years.
- Added: Six new Adjusting Arrows for model-based analysis. Now it is much easier to adjust the positions of the simulated curves manually before optimization. It will improve the optimization results because they depend on the initial values of parameters.
- Added: Undo for all user's actions in model-based analysis. Now it is possible revert the changes after model recalculation or optimization if the results are not good.
- Added: Auto Zoom for charts with two Y axes, for example, Signal and Temperature. Now two charts on one plot can be auto-arranged one above the another.
- Added: Font size for the chart legend can be set independent of the other chart parameters.
- Added: Tooltip on chart data points ("markers").
- Added: Adding measurement files by drag-and-drop from Windows Explorer directly into the Kinetics Neo.
- Improved: Parameter title is changed from AutocatOrder to Log(AutocatPreExp) for autocatalitic reactions C1,Cn.Cmn,KS. Corresponding titles in equations are corrected too. Calculations are not changed.
- Improved: R² statistics is now shown with 5 digits after comma. Previously it was 4 digits.
- Fixed: Heating-Cooling baseline for Dilatometer.
- Fixed: The sum of contributions is always equal to 1 (one).
- Fixed: When the source file to be imported doesn't contain any data for Kinetics Neo then it will not be imported. Previously the file without name and data was imported.
- Fixed: NaN for A2 reaction type if educt=0.
- Fixed: Chart data export now correctly exports simulated conversion rate values.
- Fixed: Incorrect label "Correlation R" is changed to "R²" in Model Based and Model Free Properties panels.
- Other small improvements and bug fixes.
Version 2.1.2 (December 10, 2018)
Build 2.1.18344.2
- Added: Nakamura crystallization analysis with Hoffman-Lauritzen temperature dependence. This analysis takes into account glass transition temperature and help you to predict degree of crystallinity during cooling of polymers.
- Added: new option "Optimize Fit To" for model based optimization of parameters. Now the optimization target could be either signal (default) or conversion values.
- Added: model scheme and summary of model steps can now be shown directly on the model based chart as a movable text elements.
- Added: curve on the chart can now be permanently marked, or “selected”. Just click on the line or label in the chart legend and the line will be marked/unmarked.
- Added: new “Chart coordinates mode”. If this mode is switched on – the crosshair lines are shown under mouse pointer and the chart coordinates box appear on the chart. This will help easy determine the coordinates of every point on every curve on the chart.
- Added: heating rate can now be shown in the chart's legend instead of file name. This setting is added into the tab “View” - > “Legend”.
- Added: equation of selected reaction step is now shown on the model based panel.
- Improved: The color of temperature program curves is the same as signal/prediction/optimization curves. This simplifies the identification of the temperature curve for a signal.
- Other small bug fixes and improvements.
Version 2.0.1 (September 6, 2018)
Build 2.0.18249.2
- Added: new project type Rheometry, signal units are dN*m. Now it is possible to analyze, simulate, optimize and predict the rheometry type of data.
- Added: new project type Viscosity, signal units are Log(Pa*s). Now it is possible to analyze, simulate, optimize and predict the viscosity type of data.
- Added: new model-free analysis method Dynamic Arrhenius for failure temperature during heating like Oxidation Onset Temperature (OOT).
- Added: new model-free analysis method Isothermal Arrhenius (ASTM E2070, method D) for time-to-event values like Oxidation-Induction Time (OIT).
- Added: new model-free analysis method ASTM E2070 (method A) for isothermal data like isothermal crystallization.
- Added: new prediction Isothermal Lifetime for all Reaction typesReaction type is the elementary mechanism of one individual reaction step in multi-step chemical reaction. Reaction type f(Cr, Cp) describes dependence of the reaction rate for individual reaction step on the concentrations of reactant Cr and product Cp for this step.reaction types.
- Added: new optimization type Conversion Values. It can be used for user-defined function of degree of conversion vs time.
- Added: possibility to export/import of temperature program to/from the text file for Multiple Step predictions.
- Added: possibility to copy model image to clipboard for model-based method.
- Added: possibility to export/import of model to/from the binary file for model-based method.
- Added: new baseline Right Tangential DEA for dynamic measurements.
- Added: two new pre-installed training samples: Rheometry_Natural_Rubber and Viscosity_Curing.
- Improved: Doyle approximation for calculation of activation energy by Ozawa-Flynn-Wall (OFW) method.
- Improved: calculation of pre-exponential factor by Kissinger-Akahira-Sunose (KAS) method.
- Improved: calculation of Durbin-Watson factor for high degree of freedom.
- Other small improvements and bug fixes.