Physical Properties Research Facility Home Page

For more information, contact:
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Bill Steele
PPRF Director
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
P.O. Box 2008
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6221
Phone: (865) 576-7696

The Physical Properties Research Facility is a DOE National User Facility dedicated to physiochemical properties measurement for industry, government, and academia. We have an internationally recognized staff for obtaining unique data, modeling (macro- and micro-scale) to derive fundamental properties, and evaluating their impact on industrial process optimization.

We perform precision physiochemical measurements over a full range of temperatures (ambient to 1000 K) and pressures (0.001 - 2036 mm Hg). These are used to support design of petroleum, chemicals, polymers, and catalyst technologies.


Measurement capabilities Vapor pressure Combustion calorimetry Heat-capacity calorimetry Density Critical properties Vapor-liquid equilibrium Phase boundaries	Derived information Gibb's free energy Solubility parameters Virial coefficients Diffusion coefficients Ideal gas properties Process design and optimization of plant operating conditions Reaction feasibility evaluations Performance calculations for engine and rocket fuels

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