TMS 2019

GTT was represented at the TMS 2019! The TMS (https://www.tms.org/TMS2019) is a huge annual conference, organized by the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society in the United States. This year the conference took place in San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Stephan Petersen gave a presentation  at one of the symposia of REWAS 2019, which focuses on Manufacturing

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Users’ Meeting 2019

Our users’ meeting from 26th to 28th of June is approaching quickly! The users’ meeting itself starts on the 26th of June at 13:00h and goes until 12:00h on June 28th. Many colleagues from the industry and academia already registered to contribute with presentations and we are looking forward to the many interesting talks showing

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Ex Mente Technologies and GTT-Technologies announce the first commercial release of ChemAppPy

Icon for ChemAppPy

Ex Mente Technologies and GTT-Technologies are excited to announce the first commercial release of ChemAppPy! ChemAppPy is a Python package that makes ChemApp, the thermochemistry library developed by GTT-Technologies, available in Python 3.6+. It includes additional tools that make thermochemical calculations easier and quicker to do. GTT are the original developers of ChemApp, a powerful

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From molar Gibbs energy functions to phase diagrams

Al Cu Phase Diagram

In a series of posts, we will focus on the relation between phase diagrams, Gibbs energy functions and activities. Let us begin with the Al-Cu phase diagram at a temperature of 500 °C. In this blog post we will work exclusively with the FactSage Education Package. Let us suppose we have generated an Al-Cu phase-diagram

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What is the difference between Fact Pure Substances and SGPS databases?

difference between FactSage and SGPS on the periodic table

I have been asked by a potential customer: “Do I need the Fact Pure Substances or SGTE Pure Substances database?” The answer is: It depends. The two databases are both collections of (normally published) thermochemical data. The Fact Pure Substances database FactPS is maintained by our co-developer of FactSage, Thermfact/CRCT, Polytechnique Montreal. It is generally

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Example for a FactSage calculation of a non-equilibrium process

It is a common misconception that thermodynamic calculations can only be used for processes that are in equilibrium. In fact, there is a lot to learn from an Integrated Thermodynamic Databank System like FactSage even if you are far away from equilibrium! As example we consider the popular Fe-C system: If you choose all phases

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A hands-on example for a phase-diagram-module calculation

FactSage contains many modules. The major ones for daily work are Equilib and Phase Diagram. Phase Diagram permits the calculation of phase diagram sections for systems with any number of components. Components can be elements, compounds or even arbitrary compositions. For a phase diagram calculation, first the components of interest have to be defined. Then, the possible

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