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44-507: The use of CIAAW Standard Atomic Weights is also required legally, for example, in calculation of calorific value of natural gas ( ISO 6976:1995), or in gravimetric preparation of primary reference standards in gas analysis (ISO 6142:2006). In addition, until 2019 the definition of Kelvin , the SI unit for thermodynamic temperature, made direct reference to the isotopic composition of oxygen and hydrogen as recommended by CIAAW. The latest CIAAW report

88-481: A substance , usually a fuel or food (see food energy ), is the amount of heat released during the combustion of a specified amount of it. The calorific value is the total energy released as heat when a substance undergoes complete combustion with oxygen under standard conditions . The chemical reaction is typically a hydrocarbon or other organic molecule reacting with oxygen to form carbon dioxide and water and release heat. It may be expressed with

132-495: A combustion of fuel, measured as a unit of energy per unit mass or volume of substance. In contrast to the HHV, the LHV considers energy losses such as the energy used to vaporize water - although its exact definition is not uniformly agreed upon. One definition is simply to subtract the heat of vaporization of the water from the higher heating value. This treats any H 2 O formed as a vapor that

176-626: A proposal by Hermann Emil Fischer , appointed a three-person working committee to report on atomic weights. The committee consisted of Chairman Prof. Hans H. Landolt (Berlin University), Prof. Wilhelm Ostwald (University of Leipzig), and Prof. Karl Seubert (University of Hanover). This committee published its first report in 1898, in which the committee suggested the desirability of an international committee on atomic weights. On 30 March 1899 Landolt, Ostwald and Seubert issued an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to

220-527: A small committee of three to four members. In 1902, Prof. Frank W. Clarke (USA), Prof. Karl Seubert (Germany), and Prof. Thomas Edward Thorpe (UK) were elected, and the International Committee on Atomic Weights published its inaugural report in 1903 under the chairmanship of Prof. Clarke. Since 1899, the Commission periodically and critically evaluates the published scientific literature and produces

264-412: A steel container at 25 °C (77 °F) is initiated by an ignition device and the reactions allowed to complete. When hydrogen and oxygen react during combustion, water vapor is produced. The vessel and its contents are then cooled to the original 25 °C and the higher heating value is determined as the heat released between identical initial and final temperatures. When the lower heating value (LHV)

308-446: Is burned in an open flame, e.g. H 2 O (g), Br 2 (g), I 2 (g) and SO 2 (g). In both definitions the products for C, F, Cl and N are CO 2 (g), HF (g), Cl 2 (g) and N 2 (g), respectively. The heating value of a fuel can be calculated with the results of ultimate analysis of fuel. From analysis, percentages of the combustibles in the fuel ( carbon , hydrogen , sulfur ) are known. Since

352-424: Is determined, cooling is stopped at 150 °C and the reaction heat is only partially recovered. The limit of 150 °C is based on acid gas dew-point. Note: Higher heating value (HHV) is calculated with the product of water being in liquid form while lower heating value (LHV) is calculated with the product of water being in vapor form. The difference between the two heating values depends on the chemical composition of

396-517: Is greater than that of oxygen in water and for his work on electrospray ionization , polymer chemistry, and electrochemistry . The Dole effect is the inequality in the ratio of heavy oxygen isotope O to the more abundant O in the Earth's atmosphere and in seawater. This effect was reported by Dole in 1935. The effect is due to slightly different reaction rates for the two isotopes in respiration in plants and in animals which tends to retain

440-524: Is normally about 90% of its higher heating value. This table is in Standard cubic metres (1   atm , 15   °C), to convert to values per Normal cubic metre (1   atm, 0   °C), multiply above table by 1.0549. Malcolm Dole Malcolm Dole (March 4, 1903 – November 29, 1990) was an American chemist known for the Dole Effect in which he proved that the atomic weight of oxygen in air

484-430: Is released as a waste. The energy required to vaporize the water is therefore lost. LHV calculations assume that the water component of a combustion process is in vapor state at the end of combustion, as opposed to the higher heating value (HHV) (a.k.a. gross calorific value or gross CV ) which assumes that all of the water in a combustion process is in a liquid state after a combustion process. Another definition of

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528-439: Is the same as the thermodynamic heat of combustion since the enthalpy change for the reaction assumes a common temperature of the compounds before and after combustion, in which case the water produced by combustion is condensed to a liquid. The higher heating value takes into account the latent heat of vaporization of water in the combustion products, and is useful in calculating heating values for fuels where condensation of

572-657: The American Chemical Society (ACS), in 1892, appointed a permanent committee to report on a standard table of atomic weights for acceptance by the Society. Clarke, who was then the chief chemist for the U.S. Geological Survey , was appointed a committee of one to provide the report. He presented the first report at the 1893 annual meeting and published it in January 1894. In 1897, the German Society of Chemistry , following

616-512: The American Petroleum Institute (API), uses a reference temperature of 60 °F ( 15 + 5 ⁄ 9  °C). Another definition, used by Gas Processors Suppliers Association (GPSA) and originally used by API (data collected for API research project 44), is the enthalpy of all combustion products minus the enthalpy of the fuel at the reference temperature (API research project 44 used 25 °C. GPSA currently uses 60 °F), minus

660-662: The (higher) heat of combustion is defined to be the heat released for the complete combustion of a compound in its standard state to form stable products in their standard states: hydrogen is converted to water (in its liquid state), carbon is converted to carbon dioxide gas, and nitrogen is converted to nitrogen gas. That is, the heat of combustion, Δ H ° comb , is the heat of reaction of the following process: Chlorine and sulfur are not quite standardized; they are usually assumed to convert to hydrogen chloride gas and SO 2 or SO 3 gas, respectively, or to dilute aqueous hydrochloric and sulfuric acids , respectively, when

704-543: The 19th century, two scales gained popular support: H=1 and O=16. This situation was undesired in science and in October 1899, the inaugural task of the International Commission on Atomic Weights was to decide on the international scale and the oxygen scale became the international standard. The endorsement of the oxygen scale created significant backlash in the chemistry community, and the inaugural Atomic Weights Report

748-409: The Commission seeks to find a single value and symmetrical uncertainty that would include almost all substances likely to be encountered. Many notable decisions have been made by the Commission over its history. Some of these are highlighted below. Though Dalton proposed setting the atomic weight of hydrogen as unity in 1803, many other proposals were popular throughout the 19th century. By the end of

792-544: The Commission: Henri Moissan (1903-1907), Wilhelm Ostwald (1906-1916), Francis William Aston , Frederick Soddy , Theodore William Richards , Niels Bohr , Otto Hahn and Marie Curie . Richards was awarded the 1914 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "in recognition of his accurate determinations of the atomic weight of a large number of chemical elements" while he was a member of the Commission. Likewise, Francis Aston

836-608: The International Committee on Atomic Weights. Fifty-eight members were appointed to the Great International Committee on Atomic Weights, including Frank W. Clarke . The large committee conducted its business by correspondence to Landolt which created difficulties and delays associated with correspondence among fifty-eight members. As a result, on 15 December 1899, the German committee asked the International members to select

880-427: The LHV is the amount of heat released when the products are cooled to 150 °C (302 °F). This means that the latent heat of vaporization of water and other reaction products is not recovered. It is useful in comparing fuels where condensation of the combustion products is impractical, or heat at a temperature below 150 °C (302 °F) cannot be put to use. One definition of lower heating value, adopted by

924-480: The Table of Standard Atomic Weights. In recent times, the Table of Standard Atomic Weights has been published biennially. Each recommended standard atomic-weight value reflects the best knowledge of evaluated, published data. In the recommendation of standard atomic weights, CIAAW generally does not attempt to estimate the average or composite isotopic composition of the Earth or of any subset of terrestrial materials. Instead,

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968-432: The atomic weight in any normal material will be greater than or equal to 1.007 84 and will be less than or equal to 1.008 11. The IUPAC Commission on Isotopic Abundances and Atomic Weights has undergone several name changes between its founding in 1899 and 2002, when it received its present name: Since its establishment, many notable chemists have been members of the Commission. Notably, eight Nobel laureates have served in

1012-429: The atomic weight of lead showed significant variations depending on the origin of the sample. These differences were considered to be an exception attributed to lead isotopes being products of the natural radioactive decay chains of uranium. In 1930s, however, Malcolm Dole reported that the atomic weight of oxygen in air was slightly different from that in water. Soon thereafter, Alfred Nier reported natural variation in

1056-411: The combustion is conducted in a bomb calorimeter containing some quantity of water. Zwolinski and Wilhoit defined, in 1972, "gross" and "net" values for heats of combustion. In the gross definition the products are the most stable compounds, e.g. H 2 O (l), Br 2 (l), I 2 (s) and H 2 SO 4 (l). In the net definition the products are the gases produced when the compound

1100-645: The difference between the heat of formation Δ H f of the products and reactants (though this approach is somewhat artificial since most heats of formation are typically calculated from measured heats of combustion).. For a fuel of composition C c H h O o N n , the (higher) heat of combustion is 419 kJ/mol × ( c + 0.3 h − 0.5 o ) usually to a good approximation (±3%), though it gives poor results for some compounds such as (gaseous) formaldehyde and carbon monoxide , and can be significantly off if o + n > c , such as for glycerine dinitrate, C 3 H 6 O 7 N 2 . By convention,

1144-421: The difference is much more significant as it includes the sensible heat of water vapor between 150 °C and 100 °C, the latent heat of condensation at 100 °C, and the sensible heat of the condensed water between 100 °C and 25 °C. In all, the higher heating value of hydrogen is 18.2% above its lower heating value (142   MJ/kg vs. 120   MJ/kg). For hydrocarbons, the difference depends on the hydrogen content of

1188-545: The element flerovium ), Robert Whytlaw-Gray (first isolated radon ), and Arne Ölander (Secretary and Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry ). Since its establishment, the chairs of the Commission have been: In 1950, the Spanish chemist Enrique Moles became the first Secretary of the Commission when this position was created. Calorific value The heating value (or energy value or calorific value ) of

1232-445: The enthalpy of the stoichiometric oxygen (O 2 ) at the reference temperature, minus the heat of vaporization of the vapor content of the combustion products. The definition in which the combustion products are all returned to the reference temperature is more easily calculated from the higher heating value than when using other definitions and will in fact give a slightly different answer. Gross heating value accounts for water in

1276-449: The exhaust leaving as vapor, as does LHV, but gross heating value also includes liquid water in the fuel prior to combustion. This value is important for fuels like wood or coal , which will usually contain some amount of water prior to burning. The higher heating value is experimentally determined in a bomb calorimeter . The combustion of a stoichiometric mixture of fuel and oxidizer (e.g. two moles of hydrogen and one mole of oxygen) in

1320-460: The fuel. For gasoline and diesel the higher heating value exceeds the lower heating value by about 10% and 7%, respectively, and for natural gas about 11%. A common method of relating HHV to LHV is: where H v is the heat of vaporization of water, n H 2 O ,out is the number of moles of water vaporized and n fuel,in is the number of moles of fuel combusted. Engine manufacturers typically rate their engines fuel consumption by

1364-408: The fuel. In the case of pure carbon or carbon monoxide, the two heating values are almost identical, the difference being the sensible heat content of carbon dioxide between 150 °C and 25 °C ( sensible heat exchange causes a change of temperature, while latent heat is added or subtracted for phase transitions at constant temperature. Examples: heat of vaporization or heat of fusion ). For hydrogen,

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1408-496: The heat of combustion of these elements is known, the heating value can be calculated using Dulong's Formula: HHV [kJ/g]= 33.87m C + 122.3(m H - m O ÷ 8) + 9.4m S where m C , m H , m O , m N , and m S are the contents of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur on any (wet, dry or ash free) basis, respectively. The higher heating value (HHV; gross energy , upper heating value , gross calorific value GCV , or higher calorific value ; HCV ) indicates

1452-476: The higher heating value will be somewhat higher. The difference between HHV and LHV definitions causes endless confusion when quoters do not bother to state the convention being used. since there is typically a 10% difference between the two methods for a power plant burning natural gas. For simply benchmarking part of a reaction the LHV may be appropriate, but HHV should be used for overall energy efficiency calculations if only to avoid confusion, and in any case,

1496-459: The isotopic composition of carbon. It was becoming clear that atomic weights are not constants of nature. At the Commission’s meeting in 1951, it was recognized that the isotopic-abundance variation of sulfur had a significant effect on the internationally accepted value of an atomic weight. In order to indicate the span of atomic-weight values that may apply to sulfur from different natural sources,

1540-442: The lower heating values since the exhaust is never condensed in the engine, and doing this allows them to publish more attractive numbers than are used in conventional power plant terms. The conventional power industry had used HHV (high heat value) exclusively for decades, even though virtually all of these plants did not condense exhaust either. American consumers should be aware that the corresponding fuel-consumption figure based on

1584-428: The mass of the predominant isotope of oxygen, oxygen-16. This discrepancy became undesired and a unification between the chemistry and physics was necessary. In the 1957 Paris meeting the Commission put forward a proposal for a carbon-12 scale. The carbon-12 scale for atomic weights and nuclide masses was approved by IUPAP (1960) and IUPAC (1961) and it is still in use worldwide. In the early 20th century, measurements of

1628-400: The quantities: There are two kinds of enthalpy of combustion, called high(er) and low(er) heat(ing) value, depending on how much the products are allowed to cool and whether compounds like H 2 O are allowed to condense. The high heat values are conventionally measured with a bomb calorimeter . Low heat values are calculated from high heat value test data. They may also be calculated as

1672-457: The reaction products is practical (e.g., in a gas-fired boiler used for space heat). In other words, HHV assumes all the water component is in liquid state at the end of combustion (in product of combustion) and that heat delivered at temperatures below 150 °C (302 °F) can be put to use. The lower heating value (LHV; net calorific value ; NCV , or lower calorific value ; LCV ) is another measure of available thermal energy produced by

1716-415: The upper limit of the available thermal energy produced by a complete combustion of fuel. It is measured as a unit of energy per unit mass or volume of substance. The HHV is determined by bringing all the products of combustion back to the original pre-combustion temperature, including condensing any vapor produced. Such measurements often use a standard temperature of 25 °C (77 °F; 298 K) . This

1760-417: The value or convention should be clearly stated. Both HHV and LHV can be expressed in terms of AR (all moisture counted), MF and MAF (only water from combustion of hydrogen). AR, MF, and MAF are commonly used for indicating the heating values of coal: The International Energy Agency reports the following typical higher heating values per Standard cubic metre of gas: The lower heating value of natural gas

1804-511: The value ± 0.003 was attached to the atomic weight of sulfur. By 1969, the Commission had assigned uncertainties to all atomic-weight values. At its meeting in 2009 in Vienna, the Commission decided to express the standard atomic weight of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, and other elements in a manner that clearly indicates that the values are not constants of nature. For example, writing the standard atomic weight of hydrogen as [1.007 84, 1.008 11] shows that

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1848-574: Was a member of the Commission when he was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on isotope measurements. Incidentally, the 1925 Atomic Weights report was signed by three Nobel laureates. Among other notable scientists who have served on the Commission were Georges Urbain (discoverer of lutetium , though priority was disputed with Carl Auer von Welsbach ), André-Louis Debierne (discoverer of actinium , though priority has been disputed with Friedrich Oskar Giesel ), Marguerite Perey (discoverer of francium ), Georgy Flyorov (namesake of

1892-455: Was published in May 2022. Although the atomic weight had taken on the concept of a constant of nature like the speed of light , the lack of agreement on accepted values created difficulties in trade. Quantities measured by chemical analysis were not being translated into weights in the same way by all parties and standardization became an urgent matter. With so many different values being reported,

1936-538: Was thus published using both scales. This practice soon ceded and the oxygen scale remained the international standard for decades to come. Nevertheless, when the Commission joined the IUPAC in 1920, it was asked to revert to the H=1 scale, which it rejected. With the discovery of oxygen isotopes in 1929, a situation arose where chemists based their calculations on the average atomic mass (atomic weight) of oxygen whereas physicists used

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