静的熱量測定法は材料の研究開発および品質管理に極めて有力な手段であるが，熱量計の使用方法が複雑と思われがちで十分活用されていないのが現状である。この方法の普及を図るため，はじめに静的熱量測定法を熱力学の基礎と結びつけて説明し，最近の熱量計開発動向を確認した後，四分野への応用を解説した。界面化学への応用として吸着熱・浸漬熱の基礎と吸着熱測定から多孔質固体のキャラクタリゼーションをどのように行うかを紹介した。建設分野への応用としてセメントはじめ種々の建設材料の開発と品質管理に伝導型，恒温壁型および断熱型熱量計が広く用いられていることを紹介した。農業分野への応用として農業廃棄物の再利用と熱測定による微生物活性測定を述べた。最後に工業洗浄分野への応用として，フルオロブチルメチルエーテルを用いた洗浄では乾燥後のシミが問題となっていたが，混合熱データを基に適切なリンス剤を選ぶことでシミの残らない洗浄と乾燥が可能であることを述べた。
Static calorimetry is a powerful mean in research and development of industrial materials. However, it has not been previously applied so much, because of the complicated handling of calorimeter and the lack of knowledge of the calorimetry. In this article, the fundamentals of static calorimetry correlated with the basic thermodynamics and the development of the recent calorimeters were reported, and the application examples to the four different fields of the research and the development of the industrial materials were described. In regard to an application of calorimetry to surface chemistry, basic principle on the heats of adsorption and immersion, and several examples for characterization of porous solids by the adsorption microcalorimetry were introduced. Various types of calorimeters as conduction, isoperibol, and adiabatic calorimeter have been widely used for the development of industrial materials and the quality control of cement in the construction field. Significance of biological wastes recycling and microbial activity in high-moisture biological wastes were described. Heats of mixing measurements for various kinds of binary mixtures containing fluorobutylmethylether, which were carried out to find the more effective solvent as the rinse of industrial creaming process, were explained.
