The DSCI and High Pressure DSC827 provides rapid and precise determinations of transition temperatures using minimal amounts of a sample. The equipment is capable of characterising thermal transformations and properties that affect time or temperature dependent heat flow to a sample or material. Such properties include melting, crystallization, other phase- and glass transitions, heat capacity, chemical reactions and evaporation. The technique is widely used in characterising foodstuff and food biopolymers (e.g polysaccharides and proteins), organic and inorganic materials (e.g.