Burning characteristics of selected substances: production of heat, smoke and chemical species

Fire and Materials

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 171-185

  Hietaniemi, Jukka ^a,b   Kallonen, Raija ^a   Mikkola, Esko ^a  

^a Fire Technology   (Finland)

^b VVT   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION; EFFLUENTS; EXHAUST GASES; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; IGNITION; NOZZLES; SMOKE;

FIRE EFFLUENTS; HEAT RELEASE; MASS SPECTROSCOPY; SMOKE PRODUCTION;

FLAMMABILITY TESTING;

EID: 0033322516     PISSN: 03080501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1018(199907/08)23:4<171::AID-FAM680>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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