Burning velocity and refrigerant flammability classification

ASHRAE Transactions

Volumn 110 PART II, Issue , 2004, Pages 522-533

  Jabbour, Tony ^a   Clodic, Denis F ^a   Terry, Jim ^b   Kondo, Shigeo ^c  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b ICOR International   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURNING VELOCITY (BV); FLAME PROPAGATION; HEAT OF COMBUSTION (HOC); LOWER FLAMMABILITY LIMIT (LFL);

CODES (STANDARDS); COMBUSTION; FLAMMABILITY; FLAMMABILITY TESTING; FLUORINE; HYDROGEN; REFRIGERANTS; REFRIGERATION;

FLAME RESEARCH;

EID: 20344389535     PISSN: 00012505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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