Combustion products generated by hetero-organic fuels on four different fire test scales

Fire Safety Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 439-465

  Andersson, Berit ^a   Markert, Frank ^b   Holmstedt, Göran ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Combustion products; GER; Global equivalence ratio; Scaling; Survival fractions; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CALORIMETERS; COMBUSTION; FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT; FIRES; FLAMMABILITY TESTING; HYDROCARBONS; LIQUID FUELS; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; POLYPROPYLENES; VENTILATION;

CHLOROBENZENE; COMBUSTION PRODUCTS; GLOBAL EQUIVALENCE RATIO (GER); SCALING; SURVIVAL FRACTIONS;

ORGANIC CHEMICALS;

EID: 21744457992     PISSN: 03797112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.firesaf.2005.03.002     Document Type: Article

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