Explosion pressures of hydrocarbon-air mixtures in closed vessels

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 135, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 58-65

  Razus, Domnina ^a   Movileanu, Codina ^a   Brinzea, Venera ^a   Oancea, D ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Closed vessel; Explosion pressure; Explosion time; Hydrocarbons

Indexed keywords

AIR; HYDROCARBONS; MIXTURES; PRESSURE EFFECTS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CLOSED VESSELS; EXPLOSION PRESSURE; EXPLOSION TIME; IGNITION SOURCE;

EXPLOSIONS;

1,3 BUTADIENE; BENZENE; CYCLOHEXANE; HEXANE; HYDROCARBON; METHANE; PENTANE; PROPYLENE;

AIR; EXPLOSIONS; HYDROCARBONS; MIXTURES; PRESSURE EFFECTS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ADIABATIC PROCESS; EXPLOSION; HYDROCARBON; VESSEL;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EXPERIMENTATION; EXPLOSION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRESSURE CHAMBER;

EID: 33744824444     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2005.10.061     Document Type: Article

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