Microgravity smoldering combustion of flexible polyurethane foam with central ignition

Microgravity Science and Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 99-105

  Wang, Shuangfeng ^a   Zhang, Xia ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

Microgravity; Polyurethane foam; Smoldering combustion

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; COAL; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EXPERIMENTS; IGNITION; MICROGRAVITY PROCESSING; NONMETALS; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; POLYMERS; RIGID FOAMED PLASTICS; SATELLITES;

AMBIENT OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; BUSINESS MEDIA; CHAR OXIDATION; CONSTANT PRESSURE (CP); EXISTING CONDITIONS; EXOTHERMIC OXIDATION; FIRE RISKS; FORCED FLOWS; FORWARD SMOLDERING; MICROGRAVITY EXPERIMENTS; OPPOSED SMOLDER; OXIDATION REACTIONS; POLYURETHANE FOAM (PUF); SMOLDERING COMBUSTION; SPACE EXPERIMENTS; TRANSITION (JEL CLASSIFICATIONS:E52 ,E41 ,E31);

MICROGRAVITY;

EID: 48349110918     PISSN: 09380108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12217-008-9014-7     Document Type: Article

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