Spontaneous combustion identification of stored wet cotton using a C80 calorimeter

Industrial Crops and Products

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 268-272

  Wang, Qingsong ^a   Sun, Jinhua ^a   Guo, Song ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

C80 calorimeter; Cotton; Spontaneous combustion; Thermal analysis

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; CALORIMETERS; COMBUSTION; COTTON; DISASTERS; MINE FIRES; SMOKE; THERMOCHEMISTRY;

AMBIENT TEMPERATURES; C80 CALORIMETER; C80 CALORIMETERS; MICRO CALORIMETERS; THERMAL ANALYSIS;

SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION;

BIODEGRADATION; CALORIMETRY; COMBUSTION; COTTON; FIRE; HEATING; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

COTTON; COTTON FIBER; DEGRADATION; THERMAL STABILITY;

EID: 49649122999     PISSN: 09266690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2008.02.014     Document Type: Article

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