Investigation on the emission of volatile organic compounds from heated vegetation and their potential to cause an accelerating forest fire

Combustion Science and Technology

Volumn 181, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1273-1288

  Chetehouna, K ^a   Barboni, T ^b   Zarguili, I ^a   Leoni, E ^a   Simeoni, A ^b   Fernandez Pello, A C ^c  

^a ENSI de Bourges   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CORSE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerating forest fire; VOCs emission; VOCs flammability

Indexed keywords

A PLANTS; ACCELERATING FOREST FIRE; AUTOMATIC THERMAL DESORBER; CONCENTRATION OF; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FIRE CONDITION; FIRE INTENSITY; FIRE RETARDANT; FLAMMABILITY LIMITS; FLAMMABLE GAS MIXTURES; FOREST FIRES; RADIANT FLUX; RADIANT PANEL; ROSMARINUS OFFICINALIS; SIMPLIFIED ANALYSIS; THERMAL RADIATIONS;

CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; DEFORESTATION; EXPERIMENTS; FLAMMABILITY; GAS EMISSIONS; HEAT RADIATION; LEAKAGE (FLUID); VEGETATION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

FIRES;

CHROMATOGRAPHY; DEFORESTATION; EMISSION; FLAMMABILITY; FOREST FIRES; HEAT; LEAKAGE; PLANTS; RADIATION; VOC;

EID: 74849112781     PISSN: 00102202     EISSN: 1563521X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00102200903181827     Document Type: Article

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