Experiment study of the altitude effects on spontaneous ignition characteristics of wood

Fuel

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1029-1034

  Yafei, Wang ^a   Lizhong, Yang ^a   Xiaodong, Zhou ^a   Jiakun, Dai ^a   Yupeng, Zhou ^a   Zhihua, Deng ^a  

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

Author keywords

Altitude; Pressure; Pyrolysis; Spontaneous ignition; Wood

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; AMBIENT PRESSURES; EXPERIMENT STUDY; HIGH ALTITUDE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IGNITION DELAY TIME; IGNITION TEMPERATURES; LOW ALTITUDES; MASS LOSS; MASS LOSS RATE; OXYGEN CONTENT; SPONTANEOUS IGNITION; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TIME TO IGNITION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EXPERIMENTS; IGNITION; OXYGEN; PYROLYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WOOD;

SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION;

ALTITUDE; COMBUSTION; EXPERIMENTATION; IGNITION; OXYGEN; PRESSURE; PYROLYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE; WOOD;

EID: 77349088750     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2009.11.010     Document Type: Article

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