Clarifying the mechanism of flashover from the view of unburned fuel volatiles and secondary fuels

Proceedings of the Combustion Institute

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 2649-2656

  Tsai, Kuang Chung ^a   Chung, Wei Ting ^a  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Compartment fire; Flashover; Volatiles

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL PROCESS; COMPARTMENT FIRES; FIRE COMPARTMENTS; ISO-PROPANOLS; MASS LOSS RATE; PRACTICAL METHOD; PREMIXED FLAME; SECONDARY FUELS; TEST CHAMBERS; THERMAL INSTABILITIES; THERMAL THEORY; UNBURNED FUEL; UPPER LAYER; VOLATILES;

EXPERIMENTS; FIRES; FLAMMABILITY TESTING; FLASHOVER; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

FUELS;

EID: 79251615425     PISSN: 15407489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proci.2010.06.048     Document Type: Article

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