Analysis of the self-heating process of tetrafluoroethylene in a 100-dm 3-reactor

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1010-1017

  Ferrero, Fabio ^a   Zeps, Robert ^a   Beckmann Kluge, Martin ^a   Schröder, Volkmar ^a   Spoormaker, Tom ^b  

^a BAM FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TESTING   (Germany)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Large scale reactor; Self ignition; Tetrafluoroethylene

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DATA; CYLINDRICAL REACTORS; CYLINDRICAL VESSELS; HEATED SURFACES; INITIAL PRESSURE; LARGE-SCALE REACTOR; MINIMUM IGNITION TEMPERATURE; SELF IGNITION; SELF-HEATING; SIMPLIFIED METHOD; SMALL SCALE; TETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; THERMAL EXPLOSION THEORY;

DECOMPOSITION; ELECTRIC REACTORS; EXTRAPOLATION;

FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS;

EID: 84867655886     PISSN: 09504230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlp.2012.06.001     Document Type: Article

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