An experimental study of spontaneous ignition in storages of wood pellets

10th International Conference - Fire and Materials 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Blomqvist, Per ^a   Persson, Henry ^a   Van Hees, Patrick ^a   Holmstedt, Göran ^a   Göransson, Ulf ^a   Wadsö, Lars ^a   Sanati, Mehri ^b   Rupar Gadd, Katarina ^b  

^a LUND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biofuels; Crossing point temperature; Large scale experiments; Self heating; Silo; Spontaneous ignition; Wood pellets

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; CRITICAL TEMPERATURES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; GAS PRODUCTIONS; KINETIC DATA; LARGE SCALE EXPERIMENTS; MEASUREMENT POINTS; PYROLYSIS ZONE; REAL-SCALE EXPERIMENTS; SELF-HEATING; SPONTANEOUS IGNITION; WOOD PELLET;

BIOFUELS; EXOTHERMIC REACTIONS; EXPERIMENTS; HEATING; KINETICS; SILOS (AGRICULTURAL); SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION; TEMPERATURE; WOOD;

PELLETIZING;

EID: 84873589202     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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