Study of the spontaneous ignition of stoichiometric tetrafluoroethylene-air mixtures at elevated pressures

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 759-765

  Ferrero, Fabio ^a   Meyer, Ronald ^a   Kluge, Martin ^a   Schröder, Volkmar ^a   Spoormaker, Tom ^b  

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

^b Du Pont De Nemours (Nederland) BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Combustion; Ignition; Tetrafluoroethylene

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION KINETICS; ELEVATED PRESSURE; IGNITION TEMPERATURES; MINIMUM IGNITION TEMPERATURE; SIMPLIFIED CALCULATION METHOD; SPONTANEOUS IGNITION; TETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; THERMAL EXPLOSION THEORY;

COMBUSTION; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; IGNITION; MIXTURES;

SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION;

EID: 84876981185     PISSN: 09504230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlp.2013.02.008     Document Type: Article

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