Burning and Water Suppression of Smoldering Coal Fires in Small-Scale Laboratory Experiments

Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 317-326

  Hadden, Rory ^a   Rein, Guillermo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84883936394     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-52858-2.00018-9     Document Type: Chapter

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