Towards a global standard for flammability determination

42nd Loss Prevention Symposium, LPS 2008, Topical Conference at the 2008 AIChE Spring National Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 135-166

  Brandes, Elisabeth ^a   Ural, Erdem A ^b  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^b Loss Prevention Science and Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRE PROTECTION; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; STANDARDS;

EXPLOSION PREVENTION; FIRE AND EXPLOSION HAZARDS; FLAMMABILITY LIMITS; FLAMMABILITY STANDARDS; LIMITING OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; LOWER FLAMMABILITY LIMITS; SAFETY PROFESSIONALS; UPPER FLAMMABILITY LIMITS;

FLAMMABILITY;

EID: 84912528856     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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