Tropical Wood Dusts—Granulometry, Morfology and Ignition Temperature

Ignition of Wood-based Materials by Thermal Radiation

Ignition is the initial stage of burning the materials. Consequent flame spread over the materials, heat release rate, fire spread across the rooms, and other issues for building fires all depend on that. Ignition of cellulose materials is commonly classified as smoldering or glowing ignition (self-heating ignition) and flaming ignition including piloted and spontaneous ignition. Numerous studi...

Chemical extractives of the tropical wood

1 Wallaba (Eperua falcata) is a tropical wood which is known to have naturally low swelling 2 characteristics. Samples of wallaba heartwood were subjected to differential solvent 3 extraction. Wood pieces that were extracted with methanol experienced significantly higher 4 swelling after rehydration from oven dry to 96% relative humidity in comparison to non-5 extracted samples and samples extr...

Quenching and Propagation of Combustion without Ignition Temperature Cutoff

We study a reaction-diffusion equation in the cylinder Ω = R×T, with combustion-type reaction term without ignition temperature cutoff, and in the presence of a periodic flow. We show that if the reaction function decays as a power of T larger than three as T → 0 and the initial datum is small, then the flame is extinguished — the solution quenches. If, on the other hand, the power of decay is ...

Asynchronism in leaf and wood production in tropical forests

estimation of germination cardinal temperature in cold and tropical vetch

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