The chlorinated solvent, methylene chloride (also known as dichloromethane) has been used in industry for over 80 years. Its unique combination of properties low boiling point, high solvency power, relative inertness, low toxicity and non flammability has led to its wide variety of applications, such as paint and varnish removal, as an extraction medium/process solvent, and in aerosols, electro...

nanoclay/triphenyl phosphate hybrid system was employed to examine the fire retardancy and mechanical properties of pc/abs blends. each of the polymers and their blends are widely used in the automotive, electrical andelectronic industries. because most thermoplastics are easily combustible they need to be flame retarded to reduce the burning rate especially in the initial phase of a fire incid...

This study is a consolidated overview on explosion and fire safety issues pertaining to ionic liquids. Indeed safety performance of ionic liquids relating to physico-chemical hazards is very rarely investigated as it is often perceived as a non-existing issue due to the lack of traditional flashpoint for these liquids. It focuses on the experimental evaluation of the fire hazard of imidazolium,...

Leaf shrinkage provides insights into the potential variation of foliar SVR, within the same species, when leaf moisture content is changing in response to water deficit. Since SVR is among the most significant plant flammability features, leaf shrinkage would be a relevant component of fuel hazard assessment through its influence on SVR, enhancing-if it is taken into account-thereby the wildfi...

0010-2180/$ see front matter 2010 The Combust doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2010.08.002 ⇑ Corresponding author. Fax: +1 734 647 3170. E-mail address: [email protected] (J.T. Wiswall A stagnation flow reactor was used to study the effects of platinum on the lean flammability limits of atmospheric pressure premixed methane/air flames at moderate stagnation surface temperatures. Experimental and com...

The effects of spectral radiation absorption on the flame speed at normal and elevated pressures were experimentally and numerically investigated using the CO2 diluted outwardly propagating CH4-O2-He flames. Experimentally, the laminar burning velocities of CH4-O2-HeCO2 mixtures at both normal and elevated pressures (up to 5 atm) were measured by using a pressure-release type spherical bomb. Th...

laminar counterflow diffusion flames provide useful information about basic properties of non-premixed combustion. a lot of studies have been performed on h2/o2 counterflow. most of previous studies include undiluted or diluted systems of hydrogen (with co2 or n2) against an air flow under a variety of conditions such as strain rates, inlet temperature and pressure. the main purpose of this res...